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Quantum entanglement is the quintessential characteristic of quantum mechanics and the basis for quantum information processing. When one of two maximally entangled particles is measured, without measurement the state of another one is…

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We bring together the semiclassical approximation, matrix integrals and the theory of symmetric polynomials in order to solve a long standing problem in the field of quantum chaos: to compute transport moments when tunnel barriers are…

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We report on a multi-year, multi-institution study to investigate student reasoning about energy in the context of quantum tunnelling. We use ungraded surveys, graded examination questions, individual clinical interviews, and…

Physics Education · Physics 2009-11-11 Micael C. Wittmann , Jeffrey T. Morgan , Lei Bao

We study the quantum tunnelling of a very complex object of which only part is coupled to an external potential ( the potential barrier ). We treat this problem as the tunnelling of a particle (part of the system affected by the potential)…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-02-03 A. H. Castro Neto , A. O. Caldeira

The tunneling wave function of the universe is investigated in a minisuperspace framework of a de Sitter universe with a quantum scalar field, treated as a perturbation. We consider three different approaches to defining the tunneling wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-19 Alexander Vilenkin , Masaki Yamada

We study features of tunneling dynamics in an exactly-solvable model of N=4 supersymmetric quantum mechanics with a multi-well potential and with broken reflective symmetry. Quantum systems with a phenomenological potential of this type…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-27 V. P. Berezovoj , M. I. Konchatnij , A. J. Nurmagambetov

Time it takes to travel from one position to another, devoid of any quantum mechanical description, has been modeled variously, especially for quantum tunneling. The model time, if universally valid, must be subluminal, must hold everywhere…

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The quasi-particle tunneling phenomena in the paired fractional quantum Hall states are studied. A single point-contact system is first considered. Because of relevancy of the quasi-particle tunneling term, the strong tunneling regime…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Kentaro Nomura , Daijiro Yoshioka

Quantum networks offer a unifying set of opportunities and challenges across exciting intellectual and technical frontiers, including for quantum computation, communication, and metrology. The realization of quantum networks composed of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 H. J. Kimble

Using a time operator, we define a tunneling time for a particle going through a barrier. This tunneling time is the average of the phase time introduced by other authors. In addition to the delay time caused by the resonances over the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-05-27 Gonzalo Ordonez , Naomichi Hatano

It was proposed recently that the Schr\"odinger wave function can be reconstructed exactly from a discrete superposition of classical action branches weighted by associated classical densities, without semiclassical approximations. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 Chong Qi , Mário B. Amaro

Recent attoclock experiments and theoretical studies regarding the strong-field ionization of atoms by few-cycle infrared pulses revealed new features that have attracted much attention. Here we investigate tunneling ionization and the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 Nicolas Douguet , Klaus Bartschat

Quantum phase transitions (QPTs) in the spin-boson model with/without the rotating-wave approximation (RWA) are systematically investigated through variational calculations using a sub-Ohmic bath with high spectral density. Four cases…

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We show that strong quantum entanglement can support a stable traversable wormhole without any explicit interaction or tunnelling term between the two boundary theories of the wormhole. Specifically we work with two complex SYK models. The…

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Phase transitions which occur at zero temperature when some non-thermal parameter like pressure, chemical composition or magnetic field is changed are called quantum phase transitions. They are caused by quantum fluctuations which are a…

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On the basis that the universe is a closed quantum system with no external observers, we propose a paradigm in which the universe jumps through a series of stages. Each stage is defined by a quantum state, an information content, and rules…

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Scattering or tunneling of an electron at a potential barrier is a fundamental quantum effect. Electron-electron interactions often affect the scattering, and understanding of the interaction effect is crucial in detection of various…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-10 Sungguen Ryu , H. -S. Sim

A quantum simulator based on ultracold optically trapped atoms for simulating the physics of atoms and molecules in ultrashort intense laser fields is introduced. The slowing down by about 13 orders of magnitude allows to watch in slow…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-02-01 Simon Sala , Johann Förster , Alejandro Saenz

The phenomenon of electron tunneling has long been central to quantum transport and continues to provide a powerful framework for understanding and controlling electronic processes in solids. When combined with optical excitation, tunneling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 Mohamed Shehabeldin , Xuguo Zhou , Ran Li , Pablo Jarillo-Herrero , Yuxuan Cosmi Lin , Jian Tang , Qiong Ma

The strong enhancement of tunneling couplings typically observed in tunneling splittings in the quantum map is investigated. We show that the transition from instanton to noninstanton tunneling, which is known to occur in tunneling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-20 Yasutaka Hanada , Kensuke S. Ikeda , Akira Shudo