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The buildup process of the probability density inside the quantum well of a double-barrier resonant structure is studied by considering the analytic solution of the time dependent Schr\"{o}dinger equation with the initial condition of a…
The electron spin dynamics in multilayer GaAs/AlGaAs quantum wells, containing high-mobility dense two-dimensional electron gases, have been studied using time-resolved Kerr rotation and resonant spin amplification techniques. The electron…
The possibility of controlling the tunneling time between quantum wells by relocation of the subband wave function within the quantum well by varying the configuration of thin tunnel-transparent barriers embedded into the well is…
Recent experiments on resonant tunneling structures comprising (Ga,Mn)As quantum wells [Ohya et al., Nature Physics 7, 342 (2011)] have evoked a strong debate regarding their interpretation as resonant tunneling features and the near…
We study the quantum dynamics of a BEC condensate trapped in a double-well potential with a rising interwell barrier. We analytically find the characteristic time scales of the splitting process and compare our results with numerical…
We present a theoretical analysis of low frequency dynamics of a single-channel mesoscopic capacitor, which is composed by a quantum dot connected to an electron reservoir via a single quantum channel. At low frequencies, it is known that…
We report on a theoretical study of the transport properties of two coupled two-dimensional electron systems subject to in-plane magnetic fields. The charge redistribution in double wells induced by the Lorenz force in crossed electric and…
In time-resolved Faraday rotation experiments we have detected an inplane anisotropy of the electron spin-dephasing time (SDT) in an $n$--modulation-doped GaAs/Al$_{0.3}$Ga$_{0.7}$As single quantum well. The SDT was measured with magnetic…
Double barrier heterostructures are model systems for the study of electron tunneling and discrete energy levels in a quantum well (QW). Until now resonant tunneling phenomena in metallicQW have been observed for limited thicknesses (1-2…
Equilibrium properties of electrons in double-heterojunction AlGaAs/GaAs\AlGaAs structures are investigated theoretically, using a full self-consistent numerical method. The transition from single to bilayer electron systems is discussed…
In wide GaAs quantum wells where two electric subbands are occupied we apply a parallel magnetic field or increase the electron density to cause a crossing of the two $N=0$ Landau levels of these subbands and with opposite spins. Near the…
We study the dynamics of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a double-well potential in the mean-field approximation. Decoherence effects are considered by analyzing the couplings of the condensate to environments. Two kinds of coupling are taken…
For a weakly interacting Bose-Einstein condensate in a double well, an appropriate time-dependent modulation of the trapping potential counter-acts the "self-trapping" effects of the interactions, thereby allowing tunneling between the…
We have measured the resistance and the 1/f resistance noise of a two-dimensional low density hole system in a high mobility GaAs quantum well at low temperature. At densities lower than the metal-insulator transition one, the temperature…
Two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) confined in quantum wells at insulating oxide interfaces have attracted much attention as their electronic properties display a rich physics with various electronics orders such as superconductivity and…
We present a double quantum wire system containing a coupling element in the middle barrier between the two parallel quantum wires. We explicitly account for the finite length of the double quantum wire with a time-dependent switching-on…
We investigate the spin relaxation and spin dephasing of $n$-type GaAs quantum wells. We obtain the spin relaxation time $T_1$, the spin dephasing time $T_2$ and the ensemble spin dephasing time $T_2^{\ast}$ by solving the full microscopic…
In a semiconductor-based double quantum well (QW) coupled to a degree of freedom with an internal dynamics, we demonstrate that the electronic motion is controllable within femtoseconds by applying appropriately shaped electromagnetic…
In a previous work (PRL 87, 140405), we have shown that a spinor condensate confined in a periodic or double-well potential exhibits ferromagnetic behavior due to the magnetic dipole-dipole interactions between different wells, and in the…
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…