Stability of Driven Systems with Growing Gaps, Quantum Rings, and Wannier Ladders

We consider a quantum particle in a periodic structure submitted to a constant external electromotive force. The periodic background is given by a smooth potential plus singular point interactions and has the property that the gaps between its bands are growing with the band index. We prove that the spectrum is pure point—i.e., trajectories of wave packets lie in compact sets in Hilbert space—if the Bloch frequency is nonresonant with the frequency of the system and satisfies a Diophantine-type estimate, or if it is resonant. Furthermore, we show that the KAM method employed in the nonresonant case produces uniform bounds on the growth of energy for driven systems.     

Enhanced Parameter Estimation with Periodically Driven Quantum Probe

I propose a quantum metrology protocol for measuring frequencies and weak forces based on a periodic modulating quantum Jahn–Teller system composed of a single spin and two bosonic modes. I show that, in the first order of the frequency drive, the time-independent effective Hamiltonian describes spin-dependent interaction between the two bosonic modes. In the limit of high-frequency drive and low bosonic frequency, the quantum Jahn–Teller system exhibits critical behavior which can be used for high-precision quantum estimation. A major advantage of the scheme is the robustness of the system against spin decoherence, which allows it to perform parameter estimation with measurement time not limited by spin dephasing.     

Auto- versus Cross-Correlation Noise in Periodically Driven Quantum Coherent Conductors

Expressing currents and their fluctuations at the terminals of a multi-probe conductor in terms of the wave functions of carriers injected into the Fermi sea provides new insight into the physics of electric currents. This approach helps us to identify two physically different contributions to shot noise. In the quantum coherent regime, when current is carried by non-overlapping wave packets, the product of current fluctuations in different leads, the cross-correlation noise, is determined solely by the duration of the wave packet. In contrast, the square of the current fluctuations in one lead, the autocorrelation noise, is additionally determined by the coherence of the wave packet, which is associated with the spread of the wave packet in energy. The two contributions can be addressed separately in the weak back-scattering regime, when the autocorrelation noise depends only on the coherence. Analysis of shot noise in terms of these contributions allows us, in particular, to predict that no individual traveling particles with a real wave function, such as Majorana fermions, can be created in the Fermi sea in a clean manner, that is, without accompanying electron–hole pairs.     

Spectral Gaps of Quantum Hall Systems with Interactions

A two-dimensional quantum Hall system without disorder for a wide class of interactions including any two-body interaction with finite range is studied by using the Lieb–Schultz–Mattis method [Ann. Phys. (N.Y.) 16:407 (1961)]. The model is defined on an infinitely long strip with a fixed, large width, and the Hilbert space is restricted to the lowest (n _max+1) Landau levels with a large integer n _max. We prove that, for a noninteger filling of the Landau levels, either (i) there is a symmetry breaking at zero temperature or (ii) there is only one infinite-volume ground state with a gapless excitation. We also prove the following two theorems: (a) If a pure infinite-volume ground state has a nonzero excitation gap for a noninteger filling , then a translational symmetry breaking occurs at zero temperature. (b) Suppose that there is no non-translationally invariant infinite-volume ground state. Then, if a pure infinite-volume ground state has a nonzero excitation gap, the filling factor must be equal to a rational number. Here the ground state is allowed to have a periodic structure which is a consequence of the translational symmetry breaking. We also discuss the relation between our results and the quantized Hall conductance, and phenomenologically explain why odd denominators of filling fractions giving the quantized Hall conductance are favored exclusively.     

Quantum Anti-Zeno Effect in Artificial Quantum Systems

In this paper, we study a quantum anti-Zeno effect （QAZE） purely induced by repetitive measurements for an artificial atom interacting with a structured bath. This bath can be artificially realized with coupled resonators in one dimension and possesses photonic band structure like Bloeh electron in a periodic potential. In the presence of repetitive measurements, the pure QAZE is discovered as the observable decay is not negligible even for the atomic energy level spacing outside of the energy band of the artificial bath. If there were no measurements, the decay would not happen outside of the band. In this sense, the enhanced decay is completely induced by measurements through the relaxation channels provided by the bath. Besides, we also discuss the controversial golden rule decay rates originated from the van Hove＇s singularities and the effects of the counter-rotating terms.     

