Annals of PhysicsPub Date : 2025-05-16DOI: 10.1016/j.aop.2025.170070
Yuan Yang, Zhengxuan Ding, Xiaobing Li
{"title":"Multiple localization transitions in a dimerized Kitaev superconductor model with random-dimer disorder","authors":"Yuan Yang, Zhengxuan Ding, Xiaobing Li","doi":"10.1016/j.aop.2025.170070","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.aop.2025.170070","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Recently, the reentrant localization has been theoretically and experimentally observed in a random-dimer disordered Su–Schrieffer–Heeger (SSH) lattice (Zuo et al., 2022; Xu et al., 2024). Here, We study the influence of random-dimer disorder in a one-dimensional dimerized Kitaev superconductor model, which is a generalized SSH model with <span><math><mi>p</mi></math></span>-wave superconducting pairing term. We show that the random-dimer disorder can lead to a topological Anderson insulator phase from a trivial phase, which can be confirmed by the real-space winding number together with Majorana zero modes in the energy spectrum. Furthermore, the inverse participation ratio, normalized participation ratio, and fractal dimension are calculated to characterize the localization properties of the system. The localization transition occurs two or three times with increasing the disorder strength. These results demonstrate that the disorder-induced topological phase transitions are not tied to the multiple localization–delocalization transitions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":8249,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Physics","volume":"479 ","pages":"Article 170070"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144114855","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 : 2025-05-16DOI: 10.1016/j.aop.2025.170072
Toma Yoneya , Kazuya Fujimoto , Yuki Kawaguchi
{"title":"Path-integral formulation of truncated Wigner approximation for bosonic Markovian open quantum systems","authors":"Toma Yoneya , Kazuya Fujimoto , Yuki Kawaguchi","doi":"10.1016/j.aop.2025.170072","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.aop.2025.170072","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The truncated Wigner approximation (TWA) enables us to investigate bosonic quantum many-body dynamics, including open quantum systems described by the Gorini-Kossakowski-Sudarshan-Lindblad (GKSL) equation. In the TWA, the Weyl-Wigner transformation, a way of mapping from quantum-mechanical operators to <span><math><mi>c</mi></math></span>-numbers, of the GKSL equation leads to the Fokker-Planck equation, which we calculate by reducing it to the corresponding stochastic differential equations. However, the Fokker-Planck equation is not always reduced to the stochastic differential equations depending on details of jump operators. In this work, we clarify the condition for obtaining the stochastic differential equations from the Fokker-Planck equation and derive analytical expressions of these equations for a system with an arbitrary Hamiltonian with jump operators that do not couple different states. This result leads to remarkable simplification of the complicated calculations required in the conventional procedures of the TWA. In the course of the derivation, we formulate the GKSL equation by using the path-integral representation based on the Weyl-Wigner transformation, which gives us a clear interpretation of the relation between the TWA and quantum fluctuations and allows us to calculate the non-equal time correlation functions in the TWA. In the benchmark calculations, we numerically confirm that the relaxation dynamics of physical quantities including the non-equal time correlation functions obtained in our formulation agrees well with the exact ones in the numerically solvable models. Since our formulation is widely applicable to bosonic systems such as the Bose-Hubbard model, it facilitates studies of the open quantum many-body phenomenon.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":8249,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Physics","volume":"479 ","pages":"Article 170072"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144106099","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.2025.170073
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.2025.170074
K. Bayrak, D. Kaya, G.B. Gök, O. Bayrak
{"title":"The effect of a new position-dependent effective mass on the optical properties of a hydrogenic donor in a spherical quantum dot","authors":"K. Bayrak, D. Kaya, G.B. Gök, O. Bayrak","doi":"10.1016/j.aop.2025.170074","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.aop.2025.170074","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The influence of a new position-dependent effective mass on the electronic and optical properties of a hydrogenic donor in a GaAs quantum dot is investigated. The electron mass is modeled as a function of spatial position, temperature, and hydrostatic pressure, allowing for a more comprehensive understanding of the system’s behavior under varying external conditions. The position-dependent radial Schrödinger equation is solved for the spherical Coulomb potential, and the bound state energy eigenvalues, along with the corresponding wave functions, are computed using the Runge–Kutta method. The effects of position-dependent effective mass and donor radius on confinement energy, dipole matrix element, absorption coefficient, and refractive index change are analyzed. This study underscores the importance of incorporating position-dependent mass, temperature, and hydrostatic pressure in calculating the electronic and optical properties of the hydrogenic donor in the GaAs quantum dot.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":8249,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Physics","volume":"479 ","pages":"Article 170074"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144106097","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 : 2025-05-13DOI: 10.1016/j.aop.2025.170056
Kanwal Nazir, Nimra Ramzan, Myra Nisar
{"title":"Reconstructed Tsallis Hologhraphic F(T,TG) dark energy model with scalar fields","authors":"Kanwal Nazir, Nimra Ramzan, Myra Nisar","doi":"10.1016/j.aop.2025.170056","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.aop.2025.170056","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This work is based on the study of the role of Tsallis holographic dark energy model in <span><math><mrow><mi>F</mi><mrow><mo>(</mo><mi>T</mi><mo>,</mo><msub><mrow><mi>T</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>G</mi></mrow></msub><mo>)</mo></mrow></mrow></math></span> gravity. We examine correspondence technique together with power-law scale factor. We attain equation of state parameter by using this scheme. We evaluate potential energy and kinetic terms for tachyon, quintessence, dilation and k-essence scalar field models and analyse their results graphically. It is noticed that Tsallis holographic dark energy equation of state parameter shows the influence of dark energy in the universe. Also, the graphical behaviour of kinetic and potential energy for all scalar field models fulfil dark energy phenomenon and the results support with recent observations.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":8249,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Physics","volume":"479 ","pages":"Article 170056"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144089058","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 : 2025-05-12DOI: 10.1016/j.aop.2025.170054
Siddhant Das , Dirk-André Deckert , Leopold Kellers , Simon Krekels , Ward Struyve
{"title":"Double-slit experiment revisited","authors":"Siddhant Das , Dirk-André Deckert , Leopold Kellers , Simon Krekels , Ward Struyve","doi":"10.1016/j.aop.2025.170054","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.aop.2025.170054","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The double-slit experiment is one of the quintessential quantum experiments. However, it tends to be overlooked that the build-up of the interference pattern involves single detection events with a random position and a random time of detection. Hence, a full theoretical account of this experiment requires the specification of the joint position and time distribution of detection at the screen, whose position marginal yields the famous interference pattern. The difficulty lies in what this distribution should be. While there are a variety of proposals for a quantum mechanical time observable , there is no consensus about the right choice. Here, we consider Bohmian mechanics, which allows for a natural and practical approach to this problem. We simulate this distribution in the case of an initial Gaussian wave packet passing through a double-slit potential. We also consider a more challenging setup in which one of the slits is closed during flight. To experimentally probe the quantum nature of the time distribution, a sufficient longitudinal spread of the initial wave packet is required, which has not been achieved so far. Without sufficient spread, the temporal aspect of the distribution can be treated classically. We illustrate this for the case of the double-slit experiment with helium atoms by Kurtsiefer et al. (1997), which reports the joint position and time distribution.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":8249,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Physics","volume":"479 ","pages":"Article 170054"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144106095","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}