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We show that the interplay between spin-orbit coupling and Zeeman splitting in atomic systems can lead to the existence of bound states in the continuum (BICs) supported by trapping potentials. Such states have energies falling well within…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-09-21 Yaroslav V. Kartashov , Vladimir V. Konotop , Lluis Torner

Topological bound states in the continuum are confined wave-mechanical objects that offer advantageous ways to enhance light-matter interactions in compact photonic devices. In particular, their large quality factor in the strong-coupling…

We investigate the occurrence of bound states in the continuum (BIC's) in serial structures of quantum dots coupled to an external waveguide, when some characteristic length of the system is changed. By resorting to a multichannel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Cattapan , P. Lotti

We study the spectrum of the Helmholtz equation in a two-dimensional infinite waveguide, containing a weak heterogeneity localized at an internal point, and obeying Dirichlet boundary conditions at its border. We prove that, when the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-07-20 Paolo Amore , Francisco M. Fernandez , Christoph P. Hofmann

We investigate theoretically the electron states in HgTe quantum dots (QDs) with inverted band structures. In sharp contrast to conventional semiconductor quantum dots, the quantum states in the gap of HgTe quantum dot with an inverted band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-09-21 Kai Chang , W. K. Lou

We study the electronic transport through a quantum wire (QW) with a strong side coupled quantum dot (QD). We obtain a linear conductance with lateral peaks when the gate voltage, is located near the edge of the conduction band. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Franco , E. V Anda , M. S. Figueira

We develop a theory for the dynamics of an Andreev bound state hosted by a weak link of finite length for which charging effects are important. We derive the linear response of both the current through the link and charge accumulated in it…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-01 Pavel D. Kurilovich , Vladislav D. Kurilovich , Valla Fatemi , Michel H. Devoret , Leonid I. Glazman

We derive an effective low-energy theory of disordered interacting quantum wires. Our theory describes Anderson localization in the limit of vanishing dephasing and reduces to standard abelian bosonization in the limit of vanishing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-05-26 T. Micklitz , Alexander Altland , Julia S. Meyer

A new diagrammatic method, which is a reformulation of Berezinskii's technique, is constructed to study the density of electronic states $\rho(\epsilon,\phi)$ of a one-channel weakly disordered ring, threaded by an external magnetic flux.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 E. P. Nakhmedov , H. Feldmann , R. Oppermann

Neutral fermions of spin $\frac 12$ with magnetic moment can interact with electromagnetic fields through nonminimal coupling. The Dirac--Pauli equation for such a fermion coupled to a spherically symmetric or central electric field can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Qiong-gui Lin

We study the properties of a two-dimensional non-relativistic electron gas (TDEG) constrained on wires along a M\"{o}bius strip. We considered wires around the strip and along the transverse direction, across the width of the strip. For…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-10 J. J. L. R. Pinto , J. E. G. Silva , C. A. S. Almeida

The ground-state density of states of the half-filled Falicov-Kimball model contains a charge-density-wave gap. At finite temperature, this gap is not immediately closed, but is rather filled in by subgap states. For a specific combination…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-08-21 Martin Žonda , Junichi Okamoto , Michael Thoss

The formation of bound states between mobile impurity particles and fermionic atoms has been demonstrated in spin-polarized Fermi gases with attractive interspecies interaction. We investigate bound states of mobile impurities immersed in a…

This paper is dedicated to the study of the existence and the properties of electron-electron bound states in QED$_3$. A detailed analysis of the infrared structure of the perturbative series of the theory is presented. We start by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-08-15 H. O. Girotti , M. Gomes , J. L. deLyra , R. S. Mendes , J. R. S. Nascimento , A. J. da Silva

Ingap states are commonly observed in semiconductors and are often well characterized by a hydrogenic model within the effective mass approximation. However, when impurities are strong, they significantly perturb all momentum eigenstates,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-07 Raquel Queiroz , Roni Ilan , Zhida Song , B. Andrei Bernevig , Ady Stern

We present self-consistent numerical calculations of the electronic structure of parallel Coulomb-confined quantum wires, based on the Hohenberg-Kohn-Sham density functional theory of inhomogeneous electron systems. We find that the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 Yinlong Sun , George Kirczenow

We use the Hartree-Fock method to study an interacting one-dimensional electron system on a finite wire, partially depleted at the center by a smooth potential barrier. A uniform one-Tesla Zeeman field is applied throughout the system. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-29 Jiang Qian , Bertrand I. Halperin

Bound states are dissipation-resilient states that may emerge when quantum systems are strongly coupled to reservoirs with band gaps. We analyze an exactly solvable bosonic model for bound state existence and reproduce these results by a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-08 Guan-Yu Lai , Friedemann Queißer , Gernot Schaller

Nonlinearity provides a powerful mechanism for controlling energy localization in structured dynamical systems. In this study, we investigate the emergence of nonlinearity-induced energy localization at the corners of a kagome lattice model…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-26 K Prabith , Georgios Theocharis , Rajesh Chaunsali

We calculate the density of states for an interacting quantum wire in the presence two impurities of arbitrary potential strength. To perform this calculation, we describe the Coulomb interactions in the wire within the Tomonaga-Luttinger…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-12 R. Zamoum , M. Guigou , C. Bena , A. Crépieux