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We consider the well-known Lieb-Liniger (LL) model for $N$ bosons interacting pairwise on the line via the $\delta$-potential in the mean-field scaling regime. Assuming suitable asymptotic factorization of the initial wave functions and…

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The Kronig-Penney model describes what happens to electron states when a confining potential is repeated indefinitely. This model uses a square well potential; the energies and eigenstates can be obtained analytically for a the single well,…

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We consider the overdamped dynamics of a paradigmatic long-range system of particles residing on the sites of a one-dimensional lattice, in the presence of thermal noise. The internal degree of freedom of each particle is a periodic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-12-03 Shamik Gupta , Alessandro Campa , Stefano Ruffo

Nonlinear Kronig-Penney model has been frequently employed to study transmission problem of electron wave in a nonlinear electrified chain or in a doped semiconductor superlattice. Here from an integral equation we derive a novel exact…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-17 Chao Kong , Kuo Hai , Jintao Tan , Hao Chen , Wenhua Hai

We analyze a one dimensional quantum model with off-diagonal disorder, consisting of a sequence of potential energy barriers whose width is a random variable either uniformly or normally distributed. We investigate how the disorder and the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-12 Matteo Colangeli , Lamberto Rondoni

Quantum critical systems out of equilibrium are of extensive interest, but are difficult to study theoretically. We consider here the steady state limit of a single electron transistor, which is attached to ferromagnetic leads and subjected…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 Stefan Kirchner , Qimiao Si

We provide a derivation of the tight-binding model that emerges from a full consideration of a particle bound in a periodic one-dimensional array of square well potentials, separated by barriers of height $V_0$ and width $b$. We derive the…

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We investigate a one-dimensional quantum system with a self-similar arrangement of delta-function potential barriers, exhibiting discrete scale invariance. The singular potential induces kinematically enforced symmetry breaking at $x=0$,…

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The transport properties of a tunnel barrier in a one-dimensional wire are investigated at finite voltages and temperatures. We generalize the Luttinger model to account for finite ranges of the interaction. This leads to deviations from…

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We study the one-dimensional nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with the cubic-quintic combination of attractive and repulsive nonlinearities, and a trapping potential represented by a delta-function. We determine all bound states with a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-11-10 François Genoud , Boris A. Malomed , Rada M. Weishäupl

The complex transmission amplitude -- both magnitude and phase -- of a quantum dot (QD) with Kondo correlation was measured near the unitary limit. Contrary to previous phase measurements, performed far from this limit [Ji et al., Science…

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Keller-Segel systems in two and three space dimensions with an additional cross-diffusion term in the equation for the chemical concentration are analyzed. The cross-diffusion term has a stabilizing effect and leads to the global-in-time…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-07-29 Ansgar Jüngel , Oliver Leingang , Shu Wang

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Studies of non-Fermi liquid properties in heavy fermions have led to the current interest in the Bose-Fermi Kondo model. Here we use a dynamical large-N approach to analyze an SU(N)xSU($\kappa N$) generalization of the model. We establish…

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Tunneling through a localized barrier in a one-dimensional interacting electron gas has been studied recently using Luttinger liquid techniques. Stable phases with zero or unit transmission occur, as well as critical points with universal…

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We examine the stability of a 1D electrical transmission line in the simultaneous presence of PT-symmetry and fractionality. The array contains a binary gain/loss distribution $\gamma_{n}$ and a fractional Laplacian characterized by a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2023-08-09 Mario I. Molina

We consider transformations preserving a contracting foliation, such that the associated quotient map satisfies a Lasota-Yorke inequality. We prove that the associated transfer operator, acting on suitable normed spaces, has a spectral gap…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-04-23 Stefano Galatolo , Rafael Lucena

Suppression of electron current $ \Delta I$ through a 1D channel of length $L$ connecting two Fermi liquid reservoirs is studied taking into account the Umklapp electron-electron interaction induced by a periodic potential. This interaction…

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