Annals of PhysicsPub Date : 2025-05-15DOI: 10.1016/j.aop.2025.170073
Min Liu , Yue Zhang , Rui Tian, Xiayao He, Tianhao Wu, Maksims Arzamasovs, Shuai Li, Bo Liu
{"title":"Non-Hermiticity enhanced topological immunity of one-dimensional p-wave superconducting chain","authors":"Min Liu , Yue Zhang , Rui Tian, Xiayao He, Tianhao Wu, Maksims Arzamasovs, Shuai Li, Bo Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.aop.2025.170073","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.aop.2025.170073","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Studying the immunity of topological superconductors against non-local disorder is one of the key issues in both fundamental researches and potential applications. Here, we demonstrate that the non-Hermiticity can enhance the robustness of topological edge states against non-local disorder. To illustrate that, we consider a one-dimensional (1D) generalized Kitaev model with the asymmetric hopping in the presence of disorder. It is shown that the region supporting Majorana zero modes (MZMs) against non-local disorder will be enlarged by the non-Hermiticity. Through both the numerical and analytical analyses, we show that non-Hermiticity can stabilize the topological superconducting (SC) phase against higher disorder strength. Our studies would offer new insights into the interplay between non-Hermiticity and topology.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":8249,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Physics","volume":"479 ","pages":"Article 170073"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144072377","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Annals of PhysicsPub Date : 2025-05-15DOI: 10.1016/j.aop.2025.170068
Congying Ma , Jingjing Jin , Haoran Sun , Wenyuan Liu , Qi Jie
{"title":"The ground states of spin–orbit coupled Bose–Einstein condensates in spin-dependent potential","authors":"Congying Ma , Jingjing Jin , Haoran Sun , Wenyuan Liu , Qi Jie","doi":"10.1016/j.aop.2025.170068","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.aop.2025.170068","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>By exploring the Rashba spin–orbit (SO)-coupled pseudo-spin-1/2 Bose–Einstein condensates (BECs) with the Gross–Pitaevskii equations, we investigate the ground state properties of condensates in spin-dependent Gaussian potential. The condensates exhibit many rich density patterns due to competition among interparticle interaction, SO coupling and trapping potential. In the regime of fixed potential well spacing, with relatively weak SO coupling strength, a novel structure called skyrmion dipole can be observed. And the transition between skyrmion dipole, plane wave (PW) phase with vortex array, and stripe phase can be realized by changing the SO coupling strength. In the regime of fixed SO coupling strength, the non-overlap of two potential wells breaks the rotational symmetry of the potential well, and the spatial orientation of the stripe state and the PW state to be locked in a specific direction while each component replicates the same structure in the potential well of the other component. The orientation of the plane waves and stripes in both structures is same for small well spacing and independent for large well spacing. This work enriches the ground state phases of the ultracold atomic systems and deepens our understanding of topological excitation in cold atom physics and condensed matter physics.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":8249,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Physics","volume":"479 ","pages":"Article 170068"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144068337","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Annals of PhysicsPub Date : 2025-05-14DOI: 10.1016/j.aop.2025.170069
Oliwier Urbański
{"title":"An infinite grid of mesoscopic resistors – investigation and visualization of ballistic conduction","authors":"Oliwier Urbański","doi":"10.1016/j.aop.2025.170069","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.aop.2025.170069","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>A square lattice of mesoscopic resistors is considered. Each bond is modeled as a narrow waveguide, while junctions are sources of elastic scattering given by a scattering matrix <span><math><mi>S</mi></math></span>. Symmetry and unitarity constraints are used in a detailed way to simplify all possible matrices <span><math><mi>S</mi></math></span>. Energetic band structure of the system is determined and visualized for exemplary parameters. Conductance between external electrodes attached to two arbitrary nodes is given by the Landauer formula. Thus the transmittance between the electrodes is calculated. The rest of the paper is devoted to studying wave function patterns arising from an electron injected through one electrode into the system. It is observed that depending on its energy both dull and localized or intricate and expansive patterns occur. It is justified mathematically that fitting electron energy into an energy band can be associated with emergence of complex patterns. Finally, possible experimental realizations of the considered model are briefly mentioned.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":8249,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Physics","volume":"479 ","pages":"Article 170069"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144072380","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Annals of PhysicsPub Date : 2025-05-14DOI: 10.1016/j.aop.2025.170067
Partha Pratim Nath, Debojit Sarma
{"title":"Exponential wormhole, its quasinormal modes, and study in logarithmic f(R) gravity","authors":"Partha Pratim Nath, Debojit Sarma","doi":"10.1016/j.aop.2025.170067","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.aop.2025.170067","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We have investigated the quasinormal modes of “exponential wormhole” using 3rd-order WKB approximation. Following that, we have explored the metric in the logarithmic <span><math><mrow><mi>f</mi><mrow><mo>(</mo><mi>R</mi><mo>)</mo></mrow></mrow></math></span> gravity using a cubic gravity term inside the <span><math><mrow><mi>f</mi><mrow><mo>(</mo><mi>R</mi><mo>)</mo></mrow></mrow></math></span> function. We determined the parameters for the logarithmic <span><math><mrow><mi>f</mi><mrow><mo>(</mo><mi>R</mi><mo>)</mo></mrow></mrow></math></span> gravity model, which include energy density, tangential, and radial pressure. Afterward, we explored the energy conditions for the proposed model through related plots. We have used trivial techniques