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The electronic transport of a noninteracting quantum ring side-coupled to a quantum wire is studied via a single-band tunneling tight-binding Hamiltonian. We found that the system develops an oscillating band with antiresonances and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. A. Orellana , M. L. Ladron de Guevara , M. Pacheco , A. Latge

The conductance steps in a constricted two-dimensional electron gas and the minimum conductivity in graphene are related to a new uncertainty relation between electric charge and conductance in a quantized electric circuit that mimics the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Daniela Dragoman

We present a model of electron transport through a random distribution of interacting quantum dots embedded in a dielectric matrix to simulate realistic devices. The method underlying the model depends only on fundamental parameters of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-25 S. Illera , J. D. Prades , A. Cirera , A. Cornet

A multi-branch quantum circuit is considered from the viewpoint of coherent electron or wave transport. Starting with the closed system, we give analytical conditions for the appearance of two isolated localized states out of the energy…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-09-06 Angelo Ziletti

The Hamiltonian of a charge qubit, which consists of two Josephson junctions is found within well known quantum mechanical procedure. The inductance of the qubit is included from the very beginning. It allows a selfconsistent derivation of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Ya. S. Greenberg , W. Krech

From the theory of quantum $LC$ circuits with discrete charge, and {\em semiclassical} considerations, we obtain approximate energy eigenvalues, depending on the parameter $q_e^2/h$. Next, we include electrical resistance for the quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Constantino A. Utreras-Diaz

We derive a master equation for the electron transport through molecular wires in the limit of strong Coulomb repulsion. This approach is applied to two typical situations: First, we study transport through an open conduction channel for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Franz J. Kaiser , Michael Strass , Sigmund Kohler , Peter Hänggi

A transport methodology to study the electron transport between quantum dots arrays based in Transfer Hamiltonian approach is presented. The interactions between the quantum dots and between the quantum dots and the electrodes are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-10 S. Illera , N. Garcia-Castello , J. D. Prades , A. Cirera

We investigate the distribution of the electron density and the potential in a quantum wire coupled to reservoirs, treating this structure as a unified quantum system and taking into account the Coulomb interaction of electrons. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 V. A. Sablikov , S. V. Polyakov , M. Buttiker

We describe a quantum electromechanical system(QEMS) comprising a single quantum dot harmonically bound between two electrodes and facilitating a tunneling current between them. An example of such a system is a fullerene molecule between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Wahyu Utami , Hsi-Sheng Goan , G. J. Milburn

The complex ac-response of a quasi-one dimensional electron system in the one-band approximation with an interaction potential of finite range is investigated. It is shown that linear response is exact for this model. The influence of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gianaurelio Cuniberti , Maura Sassetti , Bernhard Kramer

The quantum system of a massless charged scalar field with a self-interaction is investigated. By introducing a spacial cut-off function, the Hamiltonian of the system is realized as a linear operator on a boson Fock space. It is proven…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-05-16 Kazuyuki Wada

A multi-branch quantum circuit is considered from the viewpoint of coherent electron or wave transport. Starting with the closed system, we give analytical conditions for the appearance of two isolated localized states out of the energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-31 A. Ziletti , F. Borgonovi , G. L. Celardo , F. M. Izrailev , L. Kaplan , V. G. Zelevinsky

We have incorporated an aluminum single electron transistor directly into the defining gate structure of a semiconductor quantum dot, permitting precise measurement of the charge in the dot. Voltage biasing a gate draws charge from a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 D. Berman , N. B. Zhitenev , R. C. Ashoori , M. Shayegan

We consider resonant transmission through a finite-length quantum wire connected to leads via finite transparency junctions. The coherent electron transport is strongly modified by the Coulomb interaction. The low-temperature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 N. B. Kopnin , Y. M. Galperin , V. M. Vinokur

A first principle theory of charge transport in spatially inhomogeneous quantum systems composed of any finite number of particles and subject to weak electro-magnetic fields is developed. Simple analytical expressions for the linear…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Liudmila A. Pozhar

This study applies response theory to investigate electron charge dynamics, with a particular focus on charge separation. We analytically assess the strengths and limitations of linear and quadratic response theories in describing charge…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-11 Lionel Lacombe , Lucia Reining , Vitaly Gorelov

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 study the transport of a quantum particle through square lattices of various sizes by employing the tight-binding Hamiltonian from quantum percolation. Input and output semi-infinite chains are attached to the lattice either by diagonal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Cuansing , H. Nakanishi

The quantum theory of conductivity of semiconductor objects, to which the quantum wells, wires and dots concern, is constructed. Average values of current and charge densities, induced by a weak electromagnetic field, are calculated. It is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 I. G. Lang , L. I. Korovin , J. A. de la Cruz Alcaz , S. T. Pavlov