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Optical lattice plays an important role on stability and dynamics of quantum droplets. In this letter, we investigate the Bogoliubov excitation spectrum of quantum droplets in optical lattice in the thermodynamic limit. We classify the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-04-14 Yuhang Nie , Jun-Hui Zheng , Tao Yang

Cold atoms in an optical lattice execute Bloch-Zener oscillations when they are accelerated. We have performed a theoretical investigation into the case when the optical lattice is the intra-cavity field of a driven Fabry-Perot resonator.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-01-28 B. Prasanna Venkatesh , M. Trupke , E. A. Hinds , D. H. J. O'Dell

We consider the Zitterbewegung of Dirac electrons in the monolayer graphene as the nonrelativistic analog of the phenomenon predicted by E. Schr\"odinger for the relativistic electrons in the free space. So we show that the Dirac electrons…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-24 Natalie E. Firsova , Sergey A. Ktitorov

In heterostructures consisting of atomically thin crystals layered on top of one another, lattice mismatch or rotation between the layers results in long-wavelength moir\'e superlattices. These moir\'e patterns can drive significant band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-01 Nathan R. Finney , Matthew Yankowitz , Lithurshanaa Muraleetharan , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , Cory R. Dean , James Hone

Flat energy bands of model lattice Hamiltonians provide a key ingredient in designing dispersionless wave excitations and have become a versatile platform to study various aspects of interacting many-body systems. Their essential merit lies…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-15 C. V. Morfonios , M. Röntgen , M. Pyzh , P. Schmelcher

A high-frequency asymptotic scheme is generated that captures the motion of waves within discrete hexagonal and honeycomb lattices by creating continuum homogenised equations. The accuracy of these effective medium equations in describing…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-11-01 Mehul Makwana , Richard Craster

Due to its incommensurate nature, moir\'e superlattices host not only acoustic phonons but also another type of soft collective modes called phasons. Here, we investigate the impact of electron-phason scattering on the transport properties…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-06 Héctor Ochoa , Rafael M. Fernandes

We have studied Bloch electrons in a perfect unidirectional superlattice subject to crossed electric and magnetic fields, where the magnetic field is oriented ``in-plane'', i.e. in parallel to the sample plane. Two orientation of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-05-05 L. Smrcka , N. A. Goncharuk , M. Orlita , R. Grill

Strain-induced lattice mismatch leads to moir\'{e} patterns in homobilayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). We investigate the structural and electronic properties of such strained moir\'{e} patterns in TMD homobilayers. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-21 Sudipta Kundu , Indrajit Maity , Robin Bajaj , H. R. Krishnamurthy , Manish Jain

We study the reflection of Bloch wavepackets at the interface of optical lattice possessing a shallow longitudinal out-of-phase refractive index modulation in adjacent waveguides. We show that the relation between the transmitted and…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-20 Yaroslav V. Kartashov , Victor A. Vysloukh , Lluis Torner

Topological phases like topological insulators or superconductors are fascinating quantum states of matter, featuring novel properties such as emergent chiral edge states or Majorana fermions with non-Abelian braiding statistics. The recent…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-03-30 Bo Liu , Xiaopeng Li , W. Vincent Liu

We develop a systematic analytical approach to study the linear and nonlinear solitary excitations of quasi-one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensates trapped in an optical lattice. For the linear case, the Bloch wave in the $nth$ energy…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 D. L. Wang , X. H. Yan , W. M. Liu

Geometric analogs of Bloch oscillations studied so far have relied on Berry curvature. We show that a weakly inhomogeneous electric field adds a distinct quantum-metric term to semiclassical wavepacket dynamics, generating an oscillatory…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-22 M. Maneesh Kumar , Md Kaif Faiyaz , Sayan Sarkar , Amit Agarwal

Frequency-based synthetic dimensions are a promising avenue for expanding the dimensionality of photonic systems. In this work, we show how a tilted synthetic lattice is naturally realised by periodically modulating a single-mode resonator…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-24 F. Ahrens , N. Crescini , A. Irace , G. Rastelli , P. Falferi , A. Giachero , B. Margesin , R. Mezzena , A. Vinante , I. Carusotto , F. Mantegazzini

We analyze the optomechanics of an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate interacting with the optical lattice inside a laser-pumped optical cavity and subject to a uniform bias force such as gravity. An atomic wave packet in a tilted lattice…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-05 B. Prasanna Venkatesh , D. H. J. O'Dell , J. Goldwin

Bloch's theorem is the centerpiece of topological band theory, which itself has defined an era of quantum materials research. However, Bloch's theorem is broken by a perpendicular magnetic field, making it difficult to study topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-14 Jonah Herzog-Arbeitman , Aaron Chew , B. Andrei Bernevig

Moir\'e superlattices formed in stacks of two or more 2D crystals with similar lattice structures have recently become excellent platforms to reveal new physics in low-dimensional systems. They are, however, highly sensitive to the angle…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-15 Tianyu Zhang , Chengxin Xiao , Hongxia Xue , Wang Yao , Dong-Keun Ki

We investigate transport phenomena and dynamical effects in flat bands where the band dispersion plays no role. We show that wavepackets in geometrically non-trivial flat bands can display dynamics when inhomogeneous electric fields are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-06 Jing-Xin Liu , Giandomenico Palumbo , Marco Di Liberto

We investigate the physics of photonic band structures of the moir\'e patterns that emerged when overlapping two uni-dimensional (1D) photonic crystal slabs with mismatched periods. The band structure of our system is a result of the…

We demonstrate that nonlinearity may play a constructive role in supporting Bloch oscillations in a model which is discrete, in one dimension and continuous in the orthogonal one. The model can be experimentally realized in several fields…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-05-25 R. Driben , V. V. Konotop , T. Meier , A. V. Yulin