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We study the effects of electrostatic gating on the lateral distribution of charge carriers in two dimensional devices, in a non-linear dielectric environment. We compute the charge distribution using the Thomas-Fermi approximation to model…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-05 Eylon Persky , Hyeok Yoon , Yanwu Xie , Harold Y. Hwang , Jonathan Ruhman , Beena Kalisky

Temperature dependent transport of disordered electronic systems is examined in the presence of strong correlations. In contrast to what is assumed in Fermi liquid approaches, finite temperature behavior in this regime proves largely…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 M. C. O. Aguiar , E. Miranda , V. Dobrosavljevic , E. Abrahams , G. Kotliar

As discovered in the quantum Hall effect, a very effective way for strongly-repulsive electrons to minimize their potential energy is to aquire non-zero relative angular momentum. We pursue this mechanism for interacting two-dimensional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 Leon Balents , Matthew P. A. Fisher , Chetan Nayak

We develop a theory of Coulomb interaction-related contribution to the photogalvanic current of the carriers of charge in two-dimensional non-centrosymmetric Dirac materials possessing a nontrivial structure of valleys and exposed to an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-13 V. M. Kovalev , A. V. Parafilo , O. V. Kibis , I. G. Savenko

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

Electron capture and emission by Coulomb scattering in self-assembled quantum dot (QD) devices is studied theoretically. While the dependence of the Coulomb scattering (Auger) rates on the local wetting layer electron density has been a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Wetzler , A. Wacker , E. Sch"oll

Scattering or tunneling of an electron at a potential barrier is a fundamental quantum effect. Electron-electron interactions often affect the scattering, and understanding of the interaction effect is crucial in detection of various…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-10 Sungguen Ryu , H. -S. Sim

In two recent papers (Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 116} (2016) 033201; Phys. Rev. A {\bf 94} (2016) 032331), the possibility of continuously varying the degree of entanglement between an elastically scattered electron and the valence electron of…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-04-26 K. Bartschat , S. Fonseca dos Santos

The electroweak response functions for inclusive electron scattering are calculated in the Relativistic Fermi Gas model, both in the quasi-elastic and in the $\Delta$ peak regions. The impact of relativistic kinematics at high momentum…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-11-23 Maria B. Barbaro

A discrete charge transfer in a small tunnel junction where Coulomb interactions are important can excite electron-hole pairs near the Fermi level. We use a simple model to study the associated nonequilibrium properties and found two novel…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Guinea , M. Ueda

We have analyzed Coulomb drag between currents of interacting electrons in two parallel one-dimensional conductors of finite length $L$ attached to external reservoirs. For strong coupling, the relative fluctuations of electron density in…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Vadim Ponomarenko , Dmitri Averin

It was realized two decades ago that the two-dimensional diffusive Fermi liquid phase is unstable against arbitrarily weak electron-electron interactions. Recently, using the nonlinear sigma model developed by Finkelstein, several authors…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 Xiao Yang , Chetan Nayak

Non-Fermi liquid behavior is shown to occur in two-dimensional metals which are close to a charge ordering transition driven by the Coulomb repulsion. A linear temperature dependence of the scattering rate together with an increase of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 J. Merino , A. Greco , N. Drichko , M. Dressel

We report low-temperature transport measurements of three-terminal T-shaped device patterned from GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructure. We demonstrate the mode branching and bend resistance effects predicted by numerical modeling for linear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 J. Wrobel , P. Zagrajek , M. Czapkiewicz , M. Bek , D. Sztenkiel , K. Fronc , R. Hey , K. H. Ploog , B. R. Bulka

The non linear charge transfer through a tunnel junction between two Luttinger systems is studied for repulsive, finite range interaction between electrons on the same, V_{11}, and on different,V_{12}, sides of the junction. Features of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Maura Sassetti , Bernhard Kramer

Treating Coulomb scattering of two free electrons in a stationary approach, we explore the momentum and spin entanglement created by the interaction. We show that a particular discretisation provides an estimate of the von Neumann entropy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-14 Peter Schattschneider , Stefan Löffler , Herbert Gollisch , Roland Feder

We study the unscreened Coulomb interaction in a one-dimensional electron system at low-energy. We use renormalization group methods and a GW approximation, in order to analyze the model. This yields both a strong wavefunction…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Bellucci

Recent experiments performed on weakly pinched quantum point contacts, have shown a resistance that tend to decrease at low source drain voltage. We show that enhanced Coulomb interactions, prompt by the presence of the point contact, may…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 Dganit Meidan , Yuval Oreg

Scattering among electrons generates a distinct contribution to electrical resistivity that follows a quadratic temperature dependence. In strongly-correlated electron systems, the prefactor A of this T$^2$ resistivity scales with the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-09-01 Xiao Lin , Benoit Fauque , Kamran Behnia

We calculate the interaction kernel K for two-dimensional diffusive electrons. The screening of the Coulomb interaction together with the Fermi statistics induces a spin selection rule for electron-electron scattering so that in leading…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Philippe Jacquod