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We study the coherent dynamics of one- and two-electron transport in a linear array of tunnel-coupled quantum dots. We find that this system exhibits a rich variety of coherent phenomena, ranging from electron wavepacket propagation and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. M. Nikolopoulos , D. Petrosyan , P. Lambropoulos

We report direct experimental evidence that the insulating phase of a disordered, yet strongly interacting two-dimensional electron system (2DES) becomes unstable at low temperatures. As the temperature decreases, a transition from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-01-15 M. Baenninger , A. Ghosh , M. Pepper , H. E. Beere , I. Farrer , D. A. Ritchie

In this work we include the elastic scattering of longitudinal electromagnetic waves in transport theory using a medium filled with point-like, electric dipoles. The interference between longitudinal and transverse waves creates two new…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-05-17 B. A. van Tiggelen , S. E. Skipetrov

A new variational method for studying the equilibrium states of an interacting particles system has been proposed. The statistical description of the system is realized by means of a density matrix. This method is used for description of…

General Physics · Physics 2014-12-19 Boris Bondarev

Disorder is more the rule than the exception in natural and synthetic materials. Nonetheless, wave propagation within inhomogeneously disordered materials has received scant attention. We combine microwave experiments and theory to find the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-12 Yiming Huang , Chushun Tian , Victor A. Gopar , Ping Fang , Azriel Z. Genack

Swarm techniques have largely been used to investigate electron transport in very dilute gases in order to shed light on the electron-atom (molecule) scattering cross section and, hence, on the interaction potential. The theoretical basis…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 A. F. Borghesani

Wave propagation in complex media is a universal problem spanning optics, acoustics, mechanics, and condensed matter physics. While disorder usually causes strong scattering, recent theory predicts that a special class of correlated…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-10 Angélique Campaniello , Rémi Carminati , Marcel Filoche , Emmanuel Fort

We continue to develop a new approach to description of charge kinetics in disordered semiconductors. It is based on fractional diffusion equations. This article is devoted to transient processes in structures under dispersive transport…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-10-02 Renat T. Sibatov , Vladimir V. Uchaikin

Electrons move along potential or thermal gradients. In the presence of a global gradient, applied e.g. to the two terminals of a conductor, this induces electric charge and heat currents. They can also flow between two equilibrated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-27 Rafael Sánchez

We study the wave transport through a disordered system inside a waveguide. The expectation value of the complex reflection and transmission coefficients (the coherent fields) as well as the transmittance and reflectance are obtained…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2014-10-24 M. Yepez

The guiding and transport of energy, for example of electromagnetic waves underpins many technologies that have shaped modern society, ranging from long distance optical fibre telecommunications to on-chip optical processors. Traditionally,…

We present a theory of electron, electromagnetic, and elastic wave propagation in systems consisting of non-overlapping scatterers in a host medium. The theory provides a framework for a unified description of wave propagation in…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Modinos , N. Stefanou , I. E. Psarobas , V. Yannopapas

We employ ptychography, a phase-retrieval imaging technique, to show experimentally for the first time that a partially coherent high-energy matter (electron) wave emanating from an extended source can be decomposed into a set of mutually…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-04 S. Cao , P. Kok , P. Li , A. M. Maiden , J. M. Rodenburg

Based on quantum theory, we investigate the distribution of the electrons scattered in nonlinear Compton effect by an electromagnetic plane wave. Deviations of the final electron momentum from its initial value are solely due to quantum…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Madalina Boca , Victor Dinu , Viorica Florescu

A double exchange model with quenched disorder for conduction electrons is studied by field theoretical methods. By using a path integral formalism and replica techniques based on it, an ensemble-averaged spin wave dispersion of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 T. Fukui

In this work, we study the elastic scattering behavior of electron vortices when propagating through amorphous samples. We use a formulation of the multislice approach in cylindrical coordinates to theoretically investigate the…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-03-22 Stefan Löffler , Stefan Sack , Thomas Schachinger

We develop a diagrammatic theory for transport of waves in disordered media with weak nonlinearity. We first represent the solution of the nonlinear wave equation as a nonlinear Born series. From this, we construct nonlinear ladder and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Thomas Wellens , Benoit Gremaud

We study electron transport through a domain wall in a ferromagnetic nanowire subject to spin-dependent scattering. A scattering matrix formalism is developed to address both coherent and incoherent transport properties. The coherent case…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Peter E. Falloon , Rodolfo A. Jalabert , Dietmar Weinmann , Robert L. Stamps

We study the electronic properties of DNA by way of a tight-binding model applied to four particular DNA sequences. The charge transfer properties are presented in terms of localisation lengths, crudely speaking the length over which…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Daphne Klotsa , Rudolf A. Roemer , Matthew S. Turner

Transmission of the scalar field through the random medium, represented by the system of randomly distributed dielectric cylinders is calculated numerically. System is mapped to the problem of electronic transport in disordered…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 P. Markos , C. M. Soukoulis