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We investigate a variant of the Aubry-Andr\'e-Harper (AAH) model corresponding to a bosonic optical lattice of ultra cold atoms under an effective oscillatory magnetic field. In the limit of high frequency oscillation, the system maybe…

Here we study the phase diagram of the Aubry-Andre-Harper model in the presence of strong interactions as the strength of the quasiperiodic potential is varied. Previous work has established the existence of many-body localized phase at…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-03-10 Yongchan Yoo , Junhyun Lee , Brian Swingle

Topological quantum optical states in one-dimensional (1D) quasiperiodic cold atomic chains are studied in this work. We propose that by introducing incommensurate modulations on the interatomic distances of 1D periodic atomic chains, the…

Optics · Physics 2021-02-03 B. X. Wang , C. Y. Zhao

A quantum heat engine (QHE) based on the interaction driving of a many-particle working medium is introduced. The cycle alternates isochoric heating and cooling strokes with both interaction-driven processes that are simultaneously…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-18 Yang-Yang Chen , Gentaro Watanabe , Yi-Cong Yu , Xi-Wen Guan , Adolfo del Campo

In this paper we discussed the topological transition between trivial and nontrivial phases of a quasi-periodic (Aubry-Andr\'e like) mechanical Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model. We find that there exists a nontrivial boundary separating the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-29 D. A. Miranda , T. V. C. Antão , N. M. R Peres

We investigate quantum transport and thermoelectrical properties of a finite-size Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model, a paradigmatic model for a one-dimensional topological insulator, which displays topologically protected edge states. By coupling…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-07-25 Sina Böhling , Georg Engelhardt , Gloria Platero , Gernot Schaller

Quantum heat engines (QHE) are thermal machines where the working substance is quantum. In the extreme case the working medium can be a single particle or a few level quantum system. The study of QHE has shown a remarkable similarity with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-07 Raam Uzdin , Amikam Levy , Ronnie Kosloff

Harnessing the quantum coherence and tunability of molecular-scale structures, we theoretically explore thermoelectric transport in ring-shaped molecular junctions featuring dimerized hopping integrals. By engineering alternating strong and…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-17 Ranjini Bhattacharya , Souvik Roy

We develop a geometric framework to describe the thermodynamics of microscopic heat engines driven by slow periodic temperature variations and modulations of a mechanical control parameter. Covering both the classical and the quantum…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-01-31 Kay Brandner , Keiji Saito

The fundamentals of a quantum heat engine are derived from first principles. The study is based on the equation of motion of a minimum set of operators which is then used to define the state of the system. The relation between the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Tova Feldmann , Ronnie Kosloff

Quasi-periodic lattice systems offer diverse transport properties. In this work, we investigate the environment induced effects on transport properties for quasi-periodic systems, namely the one-dimensional Aubry-Andr\'e-Harper (AAH)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-29 Madhumita Saha , B. Prasanna Venkatesh , Bijay Kumar Agarwalla

Compared to periodic systems, quasicrystals without translational invariance exhibit unexpected localization properties. The extended-localized transition in quasicrystals has been observed in both quantum and classical wave systems.…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-06-18 Zhoufei Liu , Pei-Chao Cao , Ying Li , Jiping Huang

The concept of thermal machines has evolved from the canonical steam engine to the recently proposed nanoscopic quantum systems as working fluids. The latter obey quantum open system dynamics and frequently operate in non-equilibrium…

Mobility edge, a critical energy separating localized and extended excitations, is a key concept for understanding quantum localization. Aubry-Andr\'{e} (AA) model, a paradigm for exploring quantum localization, does not naturally allow…

We investigate a generalized Aubry-Andr\'{e}-Harper (AAH) model with non-reciprocal hopping and power-law quasiperiodic potentials $V(i) = V\left[ \cos(2\pi \beta i) \right]^p$. Our study reveals that the interplay between nonreciprocity,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-11-18 Ya-Nan Wang , Wen-Long You , Zhihao Xu , Gaoyong Sun

One of the hallmarks of topological systems is the robust quantization of particle transport. It is the origin of the integer-valued quantum Hall conductivity and a potential tool for quantum information technology. Recent experiments on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-02 Julius Bohm , Hugo Gerlitz , Christina Jörg , Michael Fleischhauer

Time-dependent driving of quantum systems has emerged as a powerful tool to engineer exotic phases far from thermal equilibrium, but in the presence of many-body interactions it also leads to runaway heating, so that generic systems are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-07-03 Manuel Weber , James K. Freericks

We discuss a quantum thermal machine that generates power from a thermally driven double quantum dot coupled to normal and superconducting reservoirs. Energy exchange between the dots is mediated by electron-electron interactions. We can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-19 S. Mojtaba Tabatabaei , David Sanchez , Alfredo Levy Yeyati , Rafael Sanchez

Quasicrystals occupy a unique position between periodic and disordered systems, where localization phenomena such as Anderson transitions and mobility edges can emerge even in the absence of disorder. This distinctive behavior motivates the…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-30 H. K. Avetissian , B. R. Avchyan , A. Brown , G. F. Mkrtchian

Quantum transport in a one-dimensional (1D) quasiperiodic lattice with mobility edges is explored. We first investigate the adiabatic pumping between left and right edge modes by resorting to two edge-bulk-edge channels and demonstrate that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-22 Yan Xing , Lu Qi , Xuedong Zhao , Zhe Lü , Shutian Liu , Shou Zhang , Hong-Fu Wang