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In the Comment by Bordag et al. [Phys. Rev. B 113, 207401 (2026) and ArXiv:2506.10792], concerns are raised regarding the validity of the results presented in [Phys. Rev. B 111, 115428 (2025)], where the theoretical descriptions of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Pablo Rodriguez-Lopez , Jian-Sheng Wang , Mauro Antezza

Within the framework of the scattering matrix formalism the nonlinear Kubo theory for electron transport in the metal with a tunnel barrier has been considered. A general expression for the mean electrical current was obtained. It…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-02-07 E. E. Zubov

The linear conductance of the a small metallic tunnel junction embedded in an electromagnetic environment of arbitrary impedance is determined in the semiclassical limit. Electron tunneling is treated beyond the orthodox theory of Coulomb…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Georg Goeppert , Hermann Grabert

We consider a quantum dot coupled to two BCS superconductors with same gap energies $\Delta$. The transport properties are investigated by means of infinite-$U$ noncrossing approximation. In equilibrium density of states, Kondo effect shows…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-08-31 S. Y. Liu , X. L. Lei

Unprecedented control over the manufacture of electronic devices on nanometer scale has allowed to perform highly controllable and fine-tuned experiments in the quantum regime where exotic effects can nowadays be measured. In quantum dot…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-12-20 Emma L. Minarelli

We compare three models of graphene electric conductivity: a non-local Kubo model, a local model derived by Falkovsky, and finally, a non-local quantum field theory (QFT) polarization-based model. These models are supposed to provide…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-28 Pablo Rodriguez-Lopez , Jian-Sheng Wang , Mauro Antezza

We propose to use the phenomenon of resonant tunneling for the detection of noise. The main idea of this method relies on the effect of homogeneous broadening of the resonant tunneling peak induced by the emission and absorption of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Eugene V. Sukhorukov , Jonathan Edwards

We investigate the continuous weak measurement of a solid-state qubit by single electron transistors in nonlinear response regime. It is found that the signal-to-noise ratio can violate the universal upper bound imposed quantum mechanically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 HuJun Jiao , Shi-Kuan Wang , Feng Li , Xin-Qi Li

We find the nonlinear conductance of a dissipative resonant level in the nonequilibrium steady state near its quantum critical point. The system consists of a spin-polarized quantum dot connected to two resistive leads that provide ohmic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-15 Gu Zhang , E. Novais , Harold U. Baranger

We propose a setup for a quantitative test of the quantum fluctuation theorem. It consists of a quantum conductor, driven by an external voltage source, and a classical inductor-capacitor circuit. The work done on the system by the voltage…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-09 Y. Utsumi , D. S. Golubev , M. Marthaler , Gerd Schön , Kensuke Kobayashi

The average of densities of currents and charges, induced by a weak electromagnetic field in spatially inhomogeneous are calculated at final temperatures. The Kubo formula for a conductivity tensor is generalized for spatially inhomogeneous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. T. Pavlov , I. G. Lang , L. I. Korovin

We study the out-of-equilibrium transport in a Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid containing a weak or a tunneling barrier coupled to an arbitrary electromagnetic environment. This applies as well to a coherent one-channel non-interacting conductor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-26 J. -R. Souquet , I. Safi , P. Simon

We study the effect of a dot-lead interaction on transport through a quantum dot hybridized to two semi-infinite Luttinger-liquid leads. A bosonization approach is applied to treat the interaction between charge fluctuations on the dot and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Florian Elste , David R. Reichman , Andrew J. Millis

We propose a measurement set-up for detecting quantum noise over a wide frequency range using inelastic transitions in a tunable two-level system as a detector. The frequency-resolving detector consists of a double quantum dot which is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Ramon Aguado , Leo P. Kouwenhoven

We show that a current-carrying coherent electron conductor can be treated as effective bosonic energy reservoir involving different types of electron-hole pair excitation. For weak electron-boson coupling, hybrid energy transport between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-30 Bing-Zhong Hu , Lei-Lei Nian , Jing-Tao Lü

We address the question of whether transport coefficients obtained from a unitary closed system setting, i.e., the standard equilibrium Green-Kubo formula, are the same as the ones obtained from a weakly driven nonequilibrium steady-state…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-01-25 Marko Znidaric

We study the noise properties and efficiency of a mesoscopic resonant-level conductor which is used as a quantum detector, in the regime where transport through the level is only partially phase coherent. We contrast models in which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. A. Clerk , A. D. Stone

We consider an ergodic Schr\"odinger operator with magnetic field within the non-interacting particle approximation. Justifying the linear response theory, a rigorous derivation of a Kubo formula for the electric conductivity tensor within…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-03-30 N. Dombrowski , F. Germinet

The traditional Kubo formula is generalized to describe the linear response with respect to non-Abelian fields. To fulfil the demand for studying spin transport, the SU(2) Kubo formulae are derived by two conventional approaches with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Pei-Qing Jin , You-Quan Li

Nanoelectronics devices, such as quantum dot systems or single-molecule transistors, consist of a quantum nanostructure coupled to a macroscopic external electronic circuit. Thermoelectric transport between source and drain leads is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-09-05 Emma L. Minarelli , Jonas B. Rigo , Andrew K. Mitchell