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We develop a quantitative semiclassical formula for the resonant tunneling current through a quantum well in a tilted magnetic field. It is shown that the current depends only on periodic orbits within the quantum well. The theory explains…

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We derive and evaluate expressions for the low temperature {\it dc} equilibrium tunneling conductance between parallel two-dimensional electron systems. Our theory is based on a linear-response formalism and on impurity-averaged…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Lian Zheng , A. H. MacDonald

Quantum tunneling between two potential wells in a magnetic field can be strongly increased when the potential barrier varies in the direction perpendicular to the line connecting the two wells and remains constant along this line. A…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Boris Ivlev

Motivated by the analysis of the tunneling effect for the magnetic Laplacian, we introduce an abstract framework for the spectral reduction of a self-adjoint operator to a hermitian matrix. We illustrate this framework by three…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2023-09-06 Bernard Helffer , Ayman Kachmar , Mikael Persson Sundqvist

We compute tunneling in a quantum field theory in 1+1 dimensions for a field potential $U(\Phi)$ of the asymmetric double well type. The system is localized initially in the ``false vacuum''. We consider the case of a {\em compact space}…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 J. Baacke , N. Kevlishvili

This paper deals with semiclassical asymptotics of the three-dimensional magnetic Laplacian in presence of magnetic confinement. Using generic assumptions on the geometry of the confinement, we exhibit three semiclassical scales and their…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-11-15 Bernard Helffer , Yuri Kordyukov , Nicolas Raymond , San Vu Ngoc

We investigate tunneling decay in a magnetic field. Because of broken time-reversal symmetry, the standard WKB technique does not apply. The decay rate and the outcoming wave packet are found from the analysis of the set of the particle…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 T. Barabash-Sharpee , M. I. Dykman , P. M. Platzman

We investigate a two-dimensional magnetic Laplacian with two radially symmetric magnetic wells. Its spectral properties are determined by the tunneling between them. If the tunneling is weak and the wells are mirror symmetric, the two…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-05-20 Pavel Exner , Léo Morin

We investigate a Hamiltonian with radial potential wells and an Aharonov-Bohm vector potential with two poles. Assuming that the potential wells are symmetric, we derive the semi-classical asymptotics of the splitting between the ground and…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2024-07-24 Bernard Helffer , Ayman Kachmar

Experimentally observed magnetic fields with nanoscale variations are theoretically modeled by a piece-wise constant function with jump discontinuity along a smooth curve, the magnetic edge. Assuming the edge is a closed curve with an axis…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2022-03-21 Søren Fournais , Bernard Helffer , Ayman Kachmar

We consider tunneling between symmetric wells for a 2-D semi-classical Schr\"odinger operator for energies close to the quadratic minimum of the potential V in two cases: (1) excitations of the lowest frequency in the harmonic oscillator…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-04-09 Anatoly Anikin , Michel Rouleux

Tunneling from a two-dimensional contact into quantum-Hall edges is considered theoretically for a case where the barrier is extended, uniform, and parallel to the edge. In contrast to previously realized tunneling geometries, details of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 U. Zuelicke , E. Shimshoni , M. Governale

We report on tunneling experiment between two quantum Hall droplets separated by a nearly ideal tunnel barrier. The device is produced by cleaved edge overgrowth that laterally juxtaposes two two-dimensional electron systems across a high…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Inseok Yang , Woowon Kang , Loren Pfeiffer , Kirk Baldwin , Ken West

Despite quantum tunneling has been studied since the advent of quantum mechanics, the literature appears to contain no simple (textbook) formula for tunneling in generic asymmetric double-well potentials. In the regime of strong…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-07-19 Gianluca Rastelli

This paper is devoted to the study of quantum dissipation in cluster decay phenomena in the frame of the Lindblad approach to quantum open systems. The tunneling of a metastable state across a piecewise quadratic potential is envisaged for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 S. Misicu

We study the low-lying eigenvalues of the semiclassical Robin Laplacian in a smooth planar domain symmetric with respect to an axis. In the case when the curvature of the boundary of the domain attains its maximum at exactly two points away…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-02-12 Bernard Helffer , Ayman Kachmar , Nicolas Raymond

We develop a quantitative semiclassical theory for the resosnant tunneling through a quantum well in a tilted magnetic field. It is shown, that in the leading semiclassical approximation the tunneling current depends only on periodic orbits…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 E. E. Narimanov , A. D. Stone

We study the Coulomb pseudogap for tunneling into the two-dimensional electron system of high-mobility (Al,Ga)As/GaAs heterojunctions subjected to a quantizing magnetic field at filling factor $\nu \leq 1$. Tunnel current-voltage…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 E. V. Deviatov , A. A. Shashkin , V. T. Dolgopolov , W. Hansen , M. Holland

We establish accurate eigenvalue asymptotics and, as a by-product, sharp estimates of the splitting between two consecutive eigenvalues, for the Dirichlet magnetic Laplacian with a non-uniform magnetic field having a jump discontinuity…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-03-13 Wafaa Assaad , Bernard Helffer , Ayman Kachmar

We present a semiclassical study of a transport process, the tunneling, in the presence of a magnetic field and a dissipative environment. We have found that the problem can be mapped onto an effective one-dimensional one, and the tunneling…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 Ping Ao