English
Related papers

Related papers: Electron transfer through a multiterminal quantum …

200 papers

We report transport measurements on a semiconductor quantum dot with a small number of confined electrons. In the Coulomb blockade regime, conduction is dominated by cotunneling processes. These can be either elastic or inelastic, depending…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. De Franceschi , S. Sasaki , J. M. Elzerman , W. G. van der Wiel , S. Tarucha , L. P. Kouwenhoven

The transfer of charge between different regions of a phase-coherent mesoscopic sample is investigated. Charge transfer from a side branch quantum dot into a ring changes the persistent current through a sequence of plateaus of diamagnetic…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Büttiker , C. A. Stafford

We study the current flow through semiconductor quantum rings. In high magnetic field the current is usually injected to the arm of the ring preferred by classical magnetic forces. However, for narrow magnetic field intervals that appear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-09 M. R. Poniedziałek , B. Szafran

A detailed description of the tunneling processes within Aharonov-Bohm (AB) rings containing two-dimensional quantum dots is presented. We show that the electronic propagation through the interferometer is controlled by the spectral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 V. Moldoveanu , M. Ţolea , A. Aldea , B. Tanatar

The influence of electron-electron scattering on the distribution function and transport characteristics of intrinsic monolayer graphene is investigated via an ensemble Monte Carlo simulation. Due to the linear dispersion relation in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-18 X. Li , E. A. Barry , J. M. Zavada , M. Buongiorno Nardelli , K. W. Kim

It is shown that the electron scattering by static defects, acoustic or optical phonons in quantum wells subjected to an in-plane magnetic field is asymmetric. The probability of scattering contains terms which are proportional to both the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. A. Tarasenko

Mechanical displacements of a nanoelectromechanical system (NEMS) shift the electron trajectories and hence perturb phase coherent charge transport through the device. We show theoretically that in the presence of a magnetic feld such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 R. I. Shekhter , L. Y. Gorelik , L. I. Glazman , M. Jonson

We show how two qubits encoded in the orbital states of two quantum dots can be entangled or disentangled in a controlled way through their interaction with a weak electron current. The transmission/reflection spectrum of each scattered…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-01-19 Fabrizio Buscemi , Paolo Bordone , Andrea Bertoni

We present a unified treatment of the Aharonov--Bohm (AB) effect for two-dimensional multiband electronic systems possessing isotropic band structures. We propose an integral representation of the AB scattering state of an electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-17 Róbert Németh , József Cserti

We study transport through a quantum dot side-coupled to two parallel Luttinger liquid leads in the presence of a Coulombic dot-lead interaction. This geometry enables an exact treatment of the inter-lead Coulomb interactions. We find that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Florian Elste , David Reichman , Andrew Millis

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 analyze the electronic transport through a model spin-1 molecule as a function of temperature, magnetic field and bias voltage. We consider the effect of magnetic anisotropy, which can be generated experimentally by stretching the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-06-24 P. S. Cornaglia , P. Roura Bas , A. A. Aligia , C. A. Balseiro

A model is developed for a detailed investigation of the current flowing through a cylindrical nanosize MOSFET with a close gate electrode. The quantum mechanical features of the lateral charge transport are described by Wigner distribution…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. N. Balaban , E. P. Pokatilov , V. M. Fomin , V. N. Gladilin , J. T. Devreese , W. Magnus , W. Schoenmaker , M. Van Rossum , B. Soree

In this work, we employed non-equilibrium Green's function to investigate the electron transport properties in the nanowire with the presence of scatterings. The scattering mechanism is modelled by using the concept of B\"uttiker probe. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Jing Li , Tin Cheung Au Yeung , Chan Hin Kam

Transport by helical edge states of a quantum spin Hall insulator is experimentally characterized by a weakly temperature-dependent mean free path of a few microns and by reproducible conductance oscillations, challenging proposed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-09 Lukas Kimme , Bernd Rosenow , Arne Brataas

The scattering of electrons on impurities with internal degrees of freedom is bound to produce the signatures of the scatterer's own dynamics and results in nontrivial electronic transport properties. Previous studies of polaronic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-01-18 J. Krsnik , I. Batistić , A. Marunović , E. Tutiš , O. S. Barišić

We calculate the conductance through a circular quantum billiard with two leads and a point magnetic flux at the center. The boundary element method is used to solve the Schrodinger equation of the scattering problem, and the Landauer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-27 Suhan Ree , L. E. Reichl

This article reviews spin-dependent transport of carriers in homogenous three-dimensional and two-dimensional semiconductors. We begin with a discussion of optical orientation of electron spins, which allows both the creation and detection…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Winkler

We develop a detailed microscopic analysis of electron transport in normal diffusive conductors in the presence of proximity induced superconducting correlation. We calculated the linear conductance of the system, the profile of the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 A. A. Golubov , F. K. Wilhelm , A. D. Zaikin

The theory of elastic light scattering by semiconductor quantum dots is suggested. The semiclassical method, applying retarded potentials to avoid the problem of bounder conditions for electric and magnetic field, is used. The exact results…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 I. G. Lang , L. I. Korovin , S. T. Pavlov