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An optical nanoantenna and adjacent atomic systems are strongly coupled when an excitation is repeatedly exchanged between these subsystems prior to its eventual dissipation into the environment. It remains challenging to reach the strong…

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We study the conductance of a junction between the normal and superconducting segments of a nanowire, both of which are subjected to spin-orbit coupling and an external magnetic field. We directly compare the transport properties of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-01 Christopher Reeg , Dmitrii L. Maslov

We investigate current fluctuations in open quantum systems beyond the weak-coupling and Markovian regimes, focusing on a coherently driven qubit strongly coupled to a structured bosonic environment. By combining full counting statistics…

For a standard two-level atom coupled to the quantized field of a resonant cavity, finite temperature effects lead to thermal occupation of the cavity modes that obfuscates measurement of the quantum nature of the atom-light interaction. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-26 Lindsey F. Keary , Jonathan D. Pritchard

We solve the problem of fermionic pairing mediated by a massless boson in the limit of large coupling constant. At weak coupling, the transition temperature is exponentially small and superconductivity is robust against phase fluctuation.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-08-31 Andrey V. Chubukov , Joerg Schmalian

A nanostructured thermoelectric device is designed by connecting a double-barrier resonant tunneling heterostructure to two electron reservoirs. Based on Landauers equation and Fermi-Dirac statistics, the exact solution of the heat flow is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-13 Tong Fu , Jianying Du , Shanhe Su , Guozhen Su , Jincan Chen

Within the framework of nonequilibrium Green's functions, we investigate the thermoelectric transport in a single molecular junction with electron-phonon and electron-electron interactions. By transforming into a displaced phonon basis, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-26 Jie Ren , Jian-Xin Zhu , James E. Gubernatis , Chen Wang , Baowen Li

We investigate a thermoelectric nano-engine whose properties are steered by Coulomb interaction. The device whose design decouples charge and energy currents is made up of two interacting quantum dots connected to three different…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 A. -M. Daré , P. Lombardo

In this paper, we introduce a real symmetric and positive semi-definite matrix, which we call the non-equilibrium conductance matrix, and which generalizes the Onsager response matrix for a system in a non-equilibrium stationary state. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-02-16 Hadrien Vroylandt , David Lacoste , Gatien Verley

We analyze the nanocaloritronic performance of an interacting quantum dot that is subject to an applied bias and an applied temperature gradient. It is now well known that, in the absence of phonon contribution, a weakly coupled…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-29 Bhaskaran Muralidharan , Milena Grifoni

We study the statistical properties of charge and energy transport in electron conducting junctions with electron-phonon interactions, specifically, the thermoelectric efficiency and its fluctuations. The system comprises donor and acceptor…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-01-20 Bijay Kumar Agarwalla , Jian-Hua Jiang , Dvira Segal

We develop a microscopic model to investigate current-induced light emission in single-molecule tunnel junctions, where a two-level system interacts with a plasmonic field. Using the quantum master equation, we explore the transition from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Andrés Bejarano , Moritz Frankerl , Rémi Avriller , Thomas Frederiksen , Fabio Pistolesi

In the deep-strong coupling (DSC) regime, the interaction between light and matter exceeds their bare frequencies, leading to an effective decoupling. Theoretical and experimental evidence for this behavior has relied solely on measurements…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-27 S. Palafox , M. Salado-Mejía , M. Santiago-García , R. Román-Ancheyta

The ultrastrong coupling of single-electron tunneling and nanomechanical motion opens exciting opportunities to explore fundamental questions and develop new platforms for quantum technologies. We have measured and modeled this…

An important goal in nanoelectromechanics is to cool the vibrational motion, ideally to its quantum ground state. Cooling by an applied charge current is a particularly simple and hence attractive strategy to this effect. Here, we explore…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-08 Liliana Arrachea , Niels Bode , Felix von Oppen

We describe a scheme that enables a strong coherent coupling between a topological qubit and the quantized motion of a magnetized nanomechanical resonator. This coupling is achieved by attaching an array of magnetic tips to a namomechanical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Fang-Yu Hong , Huiqin Qian , Jing-Li Fu , Zhi-Yan Zhu , Li-zhen Jiang

We identify the operational conditions for maximum power of a nanothermoelectric engine consisting of a single quantum level embedded between two leads at different temperatures and chemical potentials. The corresponding thermodynamic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-03-01 Massimiliano Esposito , Katja Lindenberg , Christian Van den Broeck

In this paper, we investigate the strong coupling quantum thermodynamics of the hybrid quantum system far away from equilibrium. The strong coupling hybrid system consists of a cavity and a spin ensemble of the NV centers in diamond under…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-21 Wei-Ming Huang , Wei-Min Zhang

Understanding and controlling the flow of heat is a major challenge in nanoelectronics. When a junction is driven out of equilibrium by light or the flow of electric charge, the vibrational and electronic degrees of freedom are, in general,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-06-29 Daniel R. Ward , David A. Corley , James M. Tour , Douglas Natelson

Strongly correlated systems far from equilibrium can exhibit scaling solutions with a dynamically generated weak coupling. We show this by investigating isolated systems described by relativistic quantum field theories for initial…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 J. Berges , A. Rothkopf , J. Schmidt