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A diagrammatic method is applied to study the effects of commensurability in two-dimensional disordered crystalline metals by using the particle-hole symmetry with respect to the nesting vector P_0={\pm{\pi}/a, {\pi}/a} for a half-filled…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 E. P. Nakhmedov , M. Kumru , R. Oppermann

We show a transition from a bound state to a continuum resonance in a shallow quantum well (QW) by electrostatic gating to bend the conduction band edge. This bound state-continuum resonance (BSCR) transition is particularly relevant in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-21 Yi Huang , Sankar Das Sarma

We determine the energy splitting of the conduction-band valleys in two-dimensional electrons confined to low-disorder Si quantum wells. We probe the valley splitting dependence on both perpendicular magnetic field $B$ and Hall density by…

We study disordered quantum-well-based semiconductor superlattices where the disorder is intentional and short-range correlated. Such systems consist of quantum-wells of two different thicknesses randomly distributed along the growth…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 E. Diez , A. Sanchez , F. Dominguez-Adame

Quantum Hall edge states in proximity to a superconductor (SC) usually acquire a non-quantized electron-to-hole conversion probability in transport, due to non-universal SC couplings and disorders. With counter-propagating modes, we show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-26 Pok Man Tam , Hao Chen , Biao Lian

We present a unified theory of quantum phase transitions for half-filled quantum dots (QDs) coupled to gapped host bands. We augment the bands by additional weakly coupled metallic lead which allows us to analyze the system by using…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-24 Peter Zalom , Martin Žonda

A striking feature of cavity quantum electrodynamics is the existence of atom-photon bound states, which typically form when the coupling between the atom and its environment are strong enough that after de-excitation the atom can ``grab''…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Savannah Garmon , Gonzalo Ordonez , Kenichi Noba

By using the self-consistent Born approximation, we investigate topological phase transitions in double HgTe quantum wells (QWs) induced by the short-range impurities. Following the evolution of the density-of-states and the spectral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-03 S. S. Krishtopenko , A. V. Ikonnikov , B. Jouault , F. Teppe

Interfacing stationary qubits with propagating photons is a fundamental problem in quantum technology. Cavity quantum electrodynamics (CQED) invokes a mediator degree of freedom in the form of a far-detuned cavity mode, the adaptation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-05 Nathanaël Cottet , Haonan Xiong , Long B. Nguyen , Yen-Hsiang Lin , Vladimir E. Manucharyan

We consider two two-level quantum emitters (QEs) with separations on the order of the wavelength which are chirally coupled to a one-dimensional (1D) waveguide, and the electromagnetic field of the 1D waveguide has a direction-dependent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 Meng Qian Wu , Ge Sun , Jing Lu , Lan Zhou

The quasiparticle states around a nonmagnetic impurity in electron-doped iron-based superconductors with spin-density-wave (SDW) order are investigated as a function of doping and impurity scattering strength. In the undoped sample, where a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-06-07 Tao Zhou , Huaixiang Huang , Yi Gao , Jian-Xin Zhu , C. S. Ting

Taking into account the tetrahedral shape of a quantum dot quantum well (QDQW) when describing excitonic states, phonon modes and the exciton-phonon interaction in the structure, we obtain within a non-adiabatic approach a quantitative…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. A. Fonoberov , E. P. Pokatilov , V. M. Fomin , J. T. Devreese

Spherical shaped Si quantum dots (QDs) embedded into the SiO2 substrate are considered in the single sub-band effective mass approach. Nonparabolicity of the Si conduction band is described by the energy dependence of electron effective…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 I. Filikhin , S. G. Matinyan , B. K. Schmid , B. Vlahovic

The conventional method of qubit measurements in circuit QED is employing the dispersive regime of qubit-cavity coupling, which results in an approximated scheme of quantum nondemolition (QND) readout. This scheme becomes problematic in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-12 Wei Feng , Cheng Zhang , Zhong Wang , Lupei Qin , Xin-Qi Li

Both quantum spin Hall and quantum anomalous Hall states are novel states of quantum matter with promising applications. We propose junction quantum wells comprising II-VI, III-V or IV semiconductors as a large class of new materials…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-29 Haijun Zhang , Yong Xu , Jing Wang , Shou-Cheng Zhang

We record photoreflectance from Ge/GeSi modulation doped quantum wells possessing $10^4$ V/cm perpendicular electric fields. Qualitatively very different spectra are obtained from samples of well-width 100 \AA and 250 \AA. Comparing the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Arjun Joshua , V. Venkataraman

We show how to compute the optical functions of Wide Parabolic Quantum Wells (WPQWs) exposed to uniform electric F applied in the growth direction, in the excitonic energy region. The effect of the coherence between the electron-hole pair…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-31 Sylwia Zielińska-Raczyńska , Gerard Czajkowski , David Ziemkiewicz

We investigate numerically different phases that can occur at half filling in the lowest and the first excited Landau levels in wide-well twodimensional electron systems exposed to a perpendicular magnetic field. Within a twocomponent model…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-16 N. Thiebaut , N. Regnault , M. O. Goerbig

Free standing InP quantum dots have previously been theoretically and experimentally shown to have a direct band gap across a large range of experimentally accessible sizes. We demonstrate that when these dots are embedded coherently within…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 A. J. Williamson , Alex Zunger , A. Canning

For a quantum confinement model, the wave function of a particle is zero outside the confined region. Due to this, the negative energy states are, in fact, square integrable. As negative energy states are not physical, we need to impose…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-17 Chyi-Lung Lin