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We develop a quantum theory of electron confinement in metal nanofilms. The theory is used to compute the nonlinear response of the film to a static or low-frequency external electric field and to investigate the role of boundary conditions…

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We investigate the low energy continuum limit theory for electrons in a graphene sheet under strain. We use the quantum field theory in curved spaces to analyze the effect of the system deformations into an effective gauge field. We study…

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The two dimensional set of canonical relations giving rise to minimal uncertainties previously constructed from a q-deformed oscillator algebra is further investigated. We provide a representation for this algebra in terms of a flat…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-07-04 Sanjib Dey , Andreas Fring

It is well-known that the formation of discrete electron levels strongly influences the pairing in metallic nanograins. Here we focus on another effect of quantum confinement in superconducting grains that was not studied previously, i.e.,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-20 M. D. Croitoru , A. A. Shanenko , C. C. Kaun , F. M. Peeters

Quantum gravity theories predict a minimal length at the order of magnitude of the Planck length, under which the concepts of space and time lose every physical meaning. In quantum mechanics, the insurgence of such minimal length can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-08 Matteo A. C. Rossi , Tommaso Giani , Matteo G. A. Paris

We study the known coherent states of a quantum harmonic oscillator from the standpoint of the original developed noncommutative integration method for linear partial differential equations. The application of the method is based on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-22 A. I. Breev , A. V. Shapovalov

Decoherence in quantum systems which are classically chaotic is studied. It is well-known that a classically chaotic system when quantized loses many prominent chaotic traits. We show that interaction of the quantum system with an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 B. L. Hu , K. Shiokawa

Squeezed states of the harmonic oscillator are a common resource in applications of quantum technology. If the noise is suppressed in a nonlinear combination of quadrature operators below threshold for all possible up-to-quadratic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-13 Vojtěch Kala , Petr Marek , Radim Filip

We describe the effect of geometric phases induced by either classical or quantum electric fields acting on single electron spins in quantum dots in the presence of spin-orbit coupling. On one hand, applied electric fields can be used to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-01-09 Pablo San-Jose , Burkhard Scharfenberger , Gerd Schön , Alexander Shnirman , Gergely Zarand

We consider a quantum space with rotationally invariant noncommutative algebra of coordinates and momenta. The algebra contains tensors of noncommutativity constructed involving additional coordinates and momenta. In the rotationally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-05 Kh. P. Gnatenko

We investigate whether small perturbations can cause relaxation to quantum equilibrium over very long timescales. We consider in particular a two-dimensional harmonic oscillator, which can serve as a model of a field mode on expanding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-15 Adithya Kandhadai , Antony Valentini

Various deformations of the position-momentum algebras operators have been proposed. Their implications for single systems like the hydrogen atom or the harmonic oscillator have been addressed. In this paper we investigate the consequences…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Lubo

We add non-linear and state-dependent terms to quantum field theory. We show that the resulting low-energy theory, non-linear quantum mechanics, is causal, preserves probability and permits a consistent description of the process of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-10 David E. Kaplan , Surjeet Rajendran

Deviations from the uniform oscillator spacing, related to the shape of the confining potential, have a strong influence on few-electron states in quantum dots when Coulomb effects are included. Distinct signatures are found for level…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-02-10 D. K. Sunko

We explore the cosmological implications of quantum entanglement between two causally disconnected universes in the multiverse. We first consider two causally separated de Sitter spaces with a state which is initially entangled. We derive…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-12-30 Sugumi Kanno

The motion of quantum particles homogeneously constrained to a curved surface is affected by a curvature induced geometric potential. Here, we consider the case of inhomogeneous confinement and derive the effective Hamiltonian by extending…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-01 Guo-Hua Liang , Meng-Yun Lai

Following up the work of [1] on deformed algebras, we present a class of Poincar\'e invariant quantum field theories with particles having deformed internal symmetries. The twisted quantum fields discussed in this work satisfy commutation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-06-25 Rahul Srivastava , Sachindeo Vaidya

This work addresses the study of the oscillator algebra, defined by four parameters $p$, $q$, $\alpha$, and $\nu$. The time-independent Schr\"{o}dinger equation for the induced deformed harmonic oscillator is solved; explicit analytic…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 Sama Arjika , Dine Ousmane Samary , Ezinvi Baloitcha , Mahouton Norbert Hounkonnou

There are still no interacting models of the Wightman axioms, suggesting that the axioms are too tightly drawn. Here a weakening of linearity for quantum fields is proposed, with the algebra still linear but with the quantum fields no…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter Morgan

Position-deformed Heisenberg algebra with maximal length uncertainty has recently been proven to induce strong quantum gravitational fields at the Planck scale (2022 J. Phys. A: Math. Theor.55 105303). In the present study, we use the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-02 Latévi M. Lawson , Prince K. Osei , Komi Sodoga , Fred Soglohu