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We consider a monoenergetic beam of moving charged particles interacting with two separated oscillating electric fields. Time-periodic linear potential is assumed to model the light-particle interaction using a nonrelativistic, quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-02 Lóránt Zs. Szabó , Mihály G. Benedict , Péter Földi

The design of time-independent effective Hamiltonians that describe periodically modulated systems, provides a promising approach to realize new forms of matter. This, so-called, Floquet engineering approach is currently limited to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-18 Huanan Li , Boris Shapiro , Tsampikos Kottos

We evaluate the joint distributions of electron waiting times in coherent conductors described by scattering theory. Successive electron waiting times in a single-channel conductor are found to be correlated due to the fermionic statistics…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 David Dasenbrook , Patrick P. Hofer , Christian Flindt

We have developed a method to simulate multiple electron scattering in a vacuum barrier using real-space single-electron wavefunctions of the separate surfaces. The tunnelling current is calculated to first order in the Dyson series. In…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Werner A Hofer

We calculate a current and its fluctuation in a two-state stochastic system under a periodic perturbation. The system could be interpreted as a channel on a cell surface or a single Michaelis-Menten catalyzing enzyme. It has been shown that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-06-18 Jun Ohkubo

Scattering theory is a standard tool for the description of transport phenomena in mesoscopic systems. Here, we provide a detailed derivation of this method for nano-scale conductors that are driven by oscillating electric or magnetic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-06-01 Kay Brandner

We describe, within the framework of quantum electrodynamics, an interaction between a non-resonant hard x-ray pulse and an electronic system in the presence of a temporally periodic laser field driving electron dynamics in this system. We…

Optics · Physics 2018-12-11 Daria Popova-Gorelova , David A. Reis , Robin Santra

We evaluate the distribution of waiting times between electrons emitted by a driven mesoscopic capacitor. Based on a wave packet approach we obtain analytic expressions for the electronic waiting time distribution and the joint distribution…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-20 Patrick P. Hofer , David Dasenbrook , Christian Flindt

Collective coherent scattering of laser light by an ensemble of polarizable point particles creates long range interactions, whose properties can be tailored by choice of injected laser powers, frequencies and polarizations. We use a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Stefan Ostermann , Matthias Sonnleitner , Helmut Ritsch

A new scattering approach for correlated one-dimensional systems is developed. The adiabatic contact to charge reservoirs is encoded in time-dependent boundary conditions. The conductance matrix for an arbitrary gated wire, respecting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Ines Safi

A numerical-analytical simulation of scattering by a three-barrier heterostructure of an electronic Gaussian wave packet, the spectral width of which is on the order of the distance between the levels of the doublet of quasi-stationary…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-10 Yu. G. Peisakhovich , A. A. Shtygashev

Electrons in a lattice exhibit time-periodic motion, known as Bloch oscillation, when subject to an additional static electric field. Here we show that a corresponding dynamics can occur upon replacing the spatially periodic potential by a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-08 Vanessa Junk , Phillipp Reck , Cosimo Gorini , Klaus Richter

Employing the external degrees of freedom of atoms as synthetic dimensions renders easy and new accesses to quantum engineering and quantum simulation. As a recent development, ultracold atoms suffering from two-photon Bragg transitions can…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-09-22 Teng Xiao , Dizhou Xie , Wei Gou , and Tao Chen , Tian-Shu Deng , Wei Yi , Bo Yan

Transport properties of massive Dirac particles are investigated through an oscillating barrier. The Floquet quasienergies related to the time-dependent potential appear both in transmission and reflection as sidebands around the incoming…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-04 Lóránt Zs. Szabó , Mihály G. Benedict , Attila Czirják , Péter Földi

The scattering of two-dimensional (2D) massless Dirac electrons is investigated in the presence of a random array of circular mass barriers. The inverse momentum relaxation time and the Hall factor are calculated and used to obtain parallel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 M. Ramezani Masir , A. Matulis , F. M. Peeters

When a physical system is subjected to a strong external multi-frequency drive, its dynamics can be conveniently represented in the multi-dimensional Floquet lattice. The number of the Floquet lattice dimensions equals the number of {\em…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-25 Ivar Martin , Gil Refael , Bertrand Halperin

We investigate symmetry-selective surface-mode excitation in a general periodically time-modulated double-layer system, where the modulation of the two layers has a constant phase difference. By deriving a semi-analytic trans-fer matrix…

Optics · Physics 2022-05-25 Ya-Wen Tsai , Yao-Ting Wang , Emanuele Galiffi , Andrea Alù , Ta-Jen Yen

We develop a scattering theory of current-induced forces exerted by the conduction electrons of a general mesoscopic conductor on slow "mechanical" degrees of freedom. Our theory describes the current-induced forces both in and out of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-12 Niels Bode , Silvia Viola Kusminskiy , Reinhold Egger , Felix von Oppen

We calculate the tunneling process of a Dirac particle across two square barriers separated a distance $d$, as well as the scattering by a double cusp barrier where the centers of the cusps are separated a distance larger than their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Victor M. Villalba , Luis Gonzalez-Arraga

We analyze an interplay between the proximity effect and quantum interference of electrons in hybrid structures superconductor-normal metal-superconductor which contain several insulating barriers. We demonstrate that the dc Josephson…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Artem V. Galaktionov , Andrei D. Zaikin