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We investigate the interplay of disorder and interaction in two-dimensional electron systems in a strong magnetic field, focusing on the transition between Wigner crystals and fractional quantum Hall liquids. We first study classical Wigner…

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In this letter we study the conductance G through one-dimensional quantum wires with disorder configurations characterized by long-tailed distributions (Levy-type disorder). We calculate analytically the conductance distribution which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-01-19 Fernando Falceto , Victor A. Gopar

We consider the problem of electron transport in segregated conductor-insulator composites in which the conducting particles are connected to all others via tunneling conductances, thus forming a global tunnelingconnected resistor network.…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2012-01-23 B. Nigro , C. Grimaldi , P. Ryser

In alloys exhibiting substitutional disorder, the variety of atomic environments manifests itself as a `disorder broadening' in their core level binding energy spectra. Disorder broadening can be measured experimentally, and in principle…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-07-14 T. L. Underwood , G. J. Ackland , R. J. Cole

We investigate how the introduction of different types of disorder affects the generation of entanglement between the internal (spin) and external (position) degrees of freedom in one-dimensional quantum random walks (QRW). Disorder is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-04-11 Rafael Vieira , Edgard P. M. Amorim , Gustavo Rigolin

We consider the problem of electron transport along a one-dimensional disordered multiple-scattering conductor, and study the electron density for all the electronic levels. A model is proposed for the reduced density matrix of the system…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-03-14 Gerardo Rivas , Miztli Yepez , Pier A. Mello

We propose a scheme of the exact fast-forwarding of standard quantum dynamics for a charged particle. The present idea allows the acceleration of both the amplitude and phase of the wave function throughout the fast-forward time range and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-23 Anvar Khujakulov , Katsuhiro Nakamura

Simulating the dynamics of quantum many-body systems with disorder is a fundamental challenge. In this work, we propose a general approach -- the statistics-encoded tensor network (SeTN) -- to study such systems. By encoding disorder into…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Hao Zhu , Ding-Zu Wang , Shi-Ju Ran , Guo-Feng Zhang

We study non-classical pathways and quantum interference in enhanced ionisation of diatomic molecules in strong laser fields using machine learning techniques. Quantum interference provides a bridge, which facilitates intramolecular…

We theoretically investigate the spectrum of the fluorescence from triple quantum-dot molecules and demonstrate that it is possible to use tunneling to induce dark states. Unlike the atomic system, in quantum-dot molecules we can use…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Si-Cong Tian , Ren-Gang Wan , Cun-Zhu Tong , Yong-Qiang Ning , Li-Jun Wang

We study the effect of disorder on work exchange associated to quantum Hamiltonian processes by considering an Ising spin chain in which the strength of coupling between spins are randomly drawn from either Normal or Gamma distributions.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-12-05 Yuanjian Zheng , Dario Poletti

Polarization effects are included exactly in a model for a quantum dot in close proximity to a planar interface. Efficient incorporation of this potential into the Schr\"{o}dinger equation is utilized to map out the influence of the image…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Kuljit S. Virk , David R. Reichman , Mark S. Hybertsen

We analyze a one dimensional quantum model with off-diagonal disorder, consisting of a sequence of potential energy barriers whose width is a random variable either uniformly or normally distributed. We investigate how the disorder and the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-12 Matteo Colangeli , Lamberto Rondoni

Quantum tunnelling, a hallmark phenomenon of quantum mechanics, allows particles to pass through the classically forbidden region. It underpins fundamental processes ranging from nuclear fusion and photosynthesis to the operation of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Xiao-Wen Shang , Jian-Peng Dou , Feng Lu , Sen Lin , Hao Tang , Xian-Min Jin

We report on a striking departure from the canonical step sequence of quantized conductance in a ballistic, quasi-one-dimensional metallic channel. Ideally, in such a structure, each sub-band population contributes its Landauer conductance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-01 Frederick Green , Mukunda P. Das

We study the signatures of disorder in the production of orbital electron entanglement in quantum wires. Disordered entanglers suffer the effects of localization of the electron wave function and random fluctuations in the entanglement…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-07 Alberto Aleta , Héctor Villarubia-Rojo , Diego Frustaglia , Víctor A. Gopar

We propose a general mechanism for renormalization of the tunneling exponents in edge states of the fractional quantum Hall effect. Mutual effects of the coupling with out-of-equilibrium 1/f noise and dissipation are considered both for the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-09-19 A. Braggio , D. Ferraro , M. Carrega , N. Magnoli , M. Sassetti

We demonstrate how quantum field theory problems can be embedded on quantum annealers. The general method we use is a discretisation of the field theory problem into a general Ising model, with the continuous field values being encoded into…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-20 Steven Abel , Nicholas Chancellor , Michael Spannowsky

Electron tunneling into a system with strong interactions is known to exhibit an anomaly, in which the tunneling conductance vanishes continuously at low energy due to many-body interactions. Recent measurements have probed this anomaly in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-05-17 Debanjan Chowdhury , Brian Skinner , Patrick A. Lee

We study a 1D system with a power-law quasiparticle dispersion $\propto |k|^\alpha\sign k$ in the presence of a short-range-correlated random potential and demonstrate that for $\alpha<1/2$ it exhibits a disorder-driven quantum phase…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-19 M. Garttner , S. V. Syzranov , A. M. Rey , V. Gurarie , L. Radzihovsky