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We develop in this work a simple qualitative quantum electron transport model, in the strong light-matter coupling regime under dipole approximation, able to capture polaritonic signatures in the time-dependent electrical current. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-07 Carlos F. Destefani , Matteo Villani , Xavier Cartoixà , Michael Feiginov , Xavier Oriols

The hetero junction between the different materials often gives the rectification effect; e.g., pn junction is used for diode. On the other hand, the Josephson junction between the two superconductors is assumed to show symmetric response…

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Toughness describes the ability of a material to resist fracture or crack propagation. It is demonstrated here that fracture toughness of a material can be asymmetric, i.e., the resistance of a medium to a crack propagating from right to…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-10-12 N. R. Brodnik , S. Brach , C. M. Long , G. Ravichandran , B. Bourdin , K. T. Faber , K. Bhattacharya

We report on a novel rectification phenomenon in a 2-D lattice network consisting of $N\times N$ sites with diode and AC source elements with controllable phases. A phase cascade configuration is described in which the current ripple in a…

Classical Physics · Physics 2016-07-04 M. Nazari , A. M. Gole , M. K. Hong , P. Mohanty , S. Erramilli , O. Narayan

The recent demonstration of resonant tunneling transport in nitride semiconductors has led to an invigorated effort to harness this quantum transport regime for practical applications. In polar semiconductors, however, the interplay between…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-03-16 Jimy Encomendero , Vladimir Protasenko , Farhan Rana , Debdeep Jena , Huili Grace Xing

We present a theoretical study of radiative heat transport in nonlinear solid-state quantum circuits. We give a detailed account of heat rectification effects, i.e. the asymmetry of heat current with respect to a reversal of the thermal…

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We prove a series of results tied to the regularity and geometry of solutions to the $3D$ compressible Euler equations with vorticity and entropy. Our framework exploits and reveals additional virtues of a recent new formulation of the…

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The superconducting diode effect (SDE) is characterized by its nonreciprocal nature in critical supercurrents. However, realizing a longitudinal SDE typically requires simultaneous time-reversal ($\mathcal{T}$) and inversion ($\mathcal{P}$)…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-01-13 Ruo-Peng Yu , Jin-Xin Hu , Zi-Ting Sun

Superconducting diodes, characterized by nonreciprocal supercurrent transport, offer transformative opportunities for ultra-low-power circuits. However, achieving reliable operation at temperatures above liquid nitrogen remains a major…

Systems in which the heat flux depends on the direction of the flow are said to present thermal rectification. This effect has attracted much theoretical and experimental interest in recent years. However, in most theoretical models the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-12-14 Pedro H. Guimarães , Gabriel T. Landi , Mário J. de Oliveira

Conductivity reconstruction in an inverse eddy current problem is considered in the present paper. With the electric field measurement on part of domain boundary, we formulate the reconstruction problem to a constrained optimization problem…

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Superconducting diodes enable dissipationless directional transport, yet achieving electrical tunability and scalability remains a major challenge for circuit-level integration. Here, we demonstrate an electrothermal-switch superconducting…

Voltage doubler rectifiers are usually applied to systems with high voltage and low current requirement. An X band voltage doubler rectifier has been developed with 72% conversion efficiency. To the best of our knowledge, the obtained…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-12-12 Feifei Tan , Changjun Liu

The paper demonstrates that a two-dimensional ballistic nanodevice in which the electron gas satisfies either the Schroodinger equation (as in quantum wells in common semiconductor heterostructures) or the Dirac equation (as in graphene) is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Daniela Dragoman , Mircea Dragoman

The recent demonstration of the superconducting diode effect (SDE) has generated renewed interests in superconducting electronics in which devices such as compact superconducting diodes that can perform signal rectification where low-energy…

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The problem of UV divergences in QFT has long been a fundamental challenge. Standard regularization techniques modify high-energy behavior to ensure well-defined integrals. However, these approaches often introduce unphysical parameters,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-21 Daniel Ketels

Directional and self-propelled flow in open channels has a variety of applications, including microfluidic and medical devices, industrial filtration processes, fog-harvesting and condensing apparatuses. Here, we present versatile…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-10-07 Camilla Sammartino , Michael Rennick , Halim Kusumaatmaja , Bat-El Pinchasik

We study charge transport in voltage-biased single-channel junctions involving helical superconductors with finite Cooper pair momentum. For a Josephson junction, the equilibrium current-phase relation shows a superconducting diode effect:…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-07-08 A. Zazunov , J. Rech , T. Jonckheere , B. Grémaud , T. Martin , R. Egger

It is well known that conductivity of disordered metals is suppressed in the limit of low frequencies and temperatures by quantum corrections. Although predicted by theory to exist up to much higher energies, such corrections have so far…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-18 P. Neilinger , J. Greguš , D. Manca , B. Grančič , M. Kopčík , P. Szabó , P. Samuely , R. Hlubina , M. Grajcar

In the absence of time-reversal invariance, metals without inversion symmetry may exhibit nonreciprocal charge transport -- a magnetochiral anisotropy that manifests as unequal electrical resistance for opposite current flow directions. If…