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Scalable quantum information processing in spin-based architectures necessitates the a bility to reliably shuttle quantum states across extended device regions with minimal decoherence. In this work, we present a physics-informed algorithm…

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We consider semiclassically scaled, weakly nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations with external confining potentials and additional angular-momentum rotation term. This type of model arises in the Gross-Pitaevskii theory of trapped, rotating…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-05 Xiaoan Shen , Christof Sparber

There has been a recent surge of interest in understanding charge transport at atomic scales. The motivations are myriad, including understanding the conductance properties of peptides measured experimentally. In this study, we propose a…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-06-09 Roisin Dempsey Braddell , Jone Uria-Albizuri , Jean-Bernard Bru , Serafim Rodrigues

The real time evolution of two pieces of quantum insulators, initially at different temperatures, is studied when they are glued together. Specifically, each subsystem is taken as a Bose-Hubbard model in a Mott insulator state. The process…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-04-28 Mateusz Łącki , Dominique Delande , Jakub Zakrzewski

Theoretical foundations of electron transport in mesoscopic systems, based on Landauer theory, Master equations or Onsager linear thermodynamics, are revisited to show that the noniteracting electrons model is insufficient to describe…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 Robert Alicki

Nonlinear charge transport in strongly coupled semiconductor superlattices is described by Wigner-Poisson kinetic equations involving one or two minibands. Electron-electron collisions are treated within the Hartree approximation whereas…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-11-16 L. L. Bonilla , L. Barletti , M. Alvaro

We propose a Schr\"odinger equation of arbitrary order for modeling charge transport in semiconductors operating in the ballistic regime. This formulation incorporates non-parabolic effects through the Kane dispersion relation, thereby…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Giulia Elena Aliffi , Giovanni Nastasi , Vittorio Romano

We have developed a simulation system for nanoscale high-electron mobility transistors, in which the self-consistent solution of Poisson and Schr\"odinger equations is obtained with the finite element method. We solve the exact set of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Hesameddin Ilatikhameneh , Reza Ashrafi , Sina Khorasani

Thermal escape out of a metastable well is considered in the weak friction regime, where the bottleneck for decay is energy diffusion, and at lower temperatures, where quantum tunneling becomes relevant. Within a systematic semiclassical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 Alvise Verso , Joachim Ankerhold

To determine the electron heat flux density on macroscopic scales, the most widely used approach is to solve a diffusion equation through a multi-group technique. This method is however restricted to transport induced by temperature…

We investigate the electronic transport properties of semiconducting ($m$,$n$) carbon nanotubes (CNTs) on the mesoscopic length scale with arbitrarily distributed realistic defects. The study is done by performing quantum transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-26 Fabian Teichert , Andreas Zienert , Jörg Schuster , Michael Schreiber

In this article, we propose a new numerical model for computation of the transport of electrons in a graphene device. The underlying quantum model for graphene is a massless Dirac equation, whose eigenvalues display a conical singularity…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-11-23 Clotilde Fermanian Kammerer , Florian Méhats

The transport of energetic particles in a spatially varying magnetic field is described by the focused transport equation. In the past two versions of this equation were investigated. The more commonly used standard form described a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-11 B. Klippenstein , A. Shalchi

We consider the scattering matrix approach to quantum electron transport in meso- and nano-conductors. This approach is an alternative to the more conventional kinetic equation and Green's function approaches, and often is more efficient…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-09 G. B. Lesovik , I. A. Sadovskyy

The transport equations for a two-dimensional electron gas with spin-orbit interaction are presented. The distribution function is a 2x2-matrix in the spin space. Particle and energy conservation laws determine the expressions for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. G. Mishchenko , B. I. Halperin

The quanta of electrical conductance is derived for a one-dimensional electron gas both by making use of the quasi-classical motion of a quantum fluid and by using arguments related to the uncertainty principle. The result is extended to a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Apostol

A set of equations is derived from the Boltzmann kinetic equation describing charge transport in semiconductors. The unknowns of these equations depend on the space-time coordinates and the electron energy. The non-parabolic and parabolic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. F. Liotta , A. Majorana

We apply the Wigner function formalism to derive drift-diffusion transport equations for spin-polarized electrons in a III-V semiconductor single quantum well. Electron spin dynamics is controlled by the linear in momentum spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Semion Saikin

We explore the possible regimes of decaying two-dimensional quantum turbulence, and elucidate the nature of spectral energy transport by introducing a dissipative point-vortex model with phenomenological vortex-sound interactions. The model…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-02-24 T. P. Billam , M. T. Reeves , A. S. Bradley

The transport of energetic electrons is sensitive to magnetic perturbations. By using 3D numerical simulation of test particle drift orbits we show that the transport of untrapped electrons through an open region with magnetic perturbations…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-07-22 Gergely Papp , Michael Drevlak , Gergő I. Pokol , Tünde Fülöp