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Measurement of quantum state wavefunction not only acts as a fundamental part in quantum physics but also plays an important role in developing practical quantum technologies. Conventional quantum state tomography has been widely used to…

We numerically study the effect of adding quenched disorder in the form of randomly placed pinning sites on jamming transitions in systems that jam at a well defined point J in the clean limit. Quenched disorder decreases the jamming…

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The quantum many-body problem in condensed phases is often simplified using a quasiparticle description, such as effective mass theory for electron motion in a periodic solid. These approaches are often the basis for understanding many…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-28 Richard C. Remsing , Jefferson E. Bates

Differences in the confinement of electrons and holes in quantum dots are shown to profoundly impact the magnitude of scattering with acoustic phonons in materials where crystal deformation shifts the conduction and valence band in the same…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-03 A. Nysteen , P. Kaer , J. Mork

We study spin polarization in a split-gate quantum wire focussing on the effect of a realistic smooth potential due to remote donors. Electron interaction and spin effects are included within the density functional theory in the local spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-04-04 M. Evaldsson , S. Ihnatsenka , I. V. Zozoulenko

We discuss a fundamental effect of the interaction-induced decoherence of the electron wave function in disordered metals. In the first part of the paper we consider a simple model of a quantum particle interacting with a bath of harmonic…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 D. S. Golubev , A. D. Zaikin

Quasicrystals remain among the most intriguing materials in physics and chemistry. Their structure results in many unusual properties including anomalously low friction as well as poor electrical and thermal conductivity but it also…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-05-01 Guido Pupillo , Primoz Ziherl , Fabio Cinti

We propose and study systems of coupled atomic wires in a perpendicular synthetic magnetic field as a platform to realize exotic phases of quantum matter. This includes (fractional) quantum Hall states in arrays of many wires inspired by…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-04-25 J. C. Budich , A. Elben , M. Łącki , A. Sterdyniak , M. A. Baranov , P. Zoller

Accurate control of quantum degrees of freedom is promising for sensing, communication, and computing, but building a useful quantum computer faces a central isolation-and-control challenge: qubits must remain well isolated from their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Aashish Sah , Suman Kundu , Priyank Singh , Eemeli Forsbom , Vasilii Vadimov , Mikko Möttönen

We theoretically investigate transport signatures of quantum interference in highly symmetric double quantum dots in a parallel geometry and demonstrate that extremely weak symmetry-breaking effects can have a dramatic influence on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-06 Zeng-Zhao Li , Martin Leijnse

We study leading-order many-body effects of longitudinal optical (LO) phonons on electronic properties of one-dimensional quantum wire systems. We calculate the quasiparticle properties of a weakly polar one dimensional electron gas in the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 E. H. Hwang , Ben Yu-Kuang Hu , S. Das Sarma

This study maps the quantum landscape of superconducting diodes (SDs) \cite{nadeem23} onto the quantum technology architecture, which is currently constrained by fundamental challenges in control and scalability. In the existing…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-04-17 Muhammad Nadeem , Xiaolin Wang

Technological growth in the electronics industry has historically been measured by the number of transistors that can be crammed onto a single microchip. Unfortunately, all good things must come to an end; spectacular growth in the number…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Veronica Cerletti , W. A. Coish , Oliver Gywat , Daniel Loss

The quantum boomerang effect is a counterintuitive phenomenon where a wave packet, despite having an initial momentum, returns to its starting position in a disordered medium. However, up to now, the experimental exploration of this effect…

Optics · Physics 2025-05-16 Xiangrui Hou , Zhaoxin Wu , Fangyu Wang , Shiyao Zhu , Bo Yan , Zhaoju Yang

The implementation of a spin qubit in a quantum ring occupied by one or a few electrons is proposed. Quantum bit involves the Zeeman sublevels of the highest occupied orbital. Such a qubit can be initialized, addressed, manipulated, read…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-03-07 Elzbieta Zipper , Marcin Kurpas , Janusz Sadowski , Maciej M. Maska

Establishing a highly efficient photon-emitter interface where the intrinsic linewidth broadening is limited solely by spontaneous emission is a key step in quantum optics. It opens a pathway to coherent light-matter interaction for, e.g.,…

Competition between electronic ground states near a quantum critical point (QCP) - the location of a zero-temperature phase transition driven solely by quantum-mechanical fluctuations - is expected to lead to unconventional behaviour in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 S. E. Sebastian , N. Harrison , C. D. Batista , L. Balicas , M. Jaime , P. A. Sharma , N. Kawashima , I. R. Fisher

Selected problems of fundamental importance for spintronics and spin-polarized transport are reviewed, some of them with a special emphasis on their applications in quantum computing and coherent control of quantum dynamics. The role of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Das Sarma , Jaroslav Fabian , Xuedong Hu , Igor Zutic

We show that the two slit experiment in which a single quantum particle interferes with itself can be interpreted as a quantum fingerprinting protocol: the interference pattern exhibited by the particle contains information about the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Serge Massar

The ability to control and exploit quantum coherence and entanglement drives research across many fields ranging from ultra-cold quantum gases to spin systems in condensed matter. Transcending different physical systems, optical approaches…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-26 K. Müller , T. Kaldewey , R. Ripszam , J. S. Wildmann , A. Bechtold , M. Bichler , G. Koblmüller , G. Abstreiter , J. J. Finley