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Using statistical thermodynamics, we derive a general expression of the stationary probability distribution for thermodynamic systems driven out of equilibrium by several thermodynamic forces. The local equilibrium is defined by imposing…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-12 Giorgio Sonnino , György Steinbrecher , Alessandro Cardinali , Alberto Sonnino , Mustapha Tlidi

The possibility of using single molecule junctions as electron pumps for energy conversion and storage is considered. It is argued that the small dimensions of these systems enable to make use of unique intra-molecular quantum coherences in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Roie Volkovich , Uri Peskin

The recent emergence of lead-halide perovskites as active layer materials for thin film semiconductor devices including solar cells, light emitting diodes, and memristors has motivated the development of several new drift-diffusion models…

Diffusion models, which convert noise into new data instances by learning to reverse a diffusion process, have become a cornerstone in contemporary generative modeling. In this work, we develop non-asymptotic convergence theory for a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Gen Li , Yuting Wei , Yuejie Chi , Yuxin Chen

The construction of quantum computer simulators requires advanced software which can capture the most significant characteristics of the quantum behavior and quantum states of qubits in such systems. Additionally, one needs to provide valid…

A review of the present state of investigations of the pseudospin-electron model (PEM), which is used in the theory of strongly correlated electron systems, is given. The model is used to describe the systems with the locally anharmonic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-11-23 Ihor Stasyuk

We develop a theory of far from the equilibrium transport in arrays of tunnel junctions. We find that if the rate of the electron-electron interactions exceeds the rate of the electron-phonon energy exchange, the energy relaxation ensuring…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-12-10 N. M. Chtchelkatchev , V. M. Vinokur , T. I. Baturina

So far transport properties of nanoscale contacts have been mostly studied within the static scattering approach. The electron dynamics and the transient behavior of current flow, however, remain poorly understood. We present a numerical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Na Sai , Neil Bushong , Ryan Hatcher , Massimiliano Di Ventra

This paper is focused on the the variable-range hopping of electrons in semiconductor nanocrystal (NC) films below the critical doping concentration $n_c$ at which it becomes metallic. The hopping conductivity is described by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-30 Han Fu , K. V. Reich , B. I. Shklovskii

Employing the nonequilibrium Green's function method, we develop a fully quantum mechanical model to study the coupled electron-phonon transport in one-dimensional atomic junctions in the presence of a weak electron-phonon interaction. This…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-03-04 J. T. Lü , Jian-Sheng Wang

We propose semi-analytic models for the electron momentum distribution in weak shocks that accounts for both in situ acceleration and re-acceleration through diffusive shock acceleration (DSA). In the former case, a small fraction of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-25 Hyesung Kang

We consider a thermodynamically correct framework for electro-energy-reaction-diffusion systems, which feature a monotone entropy functional while conserving the total charge and the total energy. For these systems, we construct a relative…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-08 Michael Kniely

Using techniques of the theory of semigroups of linear operators we study the question of approximating solutions to equations governing diffusion in thin layers separated by a semi-permeable membrane. We show that as thickness of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-08-08 Adam Bobrowski

We study the entanglement entropy of a random tensor network (RTN) using tools from free probability theory. Random tensor networks are simple toy models that help the understanding of the entanglement behavior of a boundary region in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-04 Khurshed Fitter , Faedi Loulidi , Ion Nechita

We consider a system of $N$ particles on the real line that evolves through iteration of the following steps: 1) every particle splits into two, 2) each particle jumps according to a prescribed displacement distribution supported on the…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-03-24 Jean Bérard , Pascal Maillard

We use probabilistic methods to study properties of mean-field models, arising as large-scale limits of certain particle systems with mean-field interaction. The underlying particle system is such that $n$ particles move forward on the real…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-04-19 Alexander Stolyar

In this paper we investigate the application of non-local graph entropy to evolving and dynamical graphs. The measure is based upon the notion of Markov diffusion on a graph, and relies on the entropy applied to trajectories originating at…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-06-27 Francesco Caravelli

A new statistical model for the combined effects of decoherence, energy redistribution and dissipation on electron transport in large quantum systems is introduced. The essential idea is to consider the electron phase information to be lost…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-26 Thomas Stegmann , Orsolya Ujsághy , Dietrich E. Wolf

We propose a unified diffusion-mobility relation which quantifies both quantum and classical levels of understanding on electron dynamics in ordered and disordered materials. This attempt overcomes the inability of classical Einstein…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-05-11 K. Navamani , Swapan K. Pati

The problem of spin-dependent transport of electrons through a finite array of quantum dots attached to 1D quantum wire (spin gun) for various semiconductor materials is studied. Unlike the model considered in [1] a model proposed here is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-23 L A Dmitrieva , D N Krupa , Yu A Kuperin