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In ultra-pure conductors, collective motion of charge carriers at relatively high temperatures may become hydrodynamic such that electronic transport may be described similarly to a viscous flow. In confined geometries (e.g., in ultra-high…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-09-12 P. S. Alekseev , A. P. Dmitriev , I. V. Gornyi , V. Yu. Kachorovskii , B. N. Narozhny , M. Titov

The inverse current, i.e., induced current is opposite to applied force, has recentlybeen found in a classical one-dimensional interacting Hamiltonian system [Phys. Rev.Lett. 124, 110607 (2020)]. In this paper, we show that inverse current…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-12 Yanchao Zhang , Zhenzhen Xie

Scanning gate microscopy is used to locally investigate electron transport in a high-mobility two-dimensional electron gas formed in a GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructure. Using quantum point contacts (QPC) we observe branches caused by electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 A. A. Kozikov , C. Rössler , T. Ihn , K. Ensslin , C. Reichl , W. Wegscheider

We theoretically investigate the dynamical nuclear spin polarization in a quantum point contact (QPC) at finite magnetic field. We find that when the QPC is tuned to be spin selective, at the conductance of e^2/h, a finite bias induces a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-20 Peter Stano , Tomosuke Aono , Minoru Kawamura

Backflow is the phenomenon that the probability current of a quantum particle on the line can flow in the direction opposite to its momentum. In this article, previous investigations of backflow, pertaining to interaction-free dynamics or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-24 Henning Bostelmann , Daniela Cadamuro , Gandalf Lechner

The recent discovery of inverse current in coupled transport (ICC) in classical systems~\textcolor{blue}{[\textbf{Phys. Rev. Lett.} \textbf{124}, 110607 (2020)]} -- where an induced current flows opposite to two mutually parallel…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 Shuvadip Ghosh , Nikhil Gupt , Arnab Ghosh

Recently we have proposed an unusual mechanism of superconducting current that is specific for Quantum Hall Edge channels connected to superconducting electrodes. We have shown that the supercurrent can be mediated by a nonlocal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-16 Xiao-Li Huang , Yuli V. Nazarov

One-dimensional quantized conductance is derived from the electrons in a homogeneous electric field by calculating the traveling time of the accelerated motion and the number of electrons in the one-dimensional region. As a result, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-25 Daiju Terasawa

Images of electron flow through a two-dimensional electron gas from a quantum point contact (QPC) can be obtained at liquid He temperatures using scanning probe microscopy (SPM). A negatively charged SPM tip depletes the electron gas…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. J. LeRoy , A. C. Bleszynski , M. A. Topinka , R. M. Westervelt , S. E. J. Shaw , E. J. Heller , K. D. Maranowski , A. C. Gossard

Apart from usual quantization steps on the ballistic conductance of a quasi-one-dimensional conductor, an additional plateau-like feature appears at a fraction of about 0.7 below the first conductance step in GaAs-based quantum point…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-08 Tadeusz Figielski

We study drag effect in a system of two electrically isolated quantum point contacts (QPC), coupled by Coulomb interactions. Drag current exhibits maxima as a function of QPC gate voltages when the latter are tuned to the transitions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Alex Levchenko , Alex Kamenev

We investigate the backflow effect in elementary quantum mechanics - the phenomenon in which a state consisting entirely of positive momenta may have negative current and the probability flows in the opposite direction to the momentum. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 J. M. Yearsley , J J. Halliwell , R. Hartshorn , A. Whitby

The quantum point contact (QPC) back-action has been found to cause non-thermal-equilibrium excitations to the electron spin states in a quantum dot (QD). Here we use back-action as an excitation source to probe the spin excited states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-13 HaiOu Li , Ming Xiao , Gang Cao , Cheng Zhou , RuNan Shang , Tao Tu , GuangCan Guo , HongWen Jiang , GuoPing Guo

Backflow is a counter-intuitive phenomenon in which a forward propagating quantum particle propagates locally backwards. The actual counter-propagation property associated with this delicate interference phenomenon has not been observed to…

Optics · Physics 2018-11-26 Yaniv Eliezer , Thomas Zacharias , Alon Bahabad

We present an introduction to the backflow effect in quantum mechanics -- the phenomenon in which a state consisting entirely of positive momenta may have negative current and the probability flows in the opposite direction to the momentum.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 J. M. Yearsley , J. J. Halliwell

Josephson weak links in superconductors can be engineered such that the phase difference across the junction is $\pi$ ($\pi$-junction),leading to the reversal of the current. The conditions under which the analogous effect of supercurrent…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Sakellari , N. P. Proukakis , M. Leadbeater , C. S. Adams

A Quantum Point Contact (QPC) causes a one-dimensional constriction on the spatial potential landscape of a two-dimensional electron system. By tuning the voltage applied on a QPC at low temperatures the resulting regular step-like electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 E. Schubert , J. Heyder , F. Bauer , W. Stumpf , W. Wegscheider , J. v. Delft , S. Ludwig , A. Högele

We show how, with the use of quantum interference, we can violate, in some sense, the rule that charges of equal sign always repel each other. By considering two electrons that propagate parallel to each other in a Mach-Zehnder…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-05 Marina F. B. Cenni , Raul Corrêa , Pablo L. Saldanha

We systematically study the acousto-current of two-dimensional electron systems in the integer and fractional quantum Hall regimes using surface acoustic waves. We are able to separate the co-existing acoustic scattering and drag, when…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Renfei Wang , Xiao Liu , Mengmeng Wu , Yoon Jang Chung , Adbhut Gupta , Kirk W. Baldwin , Mansour Shayegan , Loren Pfeiffer , Xi Lin , Yang Liu

We investigate the power dissipated by an electronic current flowing through a quantum point contact in a two-dimensional electron gas. Based on the Landauer-B\"uttiker approach to quantum transport, we evaluate the power that is dissipated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-30 Carmen Blaas-Anselmi , Félix Helluin , Rodolfo A. Jalabert , Guillaume Weick , Dietmar Weinmann