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In Maxwell's equations, the electric field can be expressed as the sum of the Coulombic field associated with the electric charge and the induced field associated with the time variation of the magnetic field from Faraday's law. The same…

Classical Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Toshio Hyodo

The pattern of branched electron flow revealed by scanning gate microscopy shows the distribution of ballistic electron trajectories. The details of the pattern are determined by the correlated potential of remote dopants with an amplitude…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-12 B A Braem , C Gold , S Hennel , M Röösli , M Berl , W Dietsche , W Wegscheider , K. Ensslin , T Ihn

The vacuum of quantum electrodynamics is unstable against the formation of many-body states in the presence of an external electric field, manifesting itself as the creation of electron-positron pairs (Schwinger effect). This effect has…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-07-01 Florian Hebenstreit

We have developed new methods to calculate dispersion curves (analytically in the simpler cases) from which we are able to derive the spatial distribution of electron and current densities. We investigate the case where the magnetic field…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 E. Hofstetter , J. M. C. Taylor , A. MacKinnon

We solve the time evolution of the density matrix both for fermions and bosons in the presence of a homogeneous but time dependent external electric field. The number of particles produced by the external field, as well as their…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Joakim Hallin , Per Liljenberg

The electric current conservation in a two-dimensional quantum wire under a time dependent field is investigated. Such a conservation is obtained as the global density of states contribution to the emittance is balanced by the contribution…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 J. Wang , Q. R. Zheng , H. Guo

The electronic transport of a noninteracting quantum ring side-coupled to a quantum wire is studied via a single-band tunneling tight-binding Hamiltonian. We found that the system develops an oscillating band with antiresonances and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. A. Orellana , M. L. Ladron de Guevara , M. Pacheco , A. Latge

A formulation for transport in an inhomogeneous, interacting electron gas is described. Electronic current is induced by a constraint condition imposed as a vector Lagrange multiplier. Constrained minimization of the total energy functional…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 D. S. Kosov , J. C. Greer

We prescribe a formulation of the particle production with real-time Stochastic Quantization. To construct the retarded and the time-ordered propagators we decompose the stochastic variables into positive- and negative-energy parts. In this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-09-02 Kenji Fukushima , Tomoya Hayata

We study the fermionic Schwinger effect in two dimensional de Sitter spacetime. To do so we first present a method to semiclassically compute the number of pairs created per momentum mode for general time dependent fields. In addition the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-01-13 Clément Stahl , Eckhard Strobel , She-Sheng Xue

The growing need for smaller electronic components has recently sparked the interest in the breakdown of the classical conductivity theory near the atomic scale, at which quantum effects should dominate. In 2012, experimental measurements…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-02-15 N. J. B. Aza , J. -B. Bru , W. de Siqueira Pedra , A. Ratsimanetrimanana

In this work, a constant and uniform magnetic field is less than the Schwinger critical value. In turn, an additional constant and uniform electric field is taken much smaller than the magnetic field value. The propagation of a photon in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-24 V. M. Katkov

In the framework of quantum electrodynamics (QED) in external potentials, we introduce a method to compute the time-dependence of the expectation value of the current density for time-dependent homogeneous external electric fields. We apply…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-10-29 Jochen Zahn

We show that electron transport in disordered quantum wires can be described by a modified Cooperon equation, which coincides in form with the Dirac equation for the massive fermions in a 1+1 dimensional system. In this new formalism, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Kang-Hun Ahn

The peculiarities of electric current are studied occurring in semiconductors with strongly nonuniform distribution of charge carriers. The formation of such nonuniformities and the regulation of carrier mobilities can be realized by means…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 V. I. Yukalov , E. P. Yukalova

Proceeding from WKB quantization conditions, we derive a semiclassical expression for the current of fermions scattered off a propagating bubble wall in the presence of longitudinal gauge field. It agrees with the expression used by Nasser…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-01 S. Yu. Khlebnikov

The acoustelectric current for composite fermions in a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) close to the half-filled Landau level is calculated in the random phase approximation. The Boltzmann equation is used to find the nonequilibrium…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Joakim Bergli , Yuri Galperin

We present a quaternion inspired formalism specifically developed to evaluate the intensity of the electrical current that traverses a single molecule connected to two semi-infinite electrodes as the applied external bias is varied. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-18 Augusto C. L. Moreira , Celso P. de Melo

We study the Schwinger mechanism for the pair production of fermions in the presence of an arbitrary time-dependent background electric field E(t) by directly evaluating the path integral. We obtain an exact non-perturbative result for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Fred Cooper , Gouranga C. Nayak

We have studied the distribution of equilibrium edge current density in 2D system in a strong (quantizing) magnetic field. The case of half plane in normal magnetic field has been considered. The transition from classical strong magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 M. V. Entin , L. I. Magarill , M. M. Mahmoodian