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We study the phase diagram of a model quantum spin Hall system as a function of band inversion and band-coupling strength, demonstrating that when band hybridization is weak, an interaction-induced nematic insulator state emerges over a…

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By properly generalizing Nozie`res' Fermi liquid theory, we construct an Hamiltonian approach to the scattering of conduction electrons off a spin-1/2 impurity in the ovescreneed Kondo regime, as T -> 0. We derive the S-matrix at the…

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We study the quantum dynamics of a single mode/particle interacting inhomogeneously with a large number of particles and introduce an effective approach to find the accessible Hilbert space where the dynamics takes place. Two relevant…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 C. E. Lopez , H. Christ , J. C. Retamal , E. Solano

Using a nonequilibrium implementation of the Lanczos-based exact diagonalisation technique we study the possibility of the light-induced superconducting phase coherence in a solid state system after an ultrafast optical excitation. In…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-03-18 Nikolaj Bittner , Takami Tohyama , Stefan Kaiser , Dirk Manske

Phase transitions to absorbing states are among the simplest examples of critical phenomena out of equilibrium. The characteristic feature of these models is the presence of a fluctuationless configuration which the dynamics cannot leave,…

By viewing current in the detecting lead of a spintronic device as being an ensemble of flowing spins corresponding to a mixed quantum state, where each spin itself is generally described by an improper mixture generated during the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Branislav K. Nikolic , Satofumi Souma

Distinguishing an exciton condensate from an excitonic gas or insulator remains a fundamental challenge, as both phases feature bound electron-hole pairs but differ only by the emergence of macroscopic phase coherence. Here, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-04 Jun-Xiao Hui , Qing-Dong Jiang

We investigate quantum coherence of electron spin transported through a semiconductor spintronic device, where spins are envisaged to be controlled by electrical means via spin-orbit interactions. To quantify the degree of spin coherence,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 Branislav K. Nikolic , Satofumi Souma

Recently the ETH group has reported an experiment on superradiant transition of a Bose condensate in two crossed beam cavities. The surprise is that they find that across the superradiant transition, the cavity light can be emitted in any…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-05-14 Zhigang Wu , Yu Chen , Hui Zhai

We develop a theory of superconductivity (or superfluidity) based on condensed fermion quartets focusing on the dilute spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ systems at zero temperature. In the spirit of the Bardeen--Cooper--Schrieffer ansatz, a variational…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-29 Qiao-Ru Xu , Congjun Wu

Optical cavities have been widely applied to manipulate the properties of solid state materials inside them. We propose that in systems embedded within optical cavities driven by incident pump light, the pump induces generic phase…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-23 Tsan Huang , Zhiyuan Sun

We derive the transport equations for two-dimensional electron systems with spin-orbit interaction and short-range spin-independent disorder. In the limit of slow spatial variations of the electron distribution we obtain coupled diffusion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. G. Mishchenko , A. V. Shytov , B. I. Halperin

Strong optical drives have been shown to induce transient superconducting-like response in materials above their equilibrium $T_c$. Many of these materials already exhibit short-range superconducting correlations in equilibrium. This…

Understanding the entanglement structure of out-of-equilibrium many-body systems is a challenging yet revealing task. Here we investigate the entanglement dynamics after a quench from a piecewise homogeneous initial state in integrable…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-06-26 Vincenzo Alba

Atoms trapped in microcavities and interacting through the exchange of virtual photons can model an anisotropic Heisenberg spin-1/2 lattice. We do the quantum field theoretical study of such a system using the Abelian bosonization method…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-29 Sujit Sarkar

We show that a simple gravitational theory can provide a holographically dual description of a superconductor. There is a critical temperature, below which a charged condensate forms via a second order phase transition and the (DC)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Sean A. Hartnoll , Christopher P. Herzog , Gary T. Horowitz

Impurities coupled to superconductors offer a controlled platform to understand the interplay between superconductivity, many-body interactions, and non-equilibrium physics. In the equilibrium situation, local interactions at the impurity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-17 R. Seoane Souto , A. E. Feiguin , A. Martín-Rodero , A. Levy Yeyati

The Riccati formulation of the quasiclassical theory of nonequilibrium superconductors is developed for spin-dependent scattering near magnetic interfaces. We derive boundary conditions for the Riccati distribution functions at a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 Erhai Zhao , Tomas Lofwander , J. A. Sauls

Recent experimental progress in coupling nanoscale conductors to superconducting microwave cavities has opened up for transport investigations of the deep quantum limit of light-matter interactions, with tunneling electrons strongly coupled…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-26 C. Bergenfeldt , P. Samuelsson

We propose two new approaches for regulating spin polarization and spin inversion in a conducting junction within a tight-binding framework based on wave-guide theory. The system comprises a magnetic quantum ring with finite modulation in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-19 Moumita Patra , Santanu K. Maiti