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Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-08 I. Filikhin , S. G. Matinyan , B. Vlahovic

Low-temperature characters of superconducting devices yield definite probes for different superconducting phenomena. We study the macroscopic quantum tunneling (MQT) in a Josephson junction, composed of a single-gap superconductor and a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-12-19 Hidehiro Asai , Shiro Kawabata , Yukihiro Ota , Masahiko Machida

Dissipative tunneling remains a cornerstone effect in quantum mechanics. In chemistry, it plays a crucial role in governing the rates of chemical reactions, often modeled as the motion along the reaction coordinate from one potential well…

In this paper we show how the quantum mechanics of the inverted harmonic oscillator can be mapped to the quantum mechanics of a particle in a super-critical inverse square potential. We demonstrate this by relating both of these systems to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-20 Sriram Sundaram , C. P. Burgess , D. H. J. O'Dell

We theoretically investigate electron spin operations driven by applied electric fields in a semiconductor double quantum dot (DQD). Our model describes a DQD formed in semiconductor nanowire with longitudinal potential modulated by local…

Even in the absence of Coulomb interactions phase fluctuations induced by quantum size effects become increasingly important in superconducting nano-structures as the mean level spacing becomes comparable with the bulk superconducting gap.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-03-05 Pedro Ribeiro , Antonio M. García-García

We consider the quantum dynamics of excitations in a system of two capacitively coupled Josephson junctions. Quantum breather states are found in the middle of the energy spectrum of the confined nonescaping states of the system. They are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. A. Pinto , S. Flach

A quantum dot hybrid qubit formed from three electrons in a double quantum dot has the potential for great speed, due to presence of level crossings where the qubit becomes charge-like. Here, we show how to take full advantage of the level…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-08-26 Teck Seng Koh , John King Gamble , Mark Friesen , M. A. Eriksson , S. N. Coppersmith

On the example of a quantum oscillator the connection of the dynamical coherent state with the phase symmetry breaking and the existence of the nondissipative motion is considered. In multiparticle systems of interacting particles similar…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-13 Yu. M. Poluektov

Two-dimensional (2D) device structures have recently attracted considerable attention. Here, we show that most 2D device structures, regardless vertical or lateral, act as a lateral monolayer-bilayer-monolayer junction in their operation.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-11 Junfeng Zhang , Weiyu Xie , Michael L. Agiorgousis , Duk-Hyun Choe , Vincent Meunier , Xiaohong Xu , Jijun Zhao , Shengbai Zhang

The effect of quantum fluctuations on the current-voltage characteristics of Josephson junctions and superconducting nanowires is studied in the underdamped limit. Quantum fluctuations induce transitions between a Coulomb--blockade and a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-08-21 A. Zazunov , N. Didier , F. W. J. Hekking

A quantum system comprising of a monochromatic electromagnetic field coupled to a SQUID ring with sinusoidal non-linearity, is studied. A magnetostatic flux $\Phi_{x}$ is also threading the SQUID ring, and is used to control the coupling…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 M. J. Everitt , P. B. Stiffell , T. D. Clark , A. Vourdas , J. F. Ralph , H. Prance , R. J. Prance

We construct a holographic model of superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) in the Einstein-Maxwell-complex scalar theory with a negative cosmological constant. The SQUID ring consists of two Josephson junctions which sit on two…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 Rong-Gen Cai , Yong-Qiang Wang , Hai-Qing Zhang

In the usual quantum tunneling, a low-energy quantum particle penetrates across a physical barrier of higher potential energy, by traversing a classically forbidden region, and finally escapes into another region. In an analogous scenario,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-11 V. R. Krithika , M. S. Santhanam , T. S. Mahesh

Quantum tunneling, a phenomenon in which a quantum state traverses energy barriers above the energy of the state itself, has been hypothesized as an advantageous physical resource for optimization. Here we show that multiqubit tunneling…

With recent improvements in coherence times, superconducting transmon qubits have become a promising platform for quantum computing. They can be flexibly engineered over a wide range of parameters, but also require us to identify an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-21 Michael H. Goerz , Felix Motzoi , K. Birgitta Whaley , Christiane P. Koch

We consider tunneling of spinless electrons from a single channel emitter into an empty collector through an interacting resonant level of the quantum dot. When all Coulomb screening of sudden charge variations of the dot during the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-05-17 V. V. Ponomarenko , I. A. Larkin

In this paper we compute quantum trajectories arising from Bohm's causal description of quantum mechanics. Our computational methodology is based upon a finite-element moving least-squares method (MWLS) presented recently by Wyatt and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Eric R. Bittner

The real-time flux dynamics of up to three superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs) are studied by numerically solving the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation. The numerical results are used to scrutinize the mapping of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-03 Madita Willsch , Dennis Willsch , Fengping Jin , Hans De Raedt , Kristel Michielsen

We consider the quantum tunneling phenomenon in a well-behaved triple-well potential. As required by the semiclassical approximation we take into account the quadratic fluctuations over the instanton which represents as usual the localised…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Casahorran