to constrain the free parameters of the logarithmic <span><math><mrow><mi>f</mi><mrow><mo>(</mo><mi>R</mi><mo>)</mo></mrow></mrow></math></span> gravity. We showed the appropriate stability criteria using related graphs. Also, we discovered that the exponential wormhole satisfies some of the required energy barriers in the Logarithmic <span><math><mrow><mi>f</mi><mrow><mo>(</mo><mi>R</mi><mo>)</mo></mrow></mrow></math></span> gravity without disturbing any flare-out or stability constraints. We additionally studied the stability of the exponential wormhole in the logarithmic <span><math><mrow><mi>f</mi><mrow><mo>(</mo><mi>R</mi><mo>)</mo></mrow></mrow></math></span> gravity through the Tolman–Oppenheimer–Volkoff(TOV) equation and found some interesting nature of the space–time. The logarithmic f(R) gravity model is convenient for the exponential wormhole’s existence, even if there are certain limitations on the parameter ranges of the <span><math><mrow><mi>f</mi><mrow><mo>(</mo><mi>R</mi><mo>)</mo></mrow></mrow></math></span> gravity model.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":8249,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Physics","volume":"479 ","pages":"Article 170067"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144068234","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Annals of PhysicsPub Date : 2025-05-12DOI: 10.1016/j.aop.2025.170052
N.L. Diaz , J.M. Matera , R. Rossignoli
{"title":"Path integrals from spacetime quantum actions","authors":"N.L. Diaz , J.M. Matera , R. Rossignoli","doi":"10.1016/j.aop.2025.170052","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.aop.2025.170052","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The possibility of extending the canonical formulation of quantum mechanics (QM) to a space–time symmetric form has recently attracted wide interest. In this context, a recent proposal has shown that a spacetime symmetric many-body extension of the Page and Wootters mechanism naturally leads to the so-called Quantum Action (QA) operator, a quantum version of the action of classical mechanics. In this work, we focus on connecting the QA with the well-established Feynman’s Path Integral (PI). In particular, we present a novel formalism which allows one to identify the “sum over histories” with a quantum trace, where the role of the classical action is replaced by the corresponding QA. The trace is defined in the extended Hilbert space resulting from assigning a conventional Hilbert space to each time slice and then taking their tensor product. The formalism opens the way to the application of quantum computation protocols to the evaluation of PIs and general correlation functions, and reveals that different representations of the PI arise from distinct choices of basis in the evaluation of the same trace expression. The Hilbert space embedding of the PIs also discloses a new approach to their continuum time limit. Finally, we discuss how the ensuing canonical-like version of QM inherits many properties from the PI formulation, thus allowing an explicitly covariant treatment of spacetime symmetries.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":8249,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Physics","volume":"479 ","pages":"Article 170052"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143942692","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Annals of PhysicsPub Date : 2025-05-10DOI: 10.1016/j.aop.2025.170050
Axel Maas, Philipp Schreiner
{"title":"The manifestly gauge-invariant spectrum of the minimal supersymmetric standard model","authors":"Axel Maas, Philipp Schreiner","doi":"10.1016/j.aop.2025.170050","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.aop.2025.170050","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Formal field theory requires, even in the presence of a Brout-Englert-Higgs effect, to maintain manifest non-perturbative gauge invariance. The Fröhlich-Morchio-Strocchi mechanism allows nonetheless an augmented perturbative treatment. We perform such an augmented tree-level analysis for the minimal supersymmetric standard model. We find that, as for the standard model, corrections to standard perturbation theory are only sub-leading.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":8249,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Physics","volume":"479 ","pages":"Article 170050"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144068235","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Annals of PhysicsPub Date : 2025-05-09DOI: 10.1016/j.aop.2025.170082
Zhiyuan Wang , Zijing Zhang
{"title":"Direct characterization of arbitrary qubit systems without auxiliary states","authors":"Zhiyuan Wang , Zijing Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.aop.2025.170082","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.aop.2025.170082","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Characterization of unknown quantum measurements and quantum states are important tasks in quantum information processing. However, traditional quantum tomography cannot measure arbitrary matrix elements of measurement operators and state density matrices because it requires a global reconstruction algorithm. The direct characterization scheme obtains specific matrix elements without using a global reconstruction algorithm; hence, the scheme has received attention from various researchers. Previous studies have described that direct measurement schemes are based on weak measurements and require the introduction of additional auxiliary states and weak-coupling approximation, which increases the complexity of the practical experimentation and reduces the measurement precision. In this study, we propose a circuit scheme for the direct characterization of positive-operator-valued measure without auxiliary states. In addition, the scheme is suitable for direct measurements of general quantum states. Next, when considering that qubit resources are insufficient, we introduce a coherent superposition state that improves the measurement efficiency in such a case. Finally, we also propose a quantum non-demolition measurement scheme for general quantum states based on the circuit scheme.