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We study the rate of convergence of some nonlocal functionals recently considered by Bourgain, Brezis and Mironescu. In particular we establish the $\Gamma$-convergence of the corresponding rate functionals, suitably rescaled, to a limit…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-04-01 Antonin Chambolle , Matteo Novaga , Valerio Pagliari

This paper investigates degenerate nonlocal free boundary problems arising in the context of superconductivity, extending the nonlocal counterpart to the work of Caffarelli, Salazar, and Shahgholian \cite{CS02, CSS04} in the local setting.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Damião J. Araújo , Aelson Sobral

We study local regularity properties of linear, non-uniformly parabolic finite-difference operators in divergence form related to the random conductance model on $\mathbb Z^d$. In particular, we provide an oscillation decay assuming only…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-09-25 Peter Bella , Mathias Schäffner

We deepen the existence of a nonlocal Hamiltonian formalism for the El's kinetic equation for soliton gas under the polychromatic reduction for a class of interaction kernels. The nonlocality presented is related to semi-Riemannian metrics…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-04-07 Pierandrea Vergallo

A high-throughput benchmarking technique for testing the performance of different exchange-correlation functionals and pseudopotentials is proposed and applied to bulk SnS. It is shown that, contrary to the popular view that the local…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-05-22 Stefanos Giaremis , Joseph Kioseoglou , Eleni Chatzikyriakou

We study the charge transport and thermoelectric properties of the junction, comprising double quantum dot embedded in T-shaped geometry on the interface between two normal/ferromagnetic electrodes and superconducting lead. We show that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-18 G. Górski , K. Kucab , T. Domański

Subgap states are responsible for the low-bias transport features of hybrid superconducting--semiconducting devices. Here, we analyze the local and nonlocal differential conductance of Coulomb-blockaded multiterminal superconducting islands…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-27 Rubén Seoane Souto , Matteo M. Wauters , Karsten Flensberg , Martin Leijnse , Michele Burrello

We consider a weighted nonlocal area functional in which the coefficients do not satisfy the triangle inequality. In the context of three phase transitions, this means that one of the weights is larger than the sum of the other two, say…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-25 Serena Dipierro , Enrico Valdinoci , Mary Vaughan

Motivated by recent experiments on nonlocal transport through multiterminal superconducting hybrid structures, we present self-consistent calculations based on quasiclassical Green's functions for the order parameter, currents and voltages…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-13 F. S. Bergeret , A. Levy Yeyati

We propose a nonlocal theory of single-particle excitations. It is based on an off-diagonal effective medium and the projection operator method for treating the retarded Green function. The theory determines the nonlocal effective medium…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-14 Y. Kakehashi , T. Nakamura , P. Fulde

We consider a metallic wire coupled to two metallic electrodes via two junctions placed nearby. A bias voltage applied to one of such junctions alters the electron distribution function in the wire in the vicinity of another junction thus…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-03-09 D. S. Golubev , A. D. Zaikin

Non-locality is one of the most striking signatures of the topological nature of Weyl semimetals. We propose to probe the non-locality in these materials via a measurement of a magnetic field dependent Coulomb drag between two sheets of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-01 Yuval Baum , Ady Stern

We present a theoretical approach to calculate the {\it local} absorption spectrum of excitons confined in a semiconductor nanostructure. Using the density-matrix formalism, we derive a microscopic expression for the non-local…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 O. Mauritz , G. Goldoni , E. Molinari , F. Rossi

Superconductors connected to normal metallic electrodes at the nanoscale provide a potential source of non-locally entangled electron pairs. Such states would arise from Cooper pairs splitting into two electrons with opposite spins…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-07-16 A. Levy Yeyati , F. S. Bergeret , A. Martin-Rodero , T. M. Klapwijk

Vortices in electron fluids are a key indicator of electron hydrodynamics. However, a comprehensive framework linking macroscopic vorticity measurements with microscopic interactions and scattering mechanisms has been lacking. We employ…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-27 Khachatur G. Nazaryan , Leonid Levitov

In the work, a modified effective medium theory is constructed for calculating the effective properties of thermoelectric composites with different values of percolation thresholds. It is shown that even at concentrations beyond the…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-06-23 Snarskii Andrei , Yuskevich Pavel

Nonlocality is a defining feature of quantum mechanics and has long served as a key indicator of quantum resources since the formulation of Bell's inequalities. Identifying the contribution of nonlocality to extractable work remains a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-17 B. Vigneshwar , R. Sankaranarayanan

We study nonlocal thermoelectricity in a superconducting wire subject to spin-orbit coupling and a magnetic field with a relative orientation $\theta$ between them. We calculate the current flowing in a normal probe attached to the bulk of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-19 Juan Herrera Mateos , Leandro Tosi , Alessandro Braggio , Fabio Taddei , Liliana Arrachea

Density functional calculations for the electronic conductance of single molecules are now common. We examine the methodology from a rigorous point of view, discussing where it can be expected to work, and where it should fail. When…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Max Koentopp , Connie Chang , Kieron Burke , Roberto Car

The thermoelectric effects in three-terminal structures with a quantum dot are considered. We propose the experimentally consistent protocol for determination of the transport coefficients in terms of the local and non-local conductances…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-27 Grzegorz Michalek , Marcin Urbaniak , Bogdan R. Bulka , Tadeusz Domanski , Karol I. Wysokinski