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In this work, we have analyzed the exact closed-form solutions for transport quantities through a mesoscopic region which may be characterized by a polynomial functional of resonant transmission functions. These are then utilized to develop…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Sudeshna Sen , N. S. Vidhyadhiraja

We derive transport equations for fermions and bosons in spatially or temporally varying backgrounds with special symmetries, by use of the Schwinger-Keldysh formalism. In a noninteracting theory the coherence information is shown to be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-18 Matti Herranen , Kimmo Kainulainen , Pyry M. Rahkila

Recent experiments on conduction between a semiconductor and a superconductor have revealed a variety of new mesoscopic phenomena. Here is a review of the present status of this rapidly developing field. A scattering theory is described…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 C. W. J. Beenakker

In paper [1] (Avotina et al. Phys. Rev. B,74, 085411 (2006)) the effect of Fermi surface anisotropy to the conductance of a tunnel point contact, in the vicinity of which a single point-like defect is situated, has been investigated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ye. S. Avotina , Yu. A. Kolesnichenko , S. B. Roobol , J. M. van Ruitenbeek

Investigation of transport properties is fundamental for characterizing electronic properties and phase transitions. However, most of the transport measurements on conductive layers have been performed at macroscopic scales, and thus the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-25 Masayuki Hamada , Masahiro Haze , Junya Okazaki , Yukio Hasegawa

In recent years, predictive computational modeling has become a cornerstone for the study of fundamental electronic, optical, and thermal properties in complex forms of condensed matter, including Dirac and topological materials. The…

Electrical and thermal transport properties of C60 molecules are investigated with density-functional-theory based calculations. These calculations suggest that the optimum contact geometry for an electrode terminated with a single-Au atom…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 G. Géranton , C. Seiler , A. Bagrets , L. Venkataraman , F. Evers

We investigate transport of correlated fermions through a junction of three one-dimensional quantum wires pierced by a magnetic flux. We determine the flow of the conductance as a function of a low-energy cutoff in the entire parameter…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 X. Barnabe-Theriault , A. Sedeki , V. Meden , K. Schoenhammer

A microscopic theory of the transport properties of quantum point contacts giving a unified description of the normal conductor- superconductor (N-S) and superconductor-superconductor (S-S) cases is presented. It is based on a model…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 J. C. Cuevas , A. Martin-Rodero , A. Levy Yeyati

In this contribution we demonstrate structural control over a transport resonance in HS(CH$_{2}$)$_{n}$[1,4 - C$_{6}$H$_{4}$](CH$_{2}$)$_{n}$SH (n = 1, 3, 4, 6) metal - molecule - metal junctions, fabricated and tested using the scanning…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Carly Brooke , Andrea Vezzoli , Simon J. Higgins , Linda A. Zotti , J. J. Palacios , Richard J. Nichols

An electron transport is studied in the system which consists of scanning tunneling microscopy-single molecule magnet-metal. Due to quantum tunneling of magnetization in single-molecule magnet, linear response conductance exhibits stepwise…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Gwang-Hee Kim , Tae-Suk Kim

The Landauer formula for quantum conductance, based on the modern paradigm: "conduction is transmission", is generalized to samples of macroscopic size. Two regimes of electrical conduction, namely diffusive and ballistic ones, are studied.…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 P. R. Silva , Marcos Sampaio , C. Nassif , M. C. Nemes

We discuss the quantum transport of electrons through a resonant tunnel junction coupled to a nanomechanical oscillator at zero temperature. By using the Green's function technique we calculate the transport properties of electrons through…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M Tahir , A MacKinnon

Formulas for transverse conductance in quantum collisional plasma are deduced. The kinetic equation in momentum space in the relaxation approach is used. It is shown, that at Planck's constant tends to zero the derived formula transfers to…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-07-17 A. V. Latyshev , A. A. Yushkanov

Calculations of the conductance of a carbon nanotube (CNT)-molecule-CNT structure are in agreement with experimental measurements [1]. The features in the transmission correspond directly to the features of the isolated molecular orbitals.…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 Nicolas A. Bruque , M. K. Ashraf , Roger K. Lake

Motivated by the experimental realization of a multi-channel charge Kondo device [Iftikhar et al., Nature 526, 233 (2015)], we study generic charge and heat transport properties of the charge two-channel Kondo model. We present a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-12-03 G. A. R. van Dalum , A. K. Mitchell , L. Fritz

In this review, we survey the current progress in computing transport properties in semimetals which harbour non-Fermi liquid phases. We first discuss the widely-used Kubo formalism, which can be applied to the effective theory describing…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-08-28 Ipsita Mandal , Hermann Freire

The quantum geometric tensor (QGT) of a quantum system in a given parameter space captures both the geometry of the state manifold and the topology of the system. While the local QGT elements have been successfully measured in various…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-29 Raffael L. Klees , Mónica Benito

The conductance of C60 on Cu(100) is investigated with a low-temperature scanning tunneling microscope. At the transition from tunneling to the contact regime the conductance of C60 adsorbed with a pentagon-hexagon bond rises rapidly to…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-12-12 N. Neel , J. Kroger , L. Limot , T. Frederiksen , M. Brandbyge , R. Berndt

We study the interacting quantum dot coupled to the normal and superconducting leads by means of a continuous-time quantum Monte Carlo method in the Keldysh-Nambu formalism. Deducing the steady current through the quantum dot under a finite…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-11-10 Akihisa Koga