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Magneto-Raman scattering experiments from the surface of graphite reveal novel features associated to purely electronic excitations which are observed in addition to phonon-mediated resonances. Graphene-like and graphite domains are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 C. Faugeras , M. Amado , P. Kossacki , M. Orlita , M. Kühne , A. A. L. Nicolet , Yu. I. Latyshev , M. Potemski

We investigate the quantum evolution of the pump field in second-harmonic generation under strong pump depletion. Starting from a coherent state, the pump develops a nonclassical phase-space structure resembling a Schr\"odinger cat state.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-02 Ranjit Singh , Leonid A. Barinov , Grigori G. Amosov , Anatoly V. Masalov

The classical picture of the force on a capacitor assumes a large density of electronic states, such that the electrochemical potential of charges added to the capacitor is given by the external electrostatic potential and the capacitance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-13 Changyao Chen , Vikram V. Deshpande , Mikito Koshino , Sunwoo Lee , Alexander Gondarenko , Allan H. MacDonald , Philip Kim , James Hone

It is shown that because of the radiation pressure a Schr\"odinger cat state can be generated in a resonator with oscillating wall. The optomechanical control of quantum macroscopic coherence and its detection is taken into account…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 S. Mancini , V. I. Man'ko , P. Tombesi

We present a simple micromanipulation technique to transfer suspended graphene flakes onto any substrate and to assemble them with small localized gates into mechanical resonators. The mechanical motion of the graphene is detected using an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-06 Xuefeng Song , Mika Oksanen , Mika A. Sillanpää , H. G. Craighead , J. M. Parpia , Pertti J. Hakonen

Quantum oscillators with nonlinear driving and dissipative terms have gained significant attention due to their ability to stabilize cat-states for universal quantum computation. Recently, superconducting circuits have been employed to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-29 Adrià Labay-Mora , Roberta Zambrini , Gian Luca Giorgi

Adding excitations on a coherent state provides an effective way to observe nonclassical properties of radiation fields. Here we describe and analyse how to apply this concept to the motional state of a mechanical oscillator and present a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-25 Jie Li , Simon Gröblacher , Shi-Yao Zhu , G. S. Agarwal

We propose a hybrid system composed of a Majorana qubit and a nanomechanical resonator, implemented by a spin-orbit-coupled superconducting nanowire, using a set of static and oscillating ferromagnetic gates. The ferromagnetic gates induce…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-08 P. Zhang , Franco Nori

The nonlinear frequencies of pre-stressed graphene-based structures, such as flat graphene sheets and carbon nanotubes, are calculated. These structures are modeled with a nonlinear hyperelastic shell model. The model is calibrated with…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Reza Ghaffari , Roger A. Sauer

We study the spin dynamics of a ferromagnetic insulator on which graphene is placed. We show that the Gilbert damping is enhanced by the proximity exchange coupling at the interface. The modulation of the Gilbert damping constant is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-16 Yuya Ominato , Mamoru Matsuo

The combination of high frequency vibrations and metallic transport in graphene makes it a unique material for nano-electromechanical devices. In this letter, we show that graphene-based nano-electromechanical devices are extremely well…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-13 Tony Low , Yongjin Jiang , Mikhail Katsnelson , Francisco Guinea

The dissipative quantum dynamics of an anharmonic oscillator is investigated theoretically in the context of carbon-based nano-mechanical systems. In the short-time limit, it is known that macroscopic superposition states appear for such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Aurora Voje , Alexander Croy , Andreas Isacsson

Quantum simulation offers a route to study open-system molecular dynamics in non-perturbative regimes by programming the interactions among electronic, vibrational, and environmental degrees of freedom on similar energy scales. Trapped-ion…

We experimentally investigate the non-Gaussian features of the phase-randomized coherent states, a class of states exploited in communication channels and in decoy state-based quantum key distribution protocols. In particular, we…

Optics · Physics 2012-10-31 Alessia Allevi , Stefano Olivares , Maria Bondani

The effect of electronic interactions in graphene with vacancies or resonant scatterers is investigated. We apply dynamical mean-field theory in combination with quantum Monte Carlo simulations, which allow us to treat non-perturbatively…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-06-29 P. Haase , S. Fuchs , T. Pruschke , H. Ochoa , F. Guinea

The decoherence of superpositions of classically distinguishable states (cat states) is crucial for understanding quantum-to-classical transitions and quantum measurements. So far, decoherence processes of mesoscopic cat states have been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-20 Ri-Hua Zheng , Jia-Hao Lü , Fan Wu , Yan Xia , Li-Hua Lin , Zhen-Biao Yang , Shi-Biao Zheng

Highly quantum non-linear interactions between different bosonic modes lead to the generation of quantum non-Gaussian states, i.e. states that cannot be written as mixtures of Gaussian states. A paradigmatic example is given by…

Rotation and reflection symmetries impose that out-of-plane (flexural) phonons of free-standing graphene membranes have a quadratic dispersion at long wavelength and can be excited by charge carriers in pairs only. As a result, we find that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-08-12 Eros Mariani , Felix von Oppen

The graphene membrane irradiated by weak activating alternative electric field in terahertz range was considered. The quantum approach based on the time-dependent density matrix method was used. The exact solution was obtained for graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-18 N. E. Firsova , Yu. A. Firsov

Software-defined radio dongles are small and inexpensive receivers well known to amateur radio enthusiasts. When connected to an antenna, they enable monitoring of a wide range of the radio spectrum by conditioning the input signal and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-18 Heng Lu , Chen Yang , Ye Tian , Jue Wang , Ce Zhang , Yubin Zhang , FengNan Chen , Ying Yan , Joel Moser