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Implementing high-fidelity quantum control and reducing the effect of the coupling between a quantum system and its environment is a major challenge in developing quantum information technologies. Here, we show that there exists a…

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We show that a propagating Dirac electron with intrinsic spin generically carries a real--space helical conserved current, even in the absence of orbital angular momentum. Using exact Dirac eigenstates in cylindrical confinement, we…

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We study for the first time the effect of the geometry of quantum wire networks on their nonlinear optical properties and show that for some geometries, the first hyperpolarizability is largely enhanced and the second hyperpolarizability is…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-11 Shoresh Shafei , Rick Lytel , Mark G. Kuzyk

For particles constrained on a curved surface, how to perform quantization within Dirac's canonical quantization scheme is a long-standing problem. On one hand, Dirac stressed that the Cartesian coordinate system has fundamental importance…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-07 D. M. Xun , Q. H. Liu

Chirality, a characteristic handedness that distinguishes 'left' from 'right', cuts widely across all of nature$^1$, from the structure of DNA$^2$ to opposite chirality of particles and antiparticles$^3$. In condensed matter chiral fermions…

Heat transport has large potentialities to unveil new physics in mesoscopic systems. A striking illustration is the integer quantum Hall regime, where the robustness of Hall currents limits information accessible from charge transport.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-01-04 C. Altimiras , H. le Sueur , U. Gennser , A. Cavanna , D. Mailly , F. Pierre

It is generally considered that the signal output by a quantum circuit is attenuated exponentially fast in the number of gates. This letter explores how algorithms using mid-circuit measurements and classical conditioning as computational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-05 Etienne Granet , Henrik Dreyer

The known possibility to consider the (vacuum) Maxwell equations in a curved space-time as Maxwell equations in flat space-time(Mandel'stam L.I., Tamm I.E.) taken in an effective media the properties of which are determined by metrical…

Classical Physics · Physics 2011-09-06 V. M. Red'kov , N. G. Tokarevskaya , E. M. Bychkouskaya , George J. Spix

We show that tensoriality constraints in noncommutative Riemannian geometry in the 2-dimensional bicrossproduct model quantum spacetime algebra [x,t]=\lambda x drastically reduce the moduli of possible metrics g up to normalisation to a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-15 Edwin Beggs , Shahn Majid

We discuss a geometric approach to confining a Dirac neutral particle with a permanent magnetic dipole moment interacting with external fields to a hard-wall confining potential in the Minkowski spacetime through noninertial effects. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-01 Knut Bakke

Using Matrix Theory as a concrete example of a fundamental holographic theory, we show that the emergent macroscopic spacetime displays a new macroscopic quantum structure, holographic geometry, and a new observable phenomenon, holographic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-06-30 Craig J. Hogan , Mark G. Jackson

Injection and shift currents are generally regarded as distinct nonlinear optical responses with separate microscopic origins. Here, we uncover a general hidden connection between them through interband Berry-curvature and quantum-metric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 Mohammad Yahyavi , Tay-Rong Chang , Md Shafayat Hossain , Arun Bansil , Naoto Nagaosa , Guoqing Chang

We investigate the geometry of the space of immersed closed curves equipped with reparametrization-invariant Riemannian metrics; the metrics we consider are Sobolev metrics of possible fractional order $q\in [0,\infty)$. We establish the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-05-07 Martin Bauer , Patrick Heslin , Cy Maor

The (guiding-center) "Hall viscosity" is a fundamental tensor property of incompressible ``Hall fluids'' exhibiting the fractional quantum Hall effect; it determines the stress induced by a non-uniform electric field, and the intrinsic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-06-11 F. D. M. Haldane

We study the chiral separation and chiral magnetic effects in a slab of Dirac semimetal of finite thickness, placed in a constant magnetic field perpendicular to its surfaces. We utilize the Bogolyubov boundary conditions with a large Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-05 E. V. Gorbar , V. A. Miransky , I. A. Shovkovy , P. O. Sukhachov

One-dimensional (1D) topologically protected states are usually formed at the interface between two-dimensional (2D) materials with different topological invariants. Therefore, 1D chiral interface channels (CICs) can be created at the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-14 Yi-Fan Zhao , Ruoxi Zhang , Jiaqi Cai , Deyi Zhuo , Ling-Jie Zhou , Zi-Jie Yan , Moses H. W. Chan , Xiaodong Xu , Cui-Zu Chang

This paper proves an atomic decomposition of the space of $1$-dimensional metric currents without boundary, in which the atoms are specified by closed Lipschitz curves with uniform control on their Morrey norms. Our argument relies on a…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-17 You-Wei Benson Chen , Jesse Goodman , Felipe Hernandez , Daniel Spector

In this paper, a new mesoscopic polygon which possesses smooth transition at its corners is proposed. Because of the particularity of structure, this kind of mesoscopic polygon can also be a geometrical supperlattice. The geometrical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-03-03 Shengli Zhang , Qi Wang , Erhu Zhang

The frictionless, directional propagation of particles at the boundary of topological materials is one of the most striking phenomena in transport. These chiral edge modes lie at the heart of the integer and fractional quantum Hall effects,…

Chiral symmetries in field theory are typically affected by an anomaly in the quantum theory. This anomaly emerges when one introduces an interaction with a Yang-Mills or gravitational background. Physical applications of this quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-22 Adrian del Rio