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In highly doped uncompensated p-type layers within the central part of GaAs/AlGaAs quantum wells at low temperatures we observed an activated behavior of the conductivity with low activation energies (1-3) meV which can not be ascribed to…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-05-13 N. V. Agrinskaya , V. I. Kozub , D. V. Shamshur

The electric conductivity behavior in the single and double tunnel-coupled quantum wells (QW) with different doping profile caused by impact of short pulses of the strong longitudinal (in the quantum wells plane) electric field has been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-07 P. A. Belevskii , M. N. Vinoslavskii , V. V. Vainberg , O. S. Pylypchuk , V. N. Poroshin

We report low-temperature transport measurements in strained InAs/Ga0.68In0.32Sb quantum wells, which supports time-reversal symmetry-protected helical edge states. The temperature and bias voltage dependence of the helical edge conductance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-20 Tingxin Li , Pengjie Wang , Gerard Sullivan , Xi Lin , Rui-Rui Du

Quasi-periodic lattice systems offer diverse transport properties. In this work, we investigate the environment induced effects on transport properties for quasi-periodic systems, namely the one-dimensional Aubry-Andr\'e-Harper (AAH)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-29 Madhumita Saha , B. Prasanna Venkatesh , Bijay Kumar Agarwalla

Quasi-static transport measurements are employed to characterize a few electron quantum dot electrostatically defined in a GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructure. The gate geometry allows observations on one and the same electron droplet within a wide…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-08-19 A. K. Huettel , K. Eberl , S. Ludwig

Electric transport in semiconductor superlattices is dominated by pronounced negative differential conductivity. In this report the standard transport theories for superlattices, i.e. miniband conduction, Wannier-Stark-hopping, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Andreas Wacker

We consider resonant transmission through a finite-length quantum wire connected to leads via finite transparency junctions. The coherent electron transport is strongly modified by the Coulomb interaction. The low-temperature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 N. B. Kopnin , Y. M. Galperin , V. M. Vinokur

We study the Fermi-edge singularity appearing in the current-voltage characteristics for resonant tunneling through a localized level at finite temperature. An explicit expression for the current at low temperature and near the threshold…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Holger Frahm , Carsten von Zobeltitz , Niels Maire , Rolf. J. Haug

The in-plane electron mobility has been calculated in InAs/GaSb type-II superlattices at low temperatures. The interface roughness scattering and ionized impurity scattering are investigated as the dominant scattering mechanisms in limiting…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-02-10 Sara Safa , Asghar Asgari

We have studied the quantum transport in a narrow constriction acted upon by a finite-range longitudinally polarized time-dependent electric field. The electric field induces coherent inelastic scatterings which involve both intra-subband…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. S. Tang , C. S. Chu

The semimetal quantum well (QW) based on HgTe structures exhibiting unusual transport properties at low temperature is examined experimentally. It demonstrates either a linear or quadratic growth of resistance with temperature at different…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-21 A. V. Snegirev , V. M. Kovalev , M. V. Entin , E. B. Olshanetsky , N. N. Mikhailov , Z. D. Kvon

Magnetotransport properties are investigated for a high mobility Si two dimensional electron systems in the vicinity of a Landau level crossing point. At low temperatures, the resistance peak having a strong anisotropy shows large…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Kiyohiko Toyama , Takahisa Nishioka , Kentarou Sawano , Yasuhiro Shiraki , Tohru Okamoto

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 use low energy optical spectroscopy and first principles LDA+DMFT calculations to test the hypothesis that the anomalous transport properties of strongly correlated metals originate in the strong temperature dependence of their…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-12-09 Xiaoyu Deng , Aaron Sternbach , Kristjan Haule , D. N. Basov , Gabriel Kotliar

The growth and the density dependence of the low temperature mobility of a series of two-dimensional electron systems confined to un-intentionally doped, low extended defect density InAs quantum wells with Al$_{1-x}$Ga$_{x}$Sb barriers are…

In this work we investigate the spectral and transport properties of a single correlated layer attached to two metallic leads, with particular focus on the low-energy physics. A steady state current is driven across the layer by applying a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-04-19 Antonius Dorda , Irakli Titvinidze , Enrico Arrigoni

Dependences of low temperature behavior and anisotropy of various physical quantities for pure unconventional superconductors upon a particular form of momentum direction dependence for the superconducting order parameter (within the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Yu. S. Barash , A. A. Svidzinsky

Quantum fractal superlattices are microelectronic devices consisting of a series of thin layers of two semiconductor materials deposited alternately on each other over a substrate following the rules of construction of a fractal set, here,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-08-21 Francisco R. Villatoro , Juan A. Monsoriu

We investigate quantum tunneling of charge carriers through a periodic superlattice in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) with rectangular potential barriers, including the presence of a defect, using a low-energy continuum model. Transmission…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-08 Ayoub Bahlaoui , Youness Zahidi , Ahmed Naddami

The low-temperature transport properties of a molecule are studied in the field-effect transitor geometry. The molecule has an internal mechanical mode that modulates its electronic levels and renormalizes both the interactions and the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-01-23 P. S. Cornaglia , Gonzalo Usaj , C. A. Balseiro