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Topological phases exhibit a plethora of striking phenomena including disorder-robust localization and propagation of waves of various nature. Of special interest are the transitions between the different topological phases which are…

Josephson junctions constructed from superconductor-semiconductor-superconductor heterostructures have been used to realize a variety of voltage-tunable superconducting quantum devices, including qubits and parametric amplifiers. To date…

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The Josephson diode effect, where the critical current magnitude depends on its direction, arises when both time-reversal and inversion symmetries are broken - often achieved by a combination of spin-orbit interaction and applied magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-13 Gerrit Behner , Abdur Rehman Jalil , Detlev Grützmacher , Thomas Schäpers

Time-dependent currents in molecular junctions can be caused by structural fluctuations or interaction with external fields. In this publication, we demonstrate how the hierarchical quantum master equation approach can be used to study…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Andre Erpenbeck , Lukas Götzendörfer , Christian Schinabeck , Michael Thoss

Proofs are given that the quantum-mechanical description of the LC-circuit with a time dependent external source can be readily established by starting from a general discretization rule of the electric charge. For this purpose one resorts…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Papp , C. Micu , O. Borchin

We study fractional Josephson effect in a particle-number conserving system consisting of a quasi-one-dimensional superconductor coupled to a nanowire or an edge carrying $e/m$ fractional charge excitations with $m$ being an odd integer. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 Meng Cheng , Roman M. Lutchyn

We use an extended quantum field theory (EQFT) hep-th/9911168 to explore possible observational effects of the spacetime. It is shown that as it was expected the spacetime foam can provide quantum bose fields with a cutoff at very small…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 A. A. Kirillov , D. Turaev

Low-capacitance Josephson junction arrays in the parameter range where single charges can be controlled are suggested as possible physical realizations of the elements which have been considered in the context of quantum computers. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 Alexander Shnirman , Gerd Schoen , Ziv Hermon

Single- and many-electron calculations and related dynamics are presented for a dimer and small Hubbard clusters. Floquet-Bloch picture for a periodic dimer is discussed with regard to the time dependence of the Peierls gap and the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-04-21 Gayanath W. Fernando , R. Matthias Geilhufe , Adil-Gerai Kussow , W. Wasanthi P. De Silva

The Floydian trajectory method of quantum mechanics and the appearance of microstates of the Schr\"{o}dinger equation are reviewed and contrasted with the Bohm interpretation of quantum mechanics. The kinematic equation of Floydian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. R. Brown

We investigate the time an electronic excitation travels in a supermolecular setup using a measurement process in an open quantum-system framework. The approach is based on the stochastic Schr\"odinger equation and uses a Hamiltonian from…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-12-09 Dirk Hofmann , Heiko Appel , Massimiliano Di Ventra , Stephan Kümmel

Time-variant systems have recently garnered considerable attention due to their unique potentials in manipulating electromagnetic waves. Here, a novel class of topological spacetime crystals is introduced, with a traveling-wave modulation…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-24 João C. Serra , Mário G. Silveirinha

We theoretically investigate effects of quantum fluctuations on superfluid spin transport through easy-plane quantum antiferromagnetic spin chains in the large-spin limit. Quantum fluctuations give rise to decaying of spin supercurrent by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-31 Se Kwon Kim , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

Flux-biased loops including one or more Josephson junctions are ubiquitous elements in quantum information experiments based on superconducting circuits. These quantum circuits can be tuned to implement a variety of Hamiltonians, with…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-09-29 A. Miano , V. R. Joshi , G. Liu , W. Dai , P. D. Parakh , L. Frunzio , M. H. Devoret

We develop a novel eikonal expansion for the Cooperon to study the effect of space- and time-dependent electric fields on the dephasing rate of disordered conductors. For randomly fluctuating fields with arbitrary covariance we derive a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Axel Voelker , Peter Kopietz

We apply an invariant-based inverse engineering method to control by time-dependent electric fields electron spin dynamics in a quantum dot with spin-orbit coupling in a weak magnetic field. The designed electric fields provide a shortcut…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-11-16 Yue Ban , Xi Chen , E. Ya Sherman , J. G. Muga

We studied the dynamics of the so-called $\theta$-term, which exists in topological materials and is related to a hypothetical field predicted by Peccei-Quinn in particle physics, in a magnetic superlattice constructed using a topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-13 Katsuhisa Taguchi , Tatsushi Imaeda , Tetsuya Hajiri , Takuya Shiraishi , Yukio Tanaka , Naoya Kitajima , Tatsuhiro Naka

In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in nanoelectromechanical devices, current-driven quantum machines, and the mechanical effects of electric currents on nanoscale conductors. Here, we carry out a thorough study of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-26 Sebastián E. Deghi , Lucas J. Fernández-Alcázar , Horacio M. Pastawski , Raúl A. Bustos-Marún

Recent theoretical work has highlighted that quantizing a superconducting circuit in the presence of time-dependent flux $\Phi(t)$ generally produces Hamiltonian terms proportional to $d\Phi/dt$ unless a special allocation of the flux…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-01 Jacob Bryon , D. K. Weiss , Xinyuan You , Sara Sussman , Xanthe Croot , Ziwen Huang , Jens Koch , Andrew Houck

We present an overview of time-dependent transport phenomena in quantum systems, with a particular emphasis on steady-state regimes. We present the ideas after the main theoretical frameworks to study open-quantum systems out of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-15 Matteo Acciai , Liliana Arrachea , Janine Splettstoesser