Quantum Anti-Zeno Effect in Artificial Quantum Systems

In this paper, we study a quantum anti-Zeno effect (QAZE) purely induced by repetitive measurements for an artificial atom interacting with a structured bath. This bath can be artificially realized with coupled resonators in one dimension and possesses photonic band structure like Bloch electron in a periodic potential. In the presence of repetitive measurements, the pure QAZE is discovered as the observable decay is not negligible even for theatomic energy level spacing outside of the energy band of the artificial bath. If there were no measurements, the decay would not happen outside of the band. In this sense, the enhanced decay is completely induced by measurements through the relaxation channels provided by the bath. Besides, we also discuss the controversial golden rule decay rates originated from the van Hove's singularities and the effects of the counter-rotating terms.     

Goldstone Modes in Driven Diffusion Systems

By analyzing the dynamical equations of dissipative diffusion systems with the help of Feynman diagrams, we explicitly show that Goldstone modes exist in these systems and how these Goldstone modes are related to the origin of self-organized criticality. The analysis gives a clear statistical field theory picture of self-organized criticality.     

Travelling with/against the Flow. Deterministic Diffusive Driven Systems

We introduce and study a deterministic lattice model describing the motion of an infinite system of oppositely charged particles under the action of a constant electric field. As an application this model represents a traffic flow of cars moving in opposite directions along a narrow road. Our main results concern the Fundamental diagram of the system describing the dependence of average particle velocities on their densities and the Phase diagram describing the partition of the space of particle configurations into regions having different qualitative properties, which we identify with free, jammed and hysteresis phases. This research has been partially supported by Russian Foundation for Fundamental Research, CRDF and French Ministry of Education grants.     

On Gaps in the Energy Spectrum of a Three Particle Reaction

The paper deals with (nuclear) reactions with three particles in the exit channel. When a sequential decay takes place the energy spectrum (laboratory system) of a particle, being emitted in the second step of the decay, may contain an interval that is kinematically forbidden.     

On Computability of Decaying and Nondecaying States in Quantum Systems with Cantor Spectra

We study Hamiltonians with singular spectra of Cantor type with a constant ratio of dissection. The decay properties of the states in such systems depend on the nature of the dissection rate that can be characterized in terms of the algebraic number theory. We show that in spite of simplicity of the considered model the computational modeling of nondecaying states is in general impossible.     

Localization in the Non-analytic Quantum Kicked Systems

Numerical investigations on non-analytic quantum kicked systems are presented. A new type of localization - power-law localization is found to be universal in the nonanalytic systems. With increasing the perturbation strength, a transition from perturbative localization to pseudo-integrable system, to dynamical localization and to complete extension is clearly demonstrated. The dependence of the localization length on perturbation is given in different parameter regimes.     

On Husimi Distribution for Systems with Continuous Spectrum

We propose a procedure to generalize the Husimi distribution to systems with continuous spectrum. We start examining a pioneering work, by Gazeau and Klauder, where the concept of coherent states for systems with discrete spectrum was extended to systems with continuous one. In the present article, we see the Husimi distribution as a representation of the density operator in terms of a basis of coherent states. There are other ways to obtain it, but we do not consider here. We specially discuss the problem of the continuous harmonic oscillator.     

Some Aspects of Quantum Entanglement for CAR Systems

We show some distinct features of quantum entanglement for bipartite CAR systems such as the failure of triangle inequality of von Neumann entropy and the possible change of our entanglement degree under local operations. Those are due to the nonindependence of CAR systems and never occur in any algebraic independent systems. We introduce a new notion half-sided entanglement.     

