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We investigate two equivalent, capacitively coupled semiconducting quantum dots, each coupled to its own lead, in a regime where there are two electrons on the double dot. With increasing interdot coupling a rich range of behavior is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Martin R. Galpin , David E. Logan , H. R. Krishnamurthy

We show that the observed evolution of the transmission phase through multi-electron quantum dots with more than approximately ten electrons, which shows a universal (i.e., independent of N) as yet unexplained behavior, is consistent with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Andrea Bertoni , Guido Goldoni

We present the quantum phase transition in two capacitively coupled arrays of superconducting quantum dots (SQD). We consider the presence of gate voltage in each superconducting island. We show explicitly that the co-tunneling process…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Sujit Sarkar

The concept of quantum phase transitions (QPT) plays a central role in the description of condensed matter systems. In this contribution, we perform high-quality wavefunction-based simulations to demonstrate the existence of a quantum phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-25 Tobias Serwatka , Roger G. Melko , Anton Burkov , Pierre-Nicholas Roy

A second-order quantum phase transition in two-species Bose-Einstein condensates of 87Rb atoms coupled by a quantized radiant field is revealed explicitly in terms of the energy spectrum which is obtained in the thermodynamic limit and is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Gang Chen , J. -Q. Liang , W. -M. Liu

We clarify novel forms of scaling functions of conductance, critical conductance distribution and localization length in a disorder-driven quantum phase transition between band insulator and Weyl semimetal phases. Quantum criticality of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-11 Xunlong Luo , Tomi Ohtsuki , Ryuichi Shindou

External monitoring of quantum many-body systems can give rise to a measurement-induced phase transition characterized by a change in behavior of the entanglement entropy from an area law to an unbounded growth. In this Letter, we show that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-14 Alessio Paviglianiti , Alessandro Silva

Following our work [Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 020401 (2020)], we discuss a semiclassical description of one-dimensional quantum tunneling through multibarrier potentials in terms of complex time. We start by defining a complex-extended…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-09 Pavel Stránský , Milan Šindelka , Pavel Cejnar

Understanding phase transitions in quantum matters constitutes a significant part of present day condensed matter physics. Quantum phase transitions concern ground state properties of many-body systems, and hence their signatures are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-12-15 Sirshendu Bhattacharyya , Subinay Dasgupta , Arnab Das

We study the phase transitions induced by sequentially measuring a single qubit precessing under an external transverse magnetic field. Under projective quantum measurement, the probability distribution of the measurement outcomes can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Xinru Tang , Fuxiang Li

An investigation of the quantum phase transition in both discrete and continuum field Dicke models is presented. A series of anticrossing features following the criticality is revealed in the band of the field modes. Critical exponents are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 Denis Tolkunov , Dmitry Solenov

We study an Ising chain undergoing a quantum phase transition in a quantum magnetic field. Such a field can be emulated by coupling the chain to a central spin initially in a superposition state. We show that - by adiabatically driving such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-09-14 Marek M. Rams , Michael Zwolak , Bogdan Damski

A phase transition indicates a sudden change in the properties of a large system. For temperature-driven phase transitions this is related to non-analytic behavior of the free energy density at the critical temperature: The knowledge of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-20 Markus Heyl , Anatoli Polkovnikov , Stefan Kehrein

A one-dimensional, two-channel quantum wire is studied in the effective non-Hermitian Hamiltonian framework. Analytical expressions are derived for the band structure of the isolated wire. Quantum states and transport properties of the wire…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-27 Amin Tayebi , Vladimir Zelevinsky

A microscopic analysis of the superconducting quantum critical point realized via a pair-breaking quantum phase transition is presented. Finite temperature crossovers are derived for the electrical conductivity, which is a key probe of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-09-19 N. Shah , A. V. Lopatin

We study quantum transport in ballistic $s_\pm$-wave superconductors where coupling between the two bands is included, and apply our model to three possible probes for detecting the internal phase shift of such a pairing state: tunneling…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-08 Iver Bakken Sperstad , Jacob Linder , Asle Sudbø

A multi-branch quantum circuit is considered from the viewpoint of coherent electron or wave transport. Starting with the closed system, we give analytical conditions for the appearance of two isolated localized states out of the energy…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-09-06 Angelo Ziletti

In this paper we re-examine the problem of electronic transports through a system consisting of a quantum dot which has well-defined discrete energy levels connected to an infinite quantum wire, using the bosonization method and phase shift…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Yu-Liang Liu , T. K. Ng

We have measured the collective excitation spectrum of interacting electrons in one-dimension. The experiment consists of controlling the energy and momentum of electrons tunneling between two clean and closely situated, parallel quantum…

Quantum Ising model is an exactly solvable model of quantum phase transition. This paper gives an exact solution when the system is driven through the critical point at finite rate. The evolution goes through a series of Landau-Zener level…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Jacek Dziarmaga