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Recently, new strongly interacting phases have been uncovered in mesoscopic systems with chaotic scattering at the boundaries by two of the present authors and R. Shankar. This analysis is reliable when the dimensionless conductance of the…

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Tank-treading, tumbling and trembling are different types of the vesicle behavior in an external flow. We derive a dynamical equation for nearly spherical vesicles enabling to establish a phase diagram of the system predicting the regimes.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-25 V. V. Lebedev , K. S. Turitsyn , S. S. Vergeles

Electrostatic particle-in-cell simulations of a Penning discharge are performed in order to investigate azimuthally asymmetric, spoke-like structures previously observed in experiments. Two-dimensional simulations show that for…

A rigorous theory of photon emission accompanied inelastic tunnelling inside the gap of plasmonic nanoantennas has been developed. The disappointingly low efficiency of the electrical excitation of surface plasmon polaritons in these…

The influence of a rectangular potential barrier on the quantum transport of fermions in silicene is explored. Specifically, analytical solutions are presented to derive transmission and reflection probabilities together with conductance.…

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Resonant proximity effect in the normal metal / insulator / diffusive ferromagnet / insulator / $s$- and d-wave superconductor (N/I/DF/I/S) junctions is studied for various regimes by solving the Usadel equation with the generalized…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 T. Yokoyama , Y. Tanaka , A. A. Golubov

We theoretically investigate resonant tunneling through S- and U-shaped nanostructured graphene nanoribbons. A rich structure of resonant tunneling peaks are found eminating from different quasi-bound states in the middle region. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Z. Z. Zhang , Z. H. Wu , Kai Chang , F. M. Peeters

Dissipative optomechanics has some advantages in cooling compared to the conventional dispersion dominated systems. Here, we study the optical response of a cantilever-like, silica, microsphere pendulum, evanescently coupled to a fiber…

Experimental results of I-V characteristics near the superconductor-insulator transition observed for disorder-tuned YBaCuO thinfilms are presented. The I-V characteristics exibit new quasiperiodic structures as a function of the current.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-30 S. Tanda , K. Kagawa , T. Maeno , T. Nakayama , K. Yamaya , A. Ohi , N. Hatakenaka

In this letter we study dynamical tunneling in highly excited symmetric molecules. The role of classical phase space structures like resonances and chaos on the tunneling splittings are illustrated using the water molecule as an example. It…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 Srihari Keshavamurthy

The nonintegrable Hamiltonian dynamics of particles placed in a symmetric, spatially periodic potential and subjected to a periodically varying field is explored. Such systems can exhibit a rich diversity of unusual transport features. In…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2008-07-10 D. Hennig , L. Schimansky-Geier , P. Hänggi

We present a semiclassical model of an atom moving in the evanescent field of a microtoroidal resonator. Atoms falling through whispering-gallery modes can achieve strong, coherent coupling with the cavity at distances of approximately 100…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-08-15 N. P. Stern , D. J. Alton , H. J. Kimble

In this work we characterize the escape of orbits from the phase space of the Riemann-Liouville (RL) fractional standard map (fSM). The RL-fSM, given in action-angle variables, is derived from the equation of motion of the kicked rotor when…

We study resonant tunnelling through double-barrier structures under an applied bias voltage, in which nonlinearities due to self-interaction of electrons in the barrier regions are included. As an approximation, we concern ourselves with…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Enrique Diez , Francisco Dominguez-Adame , Angel Sánchez

We have revealed that the barrier-tunneling process in non-integrable systems is strongly linked to chaos in complex phase space by investigating a simple scattering map model. The semiclassical wavefunction reproduces complicated features…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 T. Onishi , A. Shudo , K. S. Ikeda , K. Takahashi

The optical properties of PT-symmetric periodic stack of the layers with balanced loss and gain are examined. We demonstrate that tunnelling phenomenon in periodic structures is connected with excitation of surface waves at the boundaries…

Optics · Physics 2016-10-12 Oksana Shramkova , Giorgios Tsironis

The stationary states of a microlaser are related to the decaying quasibound states of the corresponding passive cavity. These are interpreted classically as originating from sequential escape attempts of an ensemble of rays obeying a…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Hentschel , J. U. Nockel

We show that a weak non-resonant tunneling between two quantum wires leads to splitting of the acoustic plasmon mode at finite wavevector. Two gaps open up in the dipersion of the acoustic plasmon mode when its frequency is close to the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 Guo-Qiang Hai , Marcos R. S. Tavares

We investigate dynamical tunneling in many dimensional systems using a quasi-periodically modulated kicked rotor, and find that the tunneling rate from the torus to the chaotic region is drastically enhanced when the chaotic states become…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2010-06-04 Akiyuki Ishikawa , Atushi Tanaka , Akira Shudo