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":8249,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Physics","volume":"479 ","pages":"Article 170082"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143942690","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Impact of quintessence dark energy on anisotropic stellar models for Tolman IV metric in Rastall gravity","authors":"Arfa Waseem , T. Chudhary , Faisal Javed , Ertan Güdekli , Bander Almutairi","doi":"10.1016/j.aop.2025.170041","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.aop.2025.170041","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>One possible tactic to stop compact things from gravitationally collapsing into singularities is dark energy. It has the most effect on the universe since it is the reason behind our universe’s accelerated expansion. Thus, it is conceivable that any compact star object in the universe will interact with dark energy. This manuscript deals with the consequences of quintessence dark energy on the structural attributes of anisotropic compact stellar objects in the scenario of non-conservative gravitational theory. In order to evaluate the field equations of non-conservative theory, Tolman IV metric ansatz is employed coupled with a quintessence dark energy identified by a factor <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>ω</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>q</mi></mrow></msub></math></span> possessing <span><math><mrow><mo>−</mo><mn>1</mn><mo><</mo><msub><mrow><mi>ω</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>q</mi></mrow></msub><mo><</mo><mo>−</mo><mfrac><mrow><mn>1</mn></mrow><mrow><mn>3</mn></mrow></mfrac></mrow></math></span>. Utilizing the matching conditions with observed choices of masses and radii of some specific compact star representatives such as PSR J1614-2230, Vela X-1, Her X-1 and Cen X-3, we compute the unknown Tolman IV parameters. Graphically a detailed analysis of the physical properties is provided, including the energy density, quintessence density, pressure components, and stability. Additionally, the matter variables’ radially symmetric profiles are presented. Through the analysis of all these physical aspects, it is demonstrated that the anisotropic compact models are viable and well-stabilized in the Rastall gravity regime with the Tolman IV ansatz. The comparative research also shows that our model is better in line with observational results than the general relativity results for a few choices of the Rastall dimensionless parameter.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":8249,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Physics","volume":"479 ","pages":"Article 170041"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143931636","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Annals of PhysicsPub Date : 2025-05-08DOI: 10.1016/j.aop.2025.170047
Aleksei Khindanov , Igor L. Aleiner , Lara Faoro , Lev B. Ioffe
{"title":"Observable measurement-induced transitions","authors":"Aleksei Khindanov , Igor L. Aleiner , Lara Faoro , Lev B. Ioffe","doi":"10.1016/j.aop.2025.170047","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.aop.2025.170047","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>One of the main postulates of quantum mechanics is that measurements destroy quantum coherence (wave function collapse). Recently it was discovered that in a many-body system dilute local measurements still preserve some coherence across the entire system. As the measurement density is increased, a phase transition occurs that is characterized by the disentanglement of different parts of the system. Unfortunately, this transition is impossible to observe experimentally for macroscopic systems because it requires an exponentially costly full tomography of the many-body wave function or a comparison with the simulation on an oracle classical computer. In this work we report the discovery of another measurement-induced phase transition that can be observed experimentally if quantum dynamics can be reversed. On one side of this phase transition the quantum information encoded in some part of the Hilbert space is fully recovered after the time inversion. On the other side, all quantum information is corrupted. This transition also manifests itself as the change in the behavior of the probability to observe the same measurement outcome in the process that consists of identical blocks repeated many times. In each block the unitary evolution is followed by the measurement. On one side of the transition the probability decreases exponentially with the number of repetitions, on the other it tends to a constant as the number of repetitions is increased. We confirm the existence of the proposed phase transition through numerical simulations of realistic quantum circuits and analytical calculations using an effective random-matrix theory model.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":8249,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Physics","volume":"479 ","pages":"Article 170047"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143931637","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Annals of PhysicsPub Date : 2025-05-08DOI: 10.1016/j.aop.2025.170055
E.P. Mattos, A. Vidiella-Barranco
{"title":"Phase-space approach to cavity field dynamics in a squeezed thermal reservoir","authors":"E.P. Mattos, A. Vidiella-Barranco","doi":"10.1016/j.aop.2025.170055","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.aop.2025.170055","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Quantum systems, such as a single-mode cavity field coupled to a thermal bath, typically experience destructive effects due to interactions with their noisy environment. When the bath combines both thermal fluctuations and a nonclassical feature like quadrature squeezing, forming a squeezed thermal reservoir, the system’s behavior can change substantially. In this work, we study the evolution of the cavity field in this generalized environment using an alternative phase-space approach based on the Glauber–Sudarshan <span><math><mi>P</mi></math></span>-function. We derive a compact analytical expression for the time-dependent <span><math><mi>P</mi></math></span>-function for arbitrary initial cavity field states and demonstrate its utility through specific examples. Additionally, we obtain analytical expressions, as a function of time, for some statistical properties of the cavity field, as well as for the nonclassical depth, <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>τ</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>m</mi></mrow></msub></math></span>, a nonclassicality measure calculated directly from the <span><math><mi>P</mi></math></span>-function.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":8249,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Physics","volume":"479 ","pages":"Article 170055"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143937637","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}