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We consider the problem of electron transport across a quasi-one-dimensional disordered multiply-scattering medium, and study the statistical properties of the electron density inside the system. In the physical setup that we contemplate,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-01-29 Pier A. Mello , Miztli Yépez

We derive, from first principles, the complete Luttinger liquid theory of abelian quantum Hall edge states. This theory includes the effects of disorder and Coulomb interactions as well as the coupling to external electromagnetic fields. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 B. Skoric , A. M. M. Pruisken

The low frequency quantum transport properties of a three-probe mesoscopic conductor are studied using B\"uttiker's AC transport formalism. The static transmission coefficients and emittance matrix of the system were computed by explicitly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Qingrong Zheng , Jian Wang , Hong Guo

In a quantum wire with ideal helical modes, the conductance is quantized in units of e^2/h, provided the wire is connected to Fermi liquid leads. We show that this universality does not hold in partially gapped quasi-helical systems such as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-20 Tobias Meng , Daniel Loss

The conductance of disordered nano-wires at T=0 is calculated in one-particle approximation by reducing the original multi-dimensional problem for an open bounded system to a set of exactly one-dimensional non-Hermitian problems for mode…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-07 Yu. V. Tarasov

This tutorial article gives an introduction to the methods needed to treat interacting electrons in a quantum wire with a single occupied band. Since one-dimensional Fermions cannot be described in terms of noninteracting quasiparticles,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Hermann Grabert

Magnetic barriers in graphene are not easily tunable. However, introducing both electric and magnetic fields, provides tunable and far more controllable electronic states in graphene. Here we study such systems. A one-dimensional channel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-02-09 Yury P. Bliokh , Valentin Freilikher , Franco Nori

Quantum transport is ubiquitous in physics. So far, quantum transport between terminals has been extensively studied in solid state systems from the fundamental point of views such as the quantized conductance to the applications to quantum…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-12-15 Koki Ono , Toshiya Higomoto , Yugo Saito , Shun Uchino , Yusuke Nishida , Yoshiro Takahashi

In this paper we present and discuss our results for the conductance and conductance fluctuations of narrow quantum wires with two types of disorder: boundary roughness (hard wall confining potential) and islands of strongly scattering…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 K Nikolić , A MacKinnon

We investigate the conductance of a quantum wire with two embedded quantum dots using a T-matrix approach based on the Lippmann-Schwinger formalism. The quantum dots are represented by a quantum well with Gaussian shape and the wire is…

We investigate multi-terminal quantum transport through single monocyclic aromatic annulene molecules, and their derivatives, using the nonequilibrium Green function approach in the self-consistent Hartree-Fock approximation. A new device…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. M. Cardamone , C. A. Stafford , S. Mazumdar

We develop a unified theoretical description of the induced interaction and quantum noise in a system of two spins (qubits) coupled via a quasi-one-dimensional electron gas in the Luttinger liquid regime. Our results allow evaluation of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-12 Dmitry Mozyrsky , Alexander Dementsov , Vladimir Privman

There has been considerable debate on the onset of exotic spin phenomena in quantum wires due to enhanced many-body effects caused by the one-dimensional (1D) alignment of charge carriers. We explain various observed spin effects, such as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-17 Alfredo X. Sánchez , Jean-Pierre Leburton

We propose a mixed analytical-ab-initio method for the accurate calculation of the conductance in monovalent atomic wires. The method relies on the most general formula for ballistic transport through a monovalent wire, whose parameters can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-16 Péter Major , V. M. García-Suárez , S. Sirichantaropass , József Cserti , C. J. Lambert , J. Ferrer , Géza Tichy

We study the quantum transport through networks of diffusive wires connected to reservoirs in the Landauer-B\"uttiker formalism. The elements of the conductance matrix are computed by the diagrammatic method. We recover the combination of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Christophe Texier , Gilles Montambaux

The Kubo formula for the conductance of a mesoscopic system is analyzed semiclassically, yielding simple expressions for both weak localization and universal conductance fluctuations. In contrast to earlier work which dealt with times…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Nathan Argaman

We investigate transport of spinless fermions through a single site dot junction of M one-dimensional quantum wires. The semi-infinite wires are described by a tight-binding model. Each wire consists of two parts: the non-interacting leads…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 X. Barnabe-Theriault , A. Sedeki , V. Meden , K. Schoenhammer

We investigate magnetic-field asymmetries in the linear transport of a mesoscopic conductor interacting with its environment. Interestingly, we find that the interaction between the two systems causes an asymmetry only when the environment…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 David Sanchez , Kicheon Kang

A fluid, with broken time-reversal symmetry, would exhibit odd transport coefficients, such as odd viscosity, thermal conductivity and diffusion coefficient, which may fundamentally alter the fluid properties and significantly influence the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-07 Yuxing Jiao , Mingcheng Yang

In the talk, I briefly demonstrate the quantum theory for mesoscopic electric circuits and its applications. In the theory, the importance of the charge discreteness in a mesoscopic electric circuit is addressed. As a result, a new kind of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 You-Quan Li