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Landauer's formula is the standard theoretical tool to examine ballistic transport in nano- and meso-scale junctions, but it necessitates that any variation of the junction with time must be slow compared to characteristic times of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-25 Daniel Gruss , Kirill A. Velizhanin , Michael Zwolak

We test the Transient Time Correlation Function (TTCF) method to compute nonequilibrium transport coefficients, highlighting its conceptual and practical difference from the standard time-average approach. While time averages extract…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-11 Davide Carbone , Vincenzo Di Florio , Stefano Lepri , Lamberto Rondoni

Transformers process tokens in parallel but are temporally shallow: at position $t$, each layer attends to key-value pairs computed based on the previous layer, yielding a depth capped by the number of layers. Recurrent models offer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Costin-Andrei Oncescu , Depen Morwani , Samy Jelassi , Alexandru Meterez , Mujin Kwun , Sham Kakade

In this paper we address the topic of inelastic electron scattering in mesoscopic quantum transport. For systems where only elastic scattering is present, Landauer theory provides an adequate description of transport that relates the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Eldon G. Emberly , George Kirczenow

Tunneling, transport of particles through classically forbidden regions, is a pure quantum phenomenon. It governs numerous phenomena ranging from single-molecule electronics to donor-acceptor transition reactions. The main problem is the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-13 Durmus Demir , Tugrul Guner

Although time-independent models provide very useful dynamical information with a reduced computational burden, going beyond the quasi-static approximation provides enriched information when dealing with TeraHertz (THz) frequencies. In this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 Z. Zhan , E. Colomès , A. Benali , D. Marian , X. Oriols

An ultra-broadband THz emitter covering a wide range of frequencies from 0.1 to 10 THz is highly desired for spectroscopy applications. So far, spintronic THz emitters have been proven as one class of efficient THz sources with a broadband…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-12-10 Mengji Chen , Yang Wu , Yang Liu , Kyusup Lee , Xuepeng Qiu , Pan He , Jiawei Yu , Hyunsoo Yang

We investigate theoretically the simultaneous tunneling of two electrons from a superconductor into a normal metal at low temperatures and voltages. Such an emission process is shown to be equivalent to the Andreev reflection of an incident…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Prada , F. Sols

Quantum dots are frequently used as charge sensitive devices in low temperature experiments to probe electric charge in mesoscopic conductors where the current running through the quantum dot is modulated by the nearby charge environment.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-12 Harald Havir , Subhomoy Haldar , Waqar Khan , Sebastian Lehmann , Kimberly A. Dick , Claes Thelander , Peter Samuelsson , Ville F. Maisi

There remains the old question of how long a quantum particle takes to tunnel through a potential barrier higher than its incident kinetic energy. In this article a solution of the question is proposed on the basis of a realistic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-06-26 Wang Guowen

A tunneling transistor without heterojunction as a theoretical design, or more precisely controlled electron current transmission by barrier potential, is under consideration. The electrons from the conduction band of the source tunnel…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-04-27 Pawel Pfeffer

A spin- and time-dependent electron transport has been studied in a paramagnetic resonant tunneling diode using the self-consistent Wigner-Poisson method. Based on the calculated current-voltage characteristics in an external magnetic field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-17 Pawel Wojcik , Janusz Adamowski , Maciej Woloszyn , Bartlomiej J. Spisak

The explicit expressions for a nonresonant tunneling current mediated by the bridging units of the molecular wire embedded between the metallic electrodes, are derived. The specific regimes of the charge transmission controlled by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Elmar G. Petrov

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…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Samuel L. Rudge , Daniel S. Kosov

Transport measurements are one of the most widely used methods of characterizing small systems in chemistry and physics. When interactions are negligible, the current through quantum dots, nanowires, molecular junctions, and other submicron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-01 Dan Klein , Karen Michaeli

We develope a model to describe the transmission coefficient and tunneling current in the presence of photon-electron coupling in a resonant diode. Our model takes into account multiphoton processes as well as the transitions between…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-08-17 Jesus Inarrea , Ramon Aguado , Gloria Platero

Nonequilibrium electron transport through the Kondo impurity is investigated numerically for the system with twenty conduction-electron levels. The electron current under finite voltage drop is calculated in terms of the `conductance viewed…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Yoshihiro Nishiyama

In this work we derive and study the analytical solution of the voltage and current diffusion equation for the case of a finite-length resistor-constant phase element (CPE) transmission line (TL) network that can represent a model for…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-04-07 Anis Allagui , Enrique H. Balaguera , Chunlei Wang

Electronic transport in narrow gap semiconductors is characterized by spontaneous vertical transitions between carriers in the valence and conduction bands, a phenomenon also known as Zener tunneling. However, this effect is not captured by…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-04-21 Andrea Cepellotti , Boris Kozinsky

Klein tunneling, the perfect transmission of a normally incident relativistic particle through an energy barrier, has been tested in various electronic, photonic, and phononic systems. Its potential in guiding and filtering classical waves…