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We show how lasers may create fields which couple to neutral atoms in the same way that the electromagnetic fields couple to charged particles. These fields are needed for using neutral atoms as an analog quantum computer for simulating the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Erich J. Mueller

Liquid Crystal Elastomers with near-ambient temperature-responsiveness (NAT-LCEs) have been extensively studied for building bio-compatible, low-power consumption devices and robotics. However, conventional manufacturing methods face…

We analyze the dynamics of a nanomechanical oscillator coupled to an electrical tunnel junction with an arbitrary voltage applied to the junction and arbitrary temperature of electrons in leads. We obtain the explicit expressions for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Anatoly Yu. Smirnov , Lev G. Mourokh , Norman J. M. Horing

We study the effects of arbitrary laser pulse excitations on quantum correlation, entanglement and the role of quantum noise. The transient quantities are computed exactly using a method that provides exact solutions of the Langevin field…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. H. Raymond Ooi

Superparamagnetic tunnel junctions are nanostructures that auto-oscillate stochastically under the effect of thermal noise. Recent works showed that despite their stochasticity, such junctions possess a capability to synchronize to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-21 A. Mizrahi , N. Locatelli , J. Grollier , D. Querlioz

We investigate the electronic instabilities of the small-diameter (3,3) carbon nanotubes by studying the low-energy perturbations of the normal Luttinger liquid regime. The bosonization approach is adopted to deal exactly with the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 J. Gonzalez , E. Perfetto

The coupling of photons with (ultra-) relativistic atomic nuclei is presented in two particular circumstances: very high electromagnetic fields and very short photon pulses. We consider a typical situation where the (bare) nuclei (fully…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-12-05 M. Apostol , M. Ganciu

The interaction of relativistically strong tailored laser pulses with an atomic system is considered. Due to a special tailoring of the laser pulse, the suppression of the relativistic drift of the ionized electron and a dramatic…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Michael Klaiber , Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan , Christoph H. Keitel

Quantum Chromodynamics and Quantum Electrodynamics, both renormalizable quantum field theories with a small number of precisely constrained input parameters, dominate the dynamics of the quarks and gluons - the underlying building blocks of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-10-08 Martin J. Savage

Lattice vibrations of point defects are essential for understanding non-radiative electron and hole capture in semiconductors as they govern properties including persistent photoconductivity and Shockley-Read-Hall recombination rate.…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-08-07 Sunghyun Kim , Samantha N. Hood , Aron Walsh

We study nuclear and neutron matter by combining chiral effective field theory with non-perturbative lattice methods. In our approach nucleons and pions are treated as point particles on a lattice. This allows us to probe larger volumes,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Dean Lee , Bugra Borasoy , Thomas Schaefer

Simulating quantum dynamics of lattice gauge theories (LGTs) is an exciting frontier in quantum science. Programmable quantum simulators based on neutral atom arrays are a promising approach to achieve this goal, since strong Rydberg…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-07 Johannes Feldmeier , Nishad Maskara , Nazlı Uğur Köylüoğlu , Mikhail D. Lukin

Quantum tunneling often allows pathways to relaxation past energy barriers which are otherwise hard to overcome classically at low temperatures. However, this is not always the case. In this paper we provide simple exactly solvable examples…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-10-10 Claudio Castelnovo , Claudio Chamon

The present study demonstrates that the mechanism of initiation of low-energy nuclear chemical processes under conditions of low-temperature non-equilibrium deuterium and protium-containing glow discharge plasma is similar to the previously…

General Physics · Physics 2024-12-05 Serge F. Timashev

Precise understanding of the dynamics of trapped particles is crucial for nascent quantum technologies, including atomic clocks and quantum simulators. Here we present a framework to systematically include quantum effects arising from the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-11 Rebecca Haustein , Gerard J. Milburn , Magdalena Zych

We calculate the non-linear tunneling current through a molecule with two electron-accepting orbitals which interact with an intramolecular vibration. We investigate the interplay between Coulomb blockade and non-equilibrium…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Katja C. Nowack , Maarten R. Wegewijs

At sufficiently low temperatures, the reaction rates in solids are controlled by quantum rather than by thermal fluctuations. We solve the Schr\"odinger equation for a Gaussian wave packet in a nonstation-ary harmonic oscillator and derive…

This article presents a theoretical framework for enhancing nuclear fusion rates in solid-state environments under near-ambient conditions. Drawing on quantum tunneling, electron screening, and resonance energy transfer, the study proposes…

Optically levitated and cooled nanoparticles are a new quantum system whose application to the creation of non-classical states of motion and quantum limited sensing is fundamentally limited by recoil and bulk heating. We study the creation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-08 Felipe Almeida , Peter Barker

Helices and spirals, prevalent across various systems, play a crucial role in characterizing symmetry, describing dynamics, and imparting unique functionalities, attributed to their inherent simplicity and chiral nature. A helical…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-10-22 Yosuke Minowa , Yuki Yasui , Tomo Nakagawa , Sosuke Inui , Makoto Tsubota , Masaaki Ashida