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Valeriia Bilokon

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arXiv2026

Nonlinear Response via Sublinear Optics

Sublinear optical response, in which the emitted field scales as a fractional power of the driving field, lies beyond the conventional perturbative hierarchy of nonlinear optics. Here, we show that such a response can be engineered in a hydrogen atom using tracking control. Rather than prescribing the driving waveform, the field is determined self-consistently from the evolving quantum state to enforce a chosen relation between the optical response and the applied field. We demonstrate accurate tracking for multiple exponents and scaling strengths, establishing that a single atomic system can be driven to realize a family of distinct sublinear responses. The calculations are enabled by a compact wave-packet continuum discretization that treats bound and continuum states on equal footing and is applied here, to the best of our knowledge, for the first time to strong-field optics and quantum control. These results establish tracking control as a general route to engineering optical responses beyond conventional polynomial nonlinearities.

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arXiv2026

Measurement-Selective Dynamical Symmetry Breaking

Continuous measurement is commonly associated with decoherence and the loss of symmetry. Here, we show that weak continuous measurements can instead act selectively: depending on the measured observable, they may either preserve or remove a dynamical relation between initially mirrored states. Using tunneling between the $|+1\rangle$ and $|-1\rangle$ states of a spin-1 system, we demonstrate that measurements of $S_x$ and $S_y$ break the symmetry of the tunneling dynamics in the presence of a longitudinal bias, whereas measurement of $S_z$ leaves it intact. We formulate this behavior within the Lindblad framework, support it with numerical simulations, and reproduce the dissipative dynamics in a two-qubit quantum circuit using Trotterized evolution and stochastic collective rotations. Our results establish continuous measurement as a selective tool for controlling dynamical symmetry in open quantum systems.

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arXiv2026

Hilbert Space Black Hole Analog: Unidirectional Transport without Driving

Black holes permit matter to cross their event horizon in only one direction. We show that interacting bosons in optical lattices with asymmetric barrier exhibit an analogous phenomenon, creating unidirectional quantum transport without external driving or dissipation. This directionality emerges purely from many-body interactions, which cause asymmetric projection of the initial state onto transport-enabled or transport-forbidden sectors. The resulting dynamics create an effective one-way boundary in Hilbert space, forming a quantum analog of a black-hole event horizon. Our results establish interactions as a fundamentally new route to directional transport, enabling coherent rectification in atomtronic circuits by the use of intrinsic properties of the system only.

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arXiv2026

Predicting Entanglement Entropy from Particle Tunneling of Interacting Fermions Using Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks

Entanglement entropy is a fundamental measure of quantum correlations and a key resource underpinning advances in quantum information and many-body physics. We uncover a universal relationship between bipartite entanglement entropy and particle number after the barrier in a one-dimensional Fermi-Hubbard system with an external asymmetric potential. Decomposing the von Neumann entropy into number entropy $S_n$ and configurational entropy $S_c$, we show that in the barrier-dominated tunneling regime both components are individually well-defined functions of the post-barrier particle density $n_A$, even though $S_c$ encodes off-diagonal coherences that are not directly accessible from density measurements alone. Using Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks - a novel machine learning architecture - we learn the relationship for entropy and its components across a broad range of interaction strengths and barrier heights with high predictive accuracy. Furthermore, we propose a simple analytical binary-entropy-like expression that quantitatively captures the observed correlation for fixed parameters. Our findings open new avenues for characterizing quantum correlations in transport phenomena and provide a powerful framework for estimating the full von Neumann entropy - including its configurational component - from a single transport observable.

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arXiv2026

Dispersion Relations in Two- and Three-Dimensional Quantum Systems

Extracting momentum-resolved excitation spectra in strongly correlated quantum systems remains a major challenge, especially beyond one spatial dimension. We present an efficient tensor-network approach to compute dispersion relations via imaginary-time evolution within the infinite projected entangled-pair states (iPEPS) framework. Benchmarking on the transverse-field Ising model, the method successfully captures dispersion relations in both paramagnetic and ferromagnetic phases for two- and three-dimensional lattices, achieving strong agreement with series expansion methods, where these are applicable. Crucially, this work presents the first demonstration of dispersion relation calculations for three-dimensional quantum lattice models - a long-standing computational challenge that opens entirely new research frontiers. The method demonstrates remarkable efficiency, requiring only modest computational resources while maintaining high accuracy across wide parameter ranges. Its broad applicability makes it a powerful tool for quantum simulation, photonic material design, and quantum information platforms requiring precise momentum-resolved spectra.

