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In the context of the semiclassical theory of short periodic orbits, scar functions play a crucial role. These wavefunctions live in the neighbourhood of the trajectories, resembling the hyperbolic structure of the phase space in their…

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In this work, we investigate a quantum-ring coupled to a topological superconductor, hosting Majorana bound states (MBSs). We study the MBSs effects over the spectrum and persistent current along the quantum-ring. To obtain physical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 F. G. Medina , J. P. Ramos-Andrade , L. Rosales , P. A. Orellana

We introduce and investigate billiard systems with an adjusted ray dynamics that accounts for modifications of the conventional reflection of rays due to universal wave effects. We show that even small modifications of the specular…

Optics · Physics 2008-09-19 Eduardo G. Altmann , Gianluigi Del Magno , Martina Hentschel

Studies of periodically driven one-dimensional many-body systems have advanced our understanding of complex systems and stimulated promising developments in quantum simulation. It is hence of interest to go one step further, by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-04 Raditya Weda Bomantara , Sen Mu , Jiangbin Gong

Unconventional superconductivity induced by the magnetic moments in a conventional spin-singlet s-wave superconductor is theoretically studied. By choosing the spin directions of these moments, one can design spinless pairing states…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-11-08 Sho Nakosai , Yukio Tanaka , Naoto Nagaosa

Square billiards are quantum systems complying with the dynamical quantum-classical correspondence. Hence an initially localized wavefunction launched along a classical periodic orbit evolves along that orbit, the spreading of the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-08-13 A. Matzkin

We provide a conceptual framework for developing a scalable topological quantum computer. It relies on forming Majorana fermions using circular electronic gates in two-dimensional p-wave superconductors. The gates allow the precise control…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-19 Ji Ung Lee

Semiclassical wave functions in billiards based on the Maslov-Fedoriuk approach are constructed. They are defined on classical constructions called skeletons which are the billiards generalization of the Arnold tori. Skeletons in the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-01-31 Stefan Giller , Jarosław Janiak

We report on experimental studies that were performed with a microwave Dirac billiard (DB), that is, a flat resonator containing metallic cylinders arranged on a triangular grid, whose shape has a threefold rotational C3 symmetry. Its band…

Classical Physics · Physics 2023-05-30 Weihua Zhang , Xiaodong Zhang , Jiongning Che , M. Miski-Oglu , Barbara Dietz

Considering Rashba quantum wires with a proximity-induced superconducting gap as physical realizations of Majorana fermions and quantum dots, we calculate the overlap of the Majorana wave functions with the local wave functions on the dot.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 Silas Hoffman , Denis Chevallier , Daniel Loss , Jelena Klinovaja

We investigate the effect of classical singularities in the quantum properties of non-random Hamiltonians. We present explicit results for the case of a kicked rotator with a non-analytical potential though extensions to higher…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 Antonio M. Garcia-Garcia , Jiao Wang

It is argued that the high energy semiclassical wave functions (SWF) in an arbitrary billiards can be built by approximating the billiards by a respective polygon one. The latter billiards is determined by a finite number of periodic orbits…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-12-11 Stefan Giller

We study the statistical properties of wavefunctions in a chaotic billiard that is opened up to the outside world. Upon increasing the openings, the billiard wavefunctions cross over from real to complex. Each wavefunction is characterized…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. W. Brouwer

We propose a picture of Wigner function scars as a sequence of concentric rings along a two-dimensional surface inside a periodic orbit. This is verified for a two-dimensional plane that contains a classical orbit of a Hamiltonian system…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-10-31 Fabricio Toscano , Marcus A. M. de Aguiar , Alfredo M. Ozorio de Almeida

We perform numerical studies of the wave packet propagation through open quantum billiards whose classical counterparts exhibit regular and chaotic dynamics. We show that for t less or similar to tau (tau being the Heisenberg time), the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 I. V. Zozoulenko , T. Blomquist

We present an extensive numerical study of spectral statistics and eigenfunctions of quantized triangular billiards. We compute two million consecutive eigenvalues for six representative cases of triangular billiards, three with generic…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2022-01-25 Črt Lozej , Giulio Casati , Tomaž Prosen

We present quantum control techniques to engineer flat bands of symmetry-protected Majorana edge modes in s-wave superconductors. Specifically, we show how periodic control may be employed for designing time-independent effective…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-04 Amrit Poudel , Gerardo Ortiz , Lorenza Viola

The statistics of the nodal lines and nodal domains of the eigenfunctions of quantum billiards have recently been observed to be fingerprints of the chaoticity of the underlying classical motion by Blum et al. (Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 88…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. P. Keating , F. Mezzadri , A. G. Monastra

We propose a modified dynamics of quantum mechanics, in which classical mechanics of a point mass derives intrinsically in a massive limit of a single-particle model. On the premise that a position basis plays a special role in wavefunction…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Takuya Okabe

Quantum-classical correspondence for the average shape of eigenfunctions and the local spectral density of states are well-known facts. In this paper, the fluctuations that quantum mechanical wave functions present around the classical…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2008-11-26 L. Benet , J. Flores , H. Hernandez-Saldaña , F. M. Izrailev , F. Leyvraz , T. H. Seligman