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We consider exciton effects on current in molecular nanojunctions, using a model comprising a two two-level sites bridge connecting free electron reservoirs. Expanding the density operator in the many-electron eigenstates of the uncoupled…

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In this paper, we study the near-field radiative energy, linear-momentum, and angular-momentum transfer from a current-biased graphene to nanoparticles. The electric current through the graphene sheet induces nonequilibrium fluctuations,…

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We investigate the distribution of the electron density and the potential in a quantum wire coupled to reservoirs, treating this structure as a unified quantum system and taking into account the Coulomb interaction of electrons. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 V. A. Sablikov , S. V. Polyakov , M. Buttiker

We study current flow around a density inhomogeneity in a two-dimensional electron gas in the presence of a strong magnetic field. The inhomogeneity is parametrized by a power-law tail with an exponent $\beta > 2$. We show that current and…

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This review describes in detail the essential techniques used in microscopic theories on spintronics. We have investigated the domain wall dynamics induced by electric current based on the $s$-$d$ exchange model. The domain wall is treated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-11-07 Gen Tatara , Hiroshi Kohno , Junya Shibata

Electron transport through a three-electrode triple-quantum-dot ring with the source electrode of spin-dependent splitting of chemical potentials (spin bias) is theoretically investigated. We find clear charge and spin currents in the drain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-24 Weijiang Gong , Xuefeng Xie , Yu Han , Guozhu Wei

We study charge and spin pumping in an interacting one-dimensional wire. We show that a spatially periodic potential modulated in space and time acts as a quantum pump inducing a dc-current component at zero bias. The current generated by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Citro , N. Andrei , Q. Niu

We study the axial flow of a nonviscous and incompressible fluid in a circular tube made from an electromechanical material. The tube is driven into radial motion by an electric voltage across its thickness. A theoretical analysis is…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-12-11 Yilin Qu , Hendrik J. Viljoen , Jiashi Yang

We investigated spin-resolved electronic transport through a junction composed of a nonmagnetic metal electrode and a zigzag carbon nanotube by means of self-consistent Green's function method in the tight binding approximation and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-09-12 Zhan-Feng Jiang , Jian Li , Shun-Qing Shen , W. M. Liu

We study contact effects on electron transport across a molecular wire sandwiched between two semi-infinite (carbon) nanotube leads as a model for nanoelectrodes. Employing the Landauer scattering matrix approach we find that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 G. Fagas , G. Cuniberti , K. Richter

We propose several novel physical phenomena based on nano-scale helical wires. Applying a static electric field transverse to the helical wire induces a metal to insulator transition, with the band gap determined by the applied voltage.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Xiao-Liang Qi , Shou-Cheng Zhang

This paper aims to investigate the spin dependent transport properties in hybrid nanoribbons, using the non equilibrium Greens function method. The effects of temperature gradient between the left and right leads, the ferromagnetic exchange…

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The spin flip of the conduction electrons at the interface of a ferromagnetic and a nonmagnetic part of a metallic wire, suspended between two electrodes, is shown to tort the wire when a current is driven through it. In order to enhance…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-10-26 Peter Fulde , Stefan Kettemann

The lateral magnetic confinement of quasi two-dimensional excitons into wire like structures is studied. Spin effects are take into account and two different magnetic field profiles are considered, which experimentally can be created by the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 J. A. K. Freire , F. M. Peeters , V. N. Freire , G. A. Farias

The transmission of correlated electrons through a domain wall in ferromagnetic quasi-one-dimensional systems is studied theoretically in the case when the domain wall width is comparable with the Fermi wavelength of the charge carriers.…

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Theory and recent experiments concerning exchange-driven magnetic excitation (EDME) are reviewed. This phenomenon employs the exchange field produced by a narrowly distributed spin-polarized electron current to excite Larmor precession in a…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 J. C. Slonczewski

A novel method and nanodevice are introduced that allows to rotate the single electron spin confined in a gated electrostatic InSb nanowire quantum dot. Proposed method does not require application of any (oscillating or static) external…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-22 J. Pawłowski , P. Szumniak , S. Bednarek

It is shown that the normal electron-electron scattering is a source of electrical resistance on non-contact current excitation in two-dimensional spin-split electron systems. In contrast to the contact current injection, non-contact…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-19 A. I. Kopeliovich , P. V. Pyshkin , A. N. Kalinenko , A. V. Yanovsky

We investigate transresistance effects in electron-hole double layer systems with an excitonic condensate. Our theory is based on the use of a minimum dissipation premise to fix the current carried by the condensate. We find that the drag…

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