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We propose a new calculation of the DC conductance of a 1-dimensional electron system described by the Luttinger model. Our approach is based on the ideas of Landauer and B\"{u}ttiker and on the methods of current algebra. We analyse in…

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In this work we exploit the integrability of the two-lead Anderson model to compute transport properties of a quantum dot, in and out of equilibrium. Our method combines the properties of integrable scattering together with a…

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We study the stability of conductance oscillations in monatomic sodium wires with respect to structural variations. The geometry, the electronic structure and the electronic potential of sodium wires suspended between two sodium electrodes…

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We describe the transport properties of a 5 $\mu$m long one-dimensional (1D) quantum wire. Reduction of conductance plateaux due to the introduction of weakly disorder scattering are observed. In an in-plane magnetic field, we observe…

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A quantum wire is spatially displaced by suitable electric fields with respect to the scatterers inside a semiconductor crystal. As a function of the wire position, the low-temperature resistance shows reproducible fluctuations. Their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 T. Heinzel , G. Salis , R. Held , S. Luescher , K. Ensslin , W. Wegscheider , M. Bichler

It is shown that the conductance of a weakly disordered Luttinger-liquid quantum wire connected to non-interacting leads is affected by electron-electron interactions in the wire. This is in contrast to the case of a perfect wire the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Dmitrii L. Maslov

At temperatures $T < {\hbar v_F}/{K_B d} \equiv T^{wire}$ the collective excitations are negligible and the spectrum of the short wire is dominated by the ''zero modes'' particle excitations. At temperature $ T > T^{wire}$ a spin polarized…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Schmeltzer

We study the conductance properties of a straight two-dimensional quantum wire with impurities modeled by $s$-like scatterers. Their presence can lead to strong inter-channel coupling. It was shown that such systems depend sensitively on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 D. Boese , M. Lischka , L. E. Reichl

Coherent electron transport through a quantum channel in the presence of a general extended scattering potential is investigated using a T-matrix Lippmann-Schwinger approach. The formalism is applied to a quantum wire with Gaussian type…

We consider a weakly interacting finite wire with short and long range interactions. The long range interactions enhance the $4k_{F}$ scattering and renormalize the wire to a strongly interacting limit. For large screening lengths, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 D. Schmeltzer , A. Kuklov , M. Malard

We present a simple phenomenological model which offers a unifying interpretation of the experimental observations on the 0.7 conductance anomaly of quantum point contacts. The model utilizes the Landauer-Buttiker formalism and involves…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Henrik Bruus , Vadim V. Cheianov , Karsten Flensberg

With a brief introduction to one-dimensional channels and conductance quantisation in mesoscopic systems, we discuss some recent experimental puzzles in these systems, which include reduction of quantised conductances and an interesting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Siddharth Lal , Sumathi Rao , Diptiman Sen

Using the Landauer formulation of transport theory, we predict that dielectric quantum wires should exhibit quantized thermal conductance at low temperatures in a ballistic phonon regime. The quantum of thermal conductance is universal,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Luis G. C. Rego , George Kirczenow

Density, temperature and magnetic field dependences on electron transport in a quantum wire were studied. Decrease of carrier density gives a negative conductance correction on the first plateau at low temperatures. The prominent and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-03-31 K. M. Liu , H. I. Lin , V. Umansky , S. Y. Hsu

We discuss the Luttinger Liquid behaviour of a semiconducting Quantum Wire. We show that the measured value of the bulk critical exponent, $\alpha_{bulk}$, for the tunneling density of states can be easily calculated. Then, the problem of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 S. Bellucci , P. Onorato

In transport experiments the quantum nature of matter becomes directly evident when changes in conductance occur only in discrete steps, with a size determined solely by Planck's constant h. The observations of quantized steps in the…

One dimensional (1D) quantum wires exhibit a conductance feature near 0.7 x 2e^2/h in connection with many-body interactions involving the electron spin. With the possibility of exploiting this effect for novel spintronic device…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. J. Reilly

The chiral Luttinger liquid model for the edge dynamics of a two-dimensional electron gas in a strong magnetic field is derived from coarse-graining and a lowest Landau level projection procedure at arbitrary filling factors $\nu<1$ --…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Roberto D'Agosta , Roberto Raimondi , Giovanni Vignale

We use the non-equilibrium Green's function formalism along with a self-consistent Hartree-Fock approximation to numerically study the effects of a single impurity and interactions between the electrons (with and without spin) on the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 Amit Agarwal , Diptiman Sen

We model electronic transport through a double quantum wire in an external homogeneous perpendicular magnetic field using a scattering formalism built on the Lippmann-Schwinger equation. In the scattering region a window is opened between…

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