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We explore theoretically how the coupling to cavity vacuum fields affects the electron transport in quantum conductors due to the counter-rotating-wave terms of light-matter interaction. We determine the quantum conductance in terms of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-31 Geva Arwas , Cristiano Ciuti

Starting from a general $N$-band Hamiltonian with weak spatial and temporal variations, we derive a low energy effective theory for transport within one or several overlapping bands. To this end, we use the Wigner representation that allows…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-09 Christian Wickles , Wolfgang Belzig

The nonequilibrium real-time dynamics of electron coherence is explored in the quantum transport through the double-dot Aharonov-Bohm interferometers. We solve the exact master equation to find the exact quantum state of the device, from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-03-28 Matisse Wei-Yuan Tu , Wei-Min Zhang , Jinshuang Jin

In this work we study the geometrical and topological properties of non-equilibrium quantum systems driven by ac fields. We consider two tunnel coupled spin qubits driven by either spatially homogeneous or inhomogeneous ac fields. Our…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-03-20 Álvaro Gómez-León , Gloria Platero

Recently, Rodriguez-Lopez, Wang, and Antezza [Phys. Rev. B v.111, 115428 (2025)] compared the theoretical descriptions of electric conductivity of graphene given by the Kubo model and quantum field theory in terms of the polarization…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-21 M. Bordag , N. Khusnutdinov , G. L. Klimchitskaya , V. M. Mostepanenko

Motivated by experiments on chains of superconducting qubits, we consider the dynamics of a classical Klein-Gordon chain coupled to coherent driving and subject to dissipation solely at its boundaries. As the strength of the boundary…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-03-20 Abhinav Prem , Vir B. Bulchandani , S. L. Sondhi

Effective dynamics of conduction electrons in antiferromagnetic (AFM) materials with slowly varying spin texture is developed via non-Abelian gauge theory. Quite different from the ferromagnetic (FM) case, the spin of a conduction electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Ran Cheng , Qian Niu

\emph{Effective} gauge fields arise in the description of the dynamics of defects in lattices of graphene in condensed matter. The interactions between neighboring nodes of a lattice/spin-network are described by the Hubbard model whose…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-09-04 Deepak Vaid

We investigate spin-dependent conductance through a quantum Aharonov-Bohm ring containing localized electrons which interact with the propagating flow of electrons via exchange interaction of the ferromagnetic or antiferromagnetic type. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-26 I. G. Savenko , R. G. Polozkov , I. A. Shelykh

The one-dimensional effective Hamiltonian for a planar curvilinear quantum wire with arbitrary shape is proposed in the presence of the Rashba spin-orbit interaction. Single electron propagation through a device of two straight lines…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 Erhu Zhang , Shengli Zhang , Qi Wang

We have investigated the weakly non-linear quantum transport properties of a two-dimensional quantum conductor. We have developed a numerical scheme which is very general for this purpose. The nonlinear conductance is computed by explicitly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Wei-Dong Sheng , Jian Wang , Hong Guo

We show that by integrating out the electric field and incorporating proper boundary conditions, a semiclassical Boltzmann equation can describe electron transport properties, continuously from the diffusive to ballistic regimes. General…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-25 H. Geng , W. Y. Deng , Y. J. Ren , L. Sheng , D. Y. Xing

We develop a field theory of quantum magnets and magnetic (semi)metals, which is suitable for the analysis of their universal and topological properties. The systems of interest include collinear, coplanar and general non-coplanar magnets.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-08-26 Predrag Nikolić

We study a chaotic quantum transport in the presence of a weak spin-orbit interaction. Our theory covers the whole symmetry crossover regime between time-reversal invariant systems with and without a spin-orbit interaction. This situation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Keiji Saito , Taro Nagao

We study resonant tunneling through a periodic square array of quantum dots sandwiched between modulation-doped quantum wells. If a magnetic field is applied parallel to the quantum dot plane, the tunneling current exhibits a highly complex…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-15 L. S. Petrosyan , T. V. Shahbazyan

Quantum transport in inhomogeneous magnetic fields is investigated numerically in two-dimensional systems using the equation of motion method. In particular, the diffusion of electrons in random magnetic fields in the presence of additional…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 Tohru Kawarabayashi , Tomi Ohtsuki

Experimental results for sequential transport through a lateral quantum dot in the regime of spin blockade induced by spin dependent tunneling are compared with theoretical results obtained by solving a master equation for independent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. C. Rogge , F. Cavaliere , M. Sassetti , R. J. Haug , B. Kramer

We calculate quantum transport for metal-graphene nanoribbon heterojunctions within the atomistic self-consistent Schr\"odinger/Poisson scheme. Attention is paid on both the chemical aspects of the interface bonding as well the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-22 I. Deretzis , G. Fiori , G. Iannaccone , A. La Magna

We describe the nature of charge transport at non-zero temperatures ($T$) above the two-dimensional ($d$) superfluid-insulator quantum critical point. We argue that the transport is characterized by inelastic collisions among thermally…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-30 Kedar Damle , Subir Sachdev

If a field theory contains gauged, non-Abelian, bi-fundamental fields i.e. fields that are charged under two separate non-Abelian gauge groups, the transition from a deconfined phase to a hadronic phase may be frustrated. Similar…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-01-21 Tanmay Vachaspati