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A quantum pump device involving magnetic barriers produced by the deposition of ferro magnetic stripes on hetero-structure's is investigated. The device for dc- transport does not provide spin-polarized currents, but in the adiabatic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ronald Benjamin , Colin Benjamin

Using multi-particle distribution functions we calculate the correlations produced by a periodically driven scatterer in a system of noninteracting electrons at zero temperature. The multi-particle correlations due to a quantum exchange…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Moskalets , M. Buttiker

Quantum noise with exchange and tunneling is studied within time-dependent wave packets. A novel expression for the quantum noise of two identical particles injected simultaneously from opposite sides of a tunneling barrier is presented.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-22 Enrique Colomés , Damiano Marian , Xavier Oriols

We address the scattering of a quantum particle by a one-dimensional barrier potential over a set of discrete positions. We formalize the problem as a continuous-time quantum walk on a lattice with an impurity, and use the quantum Fisher…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-30 Francesco Zatelli , Claudia Benedetti , Matteo G. A. Paris

Quantum control allows us to address the problem of engineering quantum dynamics for special purposes. While recently the field of quantum batteries has attracted much attention, optimization of their charging has not benefited from the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-12 R. R. Rodriguez , B. Ahmadi , G. Suarez , P. Mazurek , S. Barzanjeh , P. Horodecki

We present an analysis of the availability and maximum extractable work of quantum batteries in the presence of charge and/or heat steady-state currents. Quantum batteries are modelled as non-interacting open quantum systems (mesoscopic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-31 F. H. Kamin , Z. Abuali , H. Ness , S. Salimi

We study one-dimensional topological models with dimerization and trimerization and show that these models can be generated using interaction or optical superlattice. The topological properties of these models are demonstrated by the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-16 Huaiming Guo

We demonstrate non-adiabatic charge pumping utilizing a sequence of coherent oscillations between a superconducting island and two reservoirs. Our method, based on pulsed quantum state manipulations, allows to speedup charge pumping to a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 F. Hoehne , Yu. A. Pashkin , O. V. Astafiev , M. Möttönen , J. P. Pekola , J. S. Tsai

We study charge pumping when a combination of static potentials and potentials oscillating with a time period T is applied in a one-dimensional system of non-interacting electrons. We consider both an infinite system using the Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Abhiram Soori , Diptiman Sen

We report an experimental technique to measure and manipulate the arrival-time and energy distributions of electrons emitted from a semiconductor electron pump, operated as both a single-electron source and a two-electron source. Using an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-30 J. Waldie , P. See , V. Kashcheyevs , J. P. Griffiths , I. Farrer , G. A. C. Jones , D. A. Ritchie , T. J. B. M. Janssen , M. Kataoka

One-dimensional quantized conductance is derived from the electrons in a homogeneous electric field by calculating the traveling time of the accelerated motion and the number of electrons in the one-dimensional region. As a result, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-25 Daiju Terasawa

Quantum batteries are energy storage devices built using quantum mechanical objects, which are developed with the aim of outperforming their classical counterparts. Proposing optimal designs of quantum batteries which are able to exploit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-07 C. A. Downing , M. S. Ukhtary

Preparing and observing quantum states of nanoscale particles is a challenging task with great relevance for quantum technologies and tests of fundamental physics. In contrast to atomic systems with discrete transitions, nanoparticles…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-23 Lukas Martinetz , Klaus Hornberger , James Millen , M. S. Kim , Benjamin A. Stickler

A one-dimensional system with two $\delta$-like barriers or wells bi-chromaticaly oscillating at frequencies $\omega$ and $2\omega$ is considered. The alternating signal leads to the direct current across the structure (even in a symmetric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. M. Mahmoodian , M. V. Entin

Pumping of charge (Q) in a closed ring geometry is not quantized even in the strict adiabatic limit. The deviation form exact quantization can be related to the Thouless conductance. We use Kubo formalism as a starting point for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Doron Cohen

We discuss electron scattering in a one-dimensional delta barrier potential with either time-dependent coupling constant (classical model) or a coupling constant that is linear in a boson coordinate (quantum model). We find an exact…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 T. Brandes , J. Robinson

Single-electron circuits of the future, consisting of a network of quantum dots, will require a mechanism to transport electrons from one functional part to another. For example, in a quantum computer[1] decoherence and circuit complexity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-02 R. P. G. McNeil , M. Kataoka , C. J. B. Ford , C. H. W. Barnes , D. Anderson , G. A. C. Jones , I. Farrer , D. A. Ritchie

Exploiting many-body interaction and critical phenomena to improve the performance of quantum batteries is an emerging and promising line of research. A central question in this direction is whether quantum phase transitions can enhance the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-04 D. Farina , M. Sassetti , V. Cataudella , D. Ferraro , N. Traverso Ziani

The coherent interaction between free electrons and optical near-fields enables the active modulation of electron wave packets, a mechanism central to photon-induced near-field electron microscopy (PINEM). While existing theories…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Mads Brøndum Carlsen , Lars Bojer Madsen

During an adiabatic pumping cycle a conventional two barrier quantum device takes an electron from the left lead and ejects it to the right lead. Hence the pumped charge per cycle is naively expected to be $Q \le e$. This zero order…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Itamar Sela , Doron Cohen