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Electron transport in bilayer graphene is studied by using a first principles analysis and theMonte Carlo simulation under conditions relevant to potential applications. While the intrinsic properties are found to be much less desirable in…

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We calculate the corrections to the conductivity and compressibility of a disordered metal when the mean free path is smaller than the screening length. Such a condition is shown to be realized for low densities and large disorder. Analysis…

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We investigate the possibility and implications of interlayer coherence in electrically isolated superconducting bilayers. We find that in a mean-field approximation bilayers can have superconducting and excitonic order simultaneously if…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-01-18 Igor V. Blinov , Allan H. MacDonald

The study of electron motion in semiconductor billiards has elucidated our understanding of quantum interference and quantum chaos. The central assumption is that ionized donors generate only minor perturbations to the electron…

Polarization effects are included exactly in a model for a quantum dot in close proximity to a planar interface. Efficient incorporation of this potential into the Schr\"{o}dinger equation is utilized to map out the influence of the image…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Kuljit S. Virk , David R. Reichman , Mark S. Hybertsen

We study electron transport properties of some molecular wires and a unconventional disordered thin film within the tight-binding framework using Green's function technique. We show that electron transport is significantly affected by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-06-29 Santanu K. Maiti

We theoretically study transport in two-dimensional semimetals. Typically, electron and hole puddles emerge in the transport layer of these systems due to smooth fluctuations in the potential. We calculate the electric response of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-29 Michael Knap , Jay D. Sau , Bertrand I. Halperin , Eugene Demler

Understanding the interplay between disorder, environment and interactions is key to elucidating the transport properties of open quantum systems, from excitons in photosynthetic networks to qubits in ion traps. This interplay is studied…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-12 Elinor Zerah-Harush , Yonatan Dubi

Quantum transport properties in quantum Hall wires in the presence of spatially correlated disordered magnetic fields are investigated numerically. It is found that the correlation drastically changes the transport properties associated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Tohru Kawarabayashi , Yoshiyuki Ono , Tomi Ohtsuki , Stefan Kettemann , Alexander Struck , Bernhard Kramer

The quantum Hall effect is studied numerically in modulated two-dimensional electron systems in the presence of disorder. Based on the scaling property of the Hall conductivity as well as the localization length, the critical energies where…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Mikito Koshino , Tsuneya Ando

Hall and diagonal resistances of bilayer fractional quantum Hall systems are discussed theoretically. The bilayers have electrodes attached separately to each layer. They are assumed to be coupled weakly by interlayer tunneling, while the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Daijiro Yoshioka , Kentaro Nomura

We investigate the effect of electron-electron interactions on the transport properties of disordered quasi one-dimensional quantum wires with two or more subbands occupied. We apply two alternative methods to solve the logarithmic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-28 Arisato Kawabata , Tobias Brandes

Semi-Dirac semimetals have received enthusiastic research both theoretically and experimentally in the recent years. Due to the anisotropic dispersion, its physical properties are highly direction-dependent. In this work we employ the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-08 Shihao Bi , Yiting Deng , Yan He , Peng Li

We investigate transport and Coulomb drag properties of semiconductor-based electron-hole bilayer systems. Our calculations are motivated by recent experiments in undoped electron-hole bilayer structures based on GaAs-AlGaAs gated double…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-09-16 E. H. Hwang , S. Das Sarma

We investigate the impact of structural disorder on electronic transport in gold nanocrystal monolayers. Arrays ranging from void-filled networks to well-ordered superlattices show clear voltage thresholds V_T due to Coulomb blockade, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Raghuveer Parthasarathy , Xiao-Min Lin , Heinrich M. Jaeger

We address the effects of disorder on the conducting properties of metal and semiconducting carbon nanotubes. Experimentally, the mean free path is found to be much larger in metallic tubes than in doped semiconducting tubes. We show that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Paul L. McEuen , Marc Bockrath , David H. Cobden , Young-Gui Yoon , Steven G. Louie

We study the interplay between disorder and light-matter coupling by considering a disordered one-dimensional chain of lossy dipoles coupled to a multimode optical cavity, through a microscopically derived Hamiltonian. Such a system,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-04 Thomas F. Allard , Guillaume Weick

In alloys exhibiting substitutional disorder, the variety of atomic environments manifests itself as a `disorder broadening' in their core level binding energy spectra. Disorder broadening can be measured experimentally, and in principle…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-07-14 T. L. Underwood , G. J. Ackland , R. J. Cole

We theoretically consider transport properties of a normal metal (N)- superconducting semiconductor nanowire (S)-normal metal (N) structure (NSN) in the context of the possible existence of Majorana bound states in disordered…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Alejandro M. Lobos , S. Das Sarma

We study the phase diagrams and thermodynamic properties of a system of coexisting itinerant electrons and local pairs (LP), in the presence of diagonal disorder. The model considered takes into account both the charge exchange couplings,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Stanisław Robaszkiewicz , Grzegorz Pawłowski