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Electrical transport in semiconductor superlattices is studied within a fully self-consistent quantum transport model based on nonequilibrium Green functions, including phonon and impurity scattering. We compute both the drift…

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While the vibrational thermodynamics of materials with small anharmonicity at low temperatures has been understood well based on the harmonic phonons approximation; at high temperatures, this understanding must accommodate how phonons…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-10-20 Tian Lan

Complex dynamics when occurring autonomously, i.e. without external driving, is usually associated with everyday length scales and classical physics, e.g. living organisms. This dynamics is \emph{not} quantum coherent. Quantum coherent…

While there are many physical processes showing subdiffusion and some useful particle models for understanding the underlying mechanisms have been established, a systematic study of subdiffusive energy transport is still lacking. Here we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-10-05 Daxing Xiong , Jianjin Wang

Acoustic phonons in piezoelectric materials strongly couple to electrons through a macroscopic electric field. We show that this coupling leads to a momentum-dependent divergence of the Fan-Migdal electron linewidth. We then develop a…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-12 Jae-Mo Lihm , Samuel Poncé , Cheol-Hwan Park

The unique structure of two-dimensional (2D) Dirac crystals, with electronic bands linear in the proximity of the Brillouin-zone boundary and the Fermi energy, creates anomalous situations where small Fermi-energy perturbations are known to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-24 Sina Kazemian , Giovanni Fanchini

In this work, we use neural quantum states (NQS) to describe the high-dimensional wave functions of electron-phonon coupled systems. We demonstrate that NQS can accurately and systematically learn the underlying physics of such problems…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-01-30 Ankit Mahajan , Paul J. Robinson , Joonho Lee , David R. Reichman

A dynamical method for inelastic transport simulations in nanostructures is compared with a steady-state method based on non-equilibrium Green's functions. A simplified form of the dynamical method produces, in the steady state in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-08-19 Eunan J. McEniry , Thomas Frederiksen , Tchavdar N. Todorov , Daniel Dundas , Andrew P. Horsfield

We describe the electro-thermal transport in metallic carbon nanotubes (m-CNTs) by a semi-classical approach that takes into account the high-field dynamical interdependence between charge carrier and phonon populations. Our model is based…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Marcelo A. Kuroda , Jean Pierre Leburton

We formulate a semiclassical theory for electron transport in open quantum systems with electron-phonon interactions adequate for situations when the system's phonon dynamics is comparable with the electron transport timescale. Starting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-26 Maicol A. Ochoa

Electronic transport is theoretically investigated in laterally confined semiconductor superlattices using the formalism of non-equilibrium Green's functions. The transport properties are calculated for nanowire superlattices of varying…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-25 Thomas Grange

Electron transport in periodic quantum dot arrays in the presence of interactions with phonons was investigated using the formalism of nonequilibrium Green's functions. The self-consistent Born approximation was used to model the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Nenad Vukmirović , Zoran Ikonić , Dragan Indjin , Paul Harrison

Coupling between electrons and phonons (lattice vibrations) drives the formation of the electron pairs responsible for conventional superconductivity. The lack of direct evidence for electron-phonon coupling in the electron dynamics of the…

Effects of resonant acoustic phonon scattering on magnetoresistivity are examined in two-dimensional electron systems at low temperatures by using a balance-equation magnetotransport scheme direct controlled by the current. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-05-13 X. L. Lei

Quantum acoustics -- a recently developed framework parallel to quantum optics -- establishesa nonperturbative and coherent treatment of the electron-phonon interaction in real space. The quantum-acoustical representation reveals a…

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We provide a self-contained review of master equation approaches to modelling phonon effects in optically driven self-assembled quantum dots. Coupling of the (quasi) two-level excitonic system to phonons leads to dissipation and dephasing,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-14 Ahsan Nazir , Dara P. S. McCutcheon

A canonical quantization procedure is applied to the interaction of elastic waves --phonons-- with infinitely long dislocations that can oscillate about an equilibrium, straight line, configuration. The interaction is implemented through…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-02-26 Fernando Lund , Bruno Scheihing Hitschfeld

In this work, we construct different classes of coherent states related to a quantum system, recently studied in [1], of an electron moving in a plane in uniform external magnetic and electric fields which possesses both discrete and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-22 Isiaka Aremua , Laure Gouba

We present a theoretical analysis of the effect of inelastic electron scattering on current and its fluctuations in a mesoscopic quantum dot (QD) connected to two leads, based on a recently developed nonperturbative technique involving the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Bing Dong , H. L. Cui , X. L. Lei , Norman J. M. Horing

We study the superconductivity of strongly coupled electron-phonon systems where the geometry of the lattice frustrates the charge order by the sign-problem-free Quantum Monte Carlo(QMC) method. The results suggest that with charge order…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-12-11 Zi-Xiang Li , Marvin L. Cohen , Dung-Hai Lee