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The density fluctuations of quantum vortex lines are measured in a turbulent flow of superfluid He, at temperatures corresponding to superfluid fraction of 16%, 47% and 81%. The probe is a micro-fabricated second sound resonator that allows…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-08-11 Eric Woillez , Jérôme Valentin , Philippe-E Roche

Following our work [Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 020401 (2020)], we discuss a semiclassical description of one-dimensional quantum tunneling through multibarrier potentials in terms of complex time. We start by defining a complex-extended…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-09 Pavel Stránský , Milan Šindelka , Pavel Cejnar

We report self-consistent calculations of the microscopic electronic structure of the so-called giant vortex states. These novel multiquantum vortex states, detected by recent magnetization measurements on submicron disks, are qualitatively…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 K. Tanaka , I. Robel , B. Janko

We derive generalized quasiclassical transport equations which include the terms responsible for the Hall Effect in the vortex state of a clean type-II superconductor, and calculate the conductivity tensor for an s-wave superconductor in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-30 A. Houghton , I. Vekhter

Theoretical foundations of the problem of quantum spin tunneling in magnetic nanostructures are presented. Several model problems are considered in detail, including recent new results on tunneling in antiferromagnetic nanoparticles and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 Boris A. Ivanov , Alexei K. Kolezhuk

The quantum dynamics of population-balanced fractional vortices and population-imbalanced vortices in an effective two-state bosonic system, made of two coupled discrete circuits with few sites, is addressed within the Bose-Hubbard model. %…

The mixed state of type II superconductors has magnetic flux penetrating the sample in the form of vortices, with each vortex carrying an identical quantum of flux. These vortices generally form a triangular lattice under weak mutually…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Chaddah , S. B. Roy

We elucidate the multi-particle transport of pair- and spin-tunnelings in strongly correlated interfaces. Not only usual single-particle tunneling but also interaction-induced multi-particle tunneling processes naturally arise from a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-03-20 Hiroyuki Tajima , Daigo Oue , Mamoru Matsuo

We report a numerical study of the vortex system in the two dimensional II-type superconductors. We have proposed a phenomenological model that takes into account quantum fluctuations of Abrikosov's vortices. The results of the quantum…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 M. V. Zyubin , I. A. Rudnev , V. A. Kashurnikov

We study the effect of backward scatterings in the tunneling at a point contact between the edges of a second level hierarchical fractional quantum Hall states. A universal scaling dimension of the tunneling conductance is obtained only…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-28 K. Imura , N. Nagaosa

Classical particle mechanics on curved spaces is related to the flow of ideal fluids, by a dual interpretation of the Hamilton-Jacobi equation. As in second quantization, the procedure relates the description of a system with a finite…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. W. van Holten

The tunneling wave function of the universe is investigated in a minisuperspace framework of a de Sitter universe with a quantum scalar field, treated as a perturbation. We consider three different approaches to defining the tunneling wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-19 Alexander Vilenkin , Masaki Yamada

A criterion is derived for the determination of parameter domains of first order phase transitions in quantum mechanical tunneling models. The criterion is tested by application to various models, in particular to some which have been used…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 H. J. W. Mueller-Kirsten , D. K. Park , J. M. S. Rana

Using group theory arguments and numerical simulations, we demonstrate the possibility of changing the vorticity or topological charge of an individual vortex by means of the action of a system possessing a discrete rotational symmetry of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-11 Albert Ferrando , Mario Zacares , Miguel-Angel Garcia-March , Juan A. Monsoriu

We show that prominent features in voltage-current characteristics, recently measured in the mixed state of high-Tc superconductors and interpreted as evidence for an irreversibility line or a vortex-glass transition, may very well be…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 I. L. Landau , H. R. Ott

We study an effective field theory of a vortex lattice in a two-dimensional neutral rotating superfluid. Utilizing particle-vortex dualities, we explore its formulation in terms of a $U(1)$ gauge theory coupled to elasticity, that at low…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-08-29 Yi-Hsien Du , Ho Tat Lam , Leo Radzihovsky

In the deformed quantum mechanics with a minimal length, one WKB connection formula through a turning point is derived. We then use it to calculate tunnelling rates through potential barriers under the WKB approximation. Finally, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-09-23 Xiaobo Guo , Bochen Lv , Jun Tao , Peng Wang

Spin-valve structures are usually associated with the ability to modify the resistance of electrical currents. We here demonstrate a profoundly different effect of a spin-valve. In combination with a topological insulator and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-10-10 Morten Amundsen , Henning G. Hugdal , Asle Sudbø , Jacob Linder

A systematic theory of the conductance measurements of non-invasive (weak probe) scanning gate microscopy is presented that provides an interpretation of what precisely is being measured. A scattering approach is used to derive explicit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-12 C. Gorini , R. A. Jalabert , W. Szewc , S. Tomsovic , D. Weinmann

Superfluid turbulence, often referred to as quantum turbulence, is a fascinating phenomenon for which a satisfactory theoretical framework is lacking. Holographic duality provides a systematic new approach to studying quantum turbulence by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-12-20 Allan Adams , Paul M. Chesler , Hong Liu