Quantum Computation with Two-Level Systems in Current-Biased Josephson Junction

We present a feasible scheme that realizes quantum computation using the two-level systems （TLSs） in Current-biased Josephson junction （CBJJ） under the present experimental technology. Effective manipulation of the TLSs by CBJJ serving as register qubit can be obtained, such as initialization, single-qubit rotations, two-qubit gates, entanglement generation, and read out, etc. In addition, we also discuss the experimental feasibility and efficiency of the scheme.     

利用QMD分析中高能质子入射208Pb的(p,xn)反应双微分截面

中高能质子入射重金属靶产生散裂中子是加速器驱动洁净核能系统的一个关键部分.利用量子分子动力学(QMD)模型研究入射质子能量在300MeV—1.5GeV,散裂靶为²⁰⁸Pb的(p,xn)核反应的双微分截面,QMD计算结果很好再现了实验数据,且QMD的计算结果明显优于HETC和LAHET.QMD在较宽的能区和核区满足加速器驱动洁净核能系统散裂靶物理计算的要求.     

Sustainability of Environment‐Assisted Energy Transfer in Quantum Photobiological Complexes

It is shown that quantum sustainability is a universal phenomenon which emerges during environment‐assisted electronic excitation energy transfer (EET) in photobiological complexes (PBCs), such as photosynthetic reaction centers and centers of melanogenesis. We demonstrate that quantum photobiological systems must be sustainable for them to simultaneously endure continuous energy transfer and keep their internal structure from destruction or critical instability. These quantum effects occur due to the interaction of PBCs with their environment which can be described by means of the reduced density operator and effective non‐Hermitian Hamiltonian (NH). Sustainable NH models of EET predict the coherence beats, followed by the decrease of coherence down to a small, yet non‐zero value. This indicates that in sustainable PBCs, quantum effects survive on a much larger time scale than the energy relaxation of an exciton. We show that sustainable evolution significantly lowers the entropy of PBCs and improves the speed and capacity of EET.     

Spectrum and Binding Energy of an Off-Center Hydrogenic Donor in aSpherical Quantum Dot

Off-center impurity effects in a spherical quantum dot are theoretically studied by degenerate perturbation method in strong confinement. The energy levels and binding energies are computed for the typical GaAs material as function of the donor position. The numerical results show the quantum size effect. We note that the energy levels and binding energies are not onlyrelated to the position of donor and the strength of confinement,but also related to the fold of degenerate states. We can see obviously that gaps will appear among the degenerate states and the splitting of energy levels and binding energies will appear as the position of the impurity is shifted away off the center.     

电荷不连续时电容耦合介观电路的量子回路方程及其能谱

考虑电荷具有不连续性的事实对双LC介观电路进行量子化,给出耦合形式的量子回路方程以及无相互作用Hamilton本征基矢下的电路能谱.结果表明,计及电荷离散性将使回路方程的形式发生明显变化;介观电路的能谱除与电路参数相关外,还明显地依赖于电荷的量子化性质.     

Two-Electron Energy Spectrum in a Parabolic Quantum Dot Under a Magnetic Field

Two interacting electrons in a harmonic oscillator potential under the influence of a perpendicular homo-geneous magnetic field are considered. The energies of two-electron quantum dots with the electron-LO-phonon couplingas a function of magnetic field are calculated. Calculations are made by using the method of few-body physics withinthe effective-mass approximation. Our results show that the electron-LO-phonon coupling effect is very important insemiconductor quantum dots.     

Measuring-Basis Encrypted Quantum Key Distribution with Four-State Systems

A measuring-basis encrypted quantum key distribution scheme is proposed by using twelve nonorthogonal states in a four-state system and the measuring-basis encryption technique. In this scheme, two bits of classical information can be encoded on one four-state particle and the transmitted particles can be fully used.