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Current fluctuations can provide additional insight into quantum transport in mesoscopic systems. The present work is carried out for the fluctuation properties of transport through a pair of coupled quantum dots which are connected with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-02 JunYan Luo , Xin-Qi Li , YiJing Yan

Directed classical current that increases linearly with time without using a biased external field is obtained in a simple model Hamiltonian system derived from a modified kicked rotor model, by breaking the spatial symmetry of the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jiangbin Gong , Paul Brumer

Spin chains have been proposed as quantum wires for information transfer in solid state quantum architectures. We show that huge gains in both transfer speed and fidelity are possible using a minimalist control approach that relies only a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-01 S. G. Schirmer , P. J. Pemberton-Ross

We analyze a quantum computer (QC) design based on nuclear spin qubits in a quasi-one-dimensional (1D) chain of non-Kramers doublet atoms. We explore the use of spatial symmetry breaking to obtain control over the local dynamics of a qubit.…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Novais , A. H. Castro Neto

We introduce the concept of bond spin current, which describes the spin transport between two sites of the lattice model of a multiterminal spin-orbit (SO) coupled semiconductor nanostructure, and express it in terms of the spin-dependent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Branislav K. Nikolic , Liviu P. Zarbo , Satofumi Souma

Directed transport in ratchets is determined by symmetry-breaking in a system out of equilibrium. A hallmark of rocking ratchets is current reversals: an increase in the rocking force changes the direction of the current. In this work for a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-19 D. Cubero , V. Lebedev , F. Renzoni

We propose a scheme for using an unmodulated and unmeasured spin-chain as a channel for short distance quantum communications. The state to be transmitted is placed on one spin of the chain and received later on a distant spin with some…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Sougato Bose

We study the rectified transport of underdamped active noninteracting particles in an asymmetric periodic potential. It is found that the ratchet effect of active noninteracting particles occurs in a single direction (along the easy…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-03-30 Bao-quan Ai , Feng-guo Li

We propose and study a novel way to produce a DC transport of vortices when applying an AC electrical current to a sample. Specifically, we study superconductors with a graduated random pinning density, which transports interacting vortices…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 C. J. Olson , C. Reichhardt , B. Janko , Franco Nori

Motion of an atomic ensemble trapped into a deep optical lattice is considered. We propose a novel approach to construct an atomic ratchet by superimposing two additional lattices whose amplitudes are small and subjected to broadband…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2013-11-13 D. V. Makarov , L. E. Kon'kov

We demonstrate the operation of a quantum ratchet in the absence of dissipative processes within the observation time (Hamiltonian regime). An atomic rubidium Bose-Einstein condensate is exposed to a sawtooth-like optical lattice potential,…

We develop a theory for the nonequilibrium coherent transport through a mesoscopic region, based on the nonequilibrium Green function technique. The theory requires the weak coupling between the central mesoscopic region and the multiple…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 Yu Zhu , Tsung-han Lin , Qing-feng Sun

The driving of charge carriers confined in a quantum well lacking the center of space inversion by an alternating electric field leads to the formation of a direct electric current. We develop a microscopic theory of such a quantum ratchet…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-24 G. V. Budkin , S. A. Tarasenko

We propose schemes for generating spin currents into a semiconductor by adiabatic or non-adiabatic pumping of electrons through interacting quantum dots. The appeal of such schemes lies in the possibility to tune the pumping characteristics…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-09 Stephan Rojek , Michele Governale , Jürgen König

Spin-orbit torques offer a promising mechanism for electrically controlling magnetization dynamics in nanoscale heterostructures. While spin-orbit torques occur predominately at interfaces, the physical mechanisms underlying these torques…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-02 Vivek P. Amin , Paul M. Haney , Mark D. Stiles

In this study, we describe the ratchet transport of particles under static asymmetric potential with periodicity. Ratchet transport has garnered considerable attention due to its potential for developing smart transport techniques on a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-12-11 Masayuki Hayakawa , Yusuke Kishino , Masahiro Takinoue

The thermal ratchets model toggles a spatially periodic asymmetric potential to rectify random walks and achieve transport of diffusing particles. We numerically solve the governing equation for the full dynamics of an infinite 1D ratchet…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-08-18 Abhranil Das , Soumitro Banerjee

The aim of this review is twofold. First, a general approach is presented allowing for a unified description of dynamics in radiating systems of different nature. Both atomic systems as well as spin assemblies can be treated in the frame of…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 V. I. Yukalov

The interplay between spin and charge degrees of freedom in low-dimensional systems is a cornerstone of modern spintronics, where achieving all-electrical control of spin currents is a major goal. Spin-orbit interactions provide a promising…

Control of the transfer of quantum information encoded in quantum wavepackets moving along a spin chain is demonstrated. Specifically, based on a relationship with control in a paradigm of quantum chaos, it is shown that wavepackets with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-07-18 Jiangbin Gong , Paul Brumer