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We have observed the coherent exchange of a single energy quantum between a flux qubit and a superconducting LC circuit acting as a quantum harmonic oscillator. The exchange of an energy quantum is known as the vacuum Rabi oscillations: the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 J. Johansson , S. Saito , T. Meno , H. Nakano , M. Ueda , K. Semba , H. Takayanagi

We investigate Aharonov-Bohm-type oscillations of the thermopower of a quantum dot embedded in a ring for the case when the interaction between electrons can be neglected. The thermopower is shown to be strongly flux dependent, and…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Ya. M. Blanter , C. Bruder , Rosario Fazio , Herbert Schoeller

We consider different schemes for the electrodynamic Aharonov-Bohm (AB) effect introduced in Ref. [Phys. Rev. A $\mathbf{108}$, 062218 (2023)], exploring the phenomenon to enhance the understanding of its topological nature in spacetime. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Pablo L. Saldanha , Herman Batelaan

This study presents the confinement influences of Aharonov-Bohm-flux (AB-flux), electric and magnetic fields directed along $z$-axis and encircled by quantum plasmas, on the hydrogen atom. The all-inclusive effects result to a strongly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-25 Babatunde James Falaye , Guo-Hua Sun , Ramón Silva-Ortigoza , Shi-Hai Dong

The phase of the wave function of charged matter is sensitive to the value of the electric potential, even when the matter never enters any region with non-vanishing electromagnetic fields. Despite its fundamental character, this archetypal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-13 Thomas C. Bachlechner , Matthew Kleban

We address the question of the locality versus nonlocality in the Aharonov-Bohm and the Aharonov-Casher effects. For this purpose, we investigate all possible configurations of ideal shielding of the overlap between the electromagnetic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-11 Kicheon Kang

The canonical Aharonov-Bohm effect is usually studied with time-independent potentials. In this work, we investigate the Aharonov-Bohm phase acquired by a charged particle moving in {\it time-dependent} potentials . In particular, we focus…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-29 Max Bright , Douglas Singleton , Atsushi Yoshida

We investigate quantum state reconstruction of a superconducting qubit threaded by an Aharonov-Bohm flux, with particular attention to the local geometric phase. A state reconstruction scheme is introduced with a proper account of the local…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Kicheon Kang

Following semiclassical arguments by Vaidman we show, for the first time in a fully quantum mechanical way, that the phase shifts arising in the Aharonov Bohm (A-B) magnetic or electric effects can be treated as due to the electric force of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-31 Philip Pearle , Anthony Rizzi

The Aharonov-Bohm (AB) effect is a purely quantum mechanical effect. The original (classified as Type-I) AB-phase shift exists in experimental conditions where the electromagnetic fields and forces are zero. It is the absence of forces that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Adam Caprez , Brett Barwick , Herman Batelaan

A quantum antidot, a submicron depletion region in a two-dimensional electron system, has been actively studied in the past two decades, providing a powerful tool for understanding quantum Hall systems. In a perpendicular magnetic field,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 H. -S. Sim , M. Kataoka , C. J. B. Ford

Mechanical displacements of a nanoelectromechanical system (NEMS) shift the electron trajectories and hence perturb phase coherent charge transport through the device. We show theoretically that in the presence of a magnetic feld such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 R. I. Shekhter , L. Y. Gorelik , L. I. Glazman , M. Jonson

A model for the localized quantum vacuum is proposed in which the zero-point energy of the quantum electromagnetic field originates in energy- and momentum-conserving transitions of material systems from their ground state to an unstable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Daniela Dragoman

We consider the magnetic flux in a quantum mechanical superposition of two values and find that the Aharonov-Bohm effect interference pattern contains information about the nature of the superposition, allowing information about the state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-12 Kaća Bradonjić , John D. Swain

We present a scheme for charge qubit implementation in a double-barrier nanoring. The logical states of the qubit are encoded in the spatial wavefunctions of the two lowest energy states of the system. The Aharonov-Bohm phase introduced by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Yuquan Wang , Ning Yang , Jia-Lin Zhu

The Fano effect, which occurs through the quantum-mechanical cooperation between resonance and interference, can be observed in electron transport through a hybrid system of a quantum dot and an Aharonov-Bohm ring. While a clear correlation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Kensuke Kobayashi , Hisashi Aikawa , Shingo Katsumoto , Yasuhiro Iye

The Rabi model considers a two-level system (or spin-1/2) coupled to a quantized harmonic oscillator and describes the simplest interaction between matter and light. The recent experimental progress in solid-state circuit quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-20 Loïc Henriet , Zoran Ristivojevic , Peter P. Orth , Karyn Le Hur

We study the Coulomb interaction-induced Aharonov-Bohm (AB) oscillations in the linear response transport through a remote quantum dot which has no tunnel coupling but has Coulomb coupling with the quantum dot embedded in an AB…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-04 Toshihiro Kubo , Yasuhiro Tokura

The shift in Aharanov-Bohm electron-interference fringe positions has been previously derived as resulting from phase differences induced by the magnetic vector potential, without being clear on the physical mechanism behind it. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-05 Keith J. Kasunic

A theory of both linear and nonlinear electromagnetic response of a single QD exposed to quantum light, accounting the depolarization induced local--field has been developed. Based on the microscopic Hamiltonian accounting for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-05-27 G. Ya. Slepyan , A. Magyarov , S. A. Maksimenko , A. Hoffmann