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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…

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We investigate the optical response of a conduction electron in a helically twisted mesoscopic medium containing a screw dislocation and a uniform torsional background, in the presence of an axial magnetic field and an Aharonov--Bohm flux.…

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Investigating the geometric effects resulting from the detailed behaviors of the confining potential, we consider square and circular confinements to constrain a particle to a space curve. We find a torsion-induced geometric potential and a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-18 Yong-Long Wang , Meng-Yun Lai , Fan Wang , Hong-Shi Zong , Yan-Feng Chen

The motion of a relativistic particle is linked to its spin by the Dirac equation. Remarkably, electrons in two-dimensional materials can mimic such Dirac particles but must always appear in pairs of opposite spin chirality. Using…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-24 Kenjiro K. Gomes , Wonhee Ko , Warren Mar , Yulin Chen , Zhi-Xun Shen , Hari C. Manoharan

Studies of moire systems have elucidated the exquisite effect of quantum geometry on the electronic bands and their properties, leading to the discovery of new correlated phases. However, most experimental studies have been confined to a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-19 Zhurun Ji , Yuzhou Zhao , Yicong Chen , Ziyan Zhu , Yuhui Wang , Wenjing Liu , Gaurav Modi , Eugene J. Mele , Song Jin , Ritesh Agarwal

We show in this paper that the technologically relevant field-like spin-orbit torque shows resilience against the geometrical effect of electron backscattering. As device grows smaller in sizes, the effect of geometry on physical properties…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-30 Seng Ghee Tan , Che-Chun Huang , Mansoor B. A. Jalil , Ching-Ray Chang , Szu-Cheng Cheng

We explore how the quantum geometric properties of the Bloch wave function, characterized by the Hilbert-Schmidt quantum distance, impact magnetic phases in solid-state systems. To this end, we investigate the spin susceptibility within the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-18 Chang-geun Oh , Taisei Kitamura , Akito Daido , Jun-Won Rhim , Youichi Yanase

A nonrelativistic quantum mechanical particle moving freely on a curved surface feels the effect of the nontrivial geometry of the surface through the kinetic part of the Hamiltonian, which is proportional to the Laplace-Beltrami operator,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-09 Neslihan Oflaz , Ali Mostafazadeh , Mehrdad Ahmady

Time-periodic perturbations can be used to engineer topological properties of matter by altering the Floquet band structure. This is demonstrated for a spin Hall insulator in the presence of monochromatic circularly polarized light. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-02 Balázs Dóra , Jérôme Cayssol , Ferenc Simon , Roderich Moessner

We investigated the modulation in the polarization-dependent optical behaviour of the waveguiding plasmonic crystal by varying the illumination and detection geometry. We employed the finite element method-based COMSOL simulation and…

We consider quantum rings realized in materials where the dynamics of charge carriers mimics that of two-dimensional (2D) Dirac electrons. A general theoretical description of the ring-subband structure is developed that applies to a range…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-17 L. Gioia , U. Zülicke , M. Governale , R. Winkler

The geometric effects of two-dimensional curved systems have been an interesting topic for a long time. A M\"{o}bius surface is specifically considered. For a relativistic particle confined to the nontrivial surface, we give the effective…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-28 Yong-Long Wang , Hao Zhao , Hua Jiang , Hui Liu , Yan-Feng Chen

The manipulation of single spins through spin-polarized tunneling opens new routes for quantum control at the atomic scale. We present a theoretical framework describing spin-transfer, spin torques and spin resonance in molecular quantum…

A central problem in the deployment of quantum technologies is the realization of robust architectures for quantum interconnects. We propose to engineer interconnects in semiconductors and insulators by patterning spin qubits at…

Quantum control and measurement are two sides of the same coin. To affect a dynamical map, well-designed time-dependent control fields must be applied to the system of interest. To read out the quantum state, information about the system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Ivan H. Deutsch , Poul S. Jessen

Assuming dislocations could be meaningfully described by torsion, we propose here a scenario based on the role of time in the low-energy regime of two-dimensional Dirac materials, for which coupling of the fully antisymmetric component of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-03-04 Marcelo F. Ciappina , Alfredo Iorio , Pablo Pais , Adamantia Zampeli

We investigate the previously unexplored quantum dynamics of non-relativistic, spinless particles propagating in curved spaces with torsion. Our findings demonstrate that while torsion has been predominantly associated with spin, it can…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-19 Tomoi Koide , Armin van de Venn

We study a single electron confined in a uniform-torsion medium, a continuum model of a screw dislocation density, in a perpendicular magnetic field, and in the presence of an Aharonov--Bohm flux. Torsion alone produces radial confinement…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-19 Edilberto O. Silva

When a dynamic system undergoes a cyclic evolution, a geometric phase that depends only on the path traversed in parameter space can arise in addition to the normal dynamical phase. These geometric phases have profound impacts in both…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-02-22 Shubo Wang , Guancong Ma , C. T. Chan

Effects manifesting quantum geometry have been a focus of physics research. Here, we reveal that quantum metric plays a crucial role in nonlinear electric spin response, leading to a quantum metric spin-orbit torque. We argue that enhanced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-05 Xukun Feng , Weikang Wu , Hui Wang , Weibo Gao , Lay Kee Ang , Y. X. Zhao , Cong Xiao , Shengyuan A. Yang