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We consider two one-dimensional quantum $XX$ magnets linked by a periodically driven quantum point contact (QPC). If magnets are initially polarized in opposite directions, one expects that a spin current through the QPC will establish. It…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-02 Igor Ermakov , Oleg Lychkovskiy

We consider the effect of electron-electron interaction on the electron transport through a finite length single-mode quantum wire with reflectionless contacts. The two-particle scattering events cannot alter the electric current and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Anders Mathias Lunde , Karsten Flensberg , Leonid I. Glazman

We investigate nonlinear thermal transport properties of a single interacting quantum dot with two energy levels tunnel-coupled to two electrodes using nonequilibrium Green function method and Hartree-Fock decoupling approximation. In the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Chen Xue-Ou , Bing Dong , X. L. Lei

We investigate charge and energy transport in a three-terminal quantum Hall conductor. The peculiar properties of chiral propagation along the edges of the sample have important consequences on the response to thermal biases. Based on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-13 Rafael Sánchez , Björn Sothmann , Andrew N. Jordan

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

We show that a quantum wire device with spin splitting can work as an active spin polarizer. Hot electrons in one `spin' subband (e.g. `spin-up') may pass such a device with weak electron pair scattering, while electrons in the opposite…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Gerhard Fasol , Hiroyuki Sakaki

We theoretically investigate a quantum heat diode based on two interacting flux qubits coupled to two heat baths. Rectification of heat currents is achieved by asymmetrically coupling the qubits to the reservoirs modelled as dissipative…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-25 Andrea Iorio , Elia Strambini , Géraldine Haack , Michele Campisi , Francesco Giazotto

Heat rectifiers are systems that conduct heat asymmetrically for forward and reversed temperature gradients. Here, we present an analytical study of heat rectification in linear quantum systems. We demonstrate that asymmetric heat currents…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-03 Andreu Riera-Campeny , Mohammad Mehboudi , Marisa Pons , Anna Sanpera

In this paper, we present a comprehensive analysis of the one-loop self-energy correction at finite temperature for the bound electron. In this approach, we study the influence of thermal radiation on atomic systems. Along the way, we found…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-07-22 J. J. Lopez-Rodriguez , A. Bobylev , P. Kvasov , T. Zalialiutdinov , D. Solovyev

Quantum thermal transport in two-quantum-dot system with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DM interaction) has been studied. The sign of thermal rectification can be controlled through changing the energy splitting or the DM interaction…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-11-14 T Chen , X. B. Wang

Quantum networks entangle remote nodes by distributing quantum states, which inevitably suffer from decoherence while traversing quantum channels. Pertinent decoherence mechanisms govern the channel capacity, its reach, and the quality and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-08 Daniel E. Jones , Brian T. Kirby , Michael Brodsky

In quantum wires, such as metallic nanotubes, the optical absorption of the transverse polarization is controlled by the depolarization effect which stems from the redistribution of conduction electrons around the circumference of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-01 L. Shan , E. G. Mishchenko

Spin bath polarization is the key to enhancing the sensitivity of quantum sensing and information processing. Significant effort has been invested in identifying the consequences of quantumness and its control for spin-bath polarization.…

We discuss a fundamental effect of the interaction-induced decoherence of the electron wave function in disordered metals. In the first part of the paper we consider a simple model of a quantum particle interacting with a bath of harmonic…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 D. S. Golubev , A. D. Zaikin

Controlling heat flow at the quantum level is essential for the development of next-generation thermal devices. We investigate thermal rectification in a quantum harmonic oscillator coupled to two thermal baths via both single-photon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 M. Tahir Naseem

For unpolarized electrons in a clean quantum wire, density functional theory reveals a thermally activated suppression of conductance. The activation temperature T_A grows slowly (roughly quadratically) with gate voltage due to pinning of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Kenji Hirose , Ned S. Wingreen

Controlling the direction and magnitude of both heat and electronic currents using rectifiers has significant implications for the advancement of molecular circuit design. In order to facilitate the implementation of new transport phenomena…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-02 Galen T. Craven , Dahai He , Abraham Nitzan

We consider transport properties of a two dimensional topological insulator in a double quantum point contact geometry in presence of a time-dependent external field. In the proposed setup an external gate is placed above a single…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-15 F. Ronetti , M. Carrega , D. Ferraro , J. Rech , T. Jonckheere , T. Martin , M. Sassetti

We study the conductance of three or more semi-infinite wires which meet at a junction. The electrons in the wires are taken to interact weakly with each other through a short-range density-density interaction, and they encounter a general…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 Siddhartha Lal , Sumathi Rao , Diptiman Sen

We calculate the magnetic-field and temperature dependence of all quantum corrections to the ensemble-averaged conductance of a network of quantum dots. We consider the limit that the dimensionless conductance of the network is large, so…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Joern N. Kupferschmidt , Piet W. Brouwer