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The investigation of the phenomenon of dephasing assisted quantum transport, which happens when the presence of dephasing benefits the efficiency of this process, has been mainly focused on Markovian scenarios associated with constant and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-27 Saulo V. Moreira , Breno Marques , Fernando L. Semião

We develop semiclassical methods for studying bubble nucleation in models with parameters that vary slowly in time. Introducing a more general rotation of the time contour allows access to a larger set of final states, and typically a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-17 Patrick Draper , Manthos Karydas , Hao Zhang

We propose a solution to the problem of time for systems with a single global Hamiltonian constraint. Our solution stems from the observation that, for these theories, conventional gauge theory methods fail to capture the full classical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-30 Sean Gryb , Karim Thebault

The theory of dynamical Coulomb blockade is extended to tunneling elements driven by a time-dependent voltage. It is shown that for standard set-ups where an external voltage is applied to a tunnel junction via an impedance, time-dependent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-22 Hermann Grabert

Time-dependent currents in molecular junctions can be caused by structural fluctuations or interaction with external fields. In this publication, we demonstrate how the hierarchical quantum master equation approach can be used to study…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Andre Erpenbeck , Lukas Götzendörfer , Christian Schinabeck , Michael Thoss

In this work we present a theoretical model supported with a physical reasoning leading to a relation which performs an excellent estimation for the tunneling time in attosecond and strong field experiments, where we address the important…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-02 Ossama Kullie

It has been shown in Phys. Rev. Lett., 108 170402 (2012) (https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.170402), that quantum tunneling is instantaneous using a time-of-arrival (TOA) operator constructed by Weyl quantization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-10 Philip Caesar Flores , Dean Alvin Pablico , Eric Galapon

The nonstationary and steady-state transport through a mesoscopic sample connected to particle reservoirs via time-dependent barriers is investigated within the reduced density operator method. The generalized Master equation is solved via…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Valeriu Moldoveanu , Andrei Manolescu , Vidar Gudmundsson

The transfer Hamiltonian tunneling current is derived in a time-dependent density matrix formulation and is used to examine photon-assisted tunneling. Bardeen's tunneling expression arises as the result of first order perturbation theory in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 Paul S. Davids , Joshua Shank

The theory of time-dependent quantum transport addresses the question: How do electrons flow through a junction under the influence of an external perturbation as time goes by? In this paper, we invert this question and search for a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-10 K. J. Pototzky , E. K. U. Gross

In this work we study an inverse dynamical problem for a bipartite quantum system governed by the time local master equation: to find the class of generators which give rise to a certain time evolution with the constraint of fixed reduced…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-19 Giuseppe Baio , Dariusz Chruscinski , Antonino Messina

We analyze the effect of time dependent external field on non-Markovian migration described by the continuous time random walk (CTRW) approach. The rigorous method of treating the problem is proposed which is based on the Markovian…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-08-25 A. I. Shushin

Employing the time-dependent approach, we investigate a quantum tunneling decay of many-particle systems. We apply it to a one-dimensional three-body problem with a heavy core nucleus and two valence protons. We calculate the decay width…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 Takahito Maruyama , Tomohiro Oishi , Kouichi Hagino , Hiroyuki Sagawa

We study the loss, recovery, and preservation of differentiability of time-dependent large deviation rate functions. This study is motivated by mean-field Gibbs-non-Gibbs transitions. The gradient of the rate-function evolves according to a…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Richard C. Kraaij , Frank Redig , Willem B. van Zuijlen

We consider theories with time-dependent Hamiltonians which alternate between being bounded and unbounded from below. For appropriate frequencies dynamical stabilization can occur rendering the effective potential of the system stable. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-08-13 Roberto Auzzi , Shmuel Elitzur , Sven Bjarke Gudnason , Eliezer Rabinovici

We introduce a self-adjoint operator that indicates the direction of time within the framework of standard quantum mechanics. That is, as a function of time its expectation value decreases monotonically for any initial state. This operator…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-02-19 Y. Strauss , J. Silman , S. Machnes , L. P. Horwitz

What time does a clock tell after quantum tunneling? Predictions and indirect measurements range from superluminal or instantaneous tunneling to finite durations, depending on the specific experiment and the precise definition of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-23 Patrik Schach , Enno Giese

Consider the Navier-Stokes flow past a rotating obstacle with a general time-dependent angular velocity and a time-dependent outflow condition at infinity -- sometimes called an Oseen condition. By a suitable change of coordinates the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-06-21 Tobias Hansel , Abdelaziz Rhandi

We consider exact time-dependent analytic solutions to the Schr\"odinger equation for tunneling in one dimension with cut off wave initial conditions at $t=0$. We obtain that as soon as $t \neq 0$ the transmitted probability density at any…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Gaston Garcia-Calderon , Alberto Rubio , Jorge Villavicencio

The conundrum parameter-operator of time in quantum mechanics (QM), as well as the time-energy uncertainty relation and the tunneling delay time, have recently been addressed in attosecond optical ioniza- tion experiments. The parameter…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-06 M. Bauer