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We study the conductance of phase-coherent disordered quantum wires focusing on the case in which the number of conducting channels is imbalanced between two propagating directions. If the number of channels in one direction is by one…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yositake Takane , Shingo Iwasaki , Yuka Yoshioka , Masayuki Yamamoto , Katsunori Wakabayashi

Quasiparticle interference in a d-wave superconductor with weak disorder produces distinctive peaks in the Fourier-transformed local density of states measured by scanning tunneling spectroscopy. We predict that amplitudes of these peaks…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 T. Pereg-Barnea , M. Franz

We study quantum percolation which is described by a tight-binding Hamiltonian containing only off-diagonal hopping terms that are generally in quenched binary disorder (zero or one). In such a system, transmission of a quantum particle is…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-09-20 Md Fhokrul Islam , Hisao Nakanishi

A numerical study of the statistics of transmission ($t$) and reflection ($r$) of quasi-particles from a one-dimensional disordered lasing or amplifying medium is presented. The amplification is introduced via a uniform imaginary part in…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-30 Sandeep K. Joshi , A. M. Jayannavar

We investigate the effects of disorder on single particle time-evolution and two-particle correlations in an array of evanescently coupled waveguides with position-dependent tunneling rates. In the clean limit, the energy spectrum of such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-23 Clinton Thompson , Yogesh N. Joglekar , Gautam Vemuri

The parity anomalous semimetal is a topological state of matter characterized by its semi-metallic nature and a quantum Hall conductance of one-half $e^{2}/h$ ($e$ is the elementary charge and $h$ is the Planck constant). Here we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-19 Shi-Hao Bi , Bo Fu , Shun-Qing Shen

Our previous understanding of transport in disordered system depends on the assumption that there is a well-defined Fermi velocity. The Fermi velocity determines important length scales in the system such as the diffusion length and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-01 Chun Wang Chau , Tian Xiang , Shuai A. Chen , K. T. Law

Following our work [Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 020401 (2020)], we discuss a semiclassical description of one-dimensional quantum tunneling through multibarrier potentials in terms of complex time. We start by defining a complex-extended…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-09 Pavel Stránský , Milan Šindelka , Pavel Cejnar

A formidable perspective in understanding quantum criticality of a given many-body system is through its entanglement contents. Until now, most progress are only limited to the disorder-free case. Here, we develop an efficient scheme to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-12-01 Qicheng Tang , W. Zhu

Our study of the evolution of transmission eigenvalues, due to changes in various physical parameters in a disordered region of arbitrary dimensions, results in a generalization of the celebrated DMPK equation. The evolution is shown to be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Pragya Shukla , Inder P. Batra

The diffusion of an overdamped Brownian particle in a tilted periodic potential is known to exhibit a pronounced enhancement over the free thermal diffusion within a small interval of tilt-values. Here we show that weak disorder in the form…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Peter Reimann , Ralf Eichhorn

We study the interaction among dispersion, nonlinearity, and disorder effects in the context of wave transmission through a discrete periodic structure, subjected to continuous harmonic excitation in its stop band. We consider a damped…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-10-20 Behrooz Yousefzadeh , A. Srikantha Phani

We study the nonequilibrium transport through a quantum dot coupled to normal and superconducting leads. We use the modified second-order perturbation theory to calculate the differential conductance and the local density of states at the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-03-26 Yasuhiro Yamada , Yoichi Tanaka , Norio Kawakami

The universal statistics of density fluctuations of localized quantum states may offer unprecedented opportunities to probe and understand quantum transport in connection with dimensionality, coherence, symmetry and disorder. To date, the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-05-29 Hai-Tao Ding , Sen Mu , Leong-Chuan Kwek , Gabriel Lemarié , Jiangbin Gong

Recently, Dial et al. presented measurements of the tunneling density of states into the bulk of a two dimensional electron gas under strong magnetic fields. Several high energy features appear in the measured spectrum showing a distinct…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-20 Gilad Barak , Amir Yacoby , Yigal Meir

It is well known that conductivity of disordered metals is suppressed in the limit of low frequencies and temperatures by quantum corrections. Although predicted by theory to exist up to much higher energies, such corrections have so far…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-18 P. Neilinger , J. Greguš , D. Manca , B. Grančič , M. Kopčík , P. Szabó , P. Samuely , R. Hlubina , M. Grajcar

These notes contain a rapid overview of the methods and results obtained in the field of propagation of waves in disordered media. The case of Schr\"odinger and Helmholtz equations are considered that describe respectively electrons in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Eric Akkermans , G. Montambaux

Understanding the interplay between disorder, environment and interactions is key to elucidating the transport properties of open quantum systems, from excitons in photosynthetic networks to qubits in ion traps. This interplay is studied…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-12 Elinor Zerah-Harush , Yonatan Dubi

Disorder is ubiquitous in quantum devices including quantum probes designed and fabricated for quantum parameter estimation and sensing. We investigate the robustness of a quantum probe against the presence of glassy disorder. We define a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Vishnupriya K. , Harikrishnan K. J. , Amit Kumar Pal

We calculate the distribution of the conductance P(g) for a quasi-one-dimensional system in the metal to insulator crossover regime, based on a recent analytical method valid for all strengths of disorder. We show the evolution of P(g) as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Victor A. Gopar , K. A. Muttalib , P. Wölfle