Spontaneous mirror-symmetry breaking in coupled photonic-crystal nanolasers

P Hamel, S Haddadi, F Raineri, P Monnier… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Multi-cavity photonic systems, also known as photonic molecules, exhibit multi-well
potentials that may prove useful for advanced quantum and nonlinear optics,,,. A key …

Quantum phase transitions with parity-symmetry breaking and hysteresis

A Trenkwalder, G Spagnolli, G Semeghini, S Coop… - Nature physics, 2016 - nature.com
Symmetry-breaking quantum phase transitions play a key role in several condensed matter,
cosmology and nuclear physics theoretical models,,. Its observation in real systems is often …

Enantio-conversion of chiral mixtures via optical pumping

C Ye, B Liu, YY Chen, Y Li - Physical Review A, 2021 - APS
Enantio-conversion with the help of electromagnetic fields is an essential issue due to the
chirality dependence of many chemical, biological, and pharmaceutical processes. Here, we …

The Interplay between Tunneling and Parity Violation in Chiral Molecules

D Martínez-Gil, P Bargueño, S Miret-Artés - Entropy, 2024 - mdpi.com
In this review, the concepts of quantum tunneling and parity violation are introduced in the
context of chiral molecules. A particle moving in a double well potential provides a good …

Two-qubit entanglement dynamics in a symmetry-broken environment

M Lucamarini, S Paganelli, S Mancini - Physical Review A—Atomic, Molecular …, 2004 - APS
We study the temporal evolution of entanglement pertaining to two qubits interacting with a
thermal bath. In particular we consider the simplest nontrivial spin bath models where …

Macroscopic quantum tunneling escape of Bose-Einstein condensates

X Zhao, DA Alcala, MA McLain, K Maeda, S Potnis… - Physical Review A, 2017 - APS
Recent experiments on macroscopic quantum tunneling reveal a nonexponential decay of
the number of atoms trapped in a quasibound state behind a potential barrier. Through both …

Universal Critical Power for Nonlinear Schrödinger Equations<? format?> with a Symmetric Double Well Potential

A Sacchetti - Physical review letters, 2009 - APS
Here we consider stationary states for nonlinear Schrödinger equations in any spatial
dimension n with symmetric double well potentials. These states may bifurcate as the …

A flea on Schrödinger's cat

NP Landsman, R Reuvers - Foundations of Physics, 2013 - Springer
We propose a technical reformulation of the measurement problem of quantum mechanics,
which is based on the postulate that the final state of a measurement is classical; this …

Properties and dispositions: some metaphysical remarks on quantum ontology

M Dorato - AIP Conference Proceedings, 2006 - pubs.aip.org
After some suggestions about how to clarify the confused metaphysical distinctions between
dispositional and non‐dispositional or categorical properties, I review some of the main …

Bifurcation and stability for nonlinear Schrödinger equations with double well potential in the semiclassical limit

R Fukuizumi, A Sacchetti - Journal of Statistical Physics, 2011 - Springer
We consider the stationary solutions for a class of Schrödinger equations with a symmetric
double-well potential and a nonlinear perturbation. Here, in the semiclassical limit we prove …