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Transport measurements are a powerful way to probe the electronic structure of quantum materials, but the information they contain is often convoluted. Yet, in particular for simple low-energy fermiologies, and by combining linear and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-10 Andrea Kouta Dagnino , Xiaoxiong Liu , Titus Neupert

We present theoretical and numerical results on the dynamics of ultracold atoms in an accelerated single- and double-periodic optical lattice. In the single-periodic potential Bloch oscillations can be used to generate fast directed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-08-12 B. M. Breid , D. Witthaut , H. J. Korsch

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

The main goal of this paper is to obtain the exact quantum solutions for charge space in a superconductor with time-dependent parameters using the London approach. We introduce a new quantization scheme for the charge inside a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-25 Vanderley Aguiar , João P. G. Nascimento , Ilde Guedes , Raimundo N. Costa Filho

A first principle theory of charge transport in spatially inhomogeneous quantum systems composed of any finite number of particles and subject to weak electro-magnetic fields is developed. Simple analytical expressions for the linear…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Liudmila A. Pozhar

We study correlation effects on the transport through a quantum dot superlattice using a two-dimensional Hubbard model connected to two noninteracting leads. To calculate the zero-temperature conductance away from half-filling, we have used…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yoshihide Tanaka , Akira Oguri

We consider a basic model of the lossless interaction between a moving two-level atom and a standing-wave single-mode laser field. Classical treatment of the translational atomic motion provides the semiclassical Hamilton-Schrodinger…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2012-05-29 S. V. Prants

We discuss the time spent by an electron propagating through a finite periodic system such as a semiconductor superlattice. The relation between dwell-time and phase-time is outlined. The envelopes of phase-time at maximum and minimum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. W. L. Sprung , W. van Dijk , C. N. Veenstra , J. Martorell

Transport of charge carriers in mechanically soft semiconductors is mainly limited by their interaction with slow intermolecular phonons. Carrier motion exhibits a crossover from superdiffusive to subdiffusive, producing a distinct…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-08 Veljko Janković

Simulation of materials by using quantum processors is envisioned to be a major direction of development in quantum information science. Here we exploit the mathematical analogies between a triangular spin lattice with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-27 Antti Vepsäläinen , Gheorghe Sorin Paraoanu

An exact Quantum Kinetic Monte Carlo method is proposed to calculate electron transport for 1D Fermi Hubbard model. The method is directly formulated in real time and can be applied to extract time dependent dynamics of general interacting…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-05-07 Fei Lin , Jianqiu Huang , Celine Hin

The role of defect-induced zero-energy modes on charge transport in graphene is investigated using Kubo and Landauer transport calculations. By tuning the density of random distributions of monovacancies either equally populating the two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-13 Alessandro Cresti , Frank Ortmann , Thibaud Louvet , Dinh Van Tuan , Stephan Roche

The speed of integrated circuits is ultimately limited by the mobility of electrons or holes, which depend on the effective mass in a semiconductor. Here, building on an analogy with electromagnetic metamaterials and transformation optics,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-31 Mario G. Silveirinha , Nader Engheta

Using the semi-classical Boltzmann theory, we calculate the conductivity as function of the carrier density. As usually, we include the scattering from charged impurities, but conclude that the estimated impurity density is too low in order…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 T. Stauber , N. M. R. Peres , F. Guinea

We measure charge transport in hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) using a nanometer scale silicon MOSFET as a charge sensor. This charge detection technique makes possible the measurement of extremely large resistances. At high…

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The problem of nonlinear transport in a two dimensional superconductor with an applied oscillating electric field is solved by the holographic method. The complex conductivity can be computed from the dynamics of the current for both near-…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-06-22 Hua Bi Zeng , Yu Tian , Zhe Yong Fan , Chiang-Mei Chen

In this work we study, theoretically, electronic mobility of the silicon carbide semiconductor in the 3C phase, named 3C-SiC. 3C-SiC has shown great potential for applications in extreme conditions. Thus, the study of the electronic…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-03-17 Amanda M. D. Corrêa , Clóves Gonçalves Rodrigues

In weakly coupled, current biased, doped semiconductor superlattices, domain walls may move upstream against the flow of electrons. For appropriate doping values, a domain wall separating two electric field domains moves downstream below a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Carpio , L. L. Bonilla , A. Wacker , E. Schoell

We propose and investigate a new type of optical waveguide made by an array of atoms without involving conventional Bragg scattering or total internal reflection. A finite chain of atoms collectively coupled through their intrinsic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-02 Siu-Tat Chui , Shengwang Du , Gyu-Boong Jo

We present a novel model to calculate single-electron states in random quantum dot superlattices made of wide-gap semiconductors. The source of disorder comes from the random arrangement of the quantum dots (configurational disorder) as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 I. Gomez , F. Dominguez-Adame , E. Diez , P. Orellana