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The copper fluoride $Cu_2F_5$ is a proposed stable compound that can be seen as a layered lattice of $S=1$ and $S=1/2$ sites, corresponding to copper ions. Intending to cast light on the transport properties of ferrimagnetic magnons, we use…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-25 P. G. de Oliveira , A. S. T. Pires

Theories describing electrical transport in semiconductor superlattices can essentially be divided in three disjoint categories: i) transport in a miniband; ii) hopping between Wannier-Stark ladders; and iii) sequential tunneling. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Andreas Wacker , Antti-Pekka Jauho

A periodically driven lattice with two commensurate spatial periodicities is found to exhibit super metallic states characterized by enhancements in wave packet spreading and entropy. These resonances occur at critical values of parameters…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-08-20 Indubala I Satija , Bala Sundaram

We propose to use a quantum ratchet to transport quantum information in a chain of atoms trapped in an optical superlattice. The quantum ratchet is created by a continuous modulation of the optical superlattice which is periodic in time and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-11-08 Oriol Romero-Isart , Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll

Atomically precise graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) have emerged as promising candidates for nanoelectronic applications due to their widely tunable energy band gaps resulting from lateral quantum confinement and edge effects. Here we report on…

Electron transport in graphene under a laser-modulated barrier is studied in the presence of an energy gap, a scalar potential, and a uniaxial zigzag strain. The transfer-matrix approach is used with the boundary conditions to derive the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-22 Hasna Chnafa , Clarence Cortes , David Laroze , Ahmed Jellal

Superconductivity is traditionally viewed as a low-temperature phenomenon. Within the BCS theory this is understood to result from the fact that the pairing of electrons takes place only close to the usually two-dimensional Fermi surface…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-11-22 Tero T. Heikkila , Grigori E. Volovik

Flat bands, in which kinetic energy is quenched and quantum states become macroscopically degenerate, host a rich variety of correlated and topological phases, from unconventional superconductors to fractional Chern insulators. In Hermitian…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Juan Pablo Esparza , Vladimir Juričić

Nonuniform strain in graphene acts as a valley-dependent gauge field, generating pseudomagnetic fields (PMFs) that mimic real magnetic fields but preserve global time-reversal symmetry. While local probes have visualized such fields, their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-20 Divya Sahani , Sunit Das , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Amit Agarwal , Aveek Bid

As an unusual type of anomalous diffusion behavior, superballistic transport is not well known but has been experimentally simulated recently. Quantum superballistic transport models to date are mainly based on connected sublattices which…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-19 Qifang Zhao , Cord A. Muller , Jiangbin Gong

The concept of flat band plays an important role in strongly-correlated many-body physics. However, the demonstration of the flat band physics is highly nontrivial due to intrinsic limitations in conventional condensed matter materials.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-29 Zi-He Yang , Yan-Pu Wang , Zheng-Yuan Xue , Wan-Li Yang , Yong Hu , Jin-Hua Gao , Ying Wu

Despite their dispersion-less character, flat bands (FBs) are often at the heart of remarkable physical phenomena. Because, FBs may be responsible for unconventional quantum electronic transport, our purpose is to investigate their impact…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-11-10 Georges Bouzerar

Ultracold atoms confined by engineered magnetic or optical potentials are ideal systems for studying phenomena otherwise difficult to realize or probe in the solid state because their atomic interaction strength, number of species, density,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-01-20 Chih-Chun Chien , Sebastiano Peotta , Massimiliano Di Ventra

We study the effects of quantum fluctuations on the transport properties of multiband superconductors near a pair-breaking quantum critical point. For this purpose, we consider a minimal model of the quantum phase transition in a system…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-11-28 Maxim Dzero , Maxim Khodas , Alex Levchenko

We investigate the electronic transport coefficients in unconventional superconductors at low temperatures, where charge and heat transport are dominated by electron scattering from random lattice defects. We discuss the features of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-04-08 Matthias J. Graf

We present an efficient numerical approach for treating ballistic quantum transport across devices described by tight binding (TB) Hamiltonians designated to systems with localized potential defects. The method is based on the wave function…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 K. Kolasiński , A. Mreńca-Kolasińska , B. Szafran

In recent years, materials with topological flat bands have attracted significant attention due to their association with extraordinary transport properties and strongly correlated electrons. Yet, generic principles linking lattice…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-25 Shivam Sharma , Amartya S. Banerjee

Flat band moir\'e graphene systems have emerged as a quintessential platform to investigate correlated phases of matter. A plethora of interaction-driven ground states have been proposed, and yet despite extensive experimental effort, there…

A singular flat band(SFB), a distinct class of the flat band, has been shown to exhibit various intriguing material properties characterized by a geometric quantity of the Bloch wave function called the quantum distance. We present a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-05-02 Hyeongseop Kim , Chang-geun Oh , Jun-Won Rhim

It is known that a system which exhibits a half filled lowest flat band and the localized one-particle Wannier states on the flat band satisfy the connectivity conditions, is always ferromagnetic. Without the connectivity conditions on the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-11-25 Miklos Gulacsi , Gyorgy Kovacs , Zsolt Gulacsi