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Electron transport through a double quantum dot system is studied with taking into account electron-phonon interaction. The Keldysh nonequilibrium Green function formalism is used to compute the current and transmission coefficient of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-11 M. Bagheri Tagani , H. Rahimpour Soleimani

We study superconducting transport in homogeneous wires in the cases of both equilibrium and nonequilibrium quasiparticle populations, using the quasiclassical Green's function technique. We consider superconductors with arbitrary current…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Sánchez-Cañizares , F. Sols

We argue that the Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM) images of resonant states generated by doping Zn or Ni impurities into Cu-O planes of BSCCO are the result of quantum interference of the impurity signal coming from several distinct…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 I. Martin , A. V. Balatsky , J. Zaanen

Spin-dependent electron transport in a periodically stubbed quantum wire in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit interaction (SOI) is studied via the nonequilibrium Green's function method combined with the Landauer-Buttiker formalism. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-20 Xianbo Xiao , Zhaoxia Chen , Zhiming Rao , Wenjie Nie , Guanghui Zhou

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

The correspondence between the steady state theory of current transfer and scattering theory in a system of coupled tight-binding models of 1-dimensional wires is explored. For weak interwire coupling both calculations give nearly identical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Vered Ben-Moshe , Dhurba Rai , Spiros S. Skourtis , Abraham Nitzan

We consider an Anderson impurity (A) weakly connected to a superconducting electrode (S) on one side and a superconducting or a normal metal electrode (N) on the other side. A general path integral formalism is developed and the response of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 Yshai Avishai , Anatoly Golub , Andrei D. Zaikin

The electrical conductance, thermal conductance, thermal power and figure of merit (ZT) of semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) embedded into an insulator matrix connected with metallic electrodes are theoretically investigated in the Coulomb…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 David M. -T. Kuo , Yia-chung Chang

It is illustrated that semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) embedded into an insulating matrix connected with metallic electrodes and some vacuum space can lead to significant thermal rectification effect. A multilevel Anderson model is used to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-01-11 David M. -T. Kuo , Yia-chung Chang

The problem of an impurity electron in a quantum ring (QR) in the presence of a radially directed strong external electric field is investigated in detail. Both an analytical and a numerical approach to the problem are developed. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Boris S. Monozon , Mikhail V. Ivanov , Peter Schmelcher

The authors apply the generalized master equation to analyze time-dependent transport through a finite quantum wire with an embedded subsystem. The parabolic quantum wire and the leads with several subbands are described by a continuous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Vidar Gudmundsson , Cosmin Gainar , Chi-Shung Tang , Valeriu Moldoveanu , Andrei Manolescu

We present a theoretical study of electronic states in magnetic and nonmagnetic semiconductor quantum wires. The effects of chemical and magnetic disorder at paramagnetic temperatures are investigated in single-site coherent potential…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2008-06-10 Alireza Saffarzadeh

We explain in this paper how a meaningful irrelevant perturbation theory around the infra-red (strong coupling) fixed point can be carried out for integrable quantum impurity problems. This is illustrated in details for the spin 1/2 Kondo…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 F. Lesage , H. Saleur

Quantum states induced by single-atomic-impurities are the current frontier of material and information science. Recently the spin-orbit coupled correlated kagome magnets are emerging as a new class of topological quantum materials,…

We study an Anderson impurity embedded in a d-wave superconductor carrying a supercurrent. The low-energy impurity behavior is investigated by using the numerical renormalization group method developed for arbitrary electronic bath spectra.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-30 Hua Chen , Yezheng Wu , Shuxiang Yang , Jianhui Dai , Jian-Xin Zhu

We theoretically study the local density of states in superconducting proximity structure where two superconducting terminals are attached to a side surface of a normal-metal wire. Using the quasiclassical Green's function method, the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-07-24 Shu-Ichiro Suzuki , Alexander A. Golubov , Yasuhiro Asano , Yukio Tanaka

We consider the entanglement between two one-dimensional quantum wires (Luttinger Liquids) coupled by tunneling through a quantum impurity. The physics of the system involves a crossover between weak and strong coupling regimes…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-03-12 Romain Vasseur , Jesper Lykke Jacobsen , Hubert Saleur

Quantum transport properties through single polycyclic hydrocarbon molecules attached to two metallic electrodes are studied by the use of Green's function technique. A parametric approach based on the tight-binding model is introduced to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-12-20 Santanu K. Maiti

We have studied the single-electron transport spectrum of a quantum dot in GaAs/AlGaAs resonant tunneling device. The measured spectrum has irregularities indicating a broken circular symmetry. We model the system with an external potential…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Rasanen , J. Konemann , R. J. Haug , M. J. Puska , R. M. Nieminen

A quantum transport model incorporating spin scattering processes is presented using the non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) formalism within the self-consistent Born approximation. This model offers a unified approach by capturing the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Ahmet Ali Yanik , Gerhard Klimeck , Supriyo Datta