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arXiv2026

Towards spintronics via tunneling through asymmetric barriers

Spin transport typically relies on direct manipulation of the spin degree of freedom via magnetic fields, spin-orbit coupling, or engineered spin-dependent potentials. We show theoretically that directional spin currents can arise in a relatively simple setting - a one-dimensional interacting fermionic ring with static, spin-independent asymmetric barriers. By introducing asymmetric potential barrier geometry, spin-resolved circulating currents emerge on a closed chain even for symmetric initial configurations. The effect can be enhanced or reversed by appropriate initial state preparation and tuning the barrier asymmetry to resonant conditions.

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arXiv2026

All You Need is Amplifier: Spectral Imposters Without Pulse Shaping

Quantum tracking control encodes the desired dynamics into a tailored driving field; here, we let the system find its own way there. We propose a real-time feedback control framework in which a proportional controller continuously corrects a simple transform-limited field based on the instantaneous mismatch between two systems' responses - producing the required control on the fly, without prior waveform design. The framework is demonstrated on two distinct examples: a single-active-electron atom, where hydrogen is driven to mimic argon's strong-field optical emission, and a Fermi-Hubbard chain, where a weakly interacting lattice reproduces the transport dynamics of a Mott-insulating reference. By shifting the control paradigm from predesigned inputs to adaptive response tracking, this approach establishes closed-loop feedback as a broadly applicable route to programmable quantum dynamics.

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arXiv2025

Few-fermion resonant tunneling and underbarrier trapping in asymmetric potentials

Understanding quantum tunneling in many-body systems is crucial for advancing quantum technologies and nanoscale device design. Despite extensive studies of quantum tunneling, the role of interactions in determining directional transport through asymmetric barriers in discrete quantum systems remains unclear. Here we show that noninteracting fermions exhibit symmetric tunneling probabilities regardless of barrier orientation, while inter-particle interactions break this symmetry and create pronounced asymmetric tunneling behavior. We explore the dependence of tunneling behavior on the initial spin configurations of two spin-1/2 fermions: spin-triplet states preserve tunneling symmetry, while spin-singlet states show strong asymmetry. We identify regimes where interactions mediate tunneling through under-barrier resonant trapping and enhance tunneling via many-body resonant tunneling -- a phenomenon arising solely from inter-particle interactions and being fundamentally different from traditional single-particle resonant tunneling. Our results may be applied to the design of nanoscale devices with tailored transport properties, such as diodes and memristors.

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arXiv2023

Many-body correlations in one-dimensional optical lattices with alkaline-earth(-like) atoms

We explore the rich nature of correlations in the ground state of ultracold atoms trapped in state-dependent optical lattices. In particular, we consider interacting fermionic ytterbium or strontium atoms, realizing a two-orbital Hubbard model with two spin components. We analyze the model in one-dimensional setting with the experimentally relevant hierarchy of tunneling and interaction amplitudes by means of exact diagonalization and matrix product states approaches, and study the correlation functions in density, spin, and orbital sectors as functions of variable densities of atoms in the ground and metastable excited states. We show that in certain ranges of densities these atomic systems demonstrate strong density-wave, ferro- and antiferromagnetic, as well as antiferroorbital correlations.

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arXiv2021

Thermodynamic characteristics of ideal quantum gases in harmonic potentials within exact and semiclassical approaches

We theoretically examine equilibrium properties of the harmonically trapped ideal Bose and Fermi gases in the quantum degeneracy regime. We analyze thermodynamic characteristics of gases with a finite number of atoms by means of the known semiclassical approach and perform comparison with exact numerical results. For a Fermi gas, we demonstrate deviations in the Fermi energy values originating from a discrete level structure and show that these are observable only for a small number of particles. For a Bose gas, we observe characteristic softening of phase transition features, which contrasts to the semiclassical predictions and related approximations. We provide a more accurate methodology of determining corrections to the critical temperature due to finite number of particles.

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