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Metal microbridges with a high impurity content and shorter than the energy relaxation length are considered. Their conductance is calculated with allowance made for the Coulomb electron-electron interaction. It is shown that nonequilibrium…

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We study electron transport in composite ferroelectrics --- materials consisting of metallic grains embedded in a ferroelectric matrix. Due to its complex tunable morphology the thermodynamic properties of these materials can be essentially…

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We utilize the variational method to study the Kondo screening of a spin-$1/2$ magnetic impurity in a three-dimensional (3D) Weyl semimetal with two Weyl nodes along the $k_z$-axis. The model reduces to a 3D Dirac semimetal when the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-11-18 Jin-Hua Sun , Dong-Hui Xu , Fu-Chun Zhang , Yi Zhou

The ground-state and the transport properties of graphene subject to the potential of in-plane charged impurities are studied. The screening of the impurity potential is shown to be nonlinear, producing a fractal structure of electron and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-12-02 M. M. Fogler

We found that magnetic ground state of one-dimensional atomic chains of carbon-transition metal compounds exhibit half-metallic properties. They are semiconductors for one spin-direction, but show metallic properties for the opposite…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Dag , S. Tongay , T. Yildirim , E. Durgun , R. T. Senger , C. Y. Fong , S. Ciraci

A theory is developed for the density and temperature dependent carrier conductivity in doped three-dimensional (3D) Dirac materials focusing on resistive scattering from screened Coulomb disorder due to random charged impurities (e.g.,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-20 S. Das Sarma , E. H. Hwang , Hongki Min

Electronic transport in multiwall carbon nanotubes and semiconductor nanowires was compared. In both cases, the non ohmic behavior of the conductance, the so-called zero bias anomaly, shows a temperature dependence that scales with the…

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We study the frequency-dependent conductivity of nodal line semimetals (NLSMs), focusing on the effects of carrier density and energy dispersion on the nodal line. We find that the low-frequency conductivity has a rich spectral structure…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-12 Seongjin Ahn , E. J. Mele , Hongki Min

We use a Kubo formalism to calculate both A.C. conductivity and D.C. transport properties of a dirty nodal loop semimetal. The optical conductivity as a function of photon energy $\Omega $, exhibits an extended flat background $\sigma^{BG}$…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-08-02 S. P. Mukherjee , J. P. Carbotte

We study transport properties of topological Weyl nodal-line semimetals(NLSs). Starting from a minimal lattice model with a single nodal loop, and by focusing on a normal-metal-NLS-normal-metal junction, we investigate the dependence of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-26 Yao Zhou , Feng Xiong , Weipeng Chen , Jin An

We investigated the effect due to perpendicular magnetic field on quantum wires where spin-orbit interaction (SOI) of electrons is not neglected. Based on the calculated energy dispersion, the nonlinear ballistic conductance ($G$) and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Godfrey Gumbs , Antonios Balassis , Danhong Huang , Sheehan Ahmed , Ryan Brennan

We theoretically study the quantum transport in a three-dimensional spin-1 chiral fermion system in the presence of coulomb impurities based on the self-consistent Born approximation. We find that the flat-band states anomalously enhance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-08 Risako Kikuchi , Ai Yamakage

Topological nodal-line semimetals are characterized by symmetry-protected one-dimensional band-touching lines or loops, which give rise to their peculiar Fermi surfaces at low energies. Furthermore, if time-reversal or inversion symmetry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-17 Hamid Rahimpoor , Saeed H. Abedinpour

We theoretically study the electric polarization in magnetic topological nodal semimetal thin films. In magnetically doped topological insulators, topological nodal semimetal phases emerge once the exchange coupling overcomes the band gap.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-03 Yuya Ominato , Ai Yamakage , Kentaro Nomura

We study the transport properties of a quasi-two-dimensional diffusive normal metal film attached to a superconductor. We demonstrate that the properties of such films can essentially differ from those of quasi-one-dimensional systems: in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-30 Frank K. Wilhelm , Andrei D. Zaikin , Herve Courtois , .

Non-Fermi liquid behavior is shown to occur in two-dimensional metals which are close to a charge ordering transition driven by the Coulomb repulsion. A linear temperature dependence of the scattering rate together with an increase of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 J. Merino , A. Greco , N. Drichko , M. Dressel

The screening problem for the Coulomb potential of a charge located in a two-dimensional (2D) system has an intriguing solution with a power law distance screening factor due to out-of-plane electrical fields. This is crucially different…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-10 K. A. Baryshnikov , A. V. Gert , Yu. B. Vasilyev , A. P. Dmitriev

We study thermal conductivity in the disordered two-dimensional electron liquid in the presence of long-range Coulomb interactions. We describe a microscopic analysis of the problem using as a starting point the partition function defined…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-22 G. Schwiete , A. M. Finkel'stein

Fermi liquid theory is remarkably successful in describing the transport and optical properties of metals; at frequencies higher than the scattering rate, the optical conductivity adopts the well-known power law behavior $\sigma_1(\omega)…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-12-17 C. C. Homes , J. J. Tu , J. Li , G. D. Gu , A. Akrap

We give a review of theoretical and experimental results concerning the magnetic susceptibility of the Weyl, Dirac, and nodal-line semimetals. In particular, dependences of the susceptibility on the chemical potential, temperature, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-28 G. P. Mikitik , Yu. V. Sharlai