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We have studied the ground state structure of quantum strips within the local spin-density approximation, for a range of electronic densities between $\sim$ 5$\times10^4$ and 2$\times10^6$ cm$^{-1}$ and several strengths of the lateral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Francesc Malet , Marti Pi , Manuel Barranco , Enrico Lipparini

In this letter we study the coherent electronic transport through a metallic nanowire with magnetic impurities. The spins of these impurities are considered as frozen to mimic a low temperature spin glass phase. The transport properties of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-25 Guillame Paulin , David Carpentier

We theoretically study the quantum transport in a three-dimensional spin-1 chiral fermion system in the presence of impurity scattering. Within the self-consistent Born approximation, we find peak structure of the density of states and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-20 Risako Kikuchi , Takumi Funato , Ai Yamakage

We study the effect of electron-electron backscattering interactions on spin transport in a quantum wire. Even if these interactions have no significant effect on charge transport, they strongly influence the transport of spin. We use the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 Cristina Bena , Leon Balents

The unexpected "0.7" plateau of conductance quantisation is usually observed for ballistic one-dimensional devices. In this work we study a quasi-ballistic quantum wire, for which the disorder induced backscattering reduces the conductance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-03-24 M. Czapkiewicz , P. Zagrajek , J. Wrobel , G. Grabecki , K. Fronc , T. Dietl , Y. Ono , S. Matsuzaka , H. Ohno

Linear and nonlinear transport of quantum wires is investigated at a magnetic field where spin-split one-dimensional (1D) subbands are equidistant in energy. In this seldom-studied regime, experiments are consistent with a density-dependent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-08-18 F. Sfigakis , C. J. B. Ford , M. Pepper , D. A. Ritchie , I. Farrer , M. Y. Simmons , D. Maude

We show that interference experiments can be used to identify the spin-incoherent regime of strongly interacting one-dimensional conductors. Two qualitative signatures of spin-incoherence are found: a strong magnetic field dependence of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Kindermann , P. W. Brouwer , A. J. Millis

We study the transport properties of a long non-uniform quantum wire where the electron-electron interactions and the density vary smoothly at large length scales. We show that these inhomogeneities lead to a finite resistivity of the wire,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-04-08 J. Rech , K. A. Matveev

The crystallization of charge carriers, dubbed the Wigner crystal, is anticipated at low densities in clean two-dimensional electronic systems (2DES). While there has been extensive investigation across diverse platforms, probing…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-06-26 Mingjie Zhang , Zhenyu Wang , Yifan Jiang , Yaotian Liu , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Song Liu , Shiming Lei , Yongqing Li , Yang Xu

We have studied the weakly non-linear quantum transport properties of a two-dimensional quantum wire which can be solved exactly. The non-linear transport coefficients have been calculated and interesting physical properties revealed. In…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Jian Wang , Qingrong Zheng , Hong Guo

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

The properties of conductance in one-dimensional (1D) quantum wires are statistically investigated using an array of 256 lithographically-identical split gates, fabricated on a GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructure. All the split gates are measured…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-29 L. W. Smith , H. Al-Taie , F. Sfigakis , P. See , A. A. J. Lesage , B. Xu , J. P. Griffiths , H. E. Beere , G. A. C. Jones , D. A. Ritchie , M. J. Kelly , C. G. Smith

In a one dimensional electron gas at low enough density, the magnetic (spin) exchange energy $J$ between neighboring electrons is exponentially suppressed relative to the characteristic charge energy, the Fermi energy $E_F$. At non-zero…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gregory A. Fiete , Karyn Le Hur , Leon Balents

We investigate quantum coherence of electron spin transported through a semiconductor spintronic device, where spins are envisaged to be controlled by electrical means via spin-orbit interactions. To quantify the degree of spin coherence,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 Branislav K. Nikolic , Satofumi Souma

We investigate static charge and spin density modulation patterns along a ferromagnet/semiconductor single junction quantum wire in the presence of spin-orbit coupling. Coherent scattering theory is used to calculate the charge and spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Minchul Lee , Christoph Bruder

We explore the effect of a (non) magnetic impurity on the thermal transport of the spin-1/2 Heisenberg chain model. This unique system allows to probe Kondo-type phenomena in a prototype strongly correlated system. Using numerical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-06-08 A. Metavitsiadis , X. Zotos , O. S. Barišić , P. Prelovšek

We study the conductance threshold of clean nearly straight quantum wires in which an electron is bound. We show that such a system exhibits spin-dependent conductance structures on the rising edge to the first conductance plateau, one near…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Rejec , A. Ramsak , J. H. Jefferson

We investigate quantum transport in aligned carbon nanotube (CNT) fibers fabricated via solution spinning, focusing on the roles of structural dimensionality and quantum interference effects. The fibers exhibit metallic behavior at high…

We investigate the transport properties of a quantum wire of weakly interacting fermions in the presence of local particle loss. We calculate current and conductance in this system due to applied external chemical potential bias that can be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-11-18 Marcel Gievers , Thomas Müller , Heinrich Fröml , Sebastian Diehl , Alessio Chiocchetta

We study the low-temperature transport properties of 1D quantum wires as the confinement strength V_conf and the carrier density n_1D are varied using a combination of split gates and a top gate in GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructures. At…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-10 W. K. Hew , K. J. Thomas , M. Pepper , I. Farrer , D. Anderson , G. A. C. Jones , D. A. Ritchie