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The existence of Anderson localization, characterized by vanishing diffusion due to strong disorder, has been demonstrated in numerous ways. A systematic approach based on the Anderson quantum model of the Fermi gas in random lattices that…

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Tensor networks are employed to characterize the current fluctuations in one-dimensional diffusion-reaction systems. The representative system under study is a semiconducting material where holes and electrons constitute two types of charge…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-16 Jiayin Gu

Particle distributions in weakly collisional environments such as the magnetosphere have been observed to show deviations from the Maxwellian distribution. These can often be reproduced in kinetic simulations, but fluid models, which are…

Space Physics · Physics 2018-08-24 Jonathan Ng , Ammar Hakim , Amitava Bhattacharjee

I present a theory of electron dynamics in semiconductors with slowly varying composition. I show that the frequency-dependent conductivity, required for the description of transport and optical properties, can be obtained from a knowledge…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 Michael R. Geller

We develop an Over Barrier Model for computing charge exchange between ions and one-active-electron atoms at low impact energies. The main feature of the model is the treatment of the barrier crossing process by the electron within a…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Sattin

We consider a random walk on the support of a stationary simple point process on $R^d$, $d\geq 2$ which satisfies a mixing condition w.r.t.the translations or has a strictly positive density uniformly on large enough cubes. Furthermore the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Faggionato , H. Schulz-Baldes , D. Spehner

The principle of maximum entropy (MaxEnt) applies to the canonical ensemble related to the number of particles, known as the $\mathcal{N}$-ensemble. This concept pertains to physical domains (or basins) that are treated as open systems…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-19 Roberto Carlos Bochicchio

The quasi-stationary nonequilibrium distribution function of an independent electron gas interacting with a medium, which is at local thermal equilibrium, can be obtained by entropy production rate minimization, subject to constraints of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-05-18 Thomas Christen

A theory of transverse electron transport coupled with heat transfer in semiconductor thin films is developed conceptually modeling structures of modern electronics. The transverse currents generate Joule heat with positive feedback through…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-06-05 V. G. Karpov

This paper considers the probability density and current distributions generated by a point-like, isotropic source of monoenergetic charges embedded into a uniform magnetic field environment. Electron sources of this kind have been realized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-09-04 Christian Bracher , Arnulfo Gonzalez

The maximum entropy principle is applied to the formal derivation of isothermal, Euler-like equations for semiclassical fermions (electrons and holes) in graphene. After proving general mathematical properties of the equations so obtained,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Luigi Barletti

Molecular dynamics simulations are used to study the mechanism and kinetics of hydrated electron diffusion. The electron center of mass is found to exhibit Brownian-type behavior with a diffusion coefficient considerably greater than that…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2012-11-06 Kafui A. Tay , François-Xavier Coudert , Anne Boutin

This study presents a Monte Carlo simulation tool for modeling the transportation processes of thermal electrons in noble liquids, specifically focusing on liquid argon and liquid xenon. The study aims to elucidate the microscopical…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-03-22 Yijun Xie , Yi Wang

A theory is developed for the evolution of the non-equilibrium distribution of quasiparticles when the scattering rate decreases due to particle collisions. We propose a "modified one-collision approximation" which is most effective for…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 R. N. Gurzhi , A. I. Kopeliovich , A. N. Kalinenko , A. V. Yanovsky , E. N. Bogachek , Uzi Landman , H. Buhmann , L. W. Molenkamp

The concept of entropy rate for a dynamical process on a graph is introduced. We study diffusion processes where the node degrees are used as a local information by the random walkers. We describe analitically and numerically how the degree…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jesus Gomez-Gardenes , Vito Latora

In this article we address the problem of the nonlinear interaction of subdiffusive particles. We introduce the random walk model in which statistical characteristics of a random walker such as escape rate and jump distribution depend on…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-15 Sergei Fedotov

We present a model of electron transport through a random distribution of interacting quantum dots embedded in a dielectric matrix to simulate realistic devices. The method underlying the model depends only on fundamental parameters of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-25 S. Illera , J. D. Prades , A. Cirera , A. Cornet

We present a new semi-empirical model for calculating electron transport in atomic-scale devices. The model is an extension of the Extended H\"uckel method with a self-consistent Hartree potential. This potential models the effect of an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-04 Kurt Stokbro , Dan Erik Petersen , Søren Smidstrup , Anders Blom , Mads Ipsen , Kristen Kaasbjerg

Ohm's law describes the proportionality of current density and electric field. In solid-state conductors, Ohm's law emerges due to electron scattering processes that relax the electrical current. Here, we use nitrogen-vacancy center…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-16 A. Jenkins , S. Baumann , H. Zhou , S. A. Meynell , D. Yang , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , A. Lucas , A. F. Young , A. C. Bleszynski Jayich

We propose a new model suitable for a nonequilibrium molecular dynamics (MD) simulation of electrical conductors. The model consists of classical electrons and atoms. The atoms compose a lattice vibration system. The electrons are scattered…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-30 Fan Lee , Tatsuro Yuge , Akira Shimizu