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Spin-dependent diffraction occurs in helimagnet-related transport processes. In this work, we investigated quantum pumping properties in the normal-metal/helimagnet/normal-metal heterostructure driven by two out of phase time-dependent gate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Rui Zhu , Li-Juan Cui

We have investigated the transport characteristics of an electron pump consisting of an asymmetric double quantum dot at zero bias voltage which is subject to electromagnetic radiation. Depending on the energies of the intermediate states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 T. H. Stoof , Yu. V. Nazarov

Recent advancements of intermediate-scale quantum processors have triggered tremendous interest in the exploration of practical quantum advantage. The simulation of fluid dynamics, a highly challenging problem in classical physics but vital…

Entropic dynamics is a framework in which quantum theory is derived as an application of entropic methods of inference. Entropic dynamics on flat spaces has been extensively studied. The objective of this paper is to extend the entropic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-26 Shahid Nawaz , Mohammad Abedi , Ariel Caticha

This paper is about adiabatic transport in quantum pumps. The notion of ``energy shift'', a self-adjoint operator dual to the Wigner time delay, plays a role in our approach: It determines the current, the dissipation, the noise and the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. E. Avron , A. Elgart , G. M. Graf , L. Sadun

Transport phenomena still stand as one of the most challenging problems in computational physics. By exploiting the analogies between Dirac and lattice Boltzmann equations, we develop a quantum simulator based on pseudospin-boson quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-20 A. Mezzacapo , M. Sanz , L. Lamata , I. L. Egusquiza , S. Succi , E. Solano

We study the DC spin current induced into an unbiased quantum spin Hall system through a two-point contacts setup with time dependent electron tunneling amplitudes. By means of two external gates, it is possible to drive a current with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Dario Ferraro , Giacomo Dolcetto , Roberta Citro , Francesco Romeo , Maura Sassetti

We study theoretically interaction between electrons in a quantum ring embedded in a microcavity and vacuum fluctuations of electromagnetic field in the cavity. It is shown that the vacuum fluctuations can split electron states of the ring…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-02 O. V. Kibis , O. Kyriienko , I. A. Shelykh

By combining Floquet theory with Green's function formalism, we present non-adiabatic quantum spin and charge pumping through a zigzag ferromagnetic graphene nanoribbon including a double-barriers structure driven weakly by two local $ac$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-25 Hosein Cheraghchi

Classical and quantum annealing is discussed for a kinetically constrained chain of $N$ non-interacting asymmetric double wells, represented by Ising spins in a longitudinal field $h$. It is shown that in certain cases, where the kinetic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-31 Arnab Das , Bikas K. Chakrabarti , Robin B. Stinhcombe

We report our study of the I-V curves in the transport through the quantum dot when an additional quantum dot lying in the Kondo regime is side-connected to it. Due to the Kondo scattering off the effective spin on a side-connected quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Tae-Suk Kim , S. Hershfield

We remark that the often ignored quantum probability current is fundamental for a genuine understanding of scattering phenomena and, in particular, for the statistics of the time and position of the first exit of a quantum particle from a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 M. Daumer , D. Duerr , S. Goldstein , N. Zanghi

The role of multi-parameter entanglement in quantum interference from collinear type-II spontaneous parametric down-conversion is explored using a variety of aperture shapes and sizes, in regimes of both ultrafast and continuous-wave…

We report on quantum simulations of relativistic scattering dynamics using trapped ions. The simulated state of a scattering particle is encoded in both the electronic and vibrational state of an ion, representing the discrete and…

We investigate an adiabatic spin pumping through a quantum dot with a single orbital energy level under the Zeeman effect. Electron pumping is produced by two periodic time dependent parameters, a magnetic field and a difference of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tomosuke Aono

We show that the quantum geometry of the Fermi surface can be numerically described by a 3-dimensional discrete quantum manifold. This approach not only avoids singularities in the Fermi sea, but it also enables the precise computation of…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-11-12 Jie-Xiang Yu , Jiadong Zang , Roger K. Lake , Yi Zhang , Gen Yin

A quantum finite multi-barrier system, with a periodic potential, is considered and exact expressions for its plane wave amplitudes are obtained using the Transfer Matrix method [10]. This quantum model is then associated with a stochastic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-06-26 Emilio N. M. Cirillo , Matteo Colangeli , Lamberto Rondoni

We present a proposal for an adiabatic quantum pump based on a graphene monolayer patterned by electrostatic gates and operated in the low-energy Dirac regime. The setup under investigation works in the presence of inhomogeneous spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-20 Dario Bercioux , Daniel F. Urban , Francesco Romeo , Roberta Citro

We consider adiabatic quantum pumping through a resonant level model, a single-level quantum dot connected to two fermionic leads. Using the tools of adiabatic expansion, we develop a self-contained thermodynamic description of this model…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-12 Daniele Nello , Alessandro Silva

We propose a quantum theory of swimming for swimmers that are small relative to the coherence length of the medium. The quantum swimming equation is derived from known results on quantum pumps. For a one-dimensional Fermi gas at zero…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 J. E. Avron , B. Gutkin , D. H. Oaknin