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A remarkably quantitative understanding of the electrical and mechanical properties of metal wires with a thickness on the scale of a nanometer has been obtained within the free-electron model using semiclassical techniques. Convergent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. A. Stafford , F. Kassubek , H. Grabert

Transitions between states with continuous (called as classical state) and discrete (called as quantum state) spectrum of permitted momentum values is considered. The persistent current can exist along the ring circumference in the quantum…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-05-29 A. V. Nikulov

The authors theoretically investigate quantum confinement and transition energies in quantum wells (QWs) asymmetrically positioned in wrinkled nanomembranes. Calculations reveal that the wrinkle profile induces both blue- and redshifts…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-14 P. Cendula , S. Kiravittaya , O. G. Schmidt

We investigate the ground state persistent spin current and the pair entanglement in one-dimensional antiferromagnetic anisotropic Heisenberg ring with twisted boundary conditions. Solving Bethe ansatz equations numerically, we calculate…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-11-09 Zi-Xiang Hu , You-Quan Li

The formulae of particle current as well as spin- and angular momentum currents are studied for most spin-orbit coupling (SOC) systems. It is shown that the conventional expression of currents in some literatures are not complete for some…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Yi Li , Ruibao Tao

The existence of precise particle trajectories in any quantum state is accounted for in a consistent way by allowing delocalization of the particle charge. The relativistic mass of the particle remains within a small volume surrounding a…

General Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 J. Luscombe

This paper provides an examination of how are prediction of standard quantum mechanic (QM) affected by introducing a noncommutative (NC) structure into the configuration space of the considered system (electron in the Coulomb potential in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-12-10 Veronika Gáliková , Samuel Kováčik , Peter Prešnajder

A persistent current, coupled with the spin state, of purely many-body origin is shown to exist in Nagaoka's ferromagnetic state in two dimensions (2D). This we regard as a manifestation of a gauge field, which comes from the surrounding…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 K. Kusakabe , H. Aoki

We propose a scheme to produce spin entangled states for two interacting electrons. One electron is bound in a well in a semiconductor quantum wire and the second electron is transported along the wire, trapped in a surface acoustic wave…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 G. Giavaras , J. H. Jefferson , A. Ramsak , T. P. Spiller , C. J. Lambert

We propose a scheme for a complete reconstruction of one- and two-particle orbital quantum states in mesoscopic conductors. The conductor in the transport state continuously emits orbital quantum states. The orbital states are manipulated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 P. Samuelsson , M. Buttiker

The electromagnetic form factors of the nucleon have been calculated in a chiral constituent-quark model. The nucleon wave functions are obtained by solving a Schr\"odinger-type equation for a semi-relativistic Hamiltonian with an effective…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Boffi , P. Demetriou , M. Radici , R. F. Wagenbrunn

A semiconductor nanowire quantum dot with strong spin-orbit coupling (SOC) can be used to achieve a spin-orbit qubit. In contrast to a spin qubit, the spin-orbit qubit can respond to an external ac electric field, an effect called…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-05 Rui Li , J. Q. You , C. P. Sun , Franco Nori

The one-dimensional effective Hamiltonian for a planar curvilinear quantum wire with arbitrary shape is proposed in the presence of the Rashba spin-orbit interaction. Single electron propagation through a device of two straight lines…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 Erhu Zhang , Shengli Zhang , Qi Wang

Ring geometries have fascinated experimental and theoretical physicists over many years. Open rings connected to leads allow the observation of the Aharonov-Bohm effect, a paradigm of quantum mechanical phase coherence. The phase coherence…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Fuhrer , S. Luescher , T. Ihn , T. Heinzel , K. Ensslin , W. Wegscheider , M. Bichler

Quantum engineering requires controllable artificial systems with quantum coherence exceeding the device size and operation time. This can be achieved with geometrically confined low-dimensional electronic structures embedded within…

Persistent current is a hallmark of quantum phase coherence. We study the fate of the persistent current in a non-equilibrium setting, where a tight-binding ring is subjected to stochastic disorder as well as a fermionic reservoir attached…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-22 Samudra Sur , Thierry Giamarchi

We study the entanglement properties of a class of $N$ qubit quantum states that are generated in arrays of qubits with an Ising-type interaction. These states contain a large amount of entanglement as given by their Schmidt measure. They…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Hans J. Briegel , Robert Raussendorf

Persistent currents in disordered mesoscopic rings threaded by a magnetic flux are calculated using exact diagonalization methods in the one-dimensional (1D) case and self-consistent Hartree-Fock treatments for two dimensional (2D) systems.…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-02-03 Georges Bouzerar , Didier Poilblanc

We study a model of an electron on a cylindrical surface, which is coupled to the torsion field due to a dislocation along the axis of the cylinder. We discuss the effect of this torsion field on the energy spectrum of the electrons and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-23 Debabrata Sinha

A net circulating current may appear within a quantum ring under finite bias. We study the characteristic features of the circular current in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit interaction (RSOI). Both charge and spin currents appear within…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-29 Moumita Patra