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We calculate non-perturbatively the inelastic effects on the conductance through a conjugated molecular wire-metal heterojunction, including realistic electron-phonon coupling. We show that at sub-band-gap energies the current is dominated…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 H. Ness , A. J. Fisher

Peierls-type instabilities in quarter-filled ($\bar{n}=1/2$) and half-filled ($\bar{n}=1$) quantum double-well hydrogen-bonded chain are investigated analytically in the framework of two-stage orientational-tunnelling model with additional…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-31 Natalie Pavlenko

Aspects of quantum mechanics on a ring are studied. Either one or two impenetrable barriers are inserted at nodal and non-nodal points to turn the ring into either one or two infinite square wells. In the process, the wave function of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-24 Bernhard K. Meister

The donor binding energies associated with the ground state and a few excited states, are computed as a function of the dot size and the impurity position within two and three dimensional GaAs quantum dots. The calculation has been done…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Baskoutas , A. F. Terzis

The Rice-Sneddon model for BaBiO$_3$ is a nice model Hamiltonian for considering the properties of polarons and bipolarons in a three-dimensional oxide crystal. We use exact diagonalization methods on finite samples to study the stability…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Vladimir N. Kostur , Philip B. Allen

We investigate the transport properties of a quantum wire of weakly interacting fermions in the presence of local particle loss. We calculate current and conductance in this system due to applied external chemical potential bias that can be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-11-18 Marcel Gievers , Thomas Müller , Heinrich Fröml , Sebastian Diehl , Alessio Chiocchetta

Gaussian potentials serve as a valuable tool for the comprehensive modeling of short-range interactions, spanning applications from nuclear physics to the artificial confinement of electrons within quantum dots. This study focuses on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-26 G. Rodriguez-Espejo , J. Segura-Landa , J. Ortiz-Monfil , D. J. Nader

We report measurements of the compressibility of a one-dimensional (1D) quantum wire, defined in the upper well of a GaAs/AlGaAs double quantum well heterostructure. A wire defined simultaneously in the lower well probes the ability of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 L. W. Smith , A. R. Hamilton , K. J. Thomas , M. Pepper , I. Farrer , J. P. Griffiths , G. A. C. Jones , D. A. Ritchie

The method for calculating the ground-state energy and the optical conductivity spectra is developed for a system of a finite number of interacting arbitrary-coupling polarons in a spherical quantum dot with a parabolic confinement…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 S. N. Klimin , V. M. Fomin , F. Brosens , J. T. Devreese

We analyze spectral properties of a leaky wire model with a potential bias. It describes a two-dimensional quantum particle exposed to a potential consisting of two parts. One is an attractive $\delta$-interaction supported by a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-12-10 Pavel Exner , Semjon Vugalter

A weakly bound electron in a semiconductor quantum wire is shown to become entangled with an itinerant electron via the coulomb interaction. The degree of entanglement and its variation with energy of the injected electron, may be tuned by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 J. H. Jefferson , A. Ramsak , T. Rejec

We propose a resonant one-dimensional quasicrystal, namely, a multiple quantum well (MQW) structure satisfying the Fibonacci-chain rule with the golden ratio between the long and short inter-well distances. The resonant Bragg condition is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. N. Poddubny , L. Pilozzi , M. M. Voronov , E. L. Ivchenko

We calculated the binding energy of a polaron bound to a hydrogenic donor impurity located in a spherical quantum dot by means of a variational and numerical technique for finite potential models. The polaronic effect has been considered…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-09-29 H. Satori , M. Harti , N. Chenfour , F. Assaoui

Quantum wires and electromagnetic waveguides possess common features since their physics is described by the same wave equation. We exploit this analogy to investigate experimentally with microwave waveguides and theoretically with the help…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-11 S. Bittner , B. Dietz , M. Miski-Oglu , A. Richter , C. Ripp , E. Sadurni , W. P. Schleich

A simple approach to the many-polaron problem for both weak and intermediate electron-phonon coupling and valid for densities much smaller than those typical of metals is presented. Within the model the total energy, the collective modes…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 G. De Filippis , V. Cataudella , G. Iadonisi

This paper considers the possibility that two charged particles with an attractive short-ranged potential between them which is not strong enough to form bound states in free space, may bind in uniform magnetic fields. It is shown that in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Danielle Allor , Paulo Bedaque , Thomas D. Cohen , Charles T. Sebens

Effect of the electric quadrupole moment, $Q$, is studied for positron-atom bound systems. It is demonstrated that for $Q >50$ a.u. the electric quadrupole potential is sufficiently strong to bind positron (or electron) even in the absence…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 C. Harabati , V. A. Dzuba , V. V. Flambaum

We study the solutions to the wave equation in a two-dimensional tube of unit width comprised of two straight regions connected by a region of constant curvature. We introduce a numerical method which permits high accuracy at high…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 K. Lin , R. L. Jaffe

The bosonization technique to describe correlated electrons in a one-dimensional quantum wire containing impurities is extended to include an applied voltage source. The external reservoirs are shown to lead to a boundary condition for the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 Reinhold Egger , Hermann Grabert

We present a theoretical study of the magnetic band structure of conduction and valence states in Quantum Well Wires in high magnetic fields. We show that hole mixing results in a very complex behavior of valence edge states with respect to…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 G. Goldoni , A. Fasolino