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Three complementary views on the QCD vacuum structure, all based on eigenmodes of the overlap operator, are reported in their interrelation: (i) spectral density, localization and chiral properties of the modes, (ii) the possibility of…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2008-11-26 E. -M. Ilgenfritz , K. Koller , Y. Koma , G. Schierholz , T. Streuer , V. Weinberg

One-dimensional systems proximity-coupled to a superconductor can be driven into a topological superconducting phase by an external magnetic field. Here, we investigate the effect of vortices created by the magnetic field in a type-II…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-14 Alexander Nikolaenko , Falko Pientka

Contact has been well established as an important quantity to govern dilute quantum systems, in which the pairwise correlation at short distance traces a broad range of thermodynamic properties. So far, studies have been focusing on contact…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-06-14 Shao-Liang Zhang , Mingyuan He , Qi Zhou

Superconducting circuits can exhibit quantized energy levels and long coherence times. Harnessing the anharmonicity offered by Josephson junctions, such circuits have been successfully employed as qubits, quantum limited amplifiers and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-24 Priya Sharma , Jens Koch , Eran Ginossar

We discuss here a model of QCD vacuum in terms of quark antiquark and gluon condensates alongwith their fluctuations. The correlation functions of hadronic currents in such a vacuum are evaluated to extract hadron properties. The presence…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Hiranmaya Mishra

We present a measurement of the topological susceptibility in two flavor QCD. In this observable, large autocorrelations are present and also sizable cutoff effects have to be faced in the continuum extrapolation. Within the statistical…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-06-22 Mattia Bruno , Stefan Schaefer , Rainer Sommer

Relations connecting various zero momentum correlators of interpolating fields for pseudoscalar and scalar channel, containing one heavy and one light quark field, are derived from the Euclidean space formulation of the QCD functional…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-01 Xuemin Jin , Thomas D. Cohen

We study a two-terminal graphene Josephson junction with contacts shaped to form a narrow constriction, less than 100nm in length. The contacts are made from type II superconducting contacts and able to withstand magnetic fields high enough…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-18 M. T. Wei , A. W. Draelos , A. Seredinski , C. T. Ke , H. Li , Y. Mehta , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , M. Yamamoto , S. Tarucha , G. Finkelstein , F. Amet , I. V. Borzenets

We present a systematic investigation of superconductivity in a topological superconductor candidate $T_{\rm d}$-MoTe$_2$ in the few-layer limit. By examining multiple mechanically exfoliated samples with different thicknesses, substrates…

It was recently shown that the vacuum in the background of a strong enough magnetic field may become an electromagnetic superconductor due to interplay between strong and electromagnetic forces. The superconducting ground state of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-12-04 M. N. Chernodub , Jos Van Doorsselaere , Henri Verschelde

We consider a generic two-dimensional system of fermionic particles with attractive interactions and no disorder. If time-reversal symmetry is absent, it is possible to obtain incompressible insulating states in addition to the superfluid…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-06-12 Predrag Nikolic

We propose a theory which deals with the structure and interactions of volume elements in liquid helium II. The approach consists of two nested models linked via parametric space. The short-wavelength part describes the interior structure…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-08-13 Konstantin G. Zloshchastiev

Quasi-two-dimensional fluids can be generated by confining a fluid between two parallel walls with narrow separation. Such fluids exhibit an inhomogeneous structure perpendicular to the walls due to the loss of translational symmetry.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-03-13 Simon Lang , Thomas Franosch , Rolf Schilling

Matter at low temperatures exhibits unusual properties such as superfluidity, superconductivity, Bose-Einstein condensation, and supersolidity. These states display quantum mechanical behaviours at scales much larger than atomic dimensions.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gregory P. Bewley , Daniel P. Lathrop , Katepalli R. Sreenivasan

We show that a D3/D7 system (at zero quark mass limit) at finite isospin chemical potential goes through a superconductor (superfluid) like phase transition. This is similar to a flavored superfluid phase studied in QCD literature, where…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-19 Pallab Basu , Jianyang He , Anindya Mukherjee , Hsien-Hang Shieh

We review the theoretical description of the role of quantum geometry in superfluidity and superconductivity of multiband systems, with focus on flat bands where quantum geometry is wholly responsible for supercurrents. This review differs…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-12-01 Sebastiano Peotta , Kukka-Emilia Huhtinen , Päivi Törmä

Superfluid $T_c$ of liquid helium-3 and its pressure dependence are calculated by using a relation obtained from our macro-orbital microscopic theory. The results agree closely with experiments. This underlines the accuracy of our relation…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Yatendra S. Jain

Understanding how strongly correlated two-dimensional (2D) systems can give rise to unconventional superconductivity with high critical temperatures is one of the major unsolved problems in condensed matter physics. Ultracold 2D Fermi gases…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-06-09 Lennart Sobirey , Niclas Luick , Markus Bohlen , Hauke Biss , Henning Moritz , Thomas Lompe

Based on a first principles treatment of the excitation states we show that superfluidity of superfluid $^4$He (He II) results from a reduction in the number of phonon wavevector $K$ states $\N2(K)$ to a level that is negligibly low when…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 J. X. Zheng-Johansson , B. Johansson , P-I. Johansson

We show by direct numerical simulations that the turbulence generated by steadily heating a long cylinder immersed in helium~II is strongly inhomogeneous and consists of a dense turbulent layer of quantized vortices localized around the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-05-06 E. Rickinson , C. F. Barenghi , Y. A. Sergeev , A. W. Baggaley