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We investigate transport properties of different realizations of one-dimensional quantum wires coupled to a number of external electrodes in terms of the full counting statistics. Focusing on the set-ups in which edge states of Majorana…

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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 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

Electronic transmission in bent quantum wires modeled by the tight binding Hamiltonian, and clamped between ideal, semi-infinite leads is studied. The effect of `bending' the chain is simulated by introducing a non-zero hopping between the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Arunava Chakrabarti

We explore electron transport properties in molecular wires made of heterocyclic molecules (pyrrole, furan and thiophene) by using the Green's function technique. Parametric calculations are given based on the tight-binding model to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-13 Santanu K. Maiti , S. N. Karmakar

We investigate the distribution of the electron density and the potential in a quantum wire coupled to reservoirs, treating this structure as a unified quantum system and taking into account the Coulomb interaction of electrons. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 V. A. Sablikov , S. V. Polyakov , M. Buttiker

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 explore electron transport through a moebius strip attached to two metallic electrodes by the use of Green's function technique. A parametric approach is used based on the tight-binding model to characterize the electron transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Santanu K. Maiti

Electron transport characteristics are investigated through some molecular chains attached to two non-superconducting electrodes by the use of Green's function method. Here we do parametric calculations based on the tight-binding…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-31 Santanu K. Maiti

Electron transport through a three-electrode triple-quantum-dot ring with the source electrode of spin-dependent splitting of chemical potentials (spin bias) is theoretically investigated. We find clear charge and spin currents in the drain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-24 Weijiang Gong , Xuefeng Xie , Yu Han , Guozhu Wei

The influence of the charging effects on the transport characteristics of a molecular wire bridging two metallic electrodes in the limit of weak contacts is studied by generalized Breit-Wigner formula. Molecule is modeled as a quantum dot…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Kamil Walczak

A novel feature of electron transport is explored through a thin film of varying impurity density with the distance from its surface. The film, attached to two metallic electrodes, is described by simple tight-binding model and its coupling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-15 Santanu K. Maiti

We study the conductance of a quantum wire in the presence of weak electron-electron scattering. In a sufficiently long wire the scattering leads to full equilibration of the electron distribution function in the frame moving with the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-03-19 J. Rech , T. Micklitz , K. A. Matveev

We consider electrons in a quantum wire interacting via a long-range Coulomb potential screened by a nearby gate. We focus on the quantum phase transition from a strictly one-dimensional to a quasi-one-dimensional electron liquid, that is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-27 Tobias Meng , Mehul Dixit , Markus Garst , Julia S. Meyer

A numerical renormalization-group study of the conductance through a quantum wire side-coupled to a quantum dot is reported. The temperature and the dot-energy dependence of the conductance are examined in the light of a recently derived…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-01-13 A. C. Seridonio , M. Yoshida , L. N. Oliveira

Nonlinear electron transport in normally pinched-off quantum wires was studied. The wires were fabricated from AlGaAs/GaAs heterostructures with high-mobility two-dimensional electron gas by electron beam lithography and following wet…

We study transport properties of weakly interacting one-dimensional electron systems including on an equal footing thermal equilibration due to three-particle collisions and the effects of large-scale inhomogeneities. We show that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Alex Levchenko , Tobias Micklitz , Jerome Rech , K. A. Matveev

The electron transport properties of ZnO nano-wires coupled by two aluminium electrodes were studied by {\it ab initio} method based on non-equilibrium Green's function approach and density functional theory. A clearly rectifying…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Zijiang Yang , Langhui Wan , Yunjin Yu , Yadong Wei , Jian Wang

Coherent electron transport through a quantum channel in the presence of a general extended scattering potential is investigated using a T-matrix Lippmann-Schwinger approach. The formalism is applied to a quantum wire with Gaussian type…

Transport through a molecule sandwiched between two metallic electrodes and coupled to a mesoscopic ring that threads a magnetic flux $\phi$ is studied. An analytic approach for the electron transport through the molecular bridge system is…

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