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The quantum transport in a narrow channel (NC) is studied in the presence of a time-dependent delta-profile electric field. The electric field is taken to be transversely polarized, with frequency $\omega$, causing inter-subband and…
Using spectroscopic ellipsometry, we study the optical conductivity sigma(omega) of insulating LaSrMnO4 in the energy range of 0.75-5.8 eV from 15 to 330 K. The layered structure gives rise to a pronounced anisotropy. A multipeak structure…
We study the dimensional crossover of weak localization in strongly anisotropic systems. This crossover from three-dimensional behavior to an effective lower dimensional system is triggered by increasing temperature if the phase coherence…
We introduce a conceptual reformulation of the Mott-Berezinski\u{i} (MB) theory of low-frequency AC conductivity in disordered systems based on localization landscape theory. Instead of assuming uniform localization and fixed hopping…
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The emergence of superconductivity in unconventional superconductors usually accompanies the normal-state phases of pseudogap, strange metal and Fermi liquid. It indicates these phases are strongly related to the superconducting state and…
The impact of an electric field on the electron localization problem is studied within the framework of a field-theoretic formulation. The investigation shows that the impact of the electric field on the localization corrections is governed…
We use optimal fluctuation method for a new ballistic $\sigma$-model to study the long time dispersion of conductance $G(t)$ of a mesoscopic sample. In the long time limit the conductance of a $d$-dimensional sample decays as $\exp (-A…
We consider the critical dynamics of a system with an $n$-component non-conserved order parameter coupled to a conserved field with long range diffusion. An exponent $\sigma$ characterizes the long range transport, $\sigma=2$ being the…
We show that weak measurements can induce a quantum phase transition of interacting many-body systems from an ergodic thermal phase with a large entropy to a nonergodic localized phase with a small entropy, but only if the measurement…
Dynamics of the imbalance in occupations on even and odd sites of a lattice serves as one of the key characteristics for identification of the many-body localization transition. In this work, we investigate the long-time behaviour of the…
We study the localization phenomena in a one-dimensional lattice system with a uniformly moving disordered potential. At a low moving velocity, we find a sliding localized phase in which the initially localized matter wave adiabatically…
The ballistic conductance through a device consisting of quantum wires, to which two stubs are attached laterally, is calculated assuming parabolic confining potentials of frequencies $\omega_w$ for the wires and $\omega_s$ for the stubs.…
Topological defects are ubiquitous from solid state physics to cosmology, where they drive phase transitions by proliferating as domain walls, monopoles or vortices. As quantum excitations, they often display fractional charge and anyonic…
We propose and analyze a new approach to the coherent control and manipulation of quantum degrees of freedom in disordered, interacting systems in the many-body localized phase. Our approach leverages a number of unique features of…
The optical conductivity encodes the current response to a time dependent electric field. We develop a theory of the optical conductivity $\sigma(\omega)$ in presence of a dc supercurrent. Current induced optical response is prohibited by…
We study localization properties of continuously monitored dynamics and associated measurement-induced phase transitions in disordered quantum many-body systems on the basis of the quantum trajectory approach. By calculating the fidelity…
A theory of dissipative nonlinear conductivity, $\sigma_1(\omega,H)$, of s-wave superconductors under strong electromagnetic fields at low temperatures is proposed. Closed-form expressions for $\sigma_1(H)$ and the surface resistance…
The temperature ($T$) and frequency ($\omega$) dependent conductivity of weakly disordered Luttinger liquids is calculated in a systematic way both by perturbation theory and from a finite temperature renormalization group (RG) treatment to…
We study the low-frequency behavior of the {\it ac} conductivity $\sigma(\omega)$ of a two-dimensional fermion gas subject to a smooth random potential (RP) or random magnetic field (RMF). We find a non-analytic $\propto|\omega|$ correction…