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We present an interpolative method for describing coherent transport through an interacting quantum dot. The idea of the method is to construct an approximate electron self-energy which becomes exact both in the limits of weak and strong…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-21 A. Levy Yeyati , A. Martin-Rodero , F. Flores

The linear transport properties of a model molecular transistor with electron-electron and electron-phonon interactions were investigated analytically and numerically. The model takes into account phonon modulation of the electronic energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. S. Cornaglia , D. R. Grempel , H. Ness

Electron transport is theoretically investigated in a molecular device made of anthracene molecule attached to the electrodes by thiol end groups in two different configurations (para and meta, respectively). Molecular system is described…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kamil Walczak

A quantum-mechanical calculation of conductance in an open quantum dot is performed in the Landauer-B\"{u}ttiker formalism using a tight binding Hamiltonian with direct Coulomb interaction. The charge distribution in the dot is calculated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Aldea , A. Manolescu , V. Moldoveanu

We prove that a diagrammatic evaluation of the Kubo formula for the electronic transport conductivity due the exchange of bosonic excitations, in the usual conserving ladder approximation, yields a result consistent with the Boltzmann…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 D. Belitz , T. R. Kirkpatrick

We investigate the low-temperature electrical and thermal transport properties in atomically precise metallic heterostructures involving strongly-correlated electron systems. The model of the Mott-insulator/ band-insulator superlattice was…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-06-19 Andreas Ruegg , Sebastian Pilgram , Manfred Sigrist

We use a generalized master equation (GME) to describe the nonequilibrium magnetotransport of interacting electrons through a broad finite quantum wire with an embedded ring structure. The finite quantum wire is weakly coupled to two broad…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-15 Vidar Gudmundsson , Chi-Shung Tang , Olafur Jonasson , Valeriu Moldoveanu , Andrei Manolescu

Electronic transport in narrow gap semiconductors is characterized by spontaneous vertical transitions between carriers in the valence and conduction bands, a phenomenon also known as Zener tunneling. However, this effect is not captured by…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-04-21 Andrea Cepellotti , Boris Kozinsky

Traditional theories of electron transport in crystals are based on the Boltzmann equation and do not capture physics arising from quantum coherence. We introduce a transport formalism based on ''orbital Wigner functions'', which accurately…

We consider electronic transport through a single-molecule junction where the molecule has a degenerate spectrum. Unlike previous transport models, and theories a rate-equations description is no longer possible, and the quantum coherences…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Maximilian G. Schultz

A time-dependent inelastic electron transport theory for strong electron-phonon interaction is established via the equations of motion method combined with the small polaron transformation. In this work, the dissipation via electron-phonon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-21 Yu Zhang , ChiYung Yam , GuanHua Chen

The general theory for quantum simulation of cubic semiconductor n-MOSFETs is presented within the effective mass equation approach. The full three-dimensional transport problem is described in terms of coupled transverse subband modes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Anisur Rahman , Mark S. Lundstrom , Avik W. Ghosh

This work investigates the quantum transport in a narrow constriction acted upon by a finite-range transversely polarized time-dependent electric field. A generalized scattering-matrix method is developed that has incorporated a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 C. S. Tang , C. S. Chu

Electron transport in a quantum wire with leads is investigated with actual Coulomb interaction taken into account. The latter includes both the direct interaction of electrons with each other and their interaction via the image charges…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 V. A. Sablikov , B. S. Shchamkhalova

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

Lectures deal with the theory of electronic transport, in particular with the electrical conductivity, in systems dominated by strong electron-electron repulsion. The concept of charge stiffness is introduced to distinguish conductors and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 P. Prelovsek , X. Zotos

We obtain the conductance of a system of electrons connected to leads, within time-dependent density-functional theory, using a direct relation between the conductance and the density response function. Corrections to the non-interacting…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-10-04 P. Bokes , J. Jung , R. W. Godby

Signatures of quantum transport are expected to quickly vanish as dissipation is introduced in a system. This dissipation can take several forms, including that of particle loss, which has the consequence that the total probability current…

The quantum correction to the conductivity have been studied in two types of 2D heterostructures: with doped quantum well and doped barriers. The consistent analysis shows that in the structures where electrons occupy the states in quantum…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-07 G. M. Minkov , O. E. Rut , A. V. Germanenko , A. A. Sherstobitov , V. I. Shashkin , O. I. Khrykin , V. M. Daniltsev

Electronic transport through a two-path triple-quantum-dot system with two source leads and one drain is studied. By separating the conductance of the two double dot paths, we are able to observe double dot and triple dot physics in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-03 M. Kotzian , F. Gallego-Marcos , G. Platero , R. J. Haug