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This is a preliminary acount of a theory for Raman scattering by current-carrying molecular junctions. The approach combines a non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) description of the non-equilibrium junction with a generalized scattering…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-04-09 Michael Galperin , Mark A. Ratner , Abraham Nitzan

The scattering picture of electron transport in mesoscopic conductors shows that fluctuations of the current reveal additional information on the scattering mechanism not available through the conductance alone. The electronic fluctuations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-14 Matthias Hübler , Wolfgang Belzig

I present the Floquet scattering matrix theory of low-frequency heat fluctuations in driven multi-terminal quantum-coherent conductors in the linear response regime and beyond. The intrinsic fluctuations of energy of dynamically excited…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-29 Michael Moskalets

The purpose of this paper is to provide an introduction to the physics of scattering theory, to define the dosimetric concept of linear energy transfer in terms of scattering theory, and to provide an introduction to the concepts underlying…

General Physics · Physics 2008-07-01 Gordon McCabe

We present a scattering-state description for the non-equilibrium multichannel charge transport in the presence of electron-vibration couplings. It is based on an expansion of scattering orders of eigenchannel states. Examining charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-16 Sejoong Kim , Young-Woo Son

A square lattice of mesoscopic resistors is considered. Each bond is modeled as a narrow waveguide, while junctions are sources of elastic scattering given by a scattering matrix \mathbf{S}. Symmetry and unitarity constraints are used in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-19 Oliwier Urbański

Recent precision measurements of mesoscopic persistent currents in normal-metal rings rely on the interaction between the magnetic moment generated by the current and a large applied magnetic field. Motivated by this technique, we extend…

In this work, we employed non-equilibrium Green's function to investigate the electron transport properties in the nanowire with the presence of scatterings. The scattering mechanism is modelled by using the concept of B\"uttiker probe. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Jing Li , Tin Cheung Au Yeung , Chan Hin Kam

We investigate transport through a tunnelling junction between an uncorrelated metallic lead and a Luttinger liquid when the latter is subjected to a time dependent perturbation. The tunnelling current as well as the electron energy…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 Andrei Komnik , Alexander O. Gogolin

Thermodynamic and transport properties of normal disordered conductors are strongly influenced by the proximity of a superconductor. A cooperation between mesoscopic coherence and Andreev scattering of particles from the superconductor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Alexander Altland , B D Simons , D Taras-Semchuk

We present a calculation of current-induced torques in metallic magnetic multilayers derived from the spin-dependent transmission and reflection properties of the magnetic layers. A scattering formalism is employed to calculate the torques…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Xavier Waintal , Edward B. Myers , Piet W. Brouwer , D. C. Ralph

When an electrically conducting non-magnetic particle is subjected to a spatially varying and oscillating applied magnetic field of amplitude $\mathcal{H} + \mathcal{G} \cdot x$ and frequency $\omega$, an oscillating eddy current is…

Classical Physics · Physics 2026-04-08 V. Kumaran

A phenomenological theory of rigid and saturated ferromagnetic conductors is constructed from a four-continuum model consisting of a rigid lattice continuum, a bound charge continuum for polarization, a circulating current continuum for…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-06-21 Jiashi Yang

We consider two quantum coherent conductors interacting weakly via long range Coulomb forces. We describe the interaction in terms of two-particle collisions described by a two-particle scattering matrix. As an example we determine the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. C. Goorden , M. Buttiker

We show that when one drives a charge current across noncollinear magnetic layers the two electron Coulomb scattering creates a spin flip potential at interfaces. This scattering is found when the interface potential is updated due to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Peter M Levy , Jianwei Zhang

A short summary of the drift-diffusion-Langevin formalism for calculating finite-frequency shot noise in diffusive conductors is presented. Two new results are included in this presentation. First, we arrive at a simple (but accurate)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Y. Naveh

The coherent control of scattering processes is considered, with electron impact dissociation of H$_2^+$ used as an example. The physical mechanism underlying coherently controlled stationary state scattering is exposed by analyzing a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Michael Spanner , Paul Brumer

We develop a Luttinger liquid theory of the Coulomb drag of persistent currents flowing in concentric mesoscopic rings, by incorporating non-linear corrections to the electron dispersion relation. We demonstrate that at low temperatures,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-28 T. V. Shahbazyan , S. E. Ulloa

We propose a theory of optically-induced currents in dielectrics and wide-gap semiconductors exposed to a non-resonant ultrashort laser pulse with a stabilized carrier-envelope phase. In order to describe strong-field electron dynamics,…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-05 Stanislav Yu. Kruchinin , Michael Korbman , Vladislav S. Yakovlev

Employing a real time effective action formalism we analyze electron transport and current fluctuations in comparatively short coherent conductors in the presence of electron-electron interactions. We demonstrate that, while Coulomb…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Dmitri S. Golubev , Artem V. Galaktionov , Andrei D. Zaikin