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Spin current of two-dimensional holes occupying the ground-state subband in an asymmetric quantum well and interacting with static disorder potential is calculated in the presence of a weak magnetic field H perpendicular to the well plane.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-06-19 O. E. Raichev

A quantum transport model incorporating spin scattering processes is presented using the non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) formalism within the self-consistent Born approximation. This model offers a unified approach by capturing the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Ahmet Ali Yanik , Gerhard Klimeck , Supriyo Datta

We investigate magnetic-field influenced time-dependent transport of Coulomb interacting electrons through a two-dimensional quantum ring in an electromagnetic cavity under non-equilibrium conditions described by a time-convolutionless…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-02 Thorsten Arnold , Chi-Shung Tang , Andrei Manolescu , Vidar Gudmundsson

We consider the electron transport properties through fully interacting nanoscale junctions beyond the linear-response regime. We calculate the current flowing through an interacting region connected to two interacting leads, with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-26 H. Ness , L. K. Dash

We discuss a numerical method to study electron transport in mesoscopic devices out of equilibrium. The method is based on the solution of operator equations of motion, using efficient Chebyshev time propagation techniques. Its peculiar…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-02-20 A. Alvermann , H. Fehske

We study the nonequilibrium spin current through a quantum dot consisting of two localized spin-1/2 coupled to two ferromagnetic insulators. The influence of an intra-dot magnetic field and exchange coupling, different dot-reservoir…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Olaf Strelcyk , Thomas Korb , Herbert Schoeller

In the present work, we theoretically study the nonlinear regime of charge transport through a quantum dot coupled to the source and drain reservoirs. The investigation is carried out using a nonequilibrium Green's functions formalism…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-01 Natalya A. Zimbovskaya

We study the nonlinear cotunneling current through a spinful quantum dot contacted by two superconducting leads. Applying a general nonequilibrium Green function formalism to an effective Kondo model, we study the rich variation in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-12 B. M. Andersen , K. Flensberg , V. Koerting , J. Paaske

We expand iterative numerically-exact influence functional path-integral tools and present a method capable of following the nonequilibrium time evolution of subsystems coupled to multiple bosonic and fermionic reservoirs simultaneously.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Lena Simine , Dvira Segal

We investigate non-equilibrium transport in the absence of spin-flip energy relaxation in a few-electron quantum dot artificial atom. Novel non-equilibrium tunneling processes involving high-spin states which cannot be excited from the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Toshimasa Fujisawa , David Guy Austing , Yasuhiro Tokura , Yoshiro Hirayama , Seigo Tarucha

Schr\"odinger equation with given, {\it a priori} known current is formulated. A non-zero current density is maintained in the quantum system via a subsidiary condition imposed by vector, local Lagrange multiplier. Constrained minimization…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 D. S. Kosov

It was shown that tunneling current flowing through a system with Coulomb correlations leads to charge redistribution between the different localized states. Simple model consisting of two electron levels have been analyzed by means of…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-07-02 P. I. Arseyev , N. S. Maslova , V. N. Mantsevich

We study the quantized charge pumping of higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs) with edge-corner correspondences based on the combination of the rotation of in-plane magnetic field and the quantum spin Hall effect. A picture of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-19 Bing-Lan Wu , Ai-Min Guo , Zhi-Qiang Zhang , Hua Jiang

We demonstrate that a quantum spin Hall current, spontaneously generated at the edge of a two-dimensional topological insulator, acts as a source of spin-pumping for a magnetic impurity with uniaxial anisotropy. One can then manipulate the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-10 Aaron Hurley , Awadhesh Narayan , Stefano Sanvito

Charged systems interacting via Coulomb forces can be efficiently simulated by introducing a local, diffusing degree of freedom for the electric field. This paper formulates the continuum electrodynamic equations corresponding to the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. C. Maggs

Non-equilibrium transport properties of charge and spin sector of two edges of a quantum spin Hall insulator are investigated theoretically in a four-terminal configuration. A simple duality relation between charge and spin sector is found…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-19 Chao-Xing Liu , Jan Carl Budich , Patrik Recher , Bjoern Trauzettel

A generalized Landauer formula, derived with the methods due to Keldysh, and Baym and Kadanoff, is gaining widespread use in the modeling of transport in a large number of different mesoscopic systems. We review some of the recent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 Antti-Pekka Jauho

Spin-polarized electron transport driven by inhomogeneous magnetic dynamics is discussed in the limit of a large exchange coupling. Electron spins rigidly following the time-dependent magnetic profile experience spin-dependent fictitious…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yaroslav Tserkovnyak , Matthew Mecklenburg

We present a mathematically simple procedure for explaining and visualizing the dynamics of quantized transport in topological insulators. The procedure serves to illustrate and clarify the dynamics of topological transport in general, but…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-02 Mariya A. Lizunova , Samuel Kuypers , Bernet Meijer , Ana Silva , Jasper van Wezel

We investigate the persistent spin currents in one- and two-dimensional electron systems with spin-orbit interaction in thermodynamics equilibrium at absolute zero temperature. The persistent spin current is the intrinsic one which is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-03-18 Xiang Zhou , Cheng-Zheng Hu , Zhenyu Zhang , Ling Miao , Xia Wang