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Using bosonization we derive the dc conductance G(L,T) of an interacting quantum wire with good contacts including current relaxing backscattering and Umklapp processes. Our result yields the dependence of the conductance on length L and…

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With a brief introduction to one-dimensional channels and conductance quantisation in mesoscopic systems, we discuss some recent experimental puzzles in these systems, which include reduction of quantised conductances and an interesting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Siddharth Lal , Sumathi Rao , Diptiman Sen

The spectrum of magnetic edge states and their transport properties in the presence of a perpendicular non-homogeneous magnetic field in a quantum wire formed by a parabolic confining potential are obtained. Systems are studied where the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-08-03 S. M. Badalyan , F. M. Peeters

We analyze the behavior of the four-terminal resistance, relative to the two-terminal resistance of an interacting quantum wire with an impurity, taking into account the invasiveness of the voltage probes. We consider a one-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-22 Hugo Aita , Liliana Arrachea , Carlos Naón

We investigate how two-particle interactions affect the electronic transport through meso- and nanoscopic systems of two different types: quantum dots with local Coulomb correlations and quasi one-dimensional quantum wires of interacting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 V. Meden

Transport through a one--dimensional wire of interacting electrons connected to semi--infinite leads is investigated using a bosonization approach. An incident electron is transmitted as a sequence of partial charges. The dc conductance is…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 I. Safi , H. J. Schulz

Phononless plasmon assisted thermally activated transport through a long disordered array of finite length quantum wires is investigated analytically. Generically strong electron plasmon interaction in quantum wires results in a qualitative…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. L. Chudnovskiy

We study the transport properties of interacting electrons in a disordered quantum wire within the framework of the Luttinger liquid model. The conductivity at finite temperature is nonzero only because of inelastic electron-electron…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 I. V. Gornyi , A. D. Mirlin , D. G. Polyakov

The complex ac-response of a quasi-one dimensional electron system in the one-band approximation with an interaction potential of finite range is investigated. It is shown that linear response is exact for this model. The influence of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gianaurelio Cuniberti , Maura Sassetti , Bernhard Kramer

Transport through a one-dimensional wire of interacting electrons connected to semi infinite leads is investigated using a bosonization approach. The dynamic nonlocal conductivity is rigorously expressed in terms of the transmission. For…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 Inès Safi , H. J. Schulz

We analyze a single electron transistor composed of two semi-infinite one dimensional quantum wires and a relatively short segment between them. We describe each wire section by a Luttinger model, and treat tunneling events in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 Jaeuk U. Kim , Ilya V. Krive , Jari M. Kinaret

The electron transport through the parabolic quantum wire placed in longitudinal magnetic field in the presence of the system of short-range impurities inside the wire is investigated. Using approach based on the zero-range potential theory…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-01-03 I. A. Kokurin , V. A. Margulis

We use the non-equilibrium Green's function formalism along with a self-consistent Hartree-Fock approximation to numerically study the effects of a single impurity and interactions between the electrons (with and without spin) on the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 Amit Agarwal , Diptiman Sen

Nonequilibrium transport properties are determined exactly for an adiabatically connected single channel quantum wire containing one impurity. Employing the Luttinger liquid model with interaction parameter $g$, for very strong interactions…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Egger , H. Grabert , A. Koutouza , H. Saleur , F. Siano

A linear theory of electron transport is developed for a system of two ideal quantum wires, of length L, coupled by tunneling and Coulomb interaction. The interaction of electrons with acoustical phonons is included and the results are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 O. E. Raichev , P. Vasilopoulos

We evaluate tunneling rates into/from a voltage biased quantum wire containing weak backscattering defect. Interacting electrons in such a wire form a true nonequilibrium state of the Luttinger liquid (LL). This state is created due to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Stéphane Ngo Dinh , Dmitry A. Bagrets , Alexander D. Mirlin

We non-perturbatively analyze the effect of electron-electron interactions on weak localization (WL) in relatively short metallic conductors with a tunnel barrier. We demonstrate that the main effect of interactions is electron dephasing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-07-01 D. S. Golubev , A. D. Zaikin

We present theoretical calculations and experimental measurements which reveal the Luttinger-liquid (LL) nature of elementary excitations in a system consisting of two quantum wires connected by a long narrow tunnel junction at the edge of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yaroslav Tserkovnyak , Bertrand I. Halperin , Ophir M. Auslaender , Amir Yacoby

We obtain the conductance of a system of electrons connected to leads, within time-dependent density-functional theory, using a direct relation between the conductance and the density response function. Corrections to the non-interacting…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-10-04 P. Bokes , J. Jung , R. W. Godby

The differential cross section for resonant Raman scattering from the collective modes in a one dimensional system of interacting electrons is calculated non-perturbatively using the bosonization method. The results indicate that resonant…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 B. Kramer , M. Sassetti