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We study the coherence of transport of an overdamped Brownian particle in frictional ratchet system in the presence of external Gaussian white noise fluctuations. The analytical expressions for the particle velocity and diffusion…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Raishma Krishnan , Debasis Dan , A. M. Jayannavar

This paper discusses the influence of the channel impurity distribution on the transport and the drive current in short-gate MOSFET. In this purpose, a careful description of electron-ion interaction suitable for the case of discrete…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Dollfus , A. Bournel , S. Galdin , S. Barraud , P. Hesto

We consider a driven tracer particle (TP) in a bath of hard-core particles undergoing continuous exchanges with a reservoir. We develop an analytical framework which allows us to go beyond the standard force-velocity relation used for this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-15 O. Bénichou , P. Illien , G. Oshanin , R. Voituriez

We put forward a relation between the static charge fluctuations and the conductance of correlated many-fermion systems at zero temperature, avoiding the use of time-dependent fluctuations as in the fluctuation-dissipation theorem. Static…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-04-18 Yuchi He , Dante M. Kennes , Volker Meden

The reduction of the amplitude of Aharonov-Bohm oscillations in a ballistic one-channel mesoscopic interferometer due to charge fluctuations is investigated. In the arrangement considered the interferometer has four terminals and is coupled…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Georg Seelig , Markus Buttiker

We describe two experiments to study the influence of fluctuations in the electron charge on the transport properties of a quantum dot. First, we scan a device from single- to double quantum-dot behavior by varying the conductance of a…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Flensberg , L. W. Molenkamp

In order to provide an accurate theoretical description of current density voltage (J-V) characteristics of an organic heterojunction device over a wide range of electric fields at various temperatures, it is proposed that an accumulation…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 S. W. Tsang , M. W. Denhoff , Y. Tao , Z. H. Lu

By the application of a small oscillating magnetic field parallel to the main magnetic field and perpendicular to the transport current, we were able to generate a voltage dip in the I-V curves of Nb$_3$Sn similar to the peak-effect pattern…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-01-22 M. Reibelt , N. Toyota

We study thermal fluctuation corrections to charge and heat conductivity in systems with locally conserved energy and charge, but without locally conserved momentum. Thermal fluctuations may naturally lead to a lower bound on diffusion…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-07-22 Pavel Kovtun

We consider charge transport in nanopores where the dielectric constant inside the nanopore is much greater than in the surrounding material, so that the flux of the electric fields due to the charges is almost entirely confined to the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 S. R. Holcombe , E. R. Smith

Intrinsic noise is known to be ubiquitous in Josephson junctions. We investigate a voltage biased superconducting tunnel junction including a very small number of pinholes - transport channels possessing a transmission coefficient close to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-13 Georg Heinrich , F. K. Wilhelm

This paper reports a relation between ionic conductivity and electric current fluctuations. The relation was derived using statistical analysis and entropy approach. The relation can be used to calculate ionic conductivity.

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-07-26 Yong-Jun Zhang

We present a stochastic approach for ion transport at the mesoscopic level. The description takes into account the self-consistent electric field generated by the fixed and mobile charges as well as the discrete nature of these latter. As…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-17 David Andrieux , Pierre Gaspard

We analyze the transport in disordered two-dimensional nanoparticle arrays. We show that the commonly used scaling hypothesis to fit the I-V curves does not describe the electronic transport in these systems. On the contrary, close to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-03 V. Estevez , E. Bascones

To assist the design of novel, highly efficient molecular junctions, a deep understanding of the precise charge transport mechanisms through these devices is of prime importance. In the present contribution, we describe a procedure to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-01-13 Vincent Pohl , Lukas Eugen Marsoner Steinkasserer , Jean Christophe Tremblay

We consider the hydrodynamic origin of anomalous current fluctuations in a family of stochastic charged cellular automata. Using ballistic macroscopic fluctuation theory, we study both typical and large fluctuations of the charge current…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-21 Takato Yoshimura , Žiga Krajnik

The charge transport properties of hybrid halide perovskites are investigated with a combination of density functional theory including van der Waals interaction and the Boltzmann theory for diffusive transport in the relaxation time…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-01-29 Carlo Motta , Fedwa El Mellouhi , Stefano Sanvito

Microscopic corrugations are ubiquitous in graphene even when placed on atomically flat substrates. These result in random local strain fluctuations limiting the carrier mobility of high quality hBN-supported graphene devices. We present…

Voltage-dependent ion channels determine the electric properties of axonal cell membranes. They not only allow the passage of ions through the cell membrane but also contribute to an additional charging of the cell membrane resulting in the…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2009-11-13 G. Schmid , I. Goychuk , P. Hanggi

An experimental study of current fluctuations through a tunable transmission barrier, a quantum point contact, are reported. We measure the probability distribution function of transmitted charge with precision sufficient to extract the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Gershon , Yu. Bomze , E. V. Sukhorukov , M. Reznikov