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We study the influence of a strong imaginary vector potential on the quantum mechanics of particles confined to a two-dimensional plane and propagating in a random impurity potential. We show that the wavefunctions of the non-Hermitian…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-30 Christopher Mudry , B. D. Simons , Alexander Altland

Non-Abelian gauge fields are versatile tools for synthesizing topological phenomena but have so far been mostly studied in Hermitian systems, where gauge flux has to be defined from a closed loop in order for gauge fields, whether Abelian…

Optics · Physics 2024-01-31 Zehai Pang , Jinbing Hu , Yi Yang

Internal degrees of freedoms of the quantum electron (spin and charge) introduced by Dirac lead to the non-Abelian field configuration of the electron in the complex projective Hilbert space $CP(3)$ of the unlocated quantum states (UQS).…

General Physics · Physics 2019-09-12 Peter Leifer

We consider a periodically driven quantum system described by a Hamiltonian which is the product of a slowly varying Hermitian operator $V\left(\boldsymbol{\lambda}\left(t\right)\right)$ and a dimensionless periodic function with zero…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-31 Viktor Novičenko , Gediminas Juzeliūnas

Bloch oscillations (BOs) are a fundamental phenomenon by which a wave packet undergoes a periodic motion in a lattice when subjected to an external force. Observed in a wide range of synthetic lattice systems, BOs are intrinsically related…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-26 Marco Di Liberto , Nathan Goldman , Giandomenico Palumbo

The interplay of gauge dynamics and flavor symmetries often leads to remarkably subtle phenomena in the presence of soliton configurations. Non-Abelian vortices -- vortex solutions with continuous internal orientational moduli -- provide an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-01-23 Jarah Evslin , Kenichi Konishi , Muneto Nitta , Keisuke Ohashi , Walter Vinci

The effect of an Aharonov-Bohm (AB) pseudo magnetic field on a two dimensional electron gas in graphene is investigated. We consider it modeled as in the usual AB effect but since such pseudo field is supposed to be induced by elastic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-01 Cleverson Filgueiras , Rosinildo Fidelis , Diego Cogollo , Edilberto O. Silva

We develop a semiclassical theory for electron wavepacket dynamics in the presence of an inhomogeneous AC electric field. While static electric-field gradients are known to generate charge transport governed by the quantum metric, we show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-17 M. Maneesh Kumar , Sanjay Sarkar , Amit Agarwal

The possibility of non-trivial representations of the gauge group on wavefunctionals of a gauge invariant quantum field theory leads to a generation of mass for intermediate vector and tensor bosons. The mass parameters m show up as central…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Calixto , V. Aldaya

The Darwin-Breit Hamiltonian is applied to the Aharonov-Bohm experiment. In agreement with the standard Maxwell-Lorentz theory, the force acting on electrons from infinite solenoids or ferromagnetic rods vanishes. However, the interaction…

General Physics · Physics 2008-03-19 Eugene V. Stefanovich

After discussing the peculiarities of quantum systems on noncommutative (NC) spaces with non-trivial topology and the operator representation of the $\star$-product on them, we consider the Aharonov-Bohm and Casimir effects for such spaces.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Chaichian , A. Demichev , P. Presnajder , M. M. Sheikh-Jabbari , A. Tureanu

We study the relation between the quantum spin Hall effect(QSHE) and the $\mathbb{Z}_2$ global gauge anomaly and discover that there exists an one-to-one correspondence between them. By constructing a two dimensional non-abelian gauge…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-07-22 Yunqin Zheng , Shaolong Wan

Resorting to Berry's phase, a new idea to detect, at quantum level, the gravitomagnetic field of any metric theory of gravity, is put forward. It is found in this proposal that the magnitude of the gravitomagnetic field appears only in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 Abel Camacho

Imposing chirality on a physical system engenders unconventional energy flow and responses, such as the Aharonov-Bohm effect and the topological quantum Hall phase for electrons in a symmetry-breaking magnetic field. Recently, great…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-06 Javier del Pino , Jesse J. Slim , Ewold Verhagen

Classical and quantum aspects of physical systems that can be described by Riemannian non degenerate superspaces are analyzed from the topological and geometrical points of view. For the N=1 case the simplest supermetric introduced in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 Diego Julio Cirilo-Lombardo

Nowadays it is experimentally feasible to create artificial, and in particular, non-Abelian gauge potentials for ultracold atoms trapped in optical lattices. Motivated by this fact, we investigate the fundamental properties of an ultracold…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-04-28 N. Goldman , A. Kubasiak , P. Gaspard , M. Lewenstein

On increasing the coupling strength ($\lambda$) of a non-Abelian gauge field that induces a generalized Rashba spin-orbit interaction, the topology of the Fermi surface of a homogeneous gas of noninteracting fermions of density $\rho \sim…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2011-11-30 Sudeep Kumar Ghosh , Jayantha P. Vyasanakere , Vijay B. Shenoy

Aharonov-Bohm (AB) caging is the localization effect in translational-invariant lattices due to destructive interference induced by penetrated magnetic fields. While current research focuses mainly on the case of Abelian AB caging, here we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 Sheng Li , Zheng-Yuan Xue , Ming Gong , Yong Hu

The propagation of electromagnetic waves in unmagnetized periodic plasma media is studied using the semiclassical wave packet approximation. The formalism gives rise to Berry effect terms in the equation of motion. The Berry effect…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-02-28 Reza Torabi

Non-Hermitian physics has emerged as a rapidly advancing field of research, revealing a range of novel phenomena and potential applications. Traditional non-Hermitian Hamiltonians are typically simulated by constructing asymmetric couplings…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-26 Huawei Zhao , Xinlei Liu , Xinyao Huang , Guofeng Zhang