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We present measurements on a quantum dot and a nearby, capacitively coupled, quantum point contact used as a charge detector. With the dot being weakly coupled to only a single reservoir, the transfer of individual electrons onto and off…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Schleser , E. Ruh , T. Ihn , K. Ensslin , D. C. Driscoll , A. C. Gossard

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

We consider a superconducting quantum point contact in a circuit quantum electrodynamics setup. We study three different configurations, attainable with current technology, where a quantum point contact is coupled galvanically to a coplanar…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-05-25 G. Romero , I. Lizuain , V. S. Shumeiko , E. Solano , F. S. Bergeret

Quantum engineering requires controllable artificial systems with quantum coherence exceeding the device size and operation time. This can be achieved with geometrically confined low-dimensional electronic structures embedded within…

Quantum Hall effects offer a formidable playground for the investigation of quantum transport phenomena. Edge modes can be detected, branched, and mixed by designing a suitable potential landscape in a two-dimensional conducting system…

We consider a quantum energy teleportation (QET) method to replicate the phase diagram of a one-dimensional $XXZ$ spin chain featuring a Kondo effect coupling. In this setup, the energy supplier and receiver are spatially separated from the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-25 Kazuki Ikeda , Rajeev Singh , Robert-Jan Slager

We present the essential findings of the screening theory of the integer quantum Hall effect (IQHE) considering a quantum point contact (QPC). Our approach is to solve the Poisson and the Schroedinger equations self-consistently, taking…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 A. Siddiki

We explore the full counting statistics of single electron tunneling through a quantum dot using a quantum point contact as non-invasive high bandwidth charge detector. The distribution of counted tunneling events is measured as a function…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. Fricke , F. Hohls , W. Wegscheider , R. J. Haug

The transport in complex multiple quantum well heterostructures is theoretically described. The model is focused on quantum cascade detectors, which represent an exciting challenge due to the complexity of the structure containing 7 or 8…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 C. Koeniguer , G. Dubois , A. Gomez , V. Berger

The electrical transport properties of atomic-scale conductors are reviewed, with an emphasis on the relations of this problem with studies on quantum size effects in metallic clusters. A brief introduction is given of the natural formalism…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. M. van Ruitenbeek

Heat transport has large potentialities to unveil new physics in mesoscopic systems. A striking illustration is the integer quantum Hall regime, where the robustness of Hall currents limits information accessible from charge transport.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-01-04 C. Altimiras , H. le Sueur , U. Gennser , A. Cavanna , D. Mailly , F. Pierre

Ge/SiGe quantum well heterostructures confining a high-mobility two-dimensional hole gas (2DHG) have emerged as a compelling platform for hybrid superconductor(S)-semiconductor(Sm) quantum devices. Here, we investigate the low-temperature…

We study electron transport through a quantum interferometer with side-coupled quantum dots. The interferometer, threaded by a magnetic flux $\phi$, is attached symmetrically to two semi-infinite one-dimensional metallic electrodes. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-12-17 Santanu K. Maiti

Ballistic transport of hot electrons in a quantum Hall edge channel is attractive for studying electronic analog of quantum optics, where the edge potential profile is an important parameter that governs the charge velocity and scattering…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Shunya Akiyama , Taichi Hirasawa , Yuya Sato , Takafumi Akiho , Koji Muraki , Toshimasa Fujisawa

A systematic method of calculating the dynamical conductivity tensor in a general multiband electronic model with strong boson-mediated electron-electron interactions is described. The theory is based on the exact semiclassical expression…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-03-13 I. Kupcic , Z. Rukelj , S. Barisic

We report real-time detection of longitudinal and transverse transport responses across distinct frequency bands in a ferromagnetic filling factor $\nu$ = 1 integer quantum Hall state. By tuning $\nu$, we simultaneously access the evolution…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 Hoai Anh Ho , Jian Huang , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

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

We have calculated the admittance of a two-dimensional quantum point contact (QPC) using a novel variant of the Wigner distribution function (WDF) formalism. In the semiclassical approximation, a Boltzman-like equation is derived for the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 Igor E. Aronov , Gennady P. Berman , David K. Campbell , Sergey V. Dudiy

We discuss the quantum transport of electrons through a resonant tunnel junction coupled to a nanomechanical oscillator at zero temperature. By using the Green's function technique we calculate the transport properties of electrons through…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M Tahir , A MacKinnon

We review the quantum interference effects in a system of interacting electrons confined to a quantum dot. The review starts with a description of an isolated quantum dot. We discuss the status of the Random Matrix theory (RMT) of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 I. L. Aleiner , P. W. Brouwer , L. I. Glazman