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We introduce a numerical tensor-network method to compute the statistics of the charge transferred across an interface partitioning an interacting one-dimensional many-body lattice system with $U(1)$ symmetry. Our approach is based on a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-01 Hari Kumar Yadalam , Mark T. Mitchison

In the present work we propose that a one-dimensional quantum heterostructure composed of magnetic and non-magnetic atomic sites can be utilized as a spin filter for a wide range of applied bias voltage. A simple tight-binding framework is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-13 Moumita Dey , Santanu K. Maiti

We present a quaternion inspired formalism specifically developed to evaluate the intensity of the electrical current that traverses a single molecule connected to two semi-infinite electrodes as the applied external bias is varied. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-18 Augusto C. L. Moreira , Celso P. de Melo

In this work, we employed non-equilibrium Green's function to investigate the electron transport properties in the nanowire with the presence of scatterings. The scattering mechanism is modelled by using the concept of B\"uttiker probe. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Jing Li , Tin Cheung Au Yeung , Chan Hin Kam

Quantum mechanical scattering involving continuum states coupled to a scatterer with a discrete spectrum gives rise to Fano resonances. Here we consider scatterers that possess internal vibrational degrees of freedom in addition to discrete…

A method is proposed for studying wave and particle transport in disordered waveguide systems of dimension higher than unity by means of exact one-dimensionalization of the dynamic equations in the mode representation. As a particular case,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-01-31 Yu. V. Tarasov

The Schroedinger equation with a potential periodically varying in time is used to model adiabatic quantum pumps. The systems considered may be either infinitely extended and gapped or finite and connected to gapless leads. Correspondingly,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 G. Braeunlich , G. M. Graf , G. Ortelli

Quantized, compact graphs were shown to be excellent paradigms for quantum chaos in bounded systems. Connecting them with leads to infinity we show that they display all the features which characterize scattering systems with an underlying…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-31 Tsampikos Kottos , U. Smilansky

Scattering processes in high-energy physics are inherently quantum mechanical, yet are typically analyzed at the level of final states, where entanglement appears as a property of the outcome rather than a consequence of the underlying…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-11 Wei Xie , Ji-Chong Yang

We use the scattering matrix approach to derive generalized Bardeen-like formulae for the conductances between the contacts of a phase-coherent multiprobe conductor and a tunneling tip which probes its surface. These conductances are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Thomas Gramespacher , Markus Buttiker

We consider two different stationary random processes whose probability distributions are very close and indistinguishable by standard tests for large but limited statistics. Yet we demonstrate that these processes can be reliably…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gursoy B. Akguc , Jorge Flores , Sergey Yu. Kun

Landauer's formula relates the conductance of a quantum wire or interface to transmission probabilities. Total transmission probabilities are frequently calculated using Green function techniques and an expression first derived by Caroli.…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 P. A. Khomyakov , G. Brocks , V. Karpan , M. Zwierzycki , P. J. Kelly

We propose a divide-and-conquer algorithm to find recursively the Scattering matrix of general tight-binding structures. The Scattering matrix allows a direct calculation of transport properties in mesoscopic systems by using the Landauer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-08 Mauricio J. Rodríguez , Carlos Ramírez

We investigate multi-terminal quantum transport through single monocyclic aromatic annulene molecules, and their derivatives, using the nonequilibrium Green function approach in the self-consistent Hartree-Fock approximation. A new device…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. M. Cardamone , C. A. Stafford , S. Mazumdar

A fourth-order Schr\"{o}dinger equation for the description of charge transport in semiconductors in the ballistic regime is proposed with the inclusion of non-parabolic effects in the dispersion relation in order to go beyond the simple…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-07-15 Giulia Elena Aliffi , Giovanni Nastasi , Vittorio Romano

The spin of the neutron allows neutron scattering to reveal the magnetic structure and dynamics of materials over nanometre length scales and picosecond timescales. Neutron scattering is particularly in demand in order to understand…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 William J. L. Buyers , Zahra Yamani

We study electron transport through a semiconductor quantum ring with one input and two output terminals for an elastic scatterer present within one of the arms of the ring. We demonstrate that the scatterer not only introduces asymmetry in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-14 B. Szafran , M. R. Poniedzialek

We model the 2-probe conductance of a quantum point contact (QPC), in linear response. If the QPC is highly non-adiabatic or near to scatterers in the open reservoir regions, then the usual distinction between leads and reservoirs breaks…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. H. Barnett , M. Blaauboer , A. Mody , E. J. Heller

Understanding the electronic and phononic transport properties of junctions consisting of a scattering region such as a nanoscale matters or molecules connected to two or more electrodes is the central basis for future nano and molecular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-11 Hatef Sadeghi

We present a method to systematically study multi-photon transmission in one dimensional systems comprised of correlated quantum emitters coupled to input and output waveguides. Within the Green's function approach of the scattering matrix…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 Tian Feng See , Changsuk Noh , Dimitris G. Angelakis