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As an application of the polymer quantization scheme, in this work we investigate the one dimensional quantum mechanical tunneling phenomenon from the perspective of polymer representation of a non-relativistic point particle and derive the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-14 Durmus Ali Demir , Ozan Sargin

Quantum tunneling is a fundamental quantum mechanical effect involved in plenty of physical phenomena. Its control would impact these phenomena and the technologies based on them. We show that the quantum tunneling probability through a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-17 Miguel A. Porras , Nilo Mata , Isabel Gonzalo

Recent advancements in laser technology have spurred growing interest in nonlinear and nonequilibrium phenomena. Here, we investigate the geometric aspects of quantum tunneling and the nonreciprocal response, particularly focusing on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-04 Ibuki Terada , Sota Kitamura , Hiroshi Watanabe , Hiroaki Ikeda

Polarization effects are included exactly in a model for a quantum dot in close proximity to a planar interface. Efficient incorporation of this potential into the Schr\"{o}dinger equation is utilized to map out the influence of the image…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Kuljit S. Virk , David R. Reichman , Mark S. Hybertsen

We study the tunneling mechanism of nonlinear optical processes in solids induced by strong coherent laser fields. The theory is based on an extension of the Landau-Zener model with nonadiabatic geometric effects. In addition to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-15 Shintaro Takayoshi , Jianda Wu , Takashi Oka

Quantum gravitational tunneling effects are expected to give rise to a number of interesting observable phenomena, including, in particular, the evolution of black holes at the end of their existence or the emergence of the early universe…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-21 Pietro Dona , Hal M. Haggard , Carlo Rovelli , Francesca Vidotto

We study the effect of Landau-Zener (LZ) tunneling caused by the varying sweeping rate of external field, formulating and approximately solving the problem with many levels of the LZ tunneling rate. Comparing with the steadily vary about…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-12-23 Jin-Bao Wang , Guo-Ping Tong

Motivated by recent realizations of qubits with a readout by macroscopic quantum tunneling in a Josephson junction, we study the problem of barrier penetration in presence of coupling to a spin-${1\over 2}$ system. It is shown that when the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Joachim Ankerhold , Hermann Grabert

Landau-Zener tunneling, which describes the transition in a two-level system during a sweep through an anti-crossing, is a model applicable to a wide range of physical phenomena. Realistic quantum systems are affected by dissipation due to…

Application of strong dc electric field to an insulator leads to quantum tunneling of electrons from the valence band to the conduction band, which is a famous nonlinear response known as Landau-Zener tunneling. One of the growing interests…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-29 Sota Kitamura , Naoto Nagaosa , Takahiro Morimoto

This paper develops a geometrodynamic extension of Bohmian mechanics to describe quantum tunneling through a potential barrier, treating particle trajectories as geodesics in an Alcubierre-type spacetime. The model provides analytical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-27 Said Lantigua , Jonas Maziero

Quantum geometry, characterized by the quantum geometric tensor, is pivotal in diverse physical phenomena in quantum materials. In condensed matter systems, quantum geometry refers to the geoemtric properties of Bloch states in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-17 Jiabin Yu , B. Andrei Bernevig , Raquel Queiroz , Enrico Rossi , Päivi Törmä , Bohm-Jung Yang

Geometric effects can play a pivotal role in streamlining quantum manipulation. We demonstrate a geometric diabatic control, that is, perfect tunneling between spin states in a diamond by a quadratic sweep of a driving field. The field…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-30 Kento Sasaki , Yuki Nakamura , Tokuyuki Teraji , Takashi Oka , Kensuke Kobayashi

In this paper, we investigate the Schr\"odinger equation in a three-dimensional helically twisted space characterized by a non-trivial torsion parameter. By applying exact separation of variables, we derive the radial equation governing the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Frankbelson dos S. Azevedo , Faizuddin Ahmed , Edilberto O. Silva

A simple mechanical analog describing Landau-Zener tunneling effect is proposed using two weakly coupled chains of nonlinear oscillators with gradually decreasing (first chain) and increasing (second chain) masses. The model allows to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-19 Vazha Loladze , Ramaz Khomeriki

We investigate a class of cyclic evolutions for %the cyclic evolution of driven two-level quantum systems (effective spin-1/2) with a particular focus on the geometric characteristics of the driving and their specific imprints on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 Zu-Jian Ying , Paola Gentile , José Pablo Baltanàs , Diego Frustaglia , Carmine Ortix , Mario Cuoco

A simple model is considered to study the effects of finite size and internal structure in the tunneling of bound two-body systems through a potential barrier. It is demonstrated that these effects are able to increase the tunneling…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-08-18 V. V. Flambaum , V. G. Zelevinsky

Klein tunneling stands as a fundamental probe of relativistic quantum transport in two-dimensional materials. We investigate this phenomenon in quadratic band-touching systems, where the Hilbert-Schmidt quantum distance plays a central role…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-06 Sang-Hoon Han , Jun-Won Rhim , Chang-geun Oh

We analyze dynamics of a quantum particle in a square lattice in the Hall configuration beyond the single-band approximation. For vanishing gauge (magnetic) field this dynamics is defined by the inter-band Landau-Zener tunneling, which is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 D. N. Maksimov , I. Yu. Chesnokov , D. V. Makarov , A. R. Kolovsky

Motivated by the experimental observations of resonant tunnelings in the systems with half-integer spin, such as V$_{15}$ and Mn$_4$, we study the mechanism of adiabatic change of the magnetization in systems with the time-reversal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Miyashita , N. Nagaosa
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