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We discuss a numerical method to study electron transport in mesoscopic devices out of equilibrium. The method is based on the solution of operator equations of motion, using efficient Chebyshev time propagation techniques. Its peculiar…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-02-20 A. Alvermann , H. Fehske

We investigate currents in a quantum ring threaded by a magnetic flux which can be varied in an arbitrary way from an initial value $\phi_i$ at time $t_i$ to a final value $\phi_f$ at time $t_f$. Dynamics of electrons in the ring is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 M. Mierzejewski , J. Dajka , J. Łuczka

We explore the prospects to control by use of time-dependent fields quantum transport phenomena in nanoscale systems. In particular, we study for driven conductors the electron current and its noise properties. We review recent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sigmund Kohler , Jörg Lehmann , Peter Hänggi

Consider a three dimensional system which looks like a cross-connected pipe system, i.e. a small sample coupled to a finite number of leads. We investigate the current running through this system, in the linear response regime, when we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Horia D. Cornean , Pierre Duclos , Gheorghe Nenciu , Radu Purice

We propose a random matrix theory to describe the influence of a time-dependent external field on electron transport through open quantum dots. We describe the generation of the current by an oscillating field for the dot, connected to two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Maxim G. Vavilov , V. Ambegaokar , Igor L. Aleiner

We theoretically show that strong mechanical quantum squeezing in a linear optomechanical system can be rapidly generated through the dynamical instability reached in the far red-detuned and ultrastrong coupling regime. We show that this…

We explore the transient dynamics associated with the emergence of the classical signal in the full quantum system. We start our study from the instability which promotes the squeezing of the quantum system. This is often interpreted as the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-29 Masahiro Morikawa

On the basis of the lattice Boltzmann method we have done a numerical experiment of a forced turbulence in real space and time. Our new findings are summarized into two points. First in the analysis of the mean-field behavior of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. Sakikawa , O. Narikiyo

Transport through semiconductor nanostructures is a quantum-coherent process. This paper focuses on systems in which the electron's dynamics is ballistic and the transport is dominated by the scattering from structure boundaries. Opposite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. R. Racec , P. N. Racec , U. Wulf

We study theoretically the detection and possible utilization of electric current-induced mechanical torques in ferromagnetic-normal metal heterostructures that are generated by spin-flip scattering or the absorption of transverse spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-01-01 Alexey A. Kovalev , Gerrit E. W. Bauer , Arne Brataas

The influence of electromagnetic radiation on the electron transport in a quantum channel with a single short-range scatterer is investigated using a generalized Landauer-Buttiker approach. We have shown that asymmetrical position of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-03 M. A. Pyataev , S. N. Ulyanov

Electromagnetic radiation by accelerated charges is a fundamental process in physics. Here, we introduce a quantum-optical framework for controlling the emission of radiation of an electron in an intense laser field via squeezed vacuum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-25 A. Di Piazza , K. Qu

We predict that the mesoscopic tensile force fluctuations in metal quantum point contacts (nanowires) arise as a result of finite electric voltage on the contact. They are due to reconfiguration of the electronic subsystem and are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Alexandre M. Zagoskin

We consider the spin-current driven dynamics of a magnetic nanostructure in a conductive magnetic wire under a heat gradient in an open circuit, spin Seebeck effect geometry. It is shown that the spin-current scattering results in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Chenglong Jia , Jamal Berakdar

Electrokinetic transport phenomena can strongly influence the behaviour of macromolecules and colloidal particles in solution, with applications in, e.g., DNA translocation through nanopores, electro-osmotic flow in nanocapillaries, and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-03 Georg Rempfer , Gary B. Davies , Christian Holm , Joost de Graaf

We have developed a method to simulate multiple electron scattering in a vacuum barrier using real-space single-electron wavefunctions of the separate surfaces. The tunnelling current is calculated to first order in the Dyson series. In…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Werner A Hofer

We investigate theoretically the transport properties of a mesoscopic system driven by a sequence of rectangular pulses applied at the contact to the input (left) lead. The characteristics of the current which would be measured in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-27 Valeriu Moldoveanu , Andrei Manolescu , Vidar Gudmundsson

This paper presents a novel approach for generating and controlling spin currents in an antiferromagnetic twisted honeycomb bilayer in response to an elastic deformation. Utilizing a continuum model, closely based upon the seminal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 Mario Castro , Benjamín Mancilla , Fabian Wolff , Alvaro S. Nunez

We revisit the problem of forces on atoms under current in nanoscale conductors. We derive and discuss the five principal kinds of force under steady-state conditions from a simple standpoint that - with the help of background literature -…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-05 Tchavdar N. Todorov , Daniel Dundas , Jing-Tao Lü , Mads Brandbyge , Per Hedegård

We present an experimental and theoretical study of the low-field dynamics of current-driven vortex oscillations in nanocontacts based on spin-valve multilayers. These oscillations appear as low-frequency (250-500 MHz) excitations in the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 M. van Kampen , L. Lagae , G. Hrkac , T. Schrefl , Joo-Von Kim , T. Devolder , C. Chappert