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We study charge and energy transfer in two-site molecular electronic junctions in which electron transport is assisted by a vibrational mode. To understand the role of mode harmonicity/anharmonicity on transport behavior, we consider two…

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The effect of electron-phonon interactions in the conductance through metallic atomic wires is theoretically analyzed. The proposed model allows to consider an atomic size region electrically and mechanically coupled to bulk electrodes. We…

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We study the electronic transport in a molecular junction in which each site is coupled to a local phonon bath using the non-equilibrium Green's function method. We observe the length period of the oscillatory conductance in odd-numbered…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-08-12 Ya-Lin Lo , Shih-Jye Sun , Ying-Jer Kao

Thermoelectric effects in a quantum dot coupled to the source and drain charge reservoirs are explored using a nonequilibrium Green's functions formalism beyond the Hartree-Fock approximation. Thermal transport is analyzed within a linear…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-03-18 Natalya A. Zimbovskaya

In this paper we study the thermopower of a quantum dot connected to two leads in the presence of Kondo correlation by employing a modified second-order perturbation scheme at nonequilibrium. A simple scheme, Ng's ansatz [Phys. Rev. Lett.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Bing Dong , X. L. Lei

We consider the thermoelectric properties of the mixed-dimensional quantum electrodynamics of the relativistic Dirac fermion and Wilson-Fisher boson. These models are self-dual, and can form non-trivial many-body phases depending on the…

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We present a study of electrical and thermal transport in Weyl semimetal WTe$_2$ down to 0.3 K. The Wiedemann-Franz law holds below 2 K and a downward deviation starts above. The deviation is more pronounced in cleaner samples, as expected…

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Charge and heat transport through a single molecule tunnel-coupled to external normal electrodes have been studied. The molecule with sufficiently strong interaction between lectrons and vibrational internal degrees of freedom can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-16 Karol Izydor Wysokinski

We consider a transmission of electrons through a two-dimensional ballistic point contact in the low-conductance regime below the 0.7-anomaly. The scattering of electrons by Friedel oscillations of charge density results in a contribution…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-10 Tatiana Krishtop , Kirill Nagaev

We investigate the effect of tuning the phonon energy on the correlation effects in models of electron-phonon interactions using DMFT. In the regime where itinerant electrons, instantaneous electron-phonon driven correlations and static…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 J. P. Hague , N. d'Ambrumenil

We investigate the electronic transport through a molecule in the Kondo regime. The tunneling between the electrode and the molecule is asymmetrically modulated by the oscillations of the molecule, i.e., if the molecule gets closer to one…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-12-09 J. Mravlje , A. Ramsak

We consider the steady-state thermoelectric transport through a vibrating molecular quantum dot that is contacted to macroscopic leads. For moderate electron-phonon interaction strength and comparable electronic and phononic timescales, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 T. Koch , J. Loos , H. Fehske

The frictional drag force between separated but coupled two-dimensional electron gases of different temperatures is studied using the non-equilibrium Green function method based on the separation of center-of-mass and relative dynamics of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 X. F. Wang , I. C. da Cunha Lima

The thermoelectric properties of strongly correlated quantum dots, described by a single level Anderson model coupled to conduction electron leads, is investigated using Wilson's numerical renormalization group method. We calculate the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-07-09 T. A. Costi , V. Zlatic

The advancement of fabrication and lithography techniques of semiconductors have made it possible to study bi-layer systems made of two electronic layers separated by distances of several hundred Angstroms. In this situation the electrons…

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We demonstrate that forward electron-electron scattering due to Coulomb interation in a two-dimensional ballistic electron gas leads to the (T\ln {T})^{-1} temperature dependence of the thermal conductivity, which is logarithmically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. O. Lyakhov , E. G. Mishchenko

We present thermopower measurements on a high electron mobility two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in a thin suspended membrane.We show that the small dimension of the membrane substantially reduces the thermal conductivity compared to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 M. Schmidt , G. Schneider , Ch. Heyn , A. Stemmann , W. Hansen

The thermodynamic properties (magnetization, magnetic susceptibility, transverse and longitudinal correlation lengths, specific heat) of one- and two-dimensional ferromagnets with arbitrary spin S in a magnetic field are investigated by a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 I. Juhász Junger , D. Ihle , L. Bogacz , W. Janke

Using electrical transport experiments and shot noise thermometry, we find strong evidence that "supercollision" scattering processes by flexural modes are the dominant electron-phonon energy transfer mechanism in high-quality, suspended…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-02 Antti Laitinen , Mika Oksanen , Aurélien Fay , Daniel Cox , Matti Tomi , Pauli Virtanen , Pertti Hakonen

We study electrical and thermal conductivities of degenerate electrons emitting and absorbing phonons in a strongly magnetized crystalline neutron star crust. We take into account modification of the phonon spectrum of a Coulomb solid of…

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