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We develop a comprehensive theoretical framework that unifies quantum emission dynamics in one-dimensional Lieb lattices, bridging the gap between ideal flat-band coherence and realistic narrow-band dissipation. By coupling an emitter to…

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Self-interacting dark matter scenarios have recently attracted much attention, as a possible means to alleviate the tension between N-body simulations and observations of the dark matter distribution on galactic and sub-galactic scales. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-22 Katelin Schutz , Tracy R. Slatyer

We study off-resonant collective light scattering from ultracold atoms trapped in an optical lattice. Scattering from different atomic quantum states creates different quantum states of the scattered light, which can be distinguished by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-11-22 Igor B. Mekhov , Christoph Maschler , Helmut Ritsch

In a flat band superconductor, bosonic excitations can disperse while unpaired electrons are immobile. To study this strongly interacting system, we construct a family of multi-band Hubbard models with exact eta-pairing ground states in all…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-09-02 Jonah Herzog-Arbeitman , Aaron Chew , Kukka-Emilia Huhtinen , Päivi Törmä , B. Andrei Bernevig

The flattening of single-particle band structures plays an important role in the quest for novel quantum states of matter due to the crucial role of interactions. Recent advances in theory and experiment made it possible to construct and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-04-04 Laura Classen , Joseph J. Betouras

We study the influence of quantum density fluctuations in ultracold atoms in an optical lattice on the scattering of matter waves. Such fluctuations are characteristic of the superfluid phase and vanish due to increased interactions in the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2011-02-08 Scott N. Sanders , Florian Mintert , Andreas Buchleitner

We study a set of scattering matrices of quantum graphs containing minimal number of passbands, i.e., maximal number of zero elements. The cases of even and odd vertex degree are considered. Using a solution of inverse scattering problem,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-03-28 Sergey S. Poghosyan , Taksu Cheon

Flat energy bands of model lattice Hamiltonians provide a key ingredient in designing dispersionless wave excitations and have become a versatile platform to study various aspects of interacting many-body systems. Their essential merit lies…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-15 C. V. Morfonios , M. Röntgen , M. Pyzh , P. Schmelcher

We report elastic scattering theory for surface electron waves in quantum corrals defined by adatoms on the surface of noble metals. We develop a scattering-matrix technique that allows us to account for a realistic smooth potential profile…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. I. Rahachou , I. V. Zozoulenko

Quantum computers are ideally set up to solve linear systems which are of a form similar to the Schrodinger/Dirac equation of quantum mechanics. In the framework of linear response theory, the propagation and scattering of electromagnetic…

We review recent progresses in the study of flat band systems, especially focusing on the fundamental physics related to the singularity of the flat band's Bloch wave functions. We first explain that the flat bands can be classified into…

Optics · Physics 2020-12-09 Jun-Won Rhim , Bohm-Jung Yang

Band theory provides the foundation for understanding electronic structure in crystalline materials, but its reliance on exact translational symmetry limits its applicability to systems with defects, disorder, incommensurate modulations, or…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-08 Christopher A. Bairnsfather , Ralph M. Kaufmann , Terry A. Loring , Alexander Cerjan

The geometry of optical lattices can be engineered allowing the study of atomic transport along paths arranged in patterns that are otherwise difficult to probe in the solid state. A question readily accessible to atomic systems is related…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-05-02 Mekena Metcalf , Gia-Wei Chern , Massimiliano Di Ventra , Chih-Chun Chien

Recently the authors developed a scattering approach that allows for a complete description of the steady-state physics of quantum-impurities in and out of equilibrium. Quantum impurities are described using scattering eigenstates defined…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Pankaj Mehta , Natan Andrei

Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen discussed their paradox in terms of measuring the positions or momenta of two particles. These degrees of freedom can become entangled upon scattering, but how much entanglement can be created in this process?…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Yimeng Wang , Christiane P. Koch

Universality in physics describes how disparate systems can exhibit identical low-energy behavior. Here, we reveal a rich landscape of new universal scattering phenomena governed by the interplay between an interaction and a system's…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Yidan Wang , Xuesen Na , Michael J. Gullans , Susanne Yelin , Alexey V. Gorshkov

We review the non-perturbative theoretical framework set up recently to compute the inelastic scattering cross section from quantum impurities [G. Zar\'and {\it et al.}, Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 93}, 107204 (2004)] and show how it can be…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-11-27 G. Zarand , L. Borda

We investigate two-particle scattering and two-particle scattering with a bare basis state using Hamiltonian Effective Field Theory (HEFT). We analyze the distribution of two-body scattering poles in the momentum and energy planes under…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-04 Wei Hao , Jia-Jun Wu , Jin-Lin Fu

We study ``frustrated'' hopping models, in which at least one energy band, at the maximum or minimum of the spectrum, is dispersionless. The states of the flat band(s) can be represented in a basis which is fully localized, having support…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-10-20 Doron L. Bergman , Congjun Wu , Leon Balents

An integral part of scattering theory calculations in continuum quantum systems involves identifying appropriate boundary conditions in addition to writing down the correct Hamiltonian. In the simplest problem of scattering in one…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-16 Abhiram Soori