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The quantum geometric tensor (QGT) of a quantum system in a given parameter space captures both the geometry of the state manifold and the topology of the system. While the local QGT elements have been successfully measured in various…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-29 Raffael L. Klees , Mónica Benito

We study the charge transport across a band-tuned metal-insulator transition in two dimensions. For high temperatures $T$ and chemical potentials $\mu$ far from the transition point, conduction is ballistic and the resistance $R(T)$…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-06 Harry Tomlins , Jan M. Tomczak

We present a method for obtaining quantum transport properties in graphene that uniquely combines three crucial features: microscopic treatment of charge disorder, fully quantum mechanical analysis of transport, and the ability to model…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-03-12 E. Rossi , J. H. Bardarson , P. W. Brouwer , S. Das Sarma

We have utilized the finite-difference approach to explore electron-tunneling properties in gapped graphene through various electrostatic-potential barriers changing from Gaussian to a triangular envelope function in comparison with a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-27 Farhana Anwar , Andrii Iurov , Danhong Huang , Godfrey Gumbs , Ashwani Sharma

Several physical phenomena in superconductors, such as helical superconductivity and the diode effect, rely on breaking time-reversal symmetry. This symmetry-breaking is usually accounted for via the Lifshitz invariant, a contribution to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-25 Aaron Dunbrack , Pauli Virtanen , Tero T. Heikkilä

Quantum geometry quantifies how the single-particle Bloch wavefunction changes in phase and amplitude across the Brillouin Zone. In multi-orbital systems where bands have strongly mixed orbital composition, quantum geometry plays a vital…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-27 Jixun K. Ding , Martin Claassen

Theories describing electrical transport in semiconductor superlattices can essentially be divided in three disjoint categories: i) transport in a miniband; ii) hopping between Wannier-Stark ladders; and iii) sequential tunneling. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Andreas Wacker , Antti-Pekka Jauho

Exploring the quantum geometric properties of solids beyond their topological aspects has become a key focus in current solid-state physics research. We derive the geometric formula for optical conductivity from the quantum metric tensor,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-03-25 Chang-geun Oh , Sun-Woo Kim , Kun Woo Kim , Bartomeu Monserrat , Jun-Won Rhim

Motivated by a recent first principles prediction of an anisotropic cubic Dirac semi-metal in a real material Tl(TeMo)$_3$, we study the behavior of electrons tunneling through a potential barrier in such systems. To clearly investigate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-30 Ahmed Bouhlal , Ahmed Jellal , Hocine Bahlouli , Michael Vogl

Semi-Dirac semimetals have received enthusiastic research both theoretically and experimentally in the recent years. Due to the anisotropic dispersion, its physical properties are highly direction-dependent. In this work we employ the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-08 Shihao Bi , Yiting Deng , Yan He , Peng Li

A critical result in superconductivity is that flat bands, though dispersionless, can still host nonzero superfluid weight due to quantum geometry. We show that the derivation of the mean field superfluid weight in previous literature is…

Electronic properties of quantum materials solids are often well understood via the low energy dispersion of Bloch bands, motivating single band approximations in many metals and semiconductors. However, a closer look reveals length and…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-02 Nishchhal Verma , Philip J. W. Moll , Tobias Holder , Raquel Queiroz

The mechanism of coherent destruction of tunneling found by Grossmann et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 67, 516 (1991)] is studied from the viewpoint of quantum optics by considering the photon statistics of a single mode cavity field which is…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 Peter Neu , Robert J. Silbey

We bring together the semiclassical approximation, matrix integrals and the theory of symmetric polynomials in order to solve a long standing problem in the field of quantum chaos: to compute transport moments when tunnel barriers are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-04 Lucas H. Oliveira , Pedro H. S. Bento , Marcel Novaes

Quantum resonant tunneling behaviors of double-barrier structures on graphene are investigated under the tight-binding approximation. The Klein tunneling and resonant tunneling are demonstrated for the quasiparticles with energy close to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-02 Wei-Yin Deng , Rui Zhu , Yun-Chang Xiao , Wen-Ji Deng

We theoretically investigate transport signatures of quantum interference in highly symmetric double quantum dots in a parallel geometry and demonstrate that extremely weak symmetry-breaking effects can have a dramatic influence on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-06 Zeng-Zhao Li , Martin Leijnse

The influence of a rectangular potential barrier on the quantum transport of fermions in silicene is explored. Specifically, analytical solutions are presented to derive transmission and reflection probabilities together with conductance.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-26 Sanae Zriouel , Ahmed Jellal

We study the electronic transport in quasiperiodic separable tight-binding models in one, two, and three dimensions. First, we investigate a one-dimensional quasiperiodic chain, in which the atoms are coupled by weak and strong bonds…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-01-03 Stefanie Thiem , Michael Schreiber

Quantum geometry provides important information about the structure and topology of quantum states in various forms of quantum matter. The information contained therein has profound effects on observable quantities such as superconducting…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-02-26 Pavlo Sukhachov , Niels Henrik Aase , Kristian Mæland , Asle Sudbø

We review quantum tunneling provoked by external field driving, focusing on the role of geometric effects. The discussion begins with an overview of tunneling phenomena, including the Landau-Zener model and the Schwinger effect, both of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-30 Shintaro Takayoshi , Takashi Oka