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Klein tunneling is a counterintuitive quantum-mechanical phenomenon, predicting perfect transmission of relativistic particles through higher energy barriers. This phenomenon was shown to be supported at normal incidence in graphene due to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-10 Lea Sirota

We study the total transmission of quantum particles satisfying the Klein-Gordon equation through a potential barrier based on the classical wave propagation theory. We deduce an analytical expression for the wave impedance for Klein-Gordon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-24 Kihong Kim

Klein tunneling, the perfect transmission of a normally incident relativistic particle through an energy barrier, has been tested in various electronic, photonic, and phononic systems. Its potential in guiding and filtering classical waves…

Klein tunneling refers to the absence of normal backscattering of electrons even under the case of high potential barriers. At the barrier interface, the perfect matching of electron and hole wavefunctions enables a unit transmission…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-20 Can Yesilyurt , Seng Ghee Tan , Gengchiau Liang , Mansoor B. A. Jalil

The geometric characteristics of Bloch wave functions play a crucial role in electronic transport properties. We show that the thermoelectric performance of materials is governed by the geometric structure of Bloch wave functions within the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-09 Chang-geun Oh , Kun Woo Kim , Jun-Won Rhim

We study the interplay between an inhomogeneous quantum quench of the external potential in a system of relativistic fermions in one dimension and the well-known Klein tunneling. We find that the large time evolution is characterized by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-12-25 Leda Bucciantini , Spyros Sotiriadis , Tommaso Macrì

We present a methodology based on quantum mechanics for assigning quantum conductivity when an ac field is applied across a variable gap between two plasmonic nanoparticles with an insulator sandwiched between them. The quantum tunneling…

Quantum geometry defines the phase and amplitude distances between quantum states. The phase distance is characterized by the Berry curvature and thus relates to topological phenomena. The significance of the full quantum geometry,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-12-20 Paivi Torma

Quantum transport through devices coupled to electron reservoirs can be described in terms of the full counting statistics (FCS) of charge transfer. Transport observables, such as conductance and shot-noise power are just cumulants of FCS…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-23 M I Sena-Junior , A M S Macêdo

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

We show that space-time modulation of electromagnetic potentials enables Klein tunneling far below the static threshold. The derived kinematics reveal oblique transitions that can connect opposite-energy continua without requiring their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 Furkan Ok , Amir Bahrami , Christophe Caloz

We study the influence of a tunnel barrier on the quantum transport through a circular cavity. Our analysis in terms of classical trajectories shows that the semiclassical approaches developed for ballistic transport can be adapted to deal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-25 Markus Schreier , Klaus Richter , Gert-Ludwig Ingold , Rodolfo A. Jalabert

Based on an observation that the basic mode of a common microwave waveguide is a solution to the Klein-Gordon equation, quantum mechanics is modeled as the wave-function propagated inside a waveguide. The guide width is determined by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Roald Ekholdt

Quantum walks are accepted as a generic model for quantum transport. The character of the transport crucially depends on the properties of the walk like its geometry and the driving coin. We demonstrate that increasing transport distance…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-25 Jan Mareš , Jaroslav Novotný , Martin Štefaňák , Igor Jex

The quantum metric, a key component of quantum geometry, plays a central role in a wide range of physical phenomena and has been extensively studied in periodic crystals and moir\'{e} materials. Here, we systematically investigate quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Jundi Wang , Yuxiao Chen , Huaqing Huang

We articulate the challenges and opportunities of unconventional devices using the photon like flow of electrons in graphene, such as Graphene Klein Tunnel (GKT) transistors. The underlying physics is the employment of momentum rather than…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-01 Mirza M. Elahi , K. M. Masum Habib , Ke Wang , Gil-Ho Lee , Philip Kim , Avik W. Ghosh

We investigate Klein tunneling through finite potential barriers with space-time resolved solutions to relativistic quantum field equations. We find that no particle actually tunnels through a finite supercritical barrier, even in the case…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-22 M. Alkhateeb , A. Matzkin

The so-called quantum metric tensor is a band-structure invariant whose measure corresponds to the quantum distance between nearby states in the Hilbert space, characterizing the geometry of the underlying quantum states. In the context of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-05-25 M. Iskin

Quantum transport is the study of the motion of electrons through nano-scale structures small enough that quantum effects are important. In this contribution I review recent theoretical proposals to use the techniques of quantum feedback…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-21 Clive Emary

Understanding quantum tunneling in many-body systems is crucial for advancing quantum technologies and nanoscale device design. Despite extensive studies of quantum tunneling, the role of interactions in determining directional transport…

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