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We investigate theoretically the thermoelectric transport through a circuit implementation of the three-channel "charge" Kondo model quantum simulator [Z. Iftikhar et al., Science 360, 1315 (2018)]. The universal temperature scaling law of…

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We investigate nonequilibrium effects in the transport of interacting electrons in quantum conductors, proposing the nonlocal thermoelectric response as a direct indicator of the presence of interactions, nonthermal states and the effect of…

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We study an electron interferometer formed with a quantum point contact and a scanning probe tip in a two-dimensional electron gas. The images giving the conductance as a function of the tip position exhibit fringes spaced by half the Fermi…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-29 Adel Abbout , Gabriel Lemarié , Jean-Louis Pichard

Quantum heat transport devices are currently intensively studied in theory. Experimental realization of quantum heat transport devices is a challenging task. So far, they have been mostly investigated in experiments with ultra-cold atoms…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-29 Azat Gubaydullin , George Thomas , Dmitry S. Golubev , Dmitrii Lvov , Joonas T. Peltonen , Jukka P. Pekola

Very recently, interferometric methods have been proposed to measure the full statistics of work performed on a driven quantum system [Dorner et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 110 230601 (2013)] and [Mazzola et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 110 230602…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-08-20 John Goold , Ulrich Poschinger , Kavan Modi

We investigate near-equilibrium ballistic transport through a quantum point contact (QPC) along a GaAs/AlGaAs heterojunction with a transfer matrix technique, as a function of temperature and the shape of the potential barrier in the QPC.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-08 Alfredo X. Sánchez , Jean-Pierre Leburton

The invention of scanning probe microscopy has revolutionized the way electronic phenomena are visualized. While present-day probes can access a variety of electronic properties at a single location in space, a scanning microscope that can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-14 Alon Inbar , John Birkbeck , Jiewen Xiao , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Binghai Yan , Yuval Oreg , Ady Stern , Erez Berg , Shahal Ilani

We study the thermopower of a three-terminal setup composed of a quantum dot attached to three electrodes, one of which is a topological superconductor. In the model, superconductivity is explicitly taken into account. We compare the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-27 Stefano Valentini , Rosario Fazio , Vittorio Giovannetti , Fabio Taddei

We have constructed a general theory describing the topological quantum phase transitions in 3D systems with broken inversion symmetry. While the consideration of the system's codimension generally predicts the appearance of a stable…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-05 Bohm-Jung Yang , Mohammad Saeed Bahramy , Ryotaro Arita , Hiroki Isobe , Eun-Gook Moon , Naoto Nagaosa

Thermoelectricity is generally understood as a classical effect emerging from energy-dependent transport asymmetries. Here we uncover a purely quantum mechanism, where a superconducting S-I-S' tunnel junction in thermal equilibrium develops…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-31 Filippo Antola , Giorgio De Simoni , Francesco Giazotto , Alessandro Braggio

We consider a model for an edge state of electronic systems in the quantum Hall regime with filling $\nu=1$ and in the quantum spin Hall regime. In both cases the system is in contact with two reservoirs by tunneling at point contacts. Both…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Liliana Arrachea , Eduardo Fradkin

We introduce the estimation protocol for detecting the temperature of the transverse vibrational modes of linear ion crystal. We show that thanks to the laser induced laser coupling between the vibrational modes and the collective spin…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-26 Peter A. Ivanov

Rectification of thermal fluctuations in mesoscopic conductors is the key idea of today's attempts to build nanoscale thermoelectric energy harvesters in order to convert heat into a useful electric power. So far, most concepts make use of…

Quantum thermodynamics is emerging both as a topic of fundamental research and as means to understand and potentially improve the performance of quantum devices. A prominent platform for achieving the necessary manipulation of quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Alberto Ronzani , Bayan Karimi , Jorden Senior , Yu-Cheng Chang , Joonas T. Peltonen , ChiiDong Chen , Jukka P. Pekola

We consider quantum point contacts (QPCs) defined within disordered two-dimensional electron gases as studied by scanning gate microscopy. We evaluate the conductance maps in the Landauer approach and wave function picture of electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-04 K. Kolasiński , B. Szafran , B. Brun , H. Sellier

In [Phys. Rev. A 107, 052420 (2023)] we showed that the quantum teleportation protocol can be used to detect quantum critical points (QCPs) associated with a couple of different classes of quantum phase transitions, even when the system is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-17 G. A. P. Ribeiro , Gustavo Rigolin

In this article we review the thermoelectric properties of three terminal devices with Coulomb coupled quantum dots (QDs) as observed in recent experiments [1,2]. The system we consider consists of two Coulomb-blockade QDs one of which can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-17 Holger Thierschmann , Rafael Sánchez , Björn Sothmann , Hartmut Buhmann , Laurens W. Molenkamp

We present electronic transport measurements of a single wall carbon nanotube quantum dot coupled to Nb superconducting contacts. For temperatures comparable to the superconducting gap peculiar transport features are observed inside the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-06-17 M. Gaass , S. Pfaller , T. Geiger , A. Donarini , M. Grifoni , A. K. Hüttel , C. Strunk

Thermoelectric effects in a quantum dot coupled to the source and drain charge reservoirs are explored using a nonequilibrium Green's functions formalism beyond the Hartree-Fock approximation. Thermal transport is analyzed within a linear…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-03-18 Natalya A. Zimbovskaya

Using the Landauer formulation of transport theory, we predict that dielectric quantum wires should exhibit quantized thermal conductance at low temperatures in a ballistic phonon regime. The quantum of thermal conductance is universal,…

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