Special Issue

Quantum Mechanics in Solid State Systems

Submission Deadline: December 30, 2023 (Closed)

Guest Editor

Vardan Apinyan, PhD

Assistant Professor, Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Low Temperature and Structure Research, ul. Okólna 2, 50-422 Wrocław, Poland

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Research Interests: low-dimensional electron systems; quantum mechanics; excitonic systems; Bose-Einstein condensation of excitons; graphene and graphene based materials; electronic transport in solids.

About This Topic

The methods of quantum mechanics have revolutionized practically all domains of science and the actual level of the correct understanding of the properties in solid-state materials is principally due to the quantum mechanics. The present issue covers all aspects related to the application of the methods of quantum mechanics in solid-state materials. Both experimental and theoretical works are welcome for the publication in this special issue. The special attention will be paid to the new methods and idea related to the quantum mechanical description of materials. This includes the discoveries of new exotic phases of matter with the extraordinary quantum mechanical behavior of particles inside. On top of that, we seek for the papers which represent the important contributions related to light-matter interactions, wave propagations in solids, inter-particle correlations, quantum vortices and fields and new emergent quantum dynamics in solids. Original research reports, review articles, communications, and perspectives etc. are welcome in all areas pertinent to this topic.

Keywords

quantum mechanics; solid state applications; emergent quantum dynamics in solids.

Manuscript Submission Information

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Publication

Open Access Research Article Development of the Stochastic Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics by E. Nelson. Derivation of the Schrödinger-Euler-Poisson Equations by Mikhail Batanov-Gaukhman Received: 10 November 2023;  Published: 26 June 2024;  doi: 10.21926/rpm.2402014 Abstract The article aims to develop the stochastic interpretation of quantum mechanics by E. Nelson based on balancing the intra-systemic contradiction (i.e., antisymmetry) between “order” and “chaos”. For the set task, it is proposed to combine two mutually opposite system-forming principles: “the principle of least action� [...]

Open Access Research Article Spin Entanglement – A Unifying Principle for Superconductors and Molecular Bonding by Paul O'Hara Received: 20 December 2023;  Published: 03 June 2024;  doi: 10.21926/rpm.2402012 Abstract The spin-statistics theorem is generalized to include quantum entanglement. Specifically, within the context of spin entanglement, we prove that isotropically spin-correlated (ISC) states must occur in pairs. This pairing process can be composed of parallel or anti-parallel states. Consequently, the article proposes using ISC state [...]

Open Access Original Research Do Magnetic Monopoles Exist? by Spiros Koutandos Received: 21 October 2023;  Published: 07 February 2024;  doi: 10.21926/rpm.2401005 Abstract In this paper, we continue our previous work by discussing the consequences of curvature in spacetime caused by the presence of mass and the implications of this. We address the question raised by Dirac regarding the impact of a magnetic monopole on the quantum world. We discuss quantization concerning the solid angles observed [...]

Open Access Original Research Elementary Collective Effects in Systems Containing Small Fermion-Numbers by Angelo Plastino  , Diana Monteoliva  and Angel Ricardo Plastino Received: 14 October 2023;  Published: 06 February 2024;  doi: 10.21926/rpm.2401004 Abstract One deals with an fermions collective where we encounter elementary emerging-collective phenomena at very low temperatures. This simplicity allows for expanding our insight on collective fermion behavior. We focus on several quantifiers, including standard ones related to thermal [...]

Open Access Review Advances in Quantum Properties of Graphene and Derivatives Applied to Functional Nanomaterials and Metamaterials by A. Guillermo Bracamonte Received: 30 December 2022;  Published: 13 February 2023;  doi: 10.21926/rpm.2301008 Abstract In the present work we describe the most important quantum properties of graphene and derivatives recently published. We discuss how these properties were incorporated into varied hybrid materials such as substrates for specific tuning of matter to track varied quantum signals. Their potential applications were analyzed from nanomaterial and [...]

Open Access Original Research About Non-relativistic Quantum Mechanics and Electromagnetism by Ladislaus Alexander Bányai  and Mircea Bundaru Received: 21 October 2022;  Published: 08 December 2022;  doi: 10.21926/rpm.2204027 Abstract We describe here the coherent formulation of electromagnetism in the non-relativistic quantum-mechanical many-body theory of interacting charged particles. We use the mathematical frame of the field theory and its quantization in the spirit of the quantum electrodynamics (QED). This is necessary because a manifold of misinterpretat [...]

Open Access Research Article Optical, Charge Transport, Thermal, Magnetic, Plasmonic, and Quantum Mechanical Properties of Iridium by William E Vargas  , Federico Muñoz-Rojas  , Esteban Avendaño  , Victoria Quirós-Cordero  and Marcela Hernández-Jiménez Received: 30 July 2022;  Published: 12 October 2022;  doi: 10.21926/rpm.2204019 Abstract Spectrophotometry has been widely used to retrieve the dielectric function of a bulk iridium sample using an extended version of the Drude–Lorentz model. The parameters of the model are optimized using a spectral-projected-gradient-method-assisted acceptance-probability-controlled simulated annealing approach. Furthermore, optimized values [...]

Open Access Research Article Efficient Debye Function Interpolation Formulae: Sample Applications to Diamond by Roland Pässler Received: 17 June 2021;  Published: 22 November 2021;  doi: 10.21926/rpm.2104042 Abstract The well-known classical heat capacity model developed by Debye proposed an approximate description of the temperature-dependence of heat capacities of solids in terms of a characteristic integral, the T-dependent values of which are parameterized by the Deb [...]

Open Access Research Article Phase Equilibrium in ZrO2-CeO2-Eu2O3 System at a Temperature of 1500 °C by O.A. Kornienko  , S.V. Yushkevych  , A.V. Sameljuk  and O.R. Andrievskaya Received: 24 May 2021;  Published: 02 September 2021;  doi: 10.21926/rpm.2103036 Abstract The phase equilibria and structural transformations in the ternary ZrO2-CeO2-Eu2O3 system at 1500 °C were studied by X-ray diffraction and scanning electron microscopy in [...]

Open Access Research Article Plane Waves Scattered by a Spherical Inclusion in a Half Space of Poroelastic Material by Doo-Sung Lee Received: 09 December 2020;  Published: 02 June 2021;  doi: 10.21926/rpm.2102021 Abstract This paper concerns a poroelastic half-space in which plane compressional waves are scattered by a spherical inclusion. Addition theorems for the spherical wave functions are utilized to meet the boundary conditions on the plane, and the satisfaction of the given conditions on the boundary of the sphere leads to three infinite [...]

Open Access Research Article Classical and Quantum Models of Diffusion by Angelo Morro Received: 19 February 2021;  Published: 13 April 2021;  doi: 10.21926/rpm.2102011 Abstract The purpose of the paper is twofold. First, to review the classical diffusion models and show the approximations at the origin of the parabolic character of the classical equations. Secondly, to show a connection between quantum and classical models of diffusion. Since diffusion is inherently related to the motion of constituents then consiste [...]