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In a recent paper [I.\ B\^aldea and H.\ K\"oppel, \prb {\bf 78}, 115315 (2008)], we showed that a variational approach [P.\ Delaney and J.\ C.\ Greer, \prl {\bf 93}, 036805 (2004)] proposed to compute the electron transport through…
We report an experimental study of one-dimensional (1D) electronic transport in an InSb semiconducting nanowire. Three bottom gates are used to locally deplete the nanowire creating a ballistic quantum point contact with only a few…
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We study the electrical and thermal transport properties and the violation of the Wiedemann-Franz (WF) law of two-carrier semimetals using exact treatments of the Boltzmann equation with the impurity and electron-electron scatterings in a…
By considering the direction of charge carriers and the conservation of probablity current the transmission properties of graphene Zener tunnelling nano-devices were obtained. The scattering properties were then used with an adaptation of…
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A new statistical model for the combined effects of decoherence, energy redistribution and dissipation on electron transport in large quantum systems is introduced. The essential idea is to consider the electron phase information to be lost…
In this review, we present recent works on materials whose common point is the presence of electronic bands of very low dispersion, called "flat bands", which are due to specific atomic order effects without electron interactions. These…
We report a theoretical/experimental study of current-voltage characteristics (I-V) of graphene devices near the Dirac point. The I-V can be described by a power law (I \propto V^\alpha, with 1< \alpha <= 1.5). The exponent is higher when…
The influence of the charging effects on the transport characteristics of a molecular wire bridging two metallic electrodes in the limit of weak contacts is studied by generalized Breit-Wigner formula. Molecule is modeled as a quantum dot…
We present an efficient {\it ab initio} approach for the study of magnetic transport properties based on the Boltzmann equation with the Wannier interpolation scheme. Within the relaxation time approximation, band-resolved electric…
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The waiting time distribution has, in recent years, proven to be a useful statistical tool for characterising transport in nanoscale quantum transport. In particular, as opposed to moments of the distribution of transferred charge, which…