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When combining lumped mesoscopic electronic components to form a circuit, quantum fluctuations of electrical quantities lead to a non-linear electromagnetic interaction between the components that is not generally understood. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-13 C. Altimiras , F. Portier , P. Joyez

Photon condensation in semiconductor microcavities is a transformative technique for engineering quantum states of light at room temperature by tailoring strong but incoherent light-matter interactions. While continuous-wave and electrical…

We present a new model for the continuous measurement of a coupled quantum dot charge qubit. We model the effects of a realistic measurement, namely adding noise to, and filtering, the current through the detector. This is achieved by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Neil P. Oxtoby , P. Warszawski , H. M. Wiseman , He-Bi Sun , R. E. S. Polkinghorne

We report a scattering matrix theory for dynamic and nonlinear transport in coherent mesoscopic conductors. In general this theory allows predictions of low frequency linear dynamic conductance, as well as weakly nonlinear DC conductance.…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 Zhong-shui Ma , Jian Wang , Hong Guo

Bloch-type equations for description of coherent transport in mesoscopic systems are applied for a study of the continuous measurement process. Both the detector and the measured system are described quantum mechanically. It is shown that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 S. A. Gurvitz

Coulomb screening, together with degeneracy, is characteristic of the metallic electron gas. While there is little trace of its effects in transport and noise in the bulk, at mesoscopic scales the electronic fluctuations start to show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Frederick Green , Mukunda P Das

In this letter the phenomenon of macroscopic quantization is investigated using the particle on the ring interacting with the dissipative environment as an example. It is shown that the phenomenon of macroscopic quantization has the clear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-11 Andrew G. Semenov

In this article, we review the principles of macroscopic quantum electrodynamics and discuss a variety of applications of this theory to medium-assisted atom-field coupling and dispersion forces. The theory generalises the standard mode…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-03-02 Stefan Scheel , Stefan Yoshi Buhmann

We study transport properties and the charge quantization phenomenon in a small metallic island connected to the leads through two quantum point contacts (QPCs). The linear conductance is calculated perturbatively with respect to weak…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-05 Edvin G. Idrisov , Ivan P. Levkivskyi , Eugene V. Sukhorukov

We study the dissipation in a system consisting of a small metallic island coupled to a gate electrode and to a massive reservoir via single tunneling junction. The dissipation of energy is caused by a slowly oscillating gate voltage. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Ya. I. Rodionov , I. S. Burmistrov , A. S. Ioselevich

The understanding of mesoscopic transport has now attained an ultimate simplicity. Indeed, orthodox quantum kinetics would seem to say little about mesoscopics that has not been revealed - nearly effortlessly - by more popular means. Such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Mukunda P Das , Frederick Green

The symmetry studies of Maxwell equations gave new insight on the nature of electromagnetic (EM) field. It has in general case quaternion single structure, consisting of four independent field constituents, which differ with each other by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-09-21 Dmitri Yerchuck , Alla Dovlatova , Andrey Alexandrov

We study transport properties of discrete quantum dynamical systems on the lattice, in particular Coined Quantum Walks and the Chalker--Coddington model. We prove existence of a non trivial charge transport and that the absolutely…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-06-20 Joachim Asch , Olivier Bourget , Alain Joye

The evolution of the quantum wave packet describing an atom trapped in the surface-tip junction of the scanning tunneling microscope is investigated by using the time-dependent Schroedinger equation, and by a quasi-classical Hamiltonian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-02-21 M. Grigorescu

Quantum embedding theories are promising approaches to investigate strongly-correlated electronic states of active regions of large-scale molecular or condensed systems. Notable examples are spin defects in semiconductors and insulators. We…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-12-14 He Ma , Nan Sheng , Marco Govoni , Giulia Galli

We investigate the nonlinear regime of charge and energy transport through Coulomb-blockaded quantum dots. We discuss crossed effects that arise when electrons move in response to thermal gradients (Seebeck effect) or energy flows in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-30 Miguel A. Sierra , David Sanchez

We investigate the distribution of the electron density and the potential in a quantum wire coupled to reservoirs, treating this structure as a unified quantum system and taking into account the Coulomb interaction of electrons. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 V. A. Sablikov , S. V. Polyakov , M. Buttiker

We investigate the time-dependent, coherent, and dissipative dynamics of bound particles in single multilevel quantum dots in the presence of sequential tunnelling transport. We focus on the nonequilibrium regime where several channels are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-02-11 Eduardo Vaz , Jordan Kyriakidis

The quantum theory of the damped harmonic oscillator has been a subject of continual investigation since the 1930s. The obstacle to quantization created by the dissipation of energy is usually dealt with by including a discrete set of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 T. G. Philbin

The effect of the Coulomb-interaction on persistent currents in disordered mesoscopic metal rings threaded by a magnetic flux $\phi$ is studied numerically. We use the simplest form of ``self-consistent'' Hartree theory, where the spatial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-28 Axel Voelker , Peter Kopietz