Route to understand non-ergodic quantum systems

International Conference on Quantum Physics, Optics and Laser Technologies

May 09-10, 2018 Tokyo, Japan

Prosenjit Singha Deo

S N Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, India

Scientific Tracks Abstracts: J Laser Opt Photonics

Abstract :

Small quantum systems are non-ergodic. Electrons transmitted through a scatterer (region shaded blue) do not access all the states of the scatterer and we do not have the liberty to take an ensemble average or average over impurity configuration. In most transport measurements it is the partial density of states (pdos) that play a relevant role while it is never possible to know exact impurity configuration or the confinement potential that determines it. The pdos also crucially depends on the positions and nature of the leads (marked L and R) and so it is not enough to know the Hamiltonian of the system or the partition function, besides the leads that determine the asymptotic states in the scattering process always have free electron states while many body effects are inevitable inside the scatterer. How a free electron is transmitted through an interacting environment is a formidable theoretical problem as it requires matching a one body wavefunction to a many body wavefunction. We prove that pdos can be determined experimentally from the asymptotic free electron states at the resonances and sometimes it can be negative. There can be large errors in the non-resonant regime but non-resonant pdos is so small in magnitude that they may be ignored. Since our analysis is general, our results are valid for transmission through an interacting environment. From the pdos we can determine all other relevant quantities that can be probed by an experiment and thus we provide a novel and new technique to understand non-ergodic quantum systems. Negative pdos can also give rise to electron-electron attraction and also throws some light on the nature of traversal times. We consider several typical scattering potentials to demonstrate our results. We believe that our results can lead to the development on new technologies. Recent Publications 1. Urbashi Satpathi, P Singha Deo (2016) Negative partial density of states in mesoscopic systems. Annals of Physics; 375: 491. 2. P Singha Deo (2007) Nondispersive backscattering in quantum wires. Phys. Rev. B; 75(23): 235330.

Biography :

Prosenjit Singha Deo has completed his PhD in 1996 and has remained associated with research and teaching in Physics in premier institutions and universities abroad and in India. He has published more than 50 papers in international journals. He is a Professor at S.N. Bose Centre, Kolkata since 1999 and successfully guided several PhD theses. He has worked on various issues and problems in mesoscopic physics and correlated systems. Some of his current research topics include quantum devices, quantum capacitance, bosonization in higher dimensions, quantum mechanical scattering phase shift in low dimensions, etc.
Email:deo@bose.res.in