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We consider tunneling from the spin-polarized tip into the Luttinger liquid edge state of quantum spin Hall system. This problem arose in context of the spin and charge fractionalization of an injected electron. Renormalization of the dc…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-03-21 D. N. Aristov , R. A. Niyazov

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

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. Unlike the model considered in [1] a model proposed here is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-23 L A Dmitrieva , D N Krupa , Yu A Kuperin

A system of an array of side-coupled quantum-dots attached to a quantum wire is studied theoretically. Transport through the quantum wire is investigated by means of a noninteracting Anderson tunneling Hamiltonian. Analytical expressions of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 P. A. Orellana , F. Dominguez-Adame , E. Diez

We study tunneling between two nearby cleaved edge quantum wires in a perpendicular magnetic field. Due to Coulomb forces between electrons, the wires form a strongly-interacting pair of Luttinger liquids. We calculate the low-temperature…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 D. Carpentier , C. Peca , L. Balents

The electron transport in a four-terminal nanodevice consisting of two crossed nanotubes is investigated in the framework of the Landauer-Buttiker formalism. The evident formula for the ballistic conductance of the device is found using a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 Viktor Margulis , Mikhail Pyataev

We have studied the electron transport through a quantum dot coupled to three leads in the presence of external microwave fields supplied to different parts of the considered mesoscopic system. Additionally, we introduced a possible…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 T. Kwapinski , R. Taranko , E. Taranko

Luttinger liquids occupy a special place in physics as the most understood case of essentially quantum many-body systems. The experimental mission of measuring its main prediction, power laws in observable quantities, has already produced a…

We evaluate the chemical potential of a one-dimensional quantum dot, coupled to an atomic force microscope tip. The dot is described within the Luttinger liquid framework and the conductance peaks positions as a function of the tip location…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-26 D. Mantelli , F. Cavaliere , M. Sassetti

We study the influence of electron-phonon coupling on electron transport through a Luttinger liquid with an embedded weak scatterer or weak link. We derive the renormalization group (RG) equations which indicate that the directions of RG…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-08-04 Alexey Galda , Igor V. Yurkevich , Igor V. Lerner

We generalize the bosonization methods for systems in the half line that we discussed elsewhere, to study the effects of interactions on electronic systems coupled to impurities. We introduce a model for a quantum wire coupled with a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Ana Lopez , Manuel Fuentes , Eduardo Fradkin

We consider scattering and transport in interacting quantum wires that are connected to leads. Such a setup can be represented by a minimal model of interacting fermions with inhomogeneities in the form of sudden changes in interaction…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-09-10 N. Sedlmayr , J. Ohst , I. Affleck , J. Sirker , S. Eggert

We study electron tunneling from a tip or a lead into an interacting quantum wire described by Luttinger liquid theory. Within a WKB-type approach, the Coulomb interaction between the wire and the tunneling electrons, as well as the finite…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Huegle , R. Egger , H. Grabert

We study electron transport through a quantum interferometer with side-coupled quantum dots. The interferometer, threaded by a magnetic flux $\phi$, is attached symmetrically to two semi-infinite one-dimensional metallic electrodes. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-12-17 Santanu K. Maiti

We develop a theory of electron transport through quantum dots that are weakly coupled to ferromagnetic leads. The theory covers both the linear and nonlinear transport regime, takes non-collinear magnetization of the leads into account,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Matthias Braun , Jürgen König , Jan Martinek

We study current fluctuations in an interacting three-terminal quantum dot with ferromagnetic leads. For appropriately polarized contacts, the transport through the dot is governed by a novel dynamical spin blockade, i.e., a spin-dependent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Cottet , W. Belzig , C. Bruder

The one-dimensional effective Hamiltonian for a planar curvilinear quantum wire with arbitrary shape is proposed in the presence of the Rashba spin-orbit interaction. Single electron propagation through a device of two straight lines…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 Erhu Zhang , Shengli Zhang , Qi Wang

We study charge and spin transport through an interacting quantum wire, caused by backscattering off an effective impurity potential with a periodic time-dependence. The adiabatic regime of this pump for charge and spin is shown to depend…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Prashant Sharma , Claudio Chamon

We present a low-temperature experimental test of the fluctuation theorem for electron transport through a double quantum dot. The rare entropy-consuming system trajectories are detected in the form of single charges flowing against the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-20 B. Küng , C. Rössler , M. Beck , M. Marthaler , D. S. Golubev , Y. Utsumi , T. Ihn , K. Ensslin

To investigate the influence of electronic interaction on the metal-insulator transition (MIT), we consider the Aubry-Andr\'{e} (or Harper) model which describes a quasiperiodic one-dimensional quantum system of non-interacting electrons…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 Andrzej Eilmes , Uwe Grimm , Rudolf A. Roemer , Michael Schreiber