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Non-hermitian systems have gained a lot of interest in recent years. However, notions of chaos and localization in such systems have not reached the same level of maturity as in the Hermitian systems. Here, we consider non-hermitian…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-10-19 Soumi Ghosh , Sparsh Gupta , Manas Kulkarni

We demonstrate that the nonequilibrium steady state (NESS) of an open-system Holstein model with linear bias displays extreme sensitivity to the closed system parameters. This sensitivity is shown to correspond to avoided crossings in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-25 Nishaant Jacobus , Paul Brumer , Chern Chuang

State of the art quantum transport models for semiconductor nanodevices attribute negative (positive) unit charges to states of the conduction (valence) band. Hybrid states that enable band-to-band tunneling are subject to interpolation…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Yuanchen Chu , Prasad Sarangapani , James Charles , Gerhard Klimeck , Tillmann Kubis

We study the transport properties and the spectral statistics of a one-dimensional closed quantum system of interacting spinless fermions in a quasiperiodic potential which produces a single particle mobility edge in the absence of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-01-04 Soumi Ghosh , Jyotsna Gidugu , Subroto Mukerjee

We present a discussion of the admittance (ac-conductance) and nonlinear I-V-characteristic for a number of mesoscopic conductors. Our approach is based on a generalization of the scattering approach which now includes the effects of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 M. Buttiker , T. Christen

The motion of quantum particles homogeneously constrained to a curved surface is affected by a curvature induced geometric potential. Here, we consider the case of inhomogeneous confinement and derive the effective Hamiltonian by extending…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-01 Guo-Hua Liang , Meng-Yun Lai

The formation of metallic nanofilaments bridging two electrodes across an insulator is a mechanism for resistive switching. Examples of such phenomena include atomic synapses, which constitute a distinct class of memristive devices whose…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-23 Alison A. Silva , Fabiano M. Andrade , Francesco Caravelli

The energy spectra of two different quantum systems are paired through supersymmetric algorithms. One of the systems is Hermitian and the other is characterized by a complex-valued potential, both of them with only real eigenvalues in their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-04 Kevin Zelaya , Sara Cruz y Cruz , Oscar Rosas-Ortiz

Understanding quantum tunneling in many-body systems is crucial for advancing quantum technologies and nanoscale device design. Despite extensive studies of quantum tunneling, the role of interactions in determining directional transport…

The effect of non-Hermiticity in band topology has sparked many discussions on non-Hermitian topological physics. It has long been known that non-Hermitian Hamiltonians can exhibit real energy spectra under the condition of parity-time…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-20 Yang Long , Haoran Xue , Baile Zhang

Non-hermiticity presents a vast newly opened territory that harbors new physics and applications such as lasing and sensing. However, only non-Hermitian systems with real eigenenergies are stable, and great efforts have been devoted in…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-10-25 Russell Yang , Jun Wei Tan , Tommy Tai , Jin Ming Koh , Linhu Li , Stefano Longhi , Ching Hua Lee

In this paper, we examine the conditions under which the nonlinear transport theory is inescapable, when a correlated quantum dot is symmetrically coupled to two leads submitted to temperature and voltage biases. By detailed numerical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-02 J. Azema , P. Lombardo , A. -M. Daré

Modern quantum experiments provide examples of transport with non-commuting quantities, offering a tool to understand the interplay between thermal and quantum effects. Here we set forth a theory for non-Abelian transport in the linear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-10 Gonzalo Manzano , Juan M. R. Parrondo , Gabriel T. Landi

The nonorthogonality of eigenfunctions over the volume of non-Hermitian systems determines the nature of waves in complex systems. Here, we show in microwave measurements of the transmission matrix that the non-Hermiticity of open random…

Optics · Physics 2019-10-23 Matthieu Davy , Azriel Z. Genack

As an unusual type of anomalous diffusion behavior, superballistic transport is not well known but has been experimentally simulated recently. Quantum superballistic transport models to date are mainly based on connected sublattices which…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-19 Qifang Zhao , Cord A. Muller , Jiangbin Gong

The ordinary time-dependent perturbation theory of quantum mechanics, that describes the interaction of a stationary system with a time-dependent perturbation, predicts that the transition probabilities induced by the perturbation are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-11 S. Longhi , G. Della Valle

A mechanism for asymmetric transport based on the interplay between the fundamental symmetries of parity (P) and time (T) with nonlinearity is presented. We experimentally demonstrate and theoretically analyze the phenomenon using a pair of…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-12 N. Bender , S. Factor , J. D. Bodyfelt , H. Ramezani , F. M. Ellis , T. Kottos

Transport in Hamiltonian systems with weak chaotic perturbations has been much studied in the past. In this paper, we introduce a new class of problems: transport in Hamiltonian systems with slowly changing phase space structure that are…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2019-10-02 Freddy Bouchet , Eric Woillez

We study transport through a single-level system placed between two reservoirs with band-structure, taking strong level-reservoir coupling of the order of the energy-scales of these band-structures. An exact solution in the absence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-19 Étienne Jussiau , Robert S. Whitney

Quantum-confined semiconductor structures are the cornerstone of modern-day electronics. Spatial confinement in these structures leads to formation of discrete low-dimensional subbands. At room temperature, carriers transfer among different…

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