Mesoscopic physics of nanomechanical systems

A Bachtold, J Moser, MI Dykman - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2022 - APS
Nanomechanics has brought mesoscopic physics into the world of vibrations. Because
nanomechanical systems are small, fluctuations are significant, the vibrations already …

Colloquium: Atomtronic circuits: From many-body physics to quantum technologies

L Amico, D Anderson, M Boshier, JP Brantut… - Reviews of Modern …, 2022 - APS
Atomtronics is an emerging field that aims to manipulate ultracold atom moving in matter-
wave circuits for fundamental studies in both quantum science and technological …

Ultrasensitive force detection with a nanotube mechanical resonator

J Moser, J Güttinger, A Eichler, MJ Esplandiu… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Since the advent of atomic force microscopy, mechanical resonators have been used to
study a wide variety of phenomena, including the dynamics of individual electron spins …

Mechanical systems in the quantum regime

M Poot, HSJ van der Zant - Physics Reports, 2012 - Elsevier
Mechanical systems are ideal candidates for studying quantum behavior of macroscopic
objects. To this end, a mechanical resonator has to be cooled to its ground state and its …

Imprinting persistent currents in tunable fermionic rings

G Del Pace, K Xhani, A Muzi Falconi, M Fedrizzi… - Physical Review X, 2022 - APS
Persistent currents in annular geometries have played an important role in disclosing the
quantum phase coherence of superconductors and mesoscopic electronic systems …

From macrocycles to quantum rings: Does aromaticity have a size limit?

M Jirásek, HL Anderson, MD Peeks - Accounts of Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Conspectus The ring currents of aromatic and antiaromatic molecules are remarkable
emergent phenomena. A ring current is a quantum-mechanical feature of the whole system …

Non-Hermitian Fermi-Dirac distribution in persistent current transport

PX Shen, Z Lu, JL Lado, M Trif - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
Persistent currents circulate continuously without requiring external power sources. Here,
we extend their theory to include dissipation within the framework of non-Hermitian quantum …

Aromatic and antiaromatic ring currents in a molecular nanoring

MD Peeks, TDW Claridge, HL Anderson - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Aromatic and antiaromatic molecules—which have delocalized circuits of [4 n+ 2] or [4 n]
electrons, respectively—exhibit ring currents around their perimeters,,,. The direction of the …

Single-crystal diamond nanomechanical resonators with quality factors exceeding one million

Y Tao, JM Boss, BA Moores, CL Degen - Nature communications, 2014 - nature.com
Diamond has gained a reputation as a uniquely versatile material, yet one that is intricate to
grow and process. Resonating nanostructures made of single-crystal diamond are expected …

Vernier templating and synthesis of a 12-porphyrin nano-ring

MC O'Sullivan, JK Sprafke, DV Kondratuk, C Rinfray… - Nature, 2011 - nature.com
Templates are widely used to arrange molecular components so they can be covalently
linked into complex molecules that are not readily accessible by classical synthetic …