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Short length quantum wires (quantum contacts) exhibit a conductance structure at the value of conductance close to 0.7 \times 2e^2/h. The structure is also called the conductance anomaly. In longer contacts the structure evolves to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 O. P. Sushkov

In this Chapter, we present recent theoretical developments on the finite temperature transport of one dimensional electronic and magnetic quantum systems as described by a variety of prototype models. In particular, we discuss the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 X. Zotos , P. Prelovsek

We develop a detailed theory for spin transport in a one-dimensional quantum wire described by Luttinger liquid theory. A hydrodynamic description for the quantum wire is supplemented by boundary conditions taking into account the exchange…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 Leon Balents , Reinhold Egger

We present a theoretical study of spin polarized transport in Fe atomic contacts using a self-consistent tight-binding Hamiltonian in a non-orthogonal $s$, $p$ and $d$ basis set, the spin-polarization being obtained from a non-collinear…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Gabriel Autes , Cyrille Barreteau , Daniel Spanjaard , Marie-Catherine Desjonquères

We consider quasiballistic electron transmission in a one-dimensional quantum wire subject to both time-independent and periodic potentials of a finger gate that results in a coordinate- and time-dependent Rashba-type spin-orbit coupling. A…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-11 Almas F. Sadreev , E. Ya. Sherman

We analyze transport of local magnetization and develop schemes to control transport behavior in finite spin-1/2 Heisenberg chains and spin-1/2 Heisenberg two-leg ladders at zero temperature. By adjusting parameters in the Hamiltonians,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. F. Santos

We present analytical and numerical results for the effect of Rashba spin-orbit coupling on band structure, transport, and interaction effects in quantum wires when the spin precession length is comparable to the wire width. In contrast to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Governale , U. Zuelicke

Motivated by a recent experiment in ultracold atoms [ S. Krinner et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A 113, 8144 (2016)], we analyze transport of attractively interacting fermions through a one-dimensional wire near the superfluid…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-05-12 Shun Uchino , Masahito Ueda

We investigate the transport properties of narrow quantum wires realized in disordered two-dimensional electron gases in the presence of k-linear Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interaction (SOI), and an applied in-plane magnetic field.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-05-27 Matthias Scheid , Inanc Adagideli , Junsaku Nitta , Klaus Richter

A method is proposed for studying wave and particle transport in disordered waveguide systems of dimension higher than unity by means of exact one-dimensionalization of the dynamic equations in the mode representation. As a particular case,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-01-31 Yu. V. Tarasov

Due to the competition between spatial and magnetic confinement, the density of states of a quasi two-dimensional system deviates from the ideal step-like form both quantitatively and qualitatively. We study how this affects the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Constantinos Simserides , Iosif Galanakis

The ballistic conductance through a device consisting of quantum wires, to which two stubs are attached laterally, is calculated assuming parabolic confining potentials of frequencies $\omega_w$ for the wires and $\omega_s$ for the stubs.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-16 R. Akis , P. Vasilopoulos , P. Debray

We study one-dimensional itinerant electron models with ferromagnetic coupling to investigate the origin of 0.7 anomaly in quantum point contacts. Linear conductance calculations from the quantum Monte Carlo technique for spin interactions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 K. Aryanpour , J. E. Han

We report an unusual insulating state in one-dimensional quantum wires with a non-uniform confinement potential. The wires consist of a series of closely spaced split gates in high mobility GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructures. At certain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 KJ Thomas , DL Sawkey , M Pepper , WR Tribe , I Farrer , MY Simmons , DA Ritchie

Conductance measurements of carbon nanotubes containing gated local depletion regions exhibit plateaus as a function of gate voltage, spaced by approximately e2/h, the quantum of conductance for a single (non-degenerate) mode. Plateau…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. J. Biercuk , N. Mason , J. Martin , A. Yacoby , C. M. Marcus

A single Co atom adsorbed on Cu(111) or on ferromagnetic Co islands is contacted with non-magnetic W or ferromagnetic Ni tips in a scanning tunneling microscope. When the Co atom bridges two non-magnetic electrodes conductances of 2e^2/h…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 N. Neel , J. Kroeger , R. Berndt

The problem of spin-dependent transport of electrons through a finite array of quantum dots attached to 1D quantum wire (spin gun) for various semiconductor materials is studied. The Breit-Fermi term for spin-spin interaction in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. A. Avdonin , L. A. Dmitrieva , Yu. A. Kuperin , V. V. Sartan

We study the conductance of phase-coherent disordered quantum wires focusing on the case in which the number of conducting channels is imbalanced between two propagating directions. If the number of channels in one direction is by one…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yositake Takane , Shingo Iwasaki , Yuka Yoshioka , Masayuki Yamamoto , Katsunori Wakabayashi

We show that spin-flip rotation in a semiconductor quantum wire, caused by the Rashba and the Dresselhaus interactions (both of arbitrary strengths), can be suppressed by dint of an in-plane magnetic field. We found a new type of symmetry,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-05-07 R. G. Nazmitdinov , K. N. Pichugin , M. Valin-Rodriguez

The strongly correlated two-electron transport in one-dimensional channel coupled with an Anderson-type impurity is solved exactly via a Bethe ansatz approach. We show that the transport properties are fundamentally different for spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 Jung-Tsung Shen , Shanhui Fan