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A transformation of supersymmetric quantum mechanics for N coupled channels is presented, which allows the introduction of up to N degenerate bound states without altering the remaining spectrum of the Hamiltonian. Phase equivalence of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-06 H. Leeb , S. A. Sofianos , J. -M. Sparenberg , D. Baye

The tunneling hamiltonian has proven to be a useful method in many body physics to treat particle tunneling between different states represented as wavefunctions. Our problem is here applying what we did in the first paper to a driven…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. W. Beckwith

For an asymmetric double-well potential system, it is shown that, if the potential is quadratic until it reaches several times of the zero-point energies from the bottoms in each well, the energy eigenvalues of the low lying excited states…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-18 Dae-Yup Song

We study the dynamics of multi-dimensional quantum tunneling by introducing a complex absorbing potential to a two-dimensional model for spontaneous fission. We fist diagonalize the Hamiltonian with the complex potential to determine a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-23 Guillaume Scamps , Kouichi Hagino

We theoretically propose and analyze a Josephson-like magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) structure that exhibits quantum spin dynamics analogous to those in superconducting Josephson junctions. By exploiting the isomorphism between the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 V. V. Yurlov , P. N. Skirdkov , K. A. Zvezdin , A. K. Zvezdin

We consider tunneling to the continuum in a multi-dimensional potential. It is demonstrate that this problem can be treated as two separate problems: a) a bound state and b) a non-resonance scattering problem, by a proper splitting of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-11-23 S. A. Gurvitz

We examine the dynamics of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a symmetric double-well potential for a broad range of non-linear couplings. We demonstrate the existence of a region, beyond those of Josephson oscillations and self-trapping, which…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2011-01-11 B. Juliá-Díaz , J. Martorell , M. Melé-Messeguer , A. Polls

We present an approach for evaluating Wannier functions, offering an alternative perspective on their role in many-body systems. Unlike traditional methods, such as the maximally localized Wannier functions approach, which focuses on…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-01-09 Matteo Zendra , Fausto Borgonovi , Giuseppe Luca Celardo , Shmuel Gurvitz

Coherent electron transport through a quantum channel in the presence of a general extended scattering potential is investigated using a T-matrix Lippmann-Schwinger approach. The formalism is applied to a quantum wire with Gaussian type…

The quasi-energy spectrum recently measured in experiments with a squeeze-driven superconducting Kerr oscillator showed good agreement with the energy spectrum of its corresponding static effective Hamiltonian. The experiments also…

A semiclassical formalism is used to investigate the transistor-like behavior of ultracold atoms in a triple-well potential. Atom current flows from the source well, held at fixed chemical potential and temperature, into an empty drain…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-02-17 Seth C. Caliga , Cameron J. E. Straatsma , Alex A. Zozulya , Dana Z. Anderson

The ability to precisely control and predict the evolution of quantum states is a fundamental requirement for advancing quantum technologies. Here, we develop tunable atomic routing protocols based on an integrable model of dipolar bosons…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 Karin Wittmann W. , Leandro H. Ymai , Genessi Sá Neto , Angela Foerster

We continue our explorations of the transport characteristics in junction-configurations comprising semimetals with quadratic band-crossings, observed in the bandstructures of both two- and three-dimensional materials. Here, we consider…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-21 Ipsita Mandal

Quantum phenomena are relevant to the transport of light atoms and molecules through nanoporous two-dimensional (2D) membranes. Indeed, confinement provided by (sub-)nanometer pores enhances quantum effects such as tunneling and zero point…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-09 Alfonso Gijón , José Campos-Martínez , Marta I. Hernández

We study the transport properties of a three dimensional atomic-scale contact in the ballistic regime. The results for the conductance and related transmission eigenvalues show how the properties of the ideal semi-infinite leads (i.e.…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 Branislav K. Nikolic , Philip B. Allen

A general nonperturbative theory of the low-energy electron propagator is developed and used to calculate the single-particle density of states in a variety of systems. This method involves the decoupling of the electron-electron…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-09-17 Kelly R. Patton

The three-dimensional nonlinear dynamics of an electron gas in a semiconductor quantum well is analyzed in terms of a self-consistent fluid formulation and a variational approach. Assuming a time-dependent localized profile for the fluid…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 F. Haas

A study of the dynamics of a tunneling particle in a driven bistable potential which is moderately-to-strongly coupled to a bath is presented. Upon restricting the system dynamics to the Hilbert space spanned by the M lowest energy…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Thorwart , M. Grifoni , P. Hänggi

We adapt the semiclassical technique, as used in the context of instanton transitions in quantum field theory, to the description of tunneling transmissions at finite energies through potential barriers by complex quantum mechanical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. F. Bonini , A. G. Cohen , C. Rebbi , V. A. Rubakov

We study the quantum tunnel effect through a potential barrier employing a semiclassical formulation of quantum mechanics based on expectation values of configuration variables and quantum dispersions as dynamical variables. The evolution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-30 L. Aragon-Muñoz , G. Chacon-Acosta , H. Hernandez-Hernandez