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We predict that the spin-transfer, $T_{i,||}$, and field-like, $T_{i,\bot}$, components of the {\it local} spin torque are dramatically enhanced in double-barrier magnetic tunnel junctions. The {\it spin-mixing} enhancement is due to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-10-30 Ioannis Theodonis , Alan Kalitsov , Nicholas Kioussis

We reconsider the problem of the enhancement of tunnelling of a quantum particle induced by disorder of a one-dimensional tunnel barrier of length $L$, using two different approximate analytic solutions of the invariant imbedding equations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-09-23 J. Heinrichs

The transient dynamics of a quantum linear amplifier during the transition from damping to amplification regime is studied. The master equation for the quantized mode of the field is solved, and the solution is used to describe the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Maniscalco , J. Piilo , N. Vitanov , S. Stenholm

Quantum annealing is an optimization technique which potentially leverages quantum tunneling to enhance computational performance. Existing quantum annealers use superconducting flux qubits with short coherence times, limited primarily by…

We report on the realization of a coupled quantum dot (QD) system containing two single QDs made in two adjacent InAs nanowires. One QD (sensor QD) is used as a charge sensor to detect the charge state transition in the other QD (target…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-07 Jingwei Mu , Weijie Li , Shaoyun Huang , Dong Pan , Yuanjie Chen , Ji-Yin Wang , Jianhua Zhao , H. Q. Xu

We study the effect of a dot-lead interaction on transport through a quantum dot hybridized to two semi-infinite Luttinger-liquid leads. A bosonization approach is applied to treat the interaction between charge fluctuations on the dot and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Florian Elste , David R. Reichman , Andrew J. Millis

The imperfections of a receiver's detector affect the performance of two-way continuous-variable quantum key distribution protocols and are difficult to adjust in practical situations. We propose a method to improve the performance of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-24 Yi-Chen Zhang , Zhengyu Li , Christian Weedbrook , Song Yu , Wanyi Gu , Maozhu Sun , Xiang Peng , Hong Guo

In this work, we study the efficiency of charging a quantum battery through optical pumping. The battery consists of a qutrit and it is connected to a natural thermal reservoir and an external coherent drive in the limit where its upper…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-08 Tiago F. F. Santos , Marcelo F. Santos

Transport of charge carriers in mechanically soft semiconductors is mainly limited by their interaction with slow intermolecular phonons. Carrier motion exhibits a crossover from superdiffusive to subdiffusive, producing a distinct…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-08 Veljko Janković

Quantum noise is a fundamental probe of quantum transport phenomena, offering insights into current correlations and wave-particle duality. A particularly intriguing form of such noise, $\Delta_T$ noise, emerges under a finite temperature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-12 Sachiraj Mishra , A Rajmohan Dora , Tusaradri Mohapatra , Colin Benjamin

We investigate electronic transport through II-VI semiconductor resonant tunneling structures containing diluted magnetic impurities. Due to the exchange interaction between the conduction electrons and the impurities, there arises a giant…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 David Sanchez , Charles Gould , Georg Schmidt , Laurens W. Molenkamp

A disparity in the charge of quasi-particle excitations across a tunnel junction can trigger Andreev-like processes, creating an effect similar to that of a step-up transformer. We study such a junction in its strong coupling limit in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-05 Sampurna Karmakar , Amulya Ratnakar , Sourin Das

Control over the quantum states of a massive oscillator is important for several technological applications and to test the fundamental limits of quantum mechanics. Addition of an internal degree of freedom to the oscillator could be a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-27 Tanmoy Bera , Sourav Majumder , Sudhir Kumar Sahu , Vibhor Singh

Time evolution of quantum tunneling is studied when the tunneling system is immersed in thermal medium. We analyze in detail the behavior of the system after integrating out the environment. Exact result for the inverted harmonic oscillator…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-02-05 Sh. Matsumoto , M. Yoshimura

Quantum interferometers offer phase measurement capabilities that surpass the standard quantum limit (SQL), with phase sensitivity and quantum enhancement factor serving as key performance metrics. However, practical implementations face…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Jie Zhao , Zeliang Wu , Haoran Liu , Yueya Liu , Xin Chen , Xinyun Liang , Wenfeng Huang , Chun-Hua Yuan , L. Q. Chen

Here we present details on how the cooling effects of an opto-mechanical system are affected beyond the secular approximation. To this end, a laser driven two-level quantum dot (QD) embed- ded in a phononic nano-cavity is investigated for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-16 Victor Ceban , Mihai A. Macovei

In accelerators, ion beams are often accelerated using electrostatic accelerating tubes. This paper reports on a method to improve the beam transport efficiency without adding new components to the beam transport system. High beam currents…

We investigate quantum photovoltaic effect in double quantum dots by applying nonequilibrium quantum master equation. The drastic suppression of the photovoltaic current is observed near the open circuit voltage, which leads to the large…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-29 Chen Wang , Jie Ren , Jianshu Cao

Analog quantum optimization methods, such as quantum annealing, are promising and at least partially noise tolerant ways to solve hard optimization and sampling problems with quantum hardware. However, they have thus far failed to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-21 Gianni Mossi , Vadim Oganesyan , Eliot Kapit

We report the first experimental observation of carrier-envelope phase-driven energy bunching in laser wakefield acceleration. Using a few-cycle (~9 fs), multi-terawatt laser pulse and ionization injection in a helium-nitrogen gas mixture,…