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We present a systematic microscopic derivation of the semiclassical Boltzmann equation for band structures with the finite Berry curvature based on Keldysh technique of nonequilibrium systems. In the analysis, an ac electrical driving field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-13 Elio J. König , Alex Levchenko

The authors investigate quantum transport in a narrow constriction fabricated by narrow band gap semiconductor materials with spin-orbit (SO) couplings. We consider the Rashba-Dresselhaus (RD) spin-orbit interactions (SOIs) and the Zeeman…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-27 Chi-Shung Tang , Shu-Yu Chang , Shun-Jen Cheng

We investigated the effect due to perpendicular magnetic field on quantum wires where spin-orbit interaction (SOI) of electrons is not neglected. Based on the calculated energy dispersion, the nonlinear ballistic conductance ($G$) and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Godfrey Gumbs , Antonios Balassis , Danhong Huang , Sheehan Ahmed , Ryan Brennan

We describe microscopic theory for the quantum transport through finite interacting systems connected to noninteracting leads. It can be applied to small systems such as quantum dots, quantum wires, atomic chain, molecule, and so forth. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Akira Oguri

A simulation framework that couples atomistic electronic structures to Boltzmann transport formalism is developed and applied to calculate the transport characteristics of thin silicon nanowires (NWs) up to 12nm in diameter. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-08-25 Neophytos Neophytou , Hans Kosina

We study spin-orbit torques (SOT) in non-degenerate multiband electron systems in the weak disorder limit. In order to have better physical transparency a semiclassical Boltzmann approach equivalent to the Kubo diagrammatic approach in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 Cong Xiao , Qian Niu

We propose a modified Boltzmann nonlinear electric-transport framework which differs from the nonlinear generalization of the linear Boltzmann formalism by a contribution that has no counterpart in linear response. This contribution follows…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-06 Cong Xiao , Z. Z. Du , Qian Niu

We consider electronic transport through semiconducting nanowires (W) with spin-orbit interaction (SOI), in a hybrid N-W-N setup where the wire is contacted by normal-metal leads (N). We investigate the conductance behavior of the system as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-16 Diego Rainis , Daniel Loss

Ballistic spin transport, through periodically stubbed waveguides, is studied in the presence of a weak spin-orbit interaction (SOI) and the resulting subband mixing. By an appropriate choice of the waveguide length and of the stub…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 X. F. Wang , P. Vasilopoulos

An approach is developed for the determination of the current flowing through a nanosize silicon-on-insulator (SOI) metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFET). The quantum mechanical features of the electron transport are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. D. Croitoru , V. N. Gladilin , V. M. Fomin , J. T. Devreese , W. Magnus , W. Schoenmaker , B. Soree

The sp3d5s*-spin-orbit-coupled atomistic tight-binding (TB) model is used for the electronic structure calculation of Si nanowires (NWs), self consistently coupled to a 2D Poisson equation, solved in the cross section of the NW. Upon…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-09-19 Neophytos Neophytou , Oskar Baumgartner , Zlatan Stanojevic , Hans Kosina

Starting from the Keldysh theory, for a general low energy $N$-band Hamiltonian in the clean limit, we perform a manifestly $\smash{U(1) \times SU(N)}$ gauge invariant semiclassical expansion. A generalized Berry curvature tensor is shown…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-31 Thierry Valet , Roberto Raimondi

The nonlinear Hall effect has attracted considerable attention and undergone extensive investigation in recent years. However, theoretical studies addressing size-dependent effects remain largely unexplored. In this work, we establish a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-12 Xinyu Liu , Haozhi Liao , Guangyun Qi , Hao Geng , Li Sheng , Dingyu Xing

Emerging two-dimensional (2D) materials bring unprecedented opportunities for electronic applications. The design of high-performance devices requires an accurate prediction of carrier mobility in 2D materials, which can be obtained using…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-04-16 Jiaqi Zhou , Samuel Poncé , Jean-Christophe Charlier

We present a general formalism for investigating the second-order optical response of solids to an electric field in weakly disordered crystals with arbitrarily complicated band structures based on density-matrix equations of motion, on a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-04 Amin Maleki Sheikhabadi , Zahra Bagheri , Ali Sadeghi

The quantum geometry plays a crucial role in the nonlinear transport of quantum materials. Here, we use the Boltzmann transport formalism to study the magnetic control of nonlinear transport induced by the quantum metric in two-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-15 Xu Chen , Mingbo Dou , Qin Zhang , Xianjie Wang , M. Ye. Zhuravlev , A. V. Nikolaev , L. L. Tao

This study investigates the interband conductivity for nodal line semimetals (NLSMs) in the presence of spin-orbit coupling (SOC) beyond the clean limit, where the disorder reshapes the transport properties. The SOC breaks spin degeneracy,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Vivek Pandey , Monu , Pankaj Bhalla

We present an in-depth study of the spin-orbit (SO) interactions occurring in inversion-asymmetric two-dimensional hole gases at semiconductor heterointerfaces. We focus on common semiconductors such as GaAs, InAs, InSb, Ge, and Si. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-21 E. Marcellina , A. R. Hamilton , R. Winkler , Dimitrie Culcer

Spin-dependent electron transport in a periodically stubbed quantum wire in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit interaction (SOI) is studied via the nonequilibrium Green's function method combined with the Landauer-Buttiker formalism. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-20 Xianbo Xiao , Zhaoxia Chen , Zhiming Rao , Wenjie Nie , Guanghui Zhou

We develop a theory of the quasiparticle interference (QPI) in multiband superconductors based on strong-coupling Eliashberg approach within the Born approximation. In the framework of this theory, we study dependencies of the QPI response…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-10-11 A. Dutt , A. A. Golubov , O. V. Dolgov , D. V. Efremov
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