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Nonreciprocal transport effects can occur in the normal state of conductors and in superconductors when both inversion and time-reversal symmetry are broken. Here, we consider systems where magnetochiral anisotropy (MCA) of the energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-03 Georg Angehrn , Henry F. Legg , Daniel Loss , Jelena Klinovaja

Nonreciprocal transport in superconducting systems serves as a powerful probe of symmetry-breaking mechanisms, with the superconducting diode effect emerging as a key manifestation enabling cryogenic rectification. While theoretical models…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-04-29 Yu He , Zifeng Wang , Jiaxu Li , Fenglin Zhong , Haozhe Yang , Kewen Shi , Le Wang , Guang Yang , Weisheng Zhao

Within the emerging field of quantum thermodynamics the issues of heat transfer and heat rectification are basic ingredients for the understanding and design of heat engines or refrigerators at nanoscales. Here, a consistent and versatile…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-11-21 Thomas Motz , Michael Wiedmann , Jürgen T. Stockburger , Joachim Ankerhold

It is shown that the traditional approach for consideration of recombination under condition of steady-state current in the absence of external carrier generation is internally contradictory. Sometimes the approach leads to obviously…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 I. N. Volovichev , G. Espejo , Yu. G. Gurevich , O. Yu. Titov , A. Meriuts

The first global quantum simulation of semiconductor-based quantum-cascade lasers is presented. Our three-dimensional approach allows to study in a purely microscopic way the current-voltage characteristics of state-of-the-art unipolar…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Rita Claudia Iotti , Fausto Rossi

A simple tight-binding theoretical model is proposed for spin dependent, current-in-plane transport in highly coherent spin valve structures under specularity conditions. Using quantum-mechanically coherent and spatially quantized Fermi…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 J. M. Teixeira , J. Ventura , Yu. G. Pogorelov , J. B. Sousa

We develop a semiclassical framework for studying quantum particles constrained to curved surfaces using the momentous quantum mechanics formalism, which extends classical phase-space to include quantum fluctuation variables (moments). In a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-29 Guillermo Chacon-Acosta , H. Hernandez-Hernandez , J. Ruvalcaba-Rascon

This paper discusses a linear programming approach for designing switching signals for controlled rectifiers to achieve a low input current & output voltage total harmonic distortions. The focus here is on fully controlled rectifiers made…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-26 Shravan Mohan

A semiclassical theory based on the Boltzmann transport equation for a two-dimensional electron gas modulated along one direction with weak electrostatic or magnetic modulations is proposed. It is shown that oscillations of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Natalya A. Zimbovskaya

We address frequency-dependent quantum transport through mesoscopic conductors in the semiclassical limit. By generalizing the trajectory-based semiclassical theory of dc quantum transport to the ac case, we derive the average screened…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-01-19 Cyril Petitjean , Daniel Waltner , Jack Kuipers , Inanc Adagideli , Klaus Richter

The traditional approach to quantum parameter estimation focuses on the quantum state, deriving fundamental bounds on precision through the quantum Fisher information. In most experimental settings, however, performing arbitrary quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Shishir Khandelwal , Gabriel T. Landi , Géraldine Haack , Mark T. Mitchison

A semiclassical (SC) approach is developed for nonequilibrium quantum transport in molecular junctions. Following the early work of Miller and White [J. Chem. Phys. 84, 5059 (1986)], the many-electron Hamiltonian in second quantization is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-28 David W. H. Swenson , Tal Levy , Guy Cohen , Eran Rabani , William H. Miller

We investigate the modification in mesoscopic electronic transport due to electron-electron interactions making use of scattering states. We demonstrate that for a specific (finite range) interaction kernel, the knowledge of the scattering…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 David Oehri , Andrei V. Lebedev , Gordey B. Lesovik , Gianni Blatter

We propose a new approach to coherent control of transport via molecular junctions, which bypasses several of the hurdles to experimental realization of optically manipulated nanoelectronics noted in the previous literature. The method is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Boris D. Fainberg , Tamar Seideman

We describe the effects of phase coherence on transport and thermodynamic properties of a disordered conducting network. In analogy with weak-localization correction, we calculate the phase coherence contribution to the magnetic response of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-08 Michael Pascaud , Gilles Montambaux

An unresolved challenge facing electronics at a few-nm scale is that resistive channels start leaking due to quantum tunneling. This affects the performance of nanoscale transistors, with single-molecule devices displaying particularly low…

Mesoscopic physics concerns itself with systems which are intermediate between a single atom and a bulk solid. Besides the many intrinsically interesting properties of mesoscopic systems, they can also provide physical insight into the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-20 D. J. Scalapino , E. Berg , S. A. Kivelson

We consider the full nonequilibrium response of a mesoscopic capacitor in the large transparency limit, exactly solving a model with electron-electron interactions appropriate for a cavity in the quantum Hall regime. For a cavity coupled to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 Daniel Litinski , Piet W. Brouwer , Michele Filippone

Semiclassical techniques have proven to be a very powerful method to extract physical effects from different quantum theories. Therefore, it is expected that in the near future they will play a very prominent role in the context of quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-12-17 David Brizuela

In this paper, we review and substantially develop the recently proposed "Microscopic Response Method", which has been devised to compute transport coefficients and especially associated temperature dependence in complex materials. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-07-19 MingLiang Zhang , D. A. Drabold