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We propose and study a novel way to produce a DC transport of vortices when applying an AC electrical current to a sample. Specifically, we study superconductors with a graduated random pinning density, which transports interacting vortices…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 C. J. Olson , C. Reichhardt , B. Janko , Franco Nori

Quantum dot (QD) solids are promising optoelectronic materials; further advancing their device functionality depends on understanding their energy transport mechanisms. The commonly invoked near-field F\"orster resonance energy transfer…

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

The ultracold atoms in a moving optical lattice with its high controllability is a feasible platform to research the transport phenomenon. Here, we study the transport process of ultracold atoms at the D band in a one-dimensional optical…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-02-07 Zhongcheng Yu , Jinyuan Tian , Peng Peng , Dekai Mao , Xuzong Chen , Xiaoji Zhou

We characterize the particle transport, particle loss, and nonequilibrium steady states in a dissipative one-dimensional lattice connected to reservoirs at both ends. The free-fermion reservoirs are fixed at different chemical potentials,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-03-27 A. -M. Visuri , T. Giamarchi , C. Kollath

We investigate electron transport through clean open quantum dots (quantum billiards). We present a semiclassical theory that allows to accurately reproduce quantum transport calculations. Quantitative agreement is reached for individual…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-30 Iva Brezinova , Ludger Wirtz , Stefan Rotter , Christoph Stampfer , Joachim Burgdorfer

Motivated by recent experimental evidence of charge order in the pseudogap phase of cuprates, we perform a variational analysis of charge-neutral, spin-singlet ordering in metals on the square lattice, using a wavefunction with double…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-10-15 Andrea Allais , Johannes Bauer , Subir Sachdev

We introduce a theoretical and numerical method to investigate the flow of charged fluid mixtures under extreme confinement. We model the electrolyte solution as a ternary mixture, comprising two ionic species of opposite charge and a third…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-13 Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi , Simone Melchionna

In this article we study a class of hyperbolic partial differential equations of order one on the semi-axis. The so-called port-Hamiltonian systems cover for instance the wave equation and the transport equation, but also networks of the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2020-05-26 Birgit Jacob , Sven-Ake Wegner

Charge particle transport across nanogaps is studied theoretically within the Schrodinger-Poisson mean field framework and the existence of limiting current investigated. It is shown that the choice of a first order WKB wavefunction as the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Debabrata Biswas , Pradeep Baraila , Raghwendra Kumar

Electron-lattice coupling effects in low dimensional materials give rise to charge density wave (CDW) order and phase transitions. These phenomena are critical ingredients for superconductivity and predominantly occur in metallic model…

I present a theory of electron dynamics in semiconductors with slowly varying composition. I show that the frequency-dependent conductivity, required for the description of transport and optical properties, can be obtained from a knowledge…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 Michael R. Geller

High-temperature bad-metal transport has been recently studied both theoretically and in experiments as one of the key signatures of strong electronic correlations. Here we use the dynamical mean field theory (DMFT) and its cluster…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-09-23 A. Vranic , J. Vucicevic , J. Kokalj , J. Skolimowski , R. Zitko , J. Mravlje , D. Tanaskovic

Electron transport in GaN/AlxGa1-xN superlattices is investigated using a single particle Monte Carlo approach. To establish the band structure required GaN, AlN and their ternary alloy are investigated using a single electron Monte Carlo…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-09-19 Mengxun Bai , Judy

Quantum-confined semiconductor structures are the cornerstone of modern-day electronics. Spatial confinement in these structures leads to formation of discrete low-dimensional subbands. At room temperature, carriers transfer among different…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-08-14 I. Knezevic , E. B. Ramayya , D. Vasileska , S. M. Goodnick

A unified theoretical description of ballistic and diffusive carrier transport in parallel-plane semiconductor structures is developed within the semiclassical model. The approach is based on the introduction of a thermo-ballistic current…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Lipperheide , U. Wille

Electrical transients enabled by optical excitation and electric detection provide a distinctive opportunity to study the charge transport, recombination and even the hysteresis of a solar cell in a much wider time window ranging from…

The Wigner-function formalism is a well known approach to model charge transport in semiconductor nanodevices. Primary goal of the present article is to point out and explain intrinsic limitations of the conventional quantum-device modeling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Roberto Rosati , Fabrizio Dolcini , Rita Claudia Iotti , Fausto Rossi

We describe a limiting case when nonlinear dynamics of an ac-driven semiconductor superlattice in the miniband transport regime is governed by a periodically forced and damped pendulum. We find analytically the conditions for a transition…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Kirill N. Alekseev , Feodor V. Kusmartsev

Solid-state spin defects are attractive candidates for developing quantum sensors and simulators. The spin and charge degrees of freedom in large defect ensembles are a promising platform to explore complex many-body dynamics and the…