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We investigate time-resolved charge transport through graphene nanoribbons supplemented with adsorbed impurity atoms. Depending on the location of the impurities with respect to the hexagonal carbon lattice, the transport properties of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-11 Riku Tuovinen , Michael A. Sentef , Claudia Gomes da Rocha , Mauro S. Ferreira

The impurity is inherently manifest in cuprate superconductors, as cation substitution or intercalation is necessary for the introduction of charge carriers, and its influence on the electronic state is at the heart of a great debate in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-08-22 Minghuan Zeng , Xiang Li , Yongjun Wang , Shiping Feng

The pointlike impurity scattering is studied for a superconductor with different pairing symmetries based on a minimal two band model proposed by S. Raghu $et$ $al.$ [Phys. Rev. B {\bf 77}, R220503 (2008)], and the self-consistent…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 Tao Zhou , Xiang Hu , Jian-Xin Zhu , C. S. Ting

By properly generalizing Nozie`res' Fermi liquid theory, we construct an Hamiltonian approach to the scattering of conduction electrons off a spin-1/2 impurity in the ovescreneed Kondo regime, as T -> 0. We derive the S-matrix at the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Domenico Giuliano , Arturo Tagliacozzo

In superconductors (SC), the Higgs amplitude mode is a coherent oscillation of the order parameter typically generated by THz laser irradiation. In this paper we propose to probe the Higgs mode using electronic transport in ballistic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-25 Pierre Vallet , Jérôme Cayssol

We present a stability and error analysis of an embedded-hybridized discontinuous Galerkin (EDG-HDG) finite element method for coupled Stokes--Darcy flow and transport. The flow problem, governed by the Stokes--Darcy equations, is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-07 Aycil Cesmelioglu , Sander Rhebergen

Due to the node structure of the gap in a d-wave superconductor, the presence of impurities generates a finite density of quasiparticle excitations at zero temperature. Since these impurity-induced quasiparticles are both generated and…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 A. C. Durst , P. A. Lee

We study the inhomogeneous abelian Higgs model with a magnetic impurity. The vacuum configuration of the symmetry-broken phase is not simply the constant Higgs vacuum but is a nontrivial function of spatial coordinates, satisfying the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-07 SeungJun Jeon , Yoonbai Kim , Hanwool Song

The doping of semiconductors with magnetic impurities gives rise not only to a spin-spin interaction between quasi-free carriers and magnetic impurities, but also to a local spin-independent disorder potential for the carriers. Based on a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-18 Moritz Cygorek , Florian Ungar , Pablo Ignacio Tamborenea , Vollrath Martin Axt

The standard treatment of impurities in metals assumes a homogeneous distribution of impurities. In this paper we study distributions that are inhomogeneous. We discuss in detail the "isotropic inhomogeneous scattering model" which takes…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Hänninen , E. V. Thuneberg

We study how the supercurrent flow pattern is altered by inhomogeneities in superconducting films. Working in the vicinity of the critical temperature and assuming a model of short-range disorder in the quadratic term of the Ginzburg-Landau…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-05-01 Mikhail A. Skvortsov , Oleg B. Zuev , Dina I. Fazlizhanova

The physical properties of high-$T_c$ superconductors are affected by spatial inhomogeneities introduced by impurities. In addition, superconductivity and electronic nematicity seem intertwined in these materials. To address these…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-12-23 Alexandre Foley , David Sénéchal

This work investigates the quantum transport in a narrow constriction acted upon by a finite-range transversely polarized time-dependent electric field. A generalized scattering-matrix method is developed that has incorporated a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 C. S. Tang , C. S. Chu

Rashba spin-orbit coupling appears in 2D systems lacking inversion symmetry, and causes the spin-splitting of otherwise degenerate energy bands into an upper and lower helicity band. In this paper, we explore how impurity scattering affects…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-26 Joel Hutchinson , Joseph Maciejko

In this work we exploit the integrability of the two-lead Anderson model to compute transport properties of a quantum dot, in and out of equilibrium. Our method combines the properties of integrable scattering together with a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Robert Konik , Hubert Saleur , Andreas Ludwig

The scattering of electrons on impurities with internal degrees of freedom is bound to produce the signatures of the scatterer's own dynamics and results in nontrivial electronic transport properties. Previous studies of polaronic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-01-18 J. Krsnik , I. Batistić , A. Marunović , E. Tutiš , O. S. Barišić

We propose and study theoretically a new mechanism of electron-impurity scattering in doped seminconductors with large dielectric constant. It is based upon the idea of \textit{vector} character of deformations caused in the crystalline…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-26 Khachatur G. Nazaryan , Mikhail Feigel'man

We investigate the quantum transport through Kondo impurity assuming both a large number of orbital channels $\mathcal K$$\gg $$1$ for the itinerant electrons and a semi-classical spin ${\cal S}$ $\gg $ $1$ for the impurity. The non-Fermi…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-05-19 D. B. Karki , Mikhail N. Kiselev

Electron transport through disordered systems that include spin scatterers is studied numerically. We consider three kinds of magnetic impurities: the Ising, the XY and the Heisenberg. By extending the transfer matrix method to include the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Ohe , M. Yamamoto , T. Ohtsuki

We derive the ratio of transport and single particle relaxation times in three and two - dimensional electron gases due to scattering from charged dislocations in semiconductors. The results are compared to the respective relaxation times…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 D. Jena , U. K. Mishra