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Brownian motion is a foundational physical process characterized by a mean squared displacement that scales linearly in time in thermal equilibrium, known as diffusion. At short times, the mean squared displacement becomes ballistic,…

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This work concerns the theoretical description of the quantum dynamics of molecular junctions with thermal fluctuations and probability losses To this end, we propose a theory for describing non-Hermitian quantum systems embedded in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 Andrea Grimaldi , Alessandro Sergi , Antonino Messina

We discuss heat transport through a Josephson tunnel junction under various bias conditions. We first derive the formula for the cooling power of the junction valid for arbitrary time dependence of the Josephson phase. Combining it with the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-04 Dmitry Golubev , Timothé Faivre , Jukka P. Pekola

Quantum tunneling dominates coherent transport at low temperatures in many systems of great interest. In this work we report a many--body tunneling (MBT), by nonperturbatively solving the Anderson multi-impurity model, and identify it a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-24 WenJie Hou , YuanDong Wang , JianHua Wei , ZhenGang Zhu , YiJing Yan

Our object is to formulate and analyze a physically plausible and mathematically sound model to better understand the phenomenon of clumping in colloid dispersions. Our model is stochastic but rigorously derived from a deterministic setup…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-09-29 Peter. Kotelenez , Marshall J. Leitman , J. Adin Mann

In circuit quantum electrodynamical systems, the quasiparticle-related losses in Josephson junctions are suppressed due to the gap in the superconducting density of states which is much higher than the typical energy of a microwave photon.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-08 Vasilii Vadimov , Yoshiki Sunada , Mikko Möttönen

We propose to dynamically control the conductivity of a Josephson junction composed of two weakly coupled one dimensional condensates of ultracold atoms. A current is induced by a periodically modulated potential difference between the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-02-10 Beilei Zhu , Vijay Pal Singh , Junichi Okamoto , Ludwig Mathey

It is known that effects of dissipation or measurement backreaction in postselected quantum trajectories are described by non-Hermitian Hamiltonian, but their consequences in real-time dynamics of many-body systems are yet to be elucidated.…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-04-05 Tomoya Hayata , Yoshimasa Hidaka , Arata Yamamoto

We demonstrate Josephson tunneling in vacuum tunnel junctions formed between a superconducting scanning tunneling microscope tip and a Pb film, for junction resistances in the range 50-300 k$\Omega$. We show that the superconducting phase…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 O. Naaman , W. Teizer , R. C. Dynes

A particle subjected to a fluctuating force originated from its interaction with an external quantum system undergoes quantum Brownian motion. This phenomenon is investigated in detail for the case of a particle confined by a harmonic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-29 Ygor de Oliveira Souza , Caio C. Holanda Ribeiro , Vitorio A. De Lorenci

A resonantly driven bosonic Josephson junction supports stable collective excitations, or quasiparticles, which constitute analogs of the Trojan wave packets previously explored with Rydberg atoms in strong microwave fields. We predict a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-11-25 Bettina Gertjerenken , Martin Holthaus

We study the quantum dynamics of a Bose Josephson junction(BJJ) made up of two coupled Bose-Einstein condensates. Apart from the usual ac Josephson oscillations, two different dynamical states of BJJ can be observed by tuning the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-11 René John Kerkdyk , S. Sinha

We investigate collective behavior of a system of two-dimensional interacting Brownian particles in the hydrodynamic regime. By means of the Martin-Siggia-Rose-Jenssen-de Dominicis formalism, we built up a generating functional for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-03-10 Nathan O Silvano , Daniel G. Barci

The Ueda-Guinea model of a dissipative tunnel junction is investigated. This model accounts for final state effects associated with single-electron tunneling. A quantum phase transition emerges, marking a boundary between insulating…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Scott Drewes , Daniel P. Arovas , Scot Renn

The non-dissipative non-linearity of a Josephson junction converts macroscopic superconducting circuits into artificial atoms, enabling some of the best controlled quantum bits (qubits) today. Three fundamental types of superconducting…

In a Josephson junction, which is the central element in superconducting quantum technology, irreversibility arises from abrupt slips of the gauge-invariant quantum phase difference across the contact. A quantum phase slip (QPS) is often…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-19 E. Gümüş , D. Majidi , D. Nikolić , P. Raif , B. Karimi , J. T. Peltonen , E. Scheer , J. P. Pekola , H. Courtois , W. Belzig , C. B. Winkelmann

VI-curves of resistively shunted single Josephson junctions with different capacitances and tunneling resistances are found to display a crossover between two types of VI-curves: one without and another with a resistance bump (negative…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-01 J. S. Penttila , U. Parts , P. J. Hakonen , M. A. Paalanen , E. B. Sonin

A novel method is introduced in order to treat the dissipative dynamics of quantum systems interacting with a bath of classical degrees of freedom. The method is based upon an extension of the Nos\`e-Hoover chain (constant temperature)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Alessandro Sergi

The microscopic origin of dissipation of a driven quantum many body system is addressed in the framework of a parametric banded random matrix approach. We find noticeable violations of the fluctuation-dissipation theorem and we observe also…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 A. Bulgac , G. Do Dang , D. Kusnezov

Usually one finds that dissipation tends to make a quantum system more classical in nature. In this paper we study the effect of momentum dissipation on a quantum system. The momentum of the particle is coupled bilinearly to the momenta of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Joachim Ankerhold , Eli Pollak