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Tunneling of electrons through the barriers in heterostructures has been studied, within unified transfer matrix approach. The effect of barrier width on the transmission coefficient of the electrons has been investigated for different…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-02-10 Jatindranath Gain , Madhumita Das Sarkar , Sudakshina Kundu

We study the interband Landau-Zener tunneling of a quantum particle in the Hall configuration, i.e., in the presence of normal to the lattice plane gauge field (for example, magnetic field for a charged particle) and in-plane potential…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Andrey R. Kolovsky

We explore the charge transport mechanism in organic semiconductors based on a model that accounts for the thermal intermolecular disorder at work in pure crystalline compounds, as well as extrinsic sources of disorder that are present in…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-12-10 S. Ciuchi , S. Fratini

The recent progress on 1 D interacting electrons systems and their applications to study the transport properties of quasi one dimensional wires is reviewed. We focus on strongly correlated electrons coupled to low energy acoustic phonons…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 Thierry Martin

We study the impact of the valence and the geometry on the electronic structure and transport properties of different transition metal-benzene sandwich molecules bridging the tips of a Cu nanocontact. Our density-functional calculations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-21 M. Karolak , D. Jacob

We study the transport of an interacting Bose--Einstein condensate through a 1D correlated disorder potential. We use for this purpose the truncated Wigner method, which is, as we show, corresponding to the diagonal approximation of a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-01-20 Julien Dujardin , Thomas Engl , Peter Schlagheck

The intrinsic transport properties of zigzag graphene nanoribbons (ZGNRs) are investigated using first principles calculations. It is found that although all ZGNRs have similar metallic band structure, they show distinctly different…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-04 Zuanyi Li , Haiyun Qian , Jian Wu , Bing-Lin Gu , Wenhui Duan

Multi-Weyl semimetals (m-WSMs) are a new type of Weyl semimetal that have linear dispersion along one symmetry direction but anisotropic non-linear dispersion along the two transverse directions with a topological charge larger than one.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-03 Sanghyun Park , Seungchan Woo , E. J. Mele , Hongki Min

We present a time-saving simulator within the framework of the density functional theory to calculate the transport properties of electrons through nanostructures suspended between semi-infinite electrodes. By introducing the Fourier…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-20 Yoshiyuki Egami , Kikuji Hirose , Tomoya Ono

We report on theoretical investigations of carrier scattering asymmetry at ferromagnet-semiconductor junctions. By an analytical $2\times 2$ spin model, we show that, when Dresselhaus interactions is included in the conduction band of III-V…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-05-23 T. Huong Dang , D. Quang To , E. Erina , T. L. Hoai Nguyen , V. Safarov , H. Jaffres , H. -J. Drouhin

The electron transport through the triple-barrier resonant tunnelling diode (TBRTD) have been studied by the self-consistent numerical method for the Wigner-Poisson problem. The electron flow through the TBRTD can be controlled by the gate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-03-03 P. Wojcik , B. J. Spisak , M. Woloszyn , J. Adamowski

We study the low-energy single-electron transport across a junction of two magnetic Weyl semimetals, in which the anisotropy axes are tilted one respect to the other. Using a two-band model with a potential step, we compute the transmission…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-15 Francesco Buccheri , Reinhold Egger , Alessandro De Martino

Bloch-Boltzmann transport theory fails to describe the carrier diffusion in current crystalline organic semiconductors, where the presence of large-amplitude thermal molecular motions causes substantial dynamical disorder. The charge…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-01-08 S. Fratini , S. Ciuchi

We analyze the transport properties of a semiconductor based bilayer system under non-equilibrium conditions with special emphasis on the charge transfer statistics in the regime dominated by the exciton transport. We consider two different…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-06 H. Soller , A. Komnik

Electronic transport properties of the disordered quantum wires are considered. The disorder is introduced via impurities (point scatterers), distributed uniformly over the two-dimensional strip, which represents a model quantum wire.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-31 Robert Gębarowski

We use the Wigner transformation and asymptotic analysis to systematically derive the semi-classical model for the Schr\"{o}dinger equation in arbitrary spatial dimensions, with any periodic structure. Our particular emphasis lies in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-11-11 Kunlun Qi , Li Wang , Alexander B. Watson

Phonon transport across a vacuum gap separating intrinsic silicon crystals is predicted via the atomistic Green's function method combined with first-principles calculations of all interatomic force constants. The overlap of electron wave…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-14 Takuro Tokunaga , Masao Arai , Kazuaki Kobayashi , Wataru Hayami , Shigeru Suehara , Takuma Shiga , Keunhan Park , Mathieu Francoeur

Monitoring electronic properties of 2D materials is an essential step to open a way for applications such as electronic devices and sensors. From this perspective, Bernal bilayer graphene (BLG) is a fairly simple system that offers great…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-17 Jouda Jemaa Khabthani , Ahmed Missaoui , Didier Mayou , Guy Trambly de Laissardière

We demonstrate that a simple phenomenological approach can be used to simulate electronic conduction in molecular wires under thermal effects induced by the surrounding environment. This "Landauer-B\"uttiker's probe technique" can properly…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-08-25 Michael Kilgour , Dvira Segal

We present a detailed microscopic study of quasi-ballistic transport in deep submicron semiconductor channels. In particular, we study the crossover between the diffusive and ballistic regimes of transport and identify signatures in the…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Dan Csontos , Sergio E. Ulloa