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Weak antilocalization (WAL), an increase in the electrical conductivity at low temperatures associated with the suppression of electron localization due to quantum interference effects, is often observed in topological materials. In this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-14 Longfei Sun , Yue Sun , Qiang Hou , R. Sankar , R. Kalaivanan , Xiaofeng Xu , Zhixiang Shi , Tsuyoshi Tamegai

Decoherence of quantum bits arises primarily from the parasitic resistance within the qubit. This study presents the analysis of the decoherence process due to physical interactions between the qubit photons and parasitic resistance atoms,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-30 Yoav Koral , Shilo Avraham , Manimuthu Peryasamy , Shmuel E. Schacham , Eliyahu Farber

In many quantum computer architectures, the qubits are in close proximity to metallic device elements. Metals have a high density of photon modes, and the fields spill out of the bulk metal because of the evanescent-wave component. Thus…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-02-18 Luke S. Langsjoen , Amrit Poudel , Maxim G. Vavilov , Robert Joynt

Combining nonperturbative techniques with Monte Carlo simulations we demonstrate that quantum coherence effects for a particle on a ring are suppressed beyond a finite length $L_{\phi}$ even at zero temperature if the particle is coupled to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Dmitri S. Golubev , Carlos P. Herrero , Andrei D. Zaikin

Electron microscopy relies on the spatial coherence of electron beams to generate atomic-scale images using interference and diffraction, which can be degraded by inelastic scattering processes that induce decoherence. Here, we present a…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-28 Cruz I. Velasco , Valerio Di Giulio , F. Javier García de Abajo

We investigate decoherence in the quantum kicked rotator (modelling cold atoms in a pulsed optical field) subjected to noise with power-law tail waiting-time distributions of variable exponent (Levy noise). We demonstrate the existence of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-08-01 Henning Schomerus , Eric Lutz

Matter-wave interferometers with micro-particles will enable the next generation of quantum sensors to probe minute quantum phase information. Therefore, estimating the loss of coherence and the degree of entanglement degradation for such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-25 Martine Schut , Herre Bosma , MengZhi Wu , Marko Toroš , Sougato Bose , Anupam Mazumdar

The effect of decoherence, induced by spontaneous emission, on the dynamics of cold atoms periodically kicked by an optical lattice is experimentally and theoretically studied. Ideally, the mean energy growth is essentially unaffected by…

Disorder, noise and interaction play a crucial role in the transport properties of real systems, but they are typically hard to control and study both theoretically and experimentally, especially in the quantum case. Here we explore a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-09-12 C. D'Errico , M. Moratti , E. Lucioni , L. Tanzi , B. Deissler , M. Inguscio , G. Modugno , M. B. Plenio , F. Caruso

We study Johnson-Nyquist noise in macroscopically inhomogeneous disordered metals and give a microscopic derivation of the correlation function of the scalar electric potentials in real space. Starting from the interacting Hamiltonian for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-09-08 M. Treiber , C. Texier , O. M. Yevtushenko , J. von Delft , I. V. Lerner

We investigate the quantum correlations in an axially symmetric hybrid qubit-qutrit system subjected to different noisy environments. We first introduce a physical model and analyze its Hamiltonian structure, emphasizing the role of hybrid…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-01 M. Abdellaoui , N. -E. Abouelkhir , A. Slaoui , R. Ahl Laamara , S. Haddadi

Quantum decoherence refers to the phenomenon when the interaction of a quantum system with its environment results in the degradation of quantum coherence. Decoherence is considered to be the most popular mechanism responsible for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 Mohd Shoaib Qureshi , Tabish Qureshi

We discuss decoherence in discrete-time quantum walks in terms of a phenomenological model that distinguishes spin and spatial decoherence. We identify the dominating mechanisms that affect quantum walk experiments realized with neutral…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-30 Andrea Alberti , Wolfgang Alt , Reinhard Werner , Dieter Meschede

Systems whose underlying classical dynamics are chaotic exhibit signatures of the chaos in their quantum mechanics. We investigate the possibility of using time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) to study the case when chaos is…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Adam Wasserman , Neepa T. Maitra , Eric J. Heller

The paper considers quantum electrodynamics (QED) and weak interaction of elementary particles in the lower orders of the perturbation theory using nonlocal Hamiltonian in the Foldy-Wouthuysen (FW) representation. Feynman rules in the FW…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 V. P. Neznamov

We consider a ballistic Mach-Zehnder interferometer for electrons propagating chirally in one dimension (such as in an integer Quantum Hall effect edge channel). In such a system, dephasing occurs when the finite range of the interaction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-03-12 Clemens Neuenhahn , Florian Marquardt

We estimate the role of noise in the formation of entanglement and in the appearance of single- and two-electron interference in systems of coupled one-dimensional channels semiconductors. Two cases are considered: a single-particle…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-12-19 Fabrizio Buscemi , Paolo Bordone , Andrea Bertoni

We investigate decoherence in quantum systems coupled via dephasing-type interactions to an arbitrary environment with chaotic underlying classical dynamics. The coherences of the reduced state of the central system written in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-08-22 Gabriela Barreto Lemos , Fabricio Toscano

We consider the decoherence of a single localized electron spin due to its coupling to the lattice nuclear spin bath in a semiconductor quantum computer architecture. In the presence of an external magnetic field and at low temperatures,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 W. M. Witzel , S. Das Sarma

The density functional theory is used to study the electronic structure of a quantum wire in a magnetic field. The Kohn-Sham equations are solved numerically for different values of electron densities and filling factors. The critical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-16 A. A. Vasilchenko