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We report an observation of metal-insulator transition in a thin film of SnSe$_2$. The room-temperature carrier concentration of SnSe$_2$ film was increased by electrostatic doping to 1.14$\times$ 10$^{13}$ cm$^{-2}$. A crossover from…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-22 Aarti Lakhara , Lars Thole , Rolf J. Haug , P. A. Bhobe

We investigate transport in weakly-coupled metal nanoparticle arrays, focusing on the regime where tunneling is competing with strong single electron charging effects. This competition gives rise to an interplay between two types of charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 T. B. Tran , I. S. Beloborodov , Jingshi Hu , X. M. Lin , T. F. Rosenbaum , H. M. Jaeger

We derive the dynamical mean-field theory equations for transport in an ordered charge-density-wave phase on a bipartite lattice. The formalism is applied to the spinless Falicov-Kimball model on a hypercubic lattice at half filling. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-08-14 O. P. Matveev , A. M. Shvaika , J. K. Freericks

We present a theory for charge and heat transport parallel to the interfaces of a multilayer (ML) in which the interfacing gives rise the redistribution of the electronic charges. The ensuing electrical field couples self-consistently to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-01-03 Veljko Zlatić , J. K. Freericks

Magnetic tunnel junctions comprising of an insulator sandwiched between two ferromagnetic films are the simplest spintronic devices. Theoretically, these can be modeled by a metallic Hamiltonian in both the lattice and the continuum with an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-30 Dhavala Suri , R. S. Patel , Abhiram Soori

Metal-insulator transitions driven by magnetic fields have been extensively studied in 2D, but a 3D theory is still lacking. Motivated by recent experiments, we develop a scaling theory for the metal-insulator transitions in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-29 Peng-Lu Zhao , Hai-Zhou Lu , X. C. Xie

We study charge transport across the metal-insulator crossover in the half-filled two-dimensional Hubbard model, with particular emphasis on precision control. The dynamic current-current correlation function is obtained directly in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-03 Youngmin Eom , Igor S. Tupitsyn , Nikolay V. Prokof'ev , Boris Svistunov , Evgeny Kozik , Aaram J. Kim

Inside cells, cargos such as vesicles and organelles are transported by molecular motors to their correct locations via active motion on cytoskeletal tracks and passive, Brownian diffusion. During the transportation of cargos, motor-cargo…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-04-10 Supravat Dey , Kevin Ching , Moumita Das

Nanoscale electronic transport is of intense technological interest, with applications ranging from semiconducting devices and molecular junctions to charge migration in biological systems. Most explicit theoretical approaches treat…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-08 Justin E. Elenewski , Hanning Chen

We have systematically investigated the electrical transport properties of polycrystalline TaN$_x$ ($0.83$$\lesssim$$x$$\lesssim$1.32) films with rocksalt structure from 300 down to 2 K. It is found that the conductivity varies linearly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 Ran Li , Xiu-Zhi Duan , Xin Zhu , Yang Yang , Ding-Bang Zhou , Zhi-Qing Li

This thesis investigates the magnetic, spectral, and transport properties of strongly correlated electronic systems, with a primary focus on the Hubbard model and its extensions relevant for real materials. Within the dynamical mean-field…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-19 Joel Bobadilla

It is proposed two models describing transport and absorbtion processes that occur in nanoscale fragments of electrical circuits, pulled adsorbed molecules, atomic or molecular chains connecting electrodes. Discrete chain model of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. N. Evteev , M. V. Moiseenko , E. V. Zhuravel , E. Ya. Glushko

We describe the nature of charge transport at non-zero temperatures ($T$) above the two-dimensional ($d$) superfluid-insulator quantum critical point. We argue that the transport is characterized by inelastic collisions among thermally…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-30 Kedar Damle , Subir Sachdev

Lectures deal with the theory of electronic transport, in particular with the electrical conductivity, in systems dominated by strong electron-electron repulsion. The concept of charge stiffness is introduced to distinguish conductors and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 P. Prelovsek , X. Zotos

Transport properties of the charge ordering compound $\beta-$Na$_{0.33}$V$_2$O$_5$ are studied in the temperature range from 30 K to 300 K using current driven DC conductivity experiments. It is found that below the metal-insulator…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Sirbu , P. H. M. van Loosdrecht , T. Yamauchi , Y. Ueda , .

We employ a mean-field theory to study ground-state properties and transport of a two-dimensional gas of ultracold alklaline-earth metal atoms governed by the Kondo Lattice Hamiltonian plus a parabolic confining potential. In a homogenous…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-19 Michael Foss-Feig , Michael Hermele , Victor Gurarie , Ana Maria Rey

A granular metal is an array of metallic nano-particles imbedded into an insulating matrix. Tuning the intergranular coupling strength a granular system can be transformed into either a good metal or an insulator and, in case of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 I. S. Beloborodov , K. B. Efetov , A. V. Lopatin , V. M. Vinokur

Heating of carriers in an intrinsic graphene under dc electric field is considered taking into account the intraband energy relaxation due to acoustic phonon scattering and the interband generation-recombination transitions due to thermal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 O. G. Balev , F. T. Vasko , V. Ryzhii

Quantum transport through devices coupled to electron reservoirs can be described in terms of the full counting statistics (FCS) of charge transfer. Transport observables, such as conductance and shot-noise power are just cumulants of FCS…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-23 M I Sena-Junior , A M S Macêdo

Thermodynamic transport phenomena in the system consisting of many hard-disks confined in a circular tube with a temperature difference are discussed. Here, temperatures on parts of the walls of the tube are imposed by stochastic boundary…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-10-05 Tooru Taniguchi , Colin Bain McRae , Shin-ichi Sawada