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A single electron shared between two levels threaded by a magnetic flux is an irreducibly simple quantum system in which interference is predicted to occur. We demonstrate tuning of the tunnel coupling between two such electronic levels…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-12 Christian G. Prosko , Ivan Kulesh , Michael Chan , Lin Han , Di Xiao , Candice Thomas , Michael J. Manfra , Srijit Goswami , Filip K. Malinowski

Optimal simultaneous control of position and momentum can be achieved by maximizing the probabilities of finding their experimentally observed values within two well-defined intervals. The assumption that particles move along straight lines…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-06 Holger F. Hofmann

Process of quantum tunneling of particles in various physical systems can be effectively controlled even by a weak and slow varying in time electromagnetic signal if to adapt specially its shape to a particular system. During an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-02-05 B. I. Ivlev

After electrons tunnel out of a laser-Coulomb-formed barrier, %formed by the strong laser field and the atomic Coulomb potential, the movement of the tunneling electron can be affected by the Coulomb tail. We show that this Coulomb effect…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-06-03 Y. J. Chen , X. J. Xie , C. Chen , G. G. Xin , J. Liu

Molecular transistors have the potential for switching with lower gate voltages than conventional field-effect transistors. We have calculated the performance of a single-molecule device in which there is interference between electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-28 Ying Li , Jan Mol , Simon Benjamin , Andrew Briggs

We discover that quantum dynamical tunneling, occurring between phase space regions in a classically forbidden way, can break conserved quantities in pseudointegrable systems. We rigorously prove that a conserved quantity in a class of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2024-05-21 Lingchii Kong , Zongping Gong , Biao Wu

A quantum phase transition is an unequivocal signature of strongly correlated many-body physics. Signatures of such phenomena are yet to be observed in ballistic transport through quantum wires. Recent developments in quantum wires have…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-07-26 Abolfazl Bayat , Sanjeev Kumar , Michael Pepper , Sougato Bose

It is well known that quantum computers are superior to classical computers in efficiently simulating quantum systems. Here we report the first experimental simulation of quantum tunneling through potential barriers, a widespread phenomenon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-03 Guan Ru Feng , Yao Lu , Liang Hao , Fei Hao Zhang , Gui Lu Long

We find that, under appropriate conditions, electrons can pass a barrier etched across a two dimensional electron gas (2DEG) by field emission from the GaAs/AlGaAs heterojunction into a second, low-density 2DEG formed deep in the substrate.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 D. H. Cobden , G. Pilling , R. Parthasarathy , P. L. McEuen , I. M. Castleton , E. H. Linfield , D. A. Ritchie , G. A. C. Jones

Quantum diffusion is studied via dissipative Madelung hydrodynamics. Initially the wave packet spreads ballistically, than passes for an instant through normal diffusion and later tends asymptotically to a sub-diffusive law. It is shown…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-04-21 Roumen Tsekov

Coherent motion of electrons in a twisted quantum ring is considered to explore the effect of torsion inherent to the ring. Internal torsion of the ring composed of helical atomic configuration yields a non-trivial quantum phase shift in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Hisao Taira , Hiroyuki Shima

We consider multiple collisions of quantum wave packets in one dimension. The system under investigation consists of an impenetrable wall and of two hard-core particles with very different masses. The lighter particle bounces between the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Walter Hahn , Boris V. Fine

In classical mechanics and electromagnetism, interference occurs when two or more waves overlap at the same point in spacetime. However, the advent of quantum electrodynamics (QED) and its remarkable success in describing light-matter…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-15 Alan C. Santos , Celso J. Villas-Boas

We investigate theoretically the simultaneous tunneling of two electrons from a superconductor into a normal metal at low temperatures and voltages. Such an emission process is shown to be equivalent to the Andreev reflection of an incident…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Prada , F. Sols

It is demonstrated that non-equilibrium vibrational effects are enhanced in molecular devices for which the effective potential for vibrations is sensitive to the charge state of the device. We calculate the electron tunneling current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Maarten R. Wegewijs , Katja C. Nowack

The electronic structure of two vertically coupled quantum dots containing two electrons is investigated in the presence of interdot tunneling. Our approach also includes the interdot exchange and we find that the tunneling is affected by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Partoens , A. Matulis , F. M. Peeters

We investigate interference effects of the backscattering current through a double-barrier structure in an interacting quantum wire attached to noninteracting leads. Depending on the interaction strength and the location of the barriers,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Shaoqing Wang , Liling Zhou , Zhao Yang Zeng

With the quantum diffusion approach the unexpected behavior of fusion cross section, angular momentum, and astrophysical S-factor at sub-barrier energies has been revealed. Out of the region of short-range nuclear interaction and action of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-18 V. V. Sargsyan , G. G. Adamian , N. V. Antonenko , W. Scheid

Molecular electronics offers unique scientific and technological possibilities, resulting from both the nanometre scale of the devices and their reproducible chemical complexity. Two fundamental yet different effects, with no classical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-12 Andrew K. Mitchell , Kim G. L. Pedersen , Per Hedegaard , Jens Paaske

Quantum interference takes center stage in the realm of quantum particles, playing a crucial role in revealing their wave-like nature and probabilistic behavior. It relies on the concept of superposition, where the probability amplitudes of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-15 Sajad Ahmadi , Mohsen Akbari , Shahpoor Saeidian , Ali Motazedifard