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Making use of coherence and entanglement as metrological quantum resources allows to improve the measurement precision from the shot-noise- or quantum limit to the Heisenberg limit. Quantum metrology then relies on the availability of…

We study for the first time the effect of the geometry of quantum wire networks on their nonlinear optical properties and show that for some geometries, the first hyperpolarizability is largely enhanced and the second hyperpolarizability is…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-11 Shoresh Shafei , Rick Lytel , Mark G. Kuzyk

Geometry of the wave function is a central pillar of modern solid state physics. In this work, we unveil the wave-function geometry of two-dimensional semimetals with band crossing points (BCPs). We show that the Berry phase of BCPs are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-16 Yoonseok Hwang , Junseo Jung , Jun-Won Rhim , Bohm-Jung Yang

The proximity effect, quasiparticle transport, and local magnetic moment in ferromagnet--d-wave superconductor junctions with {110}-oriented interface are studied by solving self-consistently the Bogoliubov-de Gennes equations within an…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 Jian-Xin Zhu , C. S. Ting

A critical result in superconductivity is that flat bands, though dispersionless, can still host nonzero superfluid weight due to quantum geometry. We show that the derivation of the mean field superfluid weight in previous literature is…

Coherence and correlation are key features of the quantum system. Quantifying these quantities are astounding task in the framework of resource theory of quantum information processing. In this article, we identify an affinity-based metric…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-11 R. Muthuganesan , V. K. Chandrasekar , R. Sankaranarayanan

Recent studies have revealed that the quantum geometry of electronic bands determines the electromagnetic properties of non-interacting insulators and semimetals. However, the role of quantum geometry in the optical responses of interacting…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-01 Deven P. Carmichael , Martin Claassen

The complete quantum metric of a parametrized quantum system has a real part (usually known as the Provost-Vallee metric) and a symplectic imaginary part (known as the Berry curvature). In this paper, we first investigate the relation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-02 Balázs Hetényi , Péter Lévay

In this paper, we discuss a geometrodynamical approach to particle physics, in which quantum mechanics is no more than an approximated model of nature in the microscopic scale. We derive quantum mechanics from the concept of non-local…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-05 Tomer Shushi

By applying the projector to the filled lattice eigenstates on a specific position, or applying the local electron annihilation operator on the many-body ground state, one can construct a quantum state localized around a specific position…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-06 Lucas A. Oliveira , Wei Chen

In a ring of s-wave superconducting material the magnetic flux is quantized in units of $\Phi_0 = \frac{h}{2e}$. It is well known from the theory of Josephson junctions that if the ring is interrupted with a piece of d-wave material, then…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-19 Walter A. Simmons , Sandip S. Pakvasa

Unconventional superconductors have been long sought for their potential applications in quantum technologies and devices. A key challenge impeding this effort is the difficulty associated with probing and characterizing candidate materials…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-08-23 Jonathan B. Curtis , Nicholas R. Poniatowski , Amir Yacoby , Prineha Narang

Quantum geometry, describing the geometric properties of the Bloch wave function in momentum space, has recently been recognized as a fundamental concept in condensed matter physics. The flat-band system offers the paradigmatic platform…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-03 Taisei Kitamura , Akito Daido , Youichi Yanase

We derive several bounds on fidelity between quantum states. In particular we show that fidelity is bounded from above by a simple to compute quantity we call super--fidelity. It is analogous to another quantity called sub--fidelity. For…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-19 J. A. Miszczak , Z. Puchała , P. Horodecki , A. Uhlmann , K. Życzkowski

The quantum metric is a fundamental ingredient of band quantum geometry and has recently at tracted intense interest, with most of its transport signatures appearing in the intrinsic second order nonlinear conductivity. In the clean limit,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-04-23 Bo Yin , Zhijun Wang , Quansheng Wu

Quantum measurements are described as instantaneous projections in textbooks. They can be stretched out in time using weak measurements, whereby one can observe the evolution of a quantum state as it heads towards one of the eigenstates of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-11 Parveen Kumar , Suman Kundu , Madhavi Chand , R. Vijayaraghavan , Apoorva Patel

Quantum geometry characterizes the variation of wavefunctions in momentum space through their overlaps and relative phases, providing a general framework for understanding many transport and optical properties. It is generally formulated in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-20 Alejandro S. Miñarro , Gervasi Herranz

To explore the influence of quantum-geometric effects on the Ginzburg-Landau coherence length in a dilute flat-band superconductor, we adopt a BCS-BEC crossover approach to the multiband pyrochlore-Hubbard model near the critical…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-10-10 M. Iskin

Waveguides potentially offer an effective medium for interconnecting quantum processors within a modular framework, facilitating the coherent quantum state transfer between the qubits across separate chips. In this work, we analyze a…

The properties which give quantum mechanics its unique character - unitarity, complementarity, non-commutativity, uncertainty, nonlocality - derive from the algebraic structure of Hermitian operators acting on the wavefunction in complex…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-14 Tim Palmer