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Evaluating the time-dependent dynamics of driven open quantum systems is relevant for a theoretical description of many systems, including molecular junctions, quantum dots, cavity-QED experiments, cold atoms experiments and more. Here, we…

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We present a double quantum wire system containing a coupling element in the middle barrier between the two parallel quantum wires. We explicitly account for the finite length of the double quantum wire with a time-dependent switching-on…

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We consider the problem of a semiclassical description of quantum chaotic transport, when a tunnel barrier is present in one of the leads. Using a semiclassical approach formulated in terms of a matrix model, we obtain transport moments as…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2022-07-06 Pedro H. S. Bento , Marcel Novaes

The simulation of quantum transport in a realistic, many-particle system is a nontrivial problem with no quantitatively satisfactory solution. While real-time propagation has the potential to overcome the shortcomings of conventional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-16 Justin E. Elenewski , Yanxiang Zhao , Hanning Chen

We theoretically investigate the electron transport properties for a semiconductor quantum wire containing a single finite-size attractive impurity under an external terahertz electromagnetic field illumination in the ballistic limit.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Guanghui Zhou , Yuan Li , Fang Cheng , Wenfu Liao

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

Coupling the vibrations of an oscillator to electronic transport is a key building block for nanoelectromechanical systems. They describe many nanoscale electrical components such as molecular junctions. Inspired by recent experimental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-26 Sofia Sevitz , Federico Cerisola , Janet Anders

A one-dimensional, two-channel quantum wire is studied in the effective non-Hermitian Hamiltonian framework. Analytical expressions are derived for the band structure of the isolated wire. Quantum states and transport properties of the wire…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-27 Amin Tayebi , Vladimir Zelevinsky

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 consider wave packet propagation in a quantum wire with either an embedded antidot or an embedded parallel double open quantum dot under the influence of a uniform magnetic field. The magnetoconductance and the time evolution of an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-07-29 Gunnar Thorgilsson , Chi-Shung Tang , Vidar Gudmundsson

We use a generalized master equation (GME) formalism to describe the non-equilibrium time-dependent transport of Coulomb interacting electrons through a short quantum wire connected to semi-infinite biased leads. The contact strength…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-07 Kristinn Torfason , Andrei Manolescu , Valeriu Molodoveanu , Vidar Gudmundsson

Time-resolved electron transport in nano-devices is described by means of a time-nonlocal quantum master equation for the reduced density operator. Our formulation allows for arbitrary time dependences of any device or contact parameter.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-03-02 Alexander Croy , Ulf Saalmann

We investigate the nonstationary electronic transport in noninteracting nanostructures driven by a finite bias and time-dependent signals applied at their contacts to the leads. The systems are modelled by a tight-binding Hamiltonian and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Valeriu Moldoveanu , Vidar Gudmundsson , Andrei Manolescu

We present a transparent and analytically tractable approach to the problem of time-dependent electron transport through tunneling barriers. Using the Single-Electron Approach, we study a model system composed of a time-dependent tunneling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 Shmuel Gurvitz , Dmitri Sokolovski

We calculate non-perturbatively the inelastic effects on the conductance through a conjugated molecular wire-metal heterojunction, including realistic electron-phonon coupling. We show that at sub-band-gap energies the current is dominated…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 H. Ness , A. J. Fisher

A quantum master equation (QME) is derived for the many-body density matrix of an open current-carrying system weakly coupled to two metal leads. The dynamics and the steady-state properties of the system for arbitrary bias are studied…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-31 Upendra Harbola , Massimiliano Esposito , Shaul Mukamel

We explore electron transport properties in a quantum wire attached to two metallic electrodes. A simple tight-binding model is used to describe the system and the coupling of the wire to the electrodes (source and drain) is treated through…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-01-10 Santanu K. Maiti

Time-dependent transport through two capacitively coupled quantum dots is studied in the framework of the generalized master equation. The Coulomb interaction is included within the exact diagonalization method. Each dot is connected to two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-24 Valeriu Moldoveanu , Andrei Manolescu , Vidar Gudmundsson

We study a finite quantum wire connected to external leads, and show that the conductance of the system significantly depends upon the length of the quantum wire and the position of the impurity in it. For a very long quantum wire and the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 Yu-Liang Liu

We evaluate the phase-coherent transport of electrons along linear structures of varying length, which are made from two types of potential wells set in either a periodic or a Fibonacci quasi-periodic sequence. The array is described by a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. R. Bakhtiari , P. Vignolo , M. P. Tosi