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Nonequilibrium electronic transport through a quantum dot coupled to ferromagnetic leads (electrodes) is studied theoretically by the nonequilibrium Green function technique. The system is described by the Anderson model with arbitrary…
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We realize experimentally a cold atom system equivalent to the 3D Anderson model of disordered solids where the anisotropy can be controlled by adjusting an experimentally accessible parameter. This allows us to study experimentally the…
We discuss a recent mapping of the Anderson-Mott metal-insulator transition onto a random field magnet problem. The most important new idea introduced is to describe the metal-insulator transition in terms of an order parameter expansion…
We report on a general theory for analyzing quantum transport through devices in the Metal-QD-Metal configuration where QD is a quantum dot or the device scattering region which contains Rashba spin-orbital and electron-electron…
We report on studies of the magnetoresistance in strongly correlated 2D electron system in Si in the critical regime, in the close vicinity of the 2D metal-insulator transition. We performed self-consistent comparison of our data with…
Motivated by recent experiments on Si/SiGe quantum wells with a co-design of high electron mobility and large valley splitting [B. Paquelet Wuetz, et al., Nature Communications 14, 1385 (2023); D. D. Esposti, et al., arXiv:2309.02832],…
If QCD is to undergo a second order phase transition, the light quark return probability is universal for large times at the critical point. We show that this behavior is distinct from the one expected at the mobility edge of a…
We investigate quantum transport in aligned carbon nanotube (CNT) fibers fabricated via solution spinning, focusing on the roles of structural dimensionality and quantum interference effects. The fibers exhibit metallic behavior at high…
Metallic states near the Mott insulator show a variety of quantum phases including various magnetic, charge ordered states and high-temperature superconductivity in various transition metal oxides and organic solids. The emergence of a…
The transport properties of a metal core/semiconductor shell quantum dot molecule (QDM) embedded in a matrix connected to metallic electrodes are theoretically studied in the framework of Keldysh Green function technique. The effects of the…
Finding microscopic models for metallic states that exhibit quantum critical properties such as $\omega/T$ scaling is a major theoretical challenge. We calculate the local dynamical spin susceptibility $\chi(T,\omega)$ for a Hubbard model…
The puzzling behavior of the transition phase through a quantum dot can be understood in a natural way via a formation of the electron molecule in the quantum dot. In this case the resonance tunneling takes place through the…