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We clarify the role of non-adiabatic effects in a quantum pumping for a spin-boson system. When we sinusoidally control the temperatures of two reservoirs with \pi/2 phase difference, we find that the pumping current strongly depends on the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-11-24 Kota L. Watanabe , Hisao Hayakawa

Quantum geometry characterizes the variation of wavefunctions in momentum space through their overlaps and relative phases, providing a general framework for understanding many transport and optical properties. It is generally formulated in…

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We study the curvature-induced bound states and the coherent transport properties for a particle constrained to move on a truncated cone-like surface. With longitudinal hard wall boundary condition, the probability densities and spectra…

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The pillars of quantum theory include entanglement and operators' failure to commute. The Page curve quantifies the bipartite entanglement of a many-body system in a random pure state. This entanglement is known to decrease if one…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-05 Shayan Majidy , Aleksander Lasek , David A. Huse , Nicole Yunger Halpern

Quantum geometric electronic responses are often viewed through a non-interacting lens: independent quasiparticles accumulate Berry phases as they move through a static crystal and background potential. Here we argue that the combined…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 John Tan , Oles Matsyshyn , Giovanni Vignale , Justin C. W. Song

We introduce a non-abelian geometric quantum energy pump realized by a transitionless geometric quantum drive--a time-dependent Hamiltonian supplemented by a counterdiabatic term generated by a prescribed trajectory on a smooth control…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-26 Yang Peng

Electron transfer is an important and fundamental process in chemistry, biology and physics, and has received significant attention in recent years. Perhaps one of the most intriguing questions concerns with the realization of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-30 Bokang Hou , Michael Thoss , Uri Banin , Eran Rabani

We investigate adiabatic and non-adiabatic emission of single particles into an edge state using an analytically solvable dynamical scattering matrix model of an on-demand source. We compare adiabatic and non-adiabatic emissions by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-02 Michael Moskalets , Géraldine Haack , Markus Büttiker

We study non-adiabatic charge pumping through single-level quantum dots taking into account Coulomb interactions. We show how a truncated set of equations of motion can be propagated in time by means of an auxiliary-mode expansion. This…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-12 Alexander Croy , Ulf Saalmann , Alexis R. Hernández , Caio H. Lewenkopf

Using an additivity property, we study particle-number fluctuations in a system of interacting self-propelled particles, called active Brownian particles (ABPs), which consists of repulsive disks with random self-propulsion velocities. From…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-05-16 Subhadip Chakraborti , Shradha Mishra , Punyabrata Pradhan

We study the Magneto-Electric (ME) effect from the viewpoint of the Berry phase connection and quantum adiabatic charge transport (QAPT). The linear response theory for the electronic polarization $\vec{P}_{\rm{el}}$ can be interpreted in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Ryuichi Shindou , Naoto Nagaosa

Modern quantum experiments provide examples of transport with non-commuting quantities, offering a tool to understand the interplay between thermal and quantum effects. Here we set forth a theory for non-Abelian transport in the linear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-10 Gonzalo Manzano , Juan M. R. Parrondo , Gabriel T. Landi

Geometric phases provide a unified framework for understanding diverse phenomena in quantum and classical physics. The Pancharatnam-Berry (PB) geometric phase, arising from variation of optical transverse polarization, has transformed light…

Classical Physics · Physics 2025-08-05 Wanyue Xiao , Wenjian Kuang , Sibo Huang , Shanjun Liang , Din Ping Tsai , Shubo Wang

Periodically driven quantum dots can act as counterparts of cyclic thermal machines at the nanoscale. In the slow-driving regime of geometric pumping, such machines have been shown to operate in analogy to a Carnot cycle. For larger driving…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-07 Juliette Monsel , Jens Schulenborg , Janine Splettstoesser

Berry curvature-related topological phenomena have been a central topic in condensed matter physics. Yet, until recently other quantum geometric quantities such as the metric and connection received only little attention due to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Yiyang Jiang , Tobias Holder , Binghai Yan

We consider the adiabatic charge transport through zero-dimensional mesoscopic sample (quantum dot) caused by two periodically changing external perturbations. Both the magnitude and the sign of the transmitted charge are extremely…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 T. A. Shutenko , I. L. Aleiner , B. L. Altshuler

Quantum geometry, encoded in the Berry curvature and quantum metric, has unified diverse anomalous transport phenomena in solids, yet a microscopic quantum-geometric theory of entropy transport for Bloch electrons is still lacking. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-03 Longjun Xiang , Jinxiong Jia , Jian Wang

Originally introduced in optics, the Pancharatnam-Berry phase is a general concept of geometric phase defined for any two interfering polarization states. In electronic systems, however, its counterpart has long been overlooked due to the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-11-24 Zhigang Song , Kai Chang

Steering a quantum harmonic oscillator state along cyclic trajectories leads to a path-dependent geometric phase. Here we describe an experiment observing this geometric phase in an electronic harmonic oscillator. We use a superconducting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-06-21 M. Pechal , S. Berger , A. A. Abdumalikov , J. M. Fink , J. A. Mlynek , L. Steffen , A. Wallraff , S. Filipp

Nonequilibrium steady states are explicitly constructed for a noninteracting electron model of an Aharonov-Bohm (AB) ring with a quantum dot (QD) with the aid of asymptotic fields. The Fano line shapes and AB oscillations are shown to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 Junko Takahashi , Shuichi Tasaki