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Coupled-wire constructions have been widely applied to quantum Hall systems and symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phases. In this Letter, we use the coupled one-dimensional nonchiral Luttinger liquids with domain-wall structured mass…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-07-26 Jian-Hao Zhang

The concept of quantum phase transitions (QPT) plays a central role in the description of condensed matter systems. In this contribution, we perform high-quality wavefunction-based simulations to demonstrate the existence of a quantum phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-25 Tobias Serwatka , Roger G. Melko , Anton Burkov , Pierre-Nicholas Roy

A quantum phase transition is an unequivocal signature of strongly correlated many-body physics. Signatures of such phenomena are yet to be observed in ballistic transport through quantum wires. Recent developments in quantum wires have…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-07-26 Abolfazl Bayat , Sanjeev Kumar , Michael Pepper , Sougato Bose

We investigate theoretically the linear conductance of a two-level quantum dot as a function of the gate voltage and different strength of coupling to the external electronic system (the reservoir). Apart from the weak coupling regime,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. L. Chudnovskiy , S. E. Ulloa

In cuprates, the strong correlations in proximity to the antiferromagnetic Mott insulating state give rise to an array of unconventional phenomena beyond high temperature superconductivity. Developing a complete description of the ground…

One of the most remarkable results of quantum mechanics is the fact that many-body quantum systems may exhibit phase transitions even at zero temperature. Quantum fluctuations, deeply rooted in Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, and not…

Non-classical states are of practical interest in quantum computing and quantum metrology. These states can be detected through their Wigner function negativity in some regions. In this paper, we calculate the ground state of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Ramón López-Peña , Sergio Cordero , Eduardo Nahmad-Achar , Octavio Castaños

We consider a double dot system of equivalent, capacitively coupled semiconducting quantum dots, each coupled to its own lead, in a regime where there are two electrons on the double dot. Employing the numerical renormalization group, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Martin R. Galpin , David E. Logan , H. R. Krishnamurthy

Berry phase in semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) can be induced by moving the dots adiabatically in a closed loop with the application of the distortion potential in the lateral direction. We show that the Berry phase is highly sensitive to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-15 Sanjay Prabhakar , Roderick Melnik , Luis L Bonilla

The spin-1/2 Heisenberg octahedral chain with regularly alternating monomeric and square-plaquette sites is investigated using various analytical and numerical methods: variational technique, localized-magnon approach, exact diagonalization…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-06-21 Jozef Strecka , Johannes Richter , Oleg Derzhko , Taras Verkholyak , Katarina Karlova

Systems of quantum dots (QD) connected to leads exhibit periodic conductance peaks as a function of gate voltage arising from the Coulomb blockade effect \cite{review1,review2,review3}. Much effort goes into minimizing the size of QDs and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-29 L. Bitton , R. Berkovits , A. Frydman

The full Dicke model describes a system of $N$ identical two level-atoms coupled to a single-mode quantized bosonic field. The model considers rotating and counter-rotating coupling terms between the atoms and the bosonic field, with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-11-16 M. Aparicio Alcalde , B. M. Pimentel

We employ density functional theory to calculate the self consistent electronic structure, free energy and linear source-drain conductance of a lateral semiconductor quantum dot patterned via surface gates on the 2DEG formed at the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 M. Stopa

The ground-state properties of quartet quantum-dot arrays are studied using the numerical renormalization group (NRG) method with a four-site Hubbard model connected to two non-interacting leads. Specifically, we calculate the conductance…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Yunori Nisikawa , Akira Oguri

Expanding and improving the repertoire of numerical methods for studying quantum lattice models is an ongoing focus in many-body physics. While the density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) has been established as a practically useful…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-09-28 Maxwell Block , Johannes Motruk , Snir Gazit , Michael P. Zaletel , Zeph Landau , Umesh Vazirani , Norman Y. Yao

We discuss electronic transport through a lateral quantum dot close to the singlet-triplet degeneracy in the case of a single conduction channel per lead. By applying the Numerical Renormalization Group, we obtain rigorous results for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Walter Hofstetter , Herbert Schoeller

Quantum dot lattices (QDLs) have the potential to allow for the tailoring of optical, magnetic and electronic properties of a user-defined artificial solid. We use a dual gated device structure to controllably tune the potential landscape…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Srijit Goswami , M. A. Aamir , Christoph Siegert , Michael Pepper , Ian Farrer , David A. Ritchie , Arindam Ghosh

Using bosonization we derive the dc conductance G(L,T) of an interacting quantum wire with good contacts including current relaxing backscattering and Umklapp processes. Our result yields the dependence of the conductance on length L and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-02-01 N. Sedlmayr , P. Adam , J. Sirker

By using mutual flux-attaching singular gauge transformations, we derive an effective action describing the zero temperature quantum phase transition from d-wave superconductor to underdoped regime. In this effective action, quantum…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Jinwu Ye , A. Millis

We investigate the transport and coherence properties of a double quantum dot coupled to a single damped boson mode. Our numerically results reveal how the properties of the boson distribution can be steered by altering parameters of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 T. Brandes , N. Lambert