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Ever since the advent of quantum mechanics, it has been clear that the atoms composing matter do not obey Newton's laws. Instead, their behavior is described by the Schroedinger equation. Surprisingly though, until recently, no clear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tanmoy Bhattacharya , Salman Habib , Kurt Jacobs

Recent work has revealed a general procedure for incorporating disorder into the semiclassical model of carrier transport, whereby the predictions of quantum linear response theory can be recovered within a quantum kinetic approach based on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-10 M. Mehraeen

We consider T-invariant spin currents induced by spin-orbit interactions which originate from the confined motion of spin carriers in nanostructures. The resulting Thomas spin precession is a fundamental and purely kinematic relativistic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-15 Stephane Ouvry , Leonid Pastur , Andrey Yanovsky

We investigate the supercurrent through a quantum dot for the whole range of couplings using the numerical renormalization group method. We find that the Josephson current switches abruptly from a $\pi$- to a 0-phase as the coupling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Mahn-Soo Choi , Minchul Lee , Kicheon Kang , W. Belzig

In the ballistic limit, the Landauer conductance steps of a mesoscopic quantum wire have been explained by coherent and dissipationless transmission of individual electrons across a one-dimensional barrier. This leaves untouched the central…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mukunda P. Das , Frederick Green

A key step in unraveling the mysteries of materials exhibiting unconventional superconductivity is to understand the underlying pairing mechanism. While it is widely agreed upon that the pairing glue in many of these systems originates from…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-09-09 Annabelle Bohrdt , Eugene Demler , Fabian Grusdt

When a biased conductor is put in proximity with an unbiased conductor a drag current can be induced in the absence of detailed balance. This is known as the Coulomb drag effect. However, even in this situation far away from equilibrium…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-02-17 Rafael Sánchez , Rosa López , David Sánchez , Markus Buttiker

The current study is motivated by a difficulty to reconcile between particle number conservation and superconductivity. An alternative modeling, which is based on the hypothesis that disentanglement spontaneously ocuurs in quantum systems,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-28 Eyal Buks

Phase transitions can modify quantum behaviour on mesoscopic scales and give access to new and unusual quantum dynamics. Here we investigate the superfluid properties of a rotating two-component Bose--Einstein condensate as a function of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-03-09 Angela White , Tara Hennessy , Thomas Busch

The common wisdom that the phonon mechanism of electron pairing in the weak-coupling Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) superconductors leads to conventional s-wave Cooper pairs is revised. An inevitable anisotropy of sound velocity in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 A. S. Alexandrov

In previous investigations on zitterbewegung(zbw) of electron, it is believed that the zbw results from some internal motion of electron. However, all the analyses are made at relativistic quantum mechanical level. In framework of quantum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Zhi-yong Wang , Ailin Zhang

There have been several experiments which hint at evidence for superluminal transport of electromagnetic energy through a material slab. On the theoretical side, it has appeared evident that acausal signals are indeed possible in quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 V. Kidambi , A. Widom

Till now, the foundation of quantum physics is still mysterious. To explore the mysteries in the foundation of quantum physics, people always take it for granted that quantum processes must be some types of fields/objects on a rigid space.…

General Physics · Physics 2025-10-24 Su-Peng Kou

Here one can find a derivation of the commutator of the charge and magnetic flux in a superconducting circuit containing a Josephson junction from the commutation relation of quantum-field operators of electric field and vector potential. A…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-10 Mikhail A. Savrov

When two superconductors become electrically connected by a weak link a zero-resistance supercurrent can flow. This supercurrent is carried by Cooper pairs of electrons with a combined charge of twice the elementary charge, e. The 2e charge…

It is demonstrated that the strong coupling of an electron gas to photons in systems with broken time-reversal symmetry results in bound electron-photon states which cannot be backscattered elastically. As a consequence, the electron gas…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-05 O. V. Kibis

In Ref. [1], arXiv:2511.03384, Markos and Hlubina argue that "contrary to the expectations of Hirsch" [2] the conventional theory of superconductivity correctly describes the dynamics of the Meissner effect. Here I point out the flaws in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-26 J. E. Hirsch

In multi-band metals quasi-particles arising from different atomic orbitals coexist at a common Fermi surface. Superconductivity in these materials may appear due to interactions within a band (intra-band) or among the distinct metallic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-19 Aline Ramires , Mucio A. Continentino

We study the shuttling instability in an array of three quantum dots the central one of which is movable. We extend the results by Armour and MacKinnon on this problem to a broader parameter regime. The results obtained by an efficient…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Andrea Donarini , Tomas Novotny , Antti-Pekka Jauho

Consider a multichannel closed ring with disorder. In the semiclassical treatment its conductance is given by the Drude formula. Quantum mechanics challenge this result both in the limit of strong disorder (eigenstates are not…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Doron Cohen