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We develop a linear theory of electron transport for a system of two identical quantum wires in a wide range of the wire length L, unifying both the ballistic and diffusive transport regimes. The microscopic model, involving the interaction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 O. E. Raichev , P. Vasilopoulos

We investigate the ballistic electron transport in a monolayer graphene with configurational averaged impurities, located between two clean graphene leads. It is shown that the electron transmission are strongly dependent on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-28 Juan Sebastian Ardenghi , Pablo Bechthold , Estela Gonzalez , Paula Jasen , Alfredo Juan

Diffusion, a ubiquitous phenomenon in nature, is a consequence of particle number conservation and locality, in systems with sufficient damping. In this paper we consider diffusive processes in the bulk of Weyl semimetals, which are exotic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-05 Rudro R. Biswas , Shinsei Ryu

Materials with strongly-correlated electrons exhibit interesting phenomena such as metal-insulator transitions and high-temperature superconductivity. In stark contrast to ordinary metals, electron transport in these materials is thought to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-11-19 J. Gooth , F. Menges , C. Shekhar , V. Süß , N. Kumar , Y. Sun , U. Drechsler , R. Zierold , C. Felser , B. Gotsmann

I explore a theory of transport and optical properties of strange metallic carriers in strongly correlated systems that follows from assuming that the diffusion constant has reached its quantum limit $D=\hbar/m$, and that such quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-10 Simone Fratini

We have observed interaction effects in the differential conductance $G$ of short, disordered metal bridges in a well-controlled non-equilibrium situation, where the distribution function has a double Fermi step. A logarithmic scaling law…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 H. B. Weber , R. Häussler , H. v. Löhneysen , J. Kroha

Nonreciprocal transport in uniform systems has attracted great research interest recently and the existing theories mainly focus on the diffusive regime. In this study, we uncover a novel scenario for nonreciprocal charge transport in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-15 Minhao Zou , Hao Geng , Rong Ma , Wei Chen , Li Sheng , Dingyu Xing

We investigate the motion of charged particles in a turbulent electrostatic potential using guiding-center theory. By increasing the Larmor radius, the dynamics exhibit close-to-ballistic transport properties. The transition from diffusive…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-09-07 Matteo Stanzani , Filippo Arlotti , Guido Ciraolo , Xavier Garbet , Cristel Chandre

We study charge transport across the metal-insulator crossover in the half-filled two-dimensional Hubbard model, with particular emphasis on precision control. The dynamic current-current correlation function is obtained directly in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-03 Youngmin Eom , Igor S. Tupitsyn , Nikolay V. Prokof'ev , Boris Svistunov , Evgeny Kozik , Aaram J. Kim

The transport of energetic electrons is sensitive to magnetic perturbations. By using 3D numerical simulation of test particle drift orbits we show that the transport of untrapped electrons through an open region with magnetic perturbations…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-07-22 Gergely Papp , Michael Drevlak , Gergő I. Pokol , Tünde Fülöp

Electron transport is studied in surface oxidized single-crystal copper thin films with a thickness of up to 5.6 nm by applying density functional theory and density functional tight binding methods to determine electron transport…

Room-temperature quasi-ballistic electron transport in double-wall carbon nanotubes (DWNT) is demonstrated. Conductance dependence on the length was measured by submerging DWNTs into liquid mercury. The conductance plots show plateaus,…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Hisashi Kajiura , Houjin Huang , Alexey Bezryadin

The Langevin equation is ubiquitously employed to numerically simulate plasmas, colloids and electrolytes. However, the usual assumption of white noise becomes untenable when the system is subject to an external AC electric field. This is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-01-07 Daniele Gamba , Bingyu Cui , Alessio Zaccone

We report on non-equilibrium electronic transport through normal-metal (Cu) nanobridges coupled to large reservoirs at low temperatures. We observe a logarithmic temperature dependence of the zero-bias conductance, as well as a universal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Beckmann , H. B. Weber , H. v. Löhneysen

We show that electron transport through a long multichannel wire, connected to leads by tunnel junctions, at low temperatures and voltages is dominated by inelastic cotunnelling. This mechanism results in experimentally observed power-law…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 M. V. Feigelman , A. S. Ioselevich

Ultrafast thermal transport in low-dimensional materials challenges traditional diffusive models due to reduced scattering, strong electron-phonon coupling, and pronounced non-equilibrium effects. To address these complexities, we extend…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Houssem Rezgui , Chuang Zhang , Clivia Sotomayor-Torres

The distribution function for a system of interacting electrons in metals is multivalent in a certain region of wave vectors. One solution among many is isotropic. For other solutions the distribution of electrons over the wave vectors is…

General Physics · Physics 2013-02-25 Boris Bondarev

Motivated by the increasing number of systems featuring multiple bands at low energy, we address the Boltzmann approach to transport in a multiband weakly disordered noninteracting crystal subject to a small electric field. In general, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-01 Marco Marciani , Lara Benfatto

We carry out a layer-by-layer investigation to understand electron transport across metal-insulator-metal junctions. Interfacial structures of junctions were studied and characterized using first-principles density functional theory within…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-02 Yun-Peng Wang , X. -G. Zhang , J. N. Fry , Hai-Ping Cheng

The electrical resistivity, thermoelectric power and electronic thermal conductivity of simple (isotropic) metals are studied in a uniform way. Starting from results of a variational solution of the Boltzmann equation, a generalized…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Ausloos , K. Durczewski , J. Ulner