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Quantum oscillations of nonlinear resistance are investigated in response to electric current and magnetic field applied perpendicular to single GaAs quantum wells with two populated subbands. At small magnetic fields current-induced…

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We investigate quantum tunneling phenomena for an optical lattice subjected to a bichromatic ac force. We show that incommensurability of the frequencies leads to super Bloch oscillation. We propose directed super Bloch oscillation for the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-02-24 C. Yuce

We study quantum dynamics of wave packet motion of Bloch electrons in quantum networks with the tight-binding approach for different types of nearest-neighbor interactions. For various geometrical configurations, these networks can function…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 S. Yang , Z. Song , C. P. Sun

We present a time-domain analysis of carrier dynamics in a semiconductor superlattice with two minibands. Integration of the density-matrix equations of motion reveals a number of new features: (i) for certain values of the applied static…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 J. Rotvig , A. P. Jauho , H. Smith

We report new oscillations of wavepackets in quantum walks subjected to electric fields, that decorate the usual Bloch-Zener oscillations of insulators. The number of turning points (or sub-oscillations) within one Bloch period of these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-06 L. K. Upreti , C. Evain , S. Randoux , P. Suret , A. Amo , P. Delplace

The quantum metric is a central quantity of band theory but has so far not been related to many response coefficients due to its nonclassical origin. However, within a newly developed Kubo formalism for fast relaxation, the decomposition of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-02 Johannes Mitscherling , Tobias Holder

We study a nonadiabatic effect on the conductances in the quantum Hall effect of two-dimensional electrons with a periodic potential. We found that the Hall and longitudinal conductances oscillate in time with a very large frequencies due…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 Manabu Machida , Naomichi Hatano , Jun Goryo

The semi-classical Bloch-Boltzmann theory is at the heart of our understanding of conduction in solids, ranging from metals to semi-conductors. Physical systems that are beyond the range of applicability of this theory are thus of…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-12-18 Didier Mayou , Guy Trambly De Laissardière

We identify a mapping between two-dimensional (2D) electron transport in a minimally twisted graphene bilayer and a 1D quantum walk, where one spatial dimension plays the role of time. In this mapping a magnetic field B perpendicular to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-02 T. Vakhtel , D. O. Oriekhov , C. W. J. Beenakker

On examples of Bose-Einstein condensates embedded in two-dimensional optical lattices we show that in nonlinear periodic systems modulational instability and inter-band tunneling are intrinsically related phenomena. By direct numerical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 V. A. Brazhnyi , V. V. Konotop , V. Kuzmiak

In this paper we present a theoretical analysis of the effect of magnetostriction on quantum oscillations of elastic constants in metals under strong magnetic fields. It is shown that at low temperatures a significant softening of some…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-31 Natalya A. Zimbovskaya

Bloch oscillations, the oscillatory motion of a quantum particle in a periodic potential, are one of the most fascinating effects of coherent quantum transport. Originally studied in the context of electrons in crystals, Bloch oscillations…

We study the evolution of low-temperature magnetoresistance in double quantum wells in the region below 1 Tesla as the applied current density increases. A flip of the magneto-intersubband oscillation peaks, which occurs as a result of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 N. C. Mamani , G. M. Gusev , O. E. Raichev , T. E. Lamas , A. K. Bakarov

In recent years it has become understood that quantum oscillations of the magnetization as a function of magnetic field, long recognized as phenomena intrinsic to metals, can also manifest in insulating systems. Theory has shown that in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-04-20 Andrew A. Allocca , Nigel R. Cooper

We report on experiments studying transport properties of an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate in an optical lattice of spatial period $\lambda/2n$, where $n$ is an integer, realized with the dispersion of multiphoton Raman transitions. We…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-03-16 Tobias Salger , Gunnar Ritt , Carsten Geckeler , Sebastian Kling , Martin Weitz

Quantum magneto-oscillations provide a powerfull tool for quantifying Fermi-liquid parameters of metals. In particular, the quasiparticle effective mass and spin susceptibility are extracted from the experiment using the Lifshitz-Kosevich…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 G. W. Martin , D. L. Maslov , M. Yu. Reizer

We study the dynamics of the Bogoliubov wave packet in superconductors and calculate the supercurrent carried by the wave packet. We discover an anomalous contribution to the supercurrent, related to the quantum metric of the Bloch wave…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-08-14 Long Liang , Sebastiano Peotta , Ari Harju , Päivi Törmä

We study the dynamics of a quantum walker simultaneously subjected to time-independent and -dependent phases. Such dynamics emulates a charged quantum particle in a lattice subjected to a superposition of static and harmonic electric…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 A. R. C. Buarque , M. L. Lyra , W. S. Dias

In this paper we study the Macroscopic Quantum Oscillation (MQO) effect in ferromagnetic single domain magnets with a magnetic field applied along the hard anistropy axis. The level splitting for the ground state, derived with the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. P. Kou , J. Q. Liang , Y. B. Zhang , F. C. Pu

We describe mathematically the apparently paradoxical phenomenon that an electronic current in a semiconductor can flow because of collisions, and not despite them. A transport model of charge transport in a one-dimensional semiconductor…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-06-25 Luigi Barletti