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We investigate the effect due to background impurities embedded in the region of two-dimensional electron gases to the magnetotransport. These impurities are achieved by homogeneously incorporating Si atoms in single quantum wells of high…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-26 E. P. Rugeramigabo , L. Bockhorn , R. J. Haug

We report experimental observation of an unexpectedly large thermopower in mesoscopic two-dimensional (2D) electron systems on GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructures at sub-Kelvin temperatures and zero magnetic field. Unlike conventional non-magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Srijit Goswami , Christoph Siegert , Matthias Baenninger , Arindam Ghosh , Michael Pepper , Ian Farrer , David A. Ritchie

In this perspective, we discuss thermal imbalance and the associated electron-mediated thermal transport in quantum electronic devices at very low temperatures. We first present the theoretical approaches describing heat transport in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-09 Danial Majidi , Justin P. Bergfield , Ville Maisi , Johannes Höfer , Hervé Courtois , Clemens B. Winkelmann

In this work, thermal and magnetic properties for an electron with cylindrical confinement in presence of external electric and magnetic fields have been investigated. We found that the corresponding time-independent Schr\"odinger equation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-12 J. D. Castaño-Yepes , C. F. Ramirez-Gutierrez , H. Correa-Gallego , Edgar A. Gómez

We report an experimental study of quantum conductivity corrections for two-dimensional electron gas in a GaAs/InGaAs/GaAs single and double quantum wells in a wide temperature range (1.8-100) K. We perform a comparison of our experimental…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 S. V. Gudina , Yu. G. Arapov , V. N. Neverov , A. P. Savelyev , S. M. Podgonykh , N. G. Shelushinina , M. V. Yakunin

We report on charge sensing measurements of a GaAs semiconductor quantum dot device using a radio frequency quantum point contact (rf-QPC). The rf-QPC is fully characterized at 4 K and milli-Kelvin temperatures and found to have a bandwidth…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 M. C. Cassidy , A. S. Dzurak , R. G. Clark , K. D. Petersson , I. Farrer , D. A. Ritchie , C. G. Smith

We present a scanning probe microscopy technique for spatially resolving transport in cold atomic gases, in close analogy with scanning gate microscopy in semiconductor physics. The conductance of a quantum point contact connected to two…

We present a unified approach to study continuous measurement based quantum thermal machines in static as well as adiabatically driven systems. We investigate both steady state and transient dynamics for the time-independent case. In the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-11 Bibek Bhandari , Andrew N. Jordan

An unconventional method of continuous solid-state cryogenic cooling utilizing the electron subband degeneracy of semiconductor heterostructures is proposed in this Letter. An electrostatic heat pump is modeled, which employs subband…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-07 Chulin Wang , Thomas Douglas , Matthew A Grayson

We investigate a mechanism for extracting heat from metallic conductors based on the energy-selective transmission of electrons through a spatially asymmetric resonant structure subject to ac driving. This quantum refrigerator can operate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-09-06 Miguel Rey , Michael Strass , Sigmund Kohler , Peter Hänggi , Fernando Sols

We propose the use of a quantum thermal machine for low-temperature thermometry. A hot thermal reservoir coupled to the machine allows for simultaneously cooling the sample while determining its temperature without knowing the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-05 Patrick P. Hofer , Jonatan Bohr Brask , Martí Perarnau-Llobet , Nicolas Brunner

We propose a method to directly measure the temperature of a gas of weakly interacting fermionic atoms loaded into an optical lattice. This technique relies on Raman spectroscopy and is applicable to experimentally relevant temperature…

A gate-defined quantum dot in an InAs nanowire is fabricated on top of a quantum point contact realized in a two-dimensional electron gas. The strong coupling between these two quantum devices is used to perform time-averaged as well as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-21 Theodore Choi , Thomas Ihn , Silke Schön , Klaus Ensslin

The response of electromagnetic (EM) fields that are produced in non-central heavy-ion collisions to electromagnetically charged quark gluon plasma can be understood in terms of charge transport and charge diffusion in the hot QCD medium.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-08-16 Sukanya Mitra , Vinod Chandra

Accurate temperature measurement at the nanoscale is crucial for thermal management in next-generation microelectronic devices. Existing optical and scanning-probe thermometry techniques face limitations in spatial resolution, accuracy, or…

This paper deals with an analytical modeling of heat transfers simulating a new radiation calorimeter operating in a temperature range from -50 {\deg}C to 150 {\deg}C. The aim of this modeling is the evaluation of the feasibility and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-01-11 Elysée Obame Ndong , Olivier Gallot-Lavallée , Frédéric Aitken

For several decades now, ultra-high-mobility GaAs two-dimensional electron systems (2DESs) have served as the hallmark platform for various branches of research in condensed matter physics. Fundamental to this long-standing history of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-26 Yoon Jang Chung , A. Gupta , K. W. Baldwin , K. W. West , M. Shayegan , L. N. Pfeiffer

For modern Gas sensors, high sensitivity and low power are expected. This paper discusses design, simulation and fabrication of new Micromachined Thermal Converters (MTCs) based on GaAs developed for Gas sensors. Metal oxide gas sensors…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2008-02-22 J. Jakovenko , M. Husak , T. Lalinskytfh , M. Drzik , G. Vanko

Metallic atomic junctions pose the ultimate limit to the scaling of electrical contacts. They serve as model systems to probe electrical and thermal transport down to the atomic level as well as quantum effects occurring in one-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 Nico Mosso , Ute Drechsler , Fabian Menges , Peter Nirmalraj , Siegfried Karg , Heike Riel , Bernd Gotsmann

Thermal equilibrium states are exponentially hard to distinguish at very low temperatures, making equilibrium quantum thermometry in this regime a formidable task. We present a thermometric scheme that circumvents this limitation, by using…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-07 Ivan Henao , Karen V. Hovhannisyan , Raam Uzdin