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In this article, we combine the modified electrostatics of a one-dimensional transistor structure with a quantum kinetic formulation of Coulomb interaction and nonequilibrium transport. A multi-configurational self-consistent Green's…

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The scattering effects are studied in nanometer-scaled double-gate MOSFET, using Monte Carlo simulation. The non-equilibrium transport in the channel is analyzed with the help of the spectroscopy of the number of scatterings experienced by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Saint Martin , A. Bournel , P. Dollfus

We investigate transport through a single impurity in metallic zigzag carbon nanotube and find the conductance sensitively depends on the impurity strength and the bias voltage. It is rather interesting that interplay between the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Po-Yao Chang , Hsiu-Hau Lin

In single electron tunneling through clean, suspended carbon nanotube devices at low temperature, distinct switching phenomena have regularly been observed. These can be explained via strong interaction of single electron tunneling and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-24 D. R. Schmid , P. L. Stiller , C. Strunk , A. K. Hüttel

An ultra-strong photovoltaic effect has recently been reported for electrons trapped on a liquid Helium surface under a microwave excitation tuned at intersubband resonance [D. Konstantinov et. al. : J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 81, 093601 (2012) ].…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-24 F. Closa , E. Raphael , A. D. Chepelianskii

We study the tunneling conductance of nano-scale quantum ``shuttles'' in connection with a recent experiment (H. Park et al., Nature, 407, 57 (2000)) in which a vibrating C^60 molecule was apparently functioning as the island of a single…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 K. D. McCarthy , N. Prokof'ev , M. T. Tuominen

Electronic quantum effects in disordered conductors are controlled by the dephasing rate of conduction electrons. This rate is expected to vanish with the temperature. We consider the very intriguing recently reported apparent saturation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Yoseph Imry , Hidetoshi Fukuyama , Peter Schwab

We study the effect of electron-electron backscattering interactions on spin transport in a quantum wire. Even if these interactions have no significant effect on charge transport, they strongly influence the transport of spin. We use the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 Cristina Bena , Leon Balents

The electronic transport properties in magnetically doped ultra-thin films of topological-insulators is investigated by using Landauer-buttiker formalism. The chiral selective tunneling is addressed in such systems which leads to transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-25 Taahere Sabze , Hosein Cheraghchi

Motivated by recent breakthrough in molecular beam epitaxy of GaAs/AlGaAs quantum wells [Y. J. Chung \textit{et al.}, Nature Materials \textbf{20}, 632 (2021)], we examine contributions to mobility and quantum mobility from various…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-30 Yi Huang , B. I. Shklovskii , M. A. Zudov

Low-temperature experiments are performed on novel nanoscale nonlinear devices (ballistic rectifiers) as well as nano-structured artificial materials, fabricated from an InP/InGaAs quantum well wafer. A DC output is generated between the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Löfgren , I. Shorubalko , P. Omling , A. M. Song

We study nonlinear transport and non-equilibrium current noise in quasi-classical point contacts (PCs) defined in a low-density high-quality two-dimensional electron system in GaAs. At not too high bias voltages $V$ across the PC the noise…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-21 E. S. Tikhonov , M. Yu. Melnikov , D. V. Shovkun , L. Sorba , G. Biasiol , V. S. Khrapai

Employing a real time effective action formalism we analyze electron transport and current fluctuations in comparatively short coherent conductors in the presence of electron-electron interactions. We demonstrate that, while Coulomb…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Dmitri S. Golubev , Artem V. Galaktionov , Andrei D. Zaikin

We explain recent experimental observations on effective charge of edge states tunneling through a quantum point contact in the weak backscattering regime. We focus on the behavior of the excess noise and on the effective tunneling charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-08-31 Dario Ferraro , Alessandro Braggio , Nicodemo Magnoli , Maura Sassetti

We analyze electron transport through a quantum shuttle for the applied voltage below the instability threshold. We obtain current-voltage characteristics of this system and show that at low temperature they exhibit pronounced steps. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Anatoly Yu. Smirnov , Lev G. Mourokh

The nature of a metal--insulator transition tuned by external gates in quantum Hall (QH) systems with point constrictions at integer bulk filling, as reported in recent experiments of Roddaro et al. [1], is addressed. We are particularly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Emiliano Papa , Tilo Stroh

As the dimensions of a conductor approach the nano-scale, quantum effects will begin to dominate its behavior. This entails the exciting possibility of controlling the conductance of a device by direct manipulation of the electron wave…

We investigate nonlinear transport properties of quantum conductors in response to both electrical and thermal driving forces. Within scattering approach, we determine the nonequilibrium screening potential of a generic mesoscopic system…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-16 David Sanchez , Rosa Lopez

We investigate the minimal requirements that induce a nonreciprocal response to temperature differences in a mesoscopic electronic conductor. We identify two distinct mechanisms involved in electron-electron interactions, namely inelastic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-12 José Balduque , Rafael Sánchez

Quantum correlation and hot-carrier transport represent two fundamentally distinct regimes of electronic conduction, rarely accessible within the same device. Here, we report a state-of-the-art monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-11 Debottam Daw , Houcine Bouzid , Sung-Gyu Lee , Wujoon Cha , Ki Kang Kim , Min-kyu Joo , Yan Wang , Manish Chhowalla , Young Hee Lee