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Bound states in the continuum (BICs) are quantum states with normalizable wave functions and energies that lie within the continuous spectrum for which extended or dispersive states are also available. These special states, which have shown…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-29 Ricardo Y. Díaz-Bonifaz , Carlos Ramírez

Bound states in the continuum (BICs), referring to spatially localized bound states with energies falling within the range of extended modes, have been extensively investigated in single-particle systems, leading to diverse applications in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-17 Na Sun , Weixuan Zhang , Hao Yuan , Xiangdong Zhang

We propose a formalism to study dynamical properties of a quantum many-body system in the thermodynamic limit by studying a finite system with infinite boundary conditions (IBC) where both finite size effects and boundary effects have been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Ho N. Phien , Guifre Vidal , Ian P. McCulloch

The modeling of finite-extent semiconductor nanostructures that are embedded in a host material requires the numerical treatment of the boundary in a finite simulation domain. For the study of a self-assembled InAs dot embedded in GaAs,…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Seungwon Lee , Fabiano Oyafuso , Paul von Allmen , Gerhard Klimeck

We show a transition from a bound state to a continuum resonance in a shallow quantum well (QW) by electrostatic gating to bend the conduction band edge. This bound state-continuum resonance (BSCR) transition is particularly relevant in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-21 Yi Huang , Sankar Das Sarma

We consider the diffraction of time-harmonic plane waves by a periodic structure, governed by the Helmholtz equation. Bound states in the continuum (BICs) are quasi-periodic fields that remain $L^{2}$-bounded over one period and occur at…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Ya Yan Lu , Jiaxin Zhou

A finit periodic $\delta-\delta'$ comb was solved by the help of both classical approach based on a direct solving of a Sr\"{odinger} equation and a quantum wave impedance method. It was demonstrated that the violation of a periodicity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-26 O. I. Hryhorchak , V. S. Pastukhov

Quantum wires and electromagnetic waveguides possess common features since their physics is described by the same wave equation. We exploit this analogy to investigate experimentally with microwave waveguides and theoretically with the help…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-11 S. Bittner , B. Dietz , M. Miski-Oglu , A. Richter , C. Ripp , E. Sadurni , W. P. Schleich

Bound states and their influence on the dynamics of an one-dimensional tight-binding system subject to environments are studied in this paper. We identify specifically three kinds of bound states. The first is a discrete bound state (DBS),…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-16 H. T. Cui , H. Z. Shen , M. Qin , X. X. Yi

Bound states in the continuum (BICs) defy conventional wisdom that assumes a spectral separation between propagating waves, that carry energy away, and spatially localized waves corresponding to discrete frequencies. They can be described…

Bound states in the continuum (BIC) are shown to exist in a single-level Fano-Anderson model with a colored interaction between the discrete state and a tight-binding continuum, which may describe mesoscopic electron or photon transport in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Stefano Longhi

Starting from a potential with a continuum of energy eigenstates, we show how the methods of supersymmetric quantum mechanics can be used to generate families of potentials with bound states in the continuum [BICs]. We also find the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 J. Pappademos , U. Sukhatme , A. Pagnamenta

The BC-method is an approach to inverse problems based on their relations to the boundary control theory. The paper provides a simple and physically transparent description of the method in the case of dynamical inverse data given at a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-09-13 M. I. Belishev

We unveil the existence of two-particle bound state in the continuum (BIC) in a one-dimensional interacting nonreciprocal lattice with a generalized boundary condition. By applying the Bethe-ansatz method, we can exactly solve the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-04-08 Yanxia Liu , Shu Chen

Bound states in the continuum (BICs) are trapped or guided modes with their frequencies in the frequency intervals of the radiation modes. On periodic structures, a BIC is surrounded by a family of resonant modes with their quality factors…

Optics · Physics 2018-04-18 Lijun Yuan , Ya Yan Lu

We report the formation of bound states in the continuum driven by AC fields. This system consists of a quantum ring connected to two leads. An AC side-gate voltage controls the interference pattern of the electrons passing through the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 C. González-Santander , P. A. Orellana , F. Domínguez-Adame

This paper studies the existence of solutions and, in particular, the well-posedness of a class of boundary control systems. Our main result provides explicit and verifiable conditions on the system data that guarantee continuous dependence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-13 Yassine El Gantouh , Jun Zheng , Guchuan Zhu

Continuum solvation methods can provide an accurate and inexpensive embedding of quantum simulations in liquid or complex dielectric environments. Notwithstanding a long history and manifold applications to isolated systems in open boundary…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-12-02 Oliviero Andreussi , Nicola Marzari

Bound state in the continuum (BIC) and quasi-BIC represent a remarkable class of wave functions that disobey conventional intuition by exhibiting spatially localized modes embedded in the continuum spectrum. In recent years, these states…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-25 Zeyu Rao , Changling Zou , Yang Chen , Guangcan Guo , Ming Gong

In this article we are interested in the boundary stabilization in finite time of one-dimensional linear hyperbolic balance laws with coefficients depending on time and space. We extend the so called "backstepping method" by introducing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-30 Jean-Michel Coron , Long Hu , Guillaume Olive , Peipei Shang