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The tunnelling of virtual matter-antimatter pairs from the quantum vacuum in multidimensions is studied. We consider electric backgrounds as a linear combination of a spatial Sauter field and, interchangeably, certain weaker time dependent…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-12-06 Ibrahim Akal , Gudrid Moortgat-Pick

Fractional photon-assisted tunneling is investigated both analytically and numerically for few interacting ultra-cold atoms in the double-wells of an optical superlattice. This can be realized experimentally by adding periodic shaking to an…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-03-18 Martin Esmann , Niklas Teichmann , Christoph Weiss

The theory of dynamical Coulomb blockade is extended to tunneling elements driven by a time-dependent voltage. It is shown that for standard set-ups where an external voltage is applied to a tunnel junction via an impedance, time-dependent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-22 Hermann Grabert

Time-dependent perturbations can drive a trivial two-dimensional band insulator into a quantum Hall-like phase, with protected nonequilibrium states bound to its edges. We propose an experiment to probe the existence of these topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-18 Benjamin M. Fregoso , Jan P. Dahlhaus , Joel E. Moore

Bosonic Josephson junctions provide a versatile platform for exploring quantum tunneling and coherence phenomena in ultracold atomic systems. While extensive research has examined the Josephson-junction dynamics in various double-well…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-04-15 Rhombik Roy , Ofir E. Alon

In the real-time manipulation of quantum states, it is necessary to dynamically control the parameters of the system's Hamiltonian. We have studied the survival probability during the conveyance of a particle by a trapping potential, where…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-19 Yoshiaki Teranishi , Satoshi Morita , Seiji Miyashita

We discover that quantum dynamical tunneling, occurring between phase space regions in a classically forbidden way, can break conserved quantities in pseudointegrable systems. We rigorously prove that a conserved quantity in a class of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2024-05-21 Lingchii Kong , Zongping Gong , Biao Wu

Understanding quantum tunneling in many-body systems is crucial for advancing quantum technologies and nanoscale device design. Despite extensive studies of quantum tunneling, the role of interactions in determining directional transport…

We consider quantum tunnelling in asymmetric double-well systems for which the local minima in the two wells have the same energy, but the frequencies differ slightly. We derive a generalization of instanton theory for these asymmetric…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-09-04 Elena Jahr , Gabriel Laude , Jeremy O. Richardson

Driven-dissipative nonlinear systems exhibit rich critical behavior, related to bifurcation, bistability and switching, which underlie key phenomena in areas ranging from physics, chemistry and biology to social sciences and economics. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-05 Chang-Woo Lee , Paul Brookes , Kee-Su Park , Marzena H. Szymańska , Eran Ginossar

In this paper, we study wave transmission in a rotating fluid with multiple alternating convectively stable and unstable layers. We have discussed wave transmissions in two different circumstances: cases where the wave is propagative in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-04-21 Tao Cai , Cong Yu , Xing Wei

For a non-superconducting system, the electronic tunneling current through an insulating barrier is calculated, including interaction effects. The exact Hamiltonian of the full system is projected onto the subspaces of the "left" and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-07-09 Kelly R. Patton

A multidimensional semiclassical method for calculating tunneling splittings in vibrationally excited states of molecules using Cartesian coordinates is developed. It is an extension of the theory by Mil'nikov and Nakamura [$\textit{ J.…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Mihael Eraković , Marko T. Cvitaš

Split-gate constrictions can be used to produce controllable scattering in a fractional quantum Hall state and constitute a very versatile model system for the investigation of non-Fermi physics in edge states. Controllable inter-edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-03-24 Stefano Roddaro , Vittorio Pellegrini , Fabio Beltram

The influence of quantum fluctuations on electron transport through small metallic islands with Coulomb blockade effects is studied beyond the perturbative regime. In tunnel junctions with low resistance higher order coherent processes and…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 Jürgen König , Herbert Schoeller , Gerd Schön

The oscillation of tunnel splitting are obtained by geometrical analysis of the topological Wess-Zumino phase on the basis of tunneling paths in biaxial nanomagnetic particles with magnetic field along the hard anisotropy axis. This theory…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sahng-Kyoon Yoo , Soo-Young Lee

Transport through quantum coherent conductors, like atomic junctions, is described by the distribution of conduction channels. Information about the number of channels and their transmission can be extracted from various sources, such as…

We consider a superlattice of parallel metal tunnel junctions with a spatially non-homogeneous probability for electrons to tunnel. In such structures tunneling can be accompanied by electron scattering that conserves energy but not…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 S. I. Kulinich , L. Y. Gorelik , S. A. Gredeskul , R. I. Shekhter , M. Jonson

A general quantum mechanical or quantum field theoretical system in the path integral formulation has both real and complex saddles (instantons and ghost-instantons). Resurgent asymptotic analysis implies that both types of saddles…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-10-15 Gokce Basar , Gerald V. Dunne , Mithat Unsal

We use numerical simulations to examine two-dimensional particle mixtures that strongly phase separate in equilibrium. When the system is externally driven in the presence of quenched disorder, plastic flow occurs in the form of meandering…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Libal , C. Reichhardt , C. J. Olson Reichhardt