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We demonstrate the trapping of electrons propagating ballistically at far-above-equilibrium energies in GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructures in high magnetic field. We find low-loss transport along a gate-modified mesa edge in contrast to an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-30 L. Freise , T. Gerster , D. Reifert , T. Weimann , K. Pierz , F. Hohls , N. Ubbelohde

Quantum tunneling of an electron through a classically forbidden regime has no classical analogue and several aspects of it are still not well understood. In this work we analyze electronic currents under the barrier. For this we consider a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-20 Sreemoyee Mukherjee , P. Singha Deo , A. M. Jayannavar

A theory of transport in the quantum Hall regime is developed for separately contacted double-layer electron systems. Inter-layer tunneling provides a channel for equilibration of the distribution functions in the two layers at the edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Daijiro Yoshioka

The non-perturbation theory of electronic dynamic conductivity for open two-barrier resonance tunnel structure is established for the first time within the model of rectangular potentials and different effective masses of electrons in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-22 M. V. Tkach , Ju. O. Seti , O. M. Voitsekhivska

For the successful implementation of organic electrochemical transistors in neuromorphic computing, bioelectronics, and real-time sensing applications it is essential to understand the factors that influence device switching times. Here we…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-10-10 Juan Bisquert , Nir Tessler

The transient processes of electron transport in nano-scale devices exhibit special phenomena that exist only in the transient regime. Besides how fast the steady states are approached, one interesting aspect of transient transport arises…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-01 Matisse Wei-Yuan Tu , Amnon Aharony , Ora Entin-Wohlman , Avraham Schiller , Wei-Min Zhang

Quantum particles interacting with potential barriers are ubiquitous in physics, and the question of how much time they spend inside classically forbidden regions has attracted interest for many decades. Recent developments of new…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-06 Seyedmohammad Yusofsani , Miroslav Kolesik

Two metals at different temperatures separated by large gaps exchange heat under the form of electromagnetic radiation. When the separation distance is reduced and they approach contact (nanometer and sub-nanometer gaps), electrons and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-20 Mauricio Gómez Viloria , Philippe Ben-Abdallah , Riccardo Messina

We present theoretical description of conduction electrons interacting with a domain wall in ferromagnetic metals. The description takes into account interaction between electrons. Within the semiclassical approximation we calculate the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 V. K. Dugaev , J. Barnas , A. Lusakowski , L. A. Turski

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

We investigate the influence of electron--electron interactions on the density of states of a ballistic two--dimensional electron gas. The density of states is determined nonperturbatively by means of path integral techniques allowing for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Joerg Rollbuehler , Hermann Grabert

This paper reviews recent studies of mesoscopic fluctuations in transport through ballistic quantum dots, emphasizing differences between conduction through open dots and tunneling through nearly isolated dots. Both the open dots and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 C. M. Marcus , S. R. Patel , A. G. Huibers , S. M. Cronenwett , M. Switkes , I. H. Chan , R. M. Clarke , J. A. Folk , S. F. Godijn , K. Campman , A. C. Gossard

A fourth-order Schr\"{o}dinger equation for the description of charge transport in semiconductors in the ballistic regime is proposed with the inclusion of non-parabolic effects in the dispersion relation in order to go beyond the simple…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-07-15 Giulia Elena Aliffi , Giovanni Nastasi , Vittorio Romano

Electron's tunneling through potential barrier in monolayer and bilayer graphene lattices is investigated by using full tight-binding model. Emphasis is placed on the resonance tunneling feature and inter-valley scattering probability. It…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-08-25 Di Wu , Weiqiang Chen , Fu-Chun Zhang

We determine the energy-level shift experienced by a neutral atom due the quantum electromagnetic interaction with a layered dielectric body. We use the technique of normal-mode expansion to quantize the electromagnetic field in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-03-15 Claudia Eberlein , Robert Zietal

The conductance through a finite quantum dot network is studied as a function of inter-dot coupling. As the coupling is reduced, the system undergoes a transition from the antidot regime to the tight binding limit, where Coulomb resonances…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 August Dorn , Thomas Ihn , Klaus Ensslin , Werner Wegscheider , Max Bichler

The theoretical model of the short-range interacting Luttinger liquid predicts a power-law scaling of the density of states and the momentum distribution function around the Fermi surface, which can be readily tested through tunneling…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-06-01 DinhDuy Vu , Anibal Iucci , Sankar Das Sarma

A clear consensus on how long it takes a particle to tunnel through a potential barrier has never been so urgently required, since the electron dynamics in strong-field ionization can be resolved on attosecond time-scale in experiment and…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-03-19 Xiaolei Hao , Zheng Shu , Weidong Li , Jing Chen

We use a method of matched asymptotics to determine the energy gap of two counter-propagating, strongly interacting, quantum Hall edge states. The microscopic edge state dispersion and Coulomb interactions are used to precisely constrain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Marcus Kollar , Subir Sachdev

Two infinite, two-dimensional, lattice, free fermion systems, initially in different invariant states, are allowed to communicate via two point contacts, through which direct tunneling of fermions takes place. Calculations of the local…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 N. Angelescu , M. Bundaru , R. Bundaru , I. Popescu