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So far transport properties of nanoscale contacts have been mostly studied within the static scattering approach. The electron dynamics and the transient behavior of current flow, however, remain poorly understood. We present a numerical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Na Sai , Neil Bushong , Ryan Hatcher , Massimiliano Di Ventra

In this article, we develop a description of topological pumps as slow classical dynamical variables coupled by a quantum system. We discuss the cases of quantum Hall pumps, Thouless pumps, and the more recent Floquet pumps based frequency…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-04 Jacquelin Luneau , Clément Dutreix , Quentin Ficheux , Pierre Delplace , Benoît Douçot , Benjamin Huard , David Carpentier

Topology forms a cornerstone in modern condensed matter and statistical physics, offering a new framework to classify the phases and phase transitions beyond the traditional Landau paradigm. However, it is widely believed that topological…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-05 Xue-Jia Yu , Limei Xu , Hai-Qing Lin

An interpretation of the probability flux is given, based on a derivation of its eigenstates and relating them to coherent state projections on a quantum wavefunction. An extended definition of the flux operator is obtained using coherent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Douglas J. Mason , Mario F. Borunda , Eric J. Heller

We analyse stationary current of the bosonic particles in the flux rhombic lattice connecting two particle reservoirs. For vanishing inter-particle interactions the current is shown to monotonically decrease as the flux is increased and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-09 P. S. Muraev , A. R. Kolovsky

Discrete quantum walks are dynamical protocols for controlling a single quantum particle. Despite of its simplicity, quantum walks display rich topological phenomena and provide one of the simplest systems to study and understand…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-12-09 Takuya Kitagawa

We study topological transport in the steady state of a quantum particle hopping on a one-dimensional lattice in the presence of dissipation. The model exhibits a rich phase structure, with the average particle velocity in the steady state…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Michael J. Kastoryano , Mark S. Rudner

We examine quantum transport in periodic quantum graphs with a vertex coupling non-invariant with respect to time reversal. It is shown that the graph topology may play a decisive role in the conductivity properties illustrating this claim…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 Pavel Exner , Jiri Lipovsky

Topology is a fundamental aspect of quantum physics, and it has led to key breakthroughs and results in various fields of quantum materials. In condensed matters, this has culminated in the recent discovery of symmetry-protected topological…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-10-24 Baokai Wang , Yi-Chun Hung , Xiaoting Zhou , Tzen Ong , Hsin Lin

Quantum self-oscillatory phases are ubiquitous in driven-dissipative systems. Classically, each phase is defined by its flow pattern and how stationary sets organize phase space (e.g. fixed points and limit cycles), with transitions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-15 Alejandro S. Gómez , Javier del Pino

In driven-dissipative bosonic systems, the interplay between coherent driving, inter-particle interactions and dissipation leads to a rich variety of non-equilibrium stationary states (NESS). In the semiclassical limit, the flow topology of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-25 Kilian Seibold , Greta Villa , Javier del Pino , Oded Zilberberg

The flows of phase trajectories of cosmological models based on the vacuum classical Higgs field and their behavior on the Einstein-Higgs surface near singular points of a dynamical system are investigated by numerical simulation. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-28 Yu. G. Ignat'ev , A. R. Samigullina

A topological 'Thouless' pump represents the quantised motion of particles in response to a slow, cyclic modulation of external control parameters. The Thouless pump, like the quantum Hall effect, is of fundamental interest in physics…

A fundamental premise of Hamiltonian chaos is the existence and properties of tori in phase space. More than a geometrical construct, these structures underlie the very dynamics of both classical and quantal systems. Although presented in…

General Physics · Physics 2018-10-17 Paul Stanley

The classification of topological states of matter in terms of unitary symmetries and dimensionality predicts the existence of nontrivial topological states even in zero-dimensional systems, i.e., a system with a discrete energy spectrum.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-11 Pasquale Marra , Alessandro Braggio , Roberta Citro

Thouless charge pumps are quantum mechanical devices whose operation relies on topology. They provide the means for transporting quantum matter in space lattices with a single quantum precision. Contrasting space crystals that spontaneously…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-12 Tapio Simula , Niels Kjærgaard , Tilman Pfau

Topological defects are singularities in material fields that play a vital role across a range of systems: from cosmic microwave background polarization to superconductors, and biological materials. Although topological defects and their…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-10-06 Luca Giomi , Žiga Kos , Miha Ravnik , Anupam Sengupta

We presented the topological current of Ehrenfest definition of phase transition. It is shown that different topology of the configuration space corresponds to different phase transition, it is marked by the Euler number of the interaction…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tieyan Si

The coupling between two or more objects can generally be categorized as strong or weak. In cavity quantum electrodynamics for example, when the coupling strength is larger than the loss rate the coupling is termed strong, and otherwise it…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-12 C. A. Downing , A. J. Toghill

In this thesis, we study quantum phase transitions and topological phases in low dimensional fermionic systems. In the first part, we study quantum phase transitions and the nature of currents in one-dimensional systems, using field…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-03-19 Sayonee Ray