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A linear theory of electron transport is developed for a system of two ideal quantum wires, of length L, coupled by tunneling and Coulomb interaction. The interaction of electrons with acoustical phonons is included and the results are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 O. E. Raichev , P. Vasilopoulos

Motivated by the notion that a preponderance of Coulomb interactions might lead to hydrodynamics, we carry out an ab initio calculation of the charge carrier transport properties of the electron-hole plasma of doped graphene. We include…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-05 Dwaipayan Paul , Nakib H. Protik

We study drag effect in a system of two electrically isolated quantum point contacts (QPC), coupled by Coulomb interactions. Drag current exhibits maxima as a function of QPC gate voltages when the latter are tuned to the transitions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Alex Levchenko , Alex Kamenev

Coulomb drag between parallel quantum wells provides a uniquely sensitive measurement of electron correlations since the drag response depends on interactions only. Recently it has been demonstrated that a new regime of strong interactions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-20 J. I. A. Li , T. Taniguchi , K. Watanabe , J. Hone , A. Levchenko , C. R. Dean

We theoretically study Coulomb drag between two helical edges with broken spin-rotational symmetry, such as would occur in two capacitively coupled quantum spin Hall insulators. For the helical edges, Coulomb drag is particularly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-13 N. Kainaris , I. V. Gornyi , A. Levchenko , D. G. Polyakov

We predict two novel quantum drag effects which can occur in macroscopically quantum coherent Josephson circuits. We demonstrate that biasing one resistively shunted Josephson junction by an external current one can induce a non-zero…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-10-18 Andrew G. Semenov , Alex Latyshev , Andrei D. Zaikin

We investigate how two-particle interactions affect the electronic transport through meso- and nanoscopic systems of two different types: quantum dots with local Coulomb correlations and quasi one-dimensional quantum wires of interacting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 V. Meden

We study transport through a quantum dot side-coupled to two parallel Luttinger liquid leads in the presence of a Coulombic dot-lead interaction. This geometry enables an exact treatment of the inter-lead Coulomb interactions. We find that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Florian Elste , David Reichman , Andrew Millis

We study the transconductance for two coupled one-dimensional wires or edge states described by Luttinger liquid models. The wires are assumed to interact over a finite segment. We find for the interaction parameter $g=1/2$ that the drag…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Karsten Flensberg

We develop a Luttinger liquid theory of the Coulomb drag of persistent currents flowing in concentric mesoscopic rings, by incorporating non-linear corrections to the electron dispersion relation. We demonstrate that at low temperatures,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-28 T. V. Shahbazyan , S. E. Ulloa

Recent experiments performed on weakly pinched quantum point contacts, have shown a resistance that tend to decrease at low source drain voltage. We show that enhanced Coulomb interactions, prompt by the presence of the point contact, may…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 Dganit Meidan , Yuval Oreg

We study the effect of correlations between impurity potentials in different layers on the Coulomb drag in a double-layer electron system. It is found that for strongly correlated potentials the drag in the diffusive regime is considerably…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 I. V. Gornyi , A. G. Yashenkin , D. V. Khveshchenko

Electron drag between two two-dimensional electron gases in magnetic fields has been observed with a polarity opposite that for zero field. This negative drag requires that the electrons have a hole-like dispersion. Density dependence…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 X. G. Feng , S. Zelakiewicz , H. Noh , T. J. Ragucci , T. J. Gramila , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

Coulomb drag shot noise has been studied theoretically for 1D interacting electron systems, which are realized e.g. in single-wall nanotubes. We show that under adiabatic coupling to external leads, the Coulomb drag shot noise of two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 B. Trauzettel , R. Egger , H. Grabert

We discuss the effects of a strong magnetic field in Quantum Wires. We show how the presence of a magnetic field modifies the role played by % which %coefficients corresponding to electron electron interaction % and the Fermi velocity…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Bellucci , P. Onorato

The influence of Coulomb interaction on the electron transport through molecular wires is studied in the regime of incoherent tunneling. In the limit of strong Coulomb repulsion, the current for spinless electrons is determined. It is shown…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jörg Lehmann , Gert-Ludwig Ingold , Peter Hänggi

We study the transport through two impurities or ``barriers'' in a one-dimensional quantum wire, taking into account the long-range $\frac1r$ Coulomb interactions. We compute the temperature-dependent conductance $G(T)$ of this system.…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Hélène Maurey , Thierry Giamarchi

We investigate the distribution of the electron density and the potential in a quantum wire coupled to reservoirs, treating this structure as a unified quantum system and taking into account the Coulomb interaction of electrons. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 V. A. Sablikov , S. V. Polyakov , M. Buttiker

Motivated by the recent Coulomb drag experiment of M. P. Lilly et. al, we study the Coulomb drag in a two-layer system with Landau level filling factor $\nu=1/2$. We find that the drag conductivity in the incompressible paired quantum Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Fei Zhou , Yong Baek Kim

We show that electron transport through a long multichannel wire, connected to leads by tunnel junctions, at low temperatures and voltages is dominated by inelastic cotunnelling. This mechanism results in experimentally observed power-law…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 M. V. Feigelman , A. S. Ioselevich