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Using a new MBE growth technique, we fabricate a two-dimensional electron system which is bent around an atomically sharp 90 degree corner. In the quantum Hall regime under tilted magnetic fields, we can measure equilibration between both…

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Steering a quantum harmonic oscillator state along cyclic trajectories leads to a path-dependent geometric phase. Here we describe an experiment observing this geometric phase in an electronic harmonic oscillator. We use a superconducting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-06-21 M. Pechal , S. Berger , A. A. Abdumalikov , J. M. Fink , J. A. Mlynek , L. Steffen , A. Wallraff , S. Filipp

Lattice vibrations within crystalline solids, or phonons, provide information on a variety of important material characteristics, from thermal qualities to optical properties and phase transition behaviour. When the material contains light…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-06-27 Taylor Baird , Rodolphe Vuilleumier , Sara Bonella

This article reviews the static and dynamic properties of spontaneous superstructures formed by electrons. Representations of such electronic crystals are charge density waves and spin density waves in inorganic as well as organic low…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-07-04 Pierre Monceau

The electric magnetochiral anisotropy is a nonreciprocal phenomenon accessible via second harmonic transport in noncentrosymmetric, time-reversal invariant materials, in which the rectification of current, ${\bf I}$, can be controlled by an…

The low-frequency vibrations of glasses are markedly different from those of crystals. These vibrations have recently been categorized into two types: spatially extended vibrations, whose vibrational density of states (vDOS) follows a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-08-14 Masanari Shimada , Hideyuki Mizuno , Atsushi Ikeda

Quantum electrodynamics (qed) is used to derive the differential cross sections measured in the three new experimental internal source ensemble x-ray holographies: bremsstrahlung (BXH), fluorescence (XFH), and multiple-energy (MEXH) x-ray…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Gerald A. Miller , Larry B. Sorensen

Electron tunneling between quantum Hall systems on the same two dimensional plane separated by a narrow barrier is studied. We show that in the limit where inelastic scattering time is much longer than the tunneling time, which can be…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Tin-Lun Ho

A new kinetic instability which results in formation of charge density waves is proposed. The instability is of a purely classical nature. A spatial period of arising space-charge and field configuration is inversely proportional to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 V. Yu. Kachorovskii , I. S. Lioublinskii , L. D. Tsendin

Developing the isolation and control of ultracold atomic systems to the level of single quanta has led to significant advances in quantum sensing, yet demonstrating a quantum advantage in real world applications by harnessing entanglement…

Here, we reveal our recent progress on a geometrical approach of quantum physics and topological crystals linking with Dirac magnetic monopoles and gauge fields through classical electrodynamics. The Bloch sphere of a quantum spin-1/2…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-19 Karyn Le Hur

We compare energy spectra, electron localization and optical absorption of square and diamond quantum rings and analyze how sample geometry affects those features. We show that low energy levels of diamond rings form two groups delocalized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-07 Anna Sitek , Vidar Gudmundsson , Andrei Manolescu

Transmission electron microscopy and spectroscopy currently enable the acquisition of spatially resolved spectral information from a specimen by focusing electron beams down to a sub-Angstrom spot and then analyzing the energy of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-09-12 Andrea Konečná , Fadil Iyikanat , F. Javier García de Abajo

We numerically investigate the interplay of disorder and electron-electron interactions in the integer quantum Hall effect. In particular, we focus on the behaviour of the electronic compressibility as a function of magnetic field and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Christoph Sohrmann , Rudolf A. Roemer

The intrinsic geometric degree of freedom that was proposed to determine the optimal correlation energy of the fractional quantum Hall states, is analyzed for quantum confined planar electron systems. One major advantage in this case is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-27 Areg Ghazaryan , Tapash Chakraborty

In the present work we deal with the dynamics of wave packets in a two-dimensional crystal under the action of magnetic and electric fields. The magnetic field is perpendicular to the plane and the electric field is on the plane. In the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 H. N. Nazareno , P. E. de Brito , E. S. Rodrigues

A model for quantum dots is proposed, in which the motion of a few electrons in a three-dimensional harmonic oscillator potential under the influence of a homogeneous magnetic field of arbitrary direction is studied. The spectrum and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 W. D. Heiss , R. G. Nazmitdinov

Geometric phases in quantum mechanics play an extraordinary role in broadening our understanding of fundamental significance of geometry in nature. One of the best known examples is the Berry phase (M.V. Berry (1984), Proc. Royal. Soc.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-05-11 V. Gritsev , A. Polkovnikov

Symmetry breaking states of matter can transmit symmetry breaking to nearby atoms or molecular complexes, perturbing their spectra. We calculate one such effect, involving the `axion electrodynamics' relevant to topological insulators,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-29 Qing-Dong Jiang , Frank Wilczek

We show how a new quantum property, a geometric phase, associated with scattering states can be exhibited in nanoscale electronic devices. We propose an experiment to use interference to directly measure the effect of the new geometric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Huan-Qiang Zhou , Urban Lundin , Sam Young Cho , Ross H. McKenzie