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We study numerically the influence of strong Coulomb repulsion on the current through molecular wires that are driven by external electromagnetic fields. The molecule is described by a tight-binding model whose first and last site is…

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The ratchet phenomenon is a means to get directed transport without net forces. Originally conceived to rectify stochastic motion and describe operational principles of biological motors, the ratchet effect can be used to achieve…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-03-11 Christopher Grossert , Martin Leder , Sergey Denisov , Peter Hänggi , Martin Weitz

We analyze the effect of an external electric field on the electronic structure of molecules which have been recently studied as molecular wires or diodes. We use a self-consistent tight binding technique which provides results in good…

Computational Physics · Physics 2011-09-12 Christophe Krzeminski , Christophe Delerue , Guy Allan

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

We predict and study the quantum-electrodynamical effect of parametric self-induced excitation of a molecule moving above the dielectric or conducting medium with periodic grating. In this case the radiation reaction force modulates the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Alexey Belyanin , Federico Capasso , Vitaly Kocharovsky , Vladimir Kocharovsky

We consider scattering and transport in interacting quantum wires that are connected to leads. Such a setup can be represented by a minimal model of interacting fermions with inhomogeneities in the form of sudden changes in interaction…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-09-10 N. Sedlmayr , J. Ohst , I. Affleck , J. Sirker , S. Eggert

The coherent manipulation of quantum states is one of the main tasks required in quantum computation. In this paper we demonstrate that it is possible to control coherently the electronic position of a particle in a quantum-dot array. By…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. M. Villas-Boas , Sergio E. Ulloa , Nelson Studart

Electron transport characteristics through molecular wires are studied by using the Green's function formalism. Parametric calculations are performed based on the tight-binding model to investigate the transport properties through the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Santanu K. Maiti

Electron transport in a quantum wire with leads is investigated with actual Coulomb interaction taken into account. The latter includes both the direct interaction of electrons with each other and their interaction via the image charges…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 V. A. Sablikov , B. S. Shchamkhalova

We study the conditions for coherent radiation of an electron bunch driven by a counterpropagating strong pulsed electromagnetic plane wave. We derive the spectrum of the coherent radiation and show that it is emitted backwards with respect…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-04-17 Evgeny Gelfer , Alexander Fedotov , Ondrej Klimo , Stefan Weber

We propose a scheme for producing directed motion in a lattice system by applying a periodic driving potential. By controlling the dynamics by means of the effect known as coherent destruction of tunneling, we demonstrate a novel…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-09-13 C. E. Creffield

We analyze the results of an experimental setup that consist of two statistically independent laser beams that cross, interfere and end at detectors. At the beam intersection we place a thin wire at the center of a dark interference fringe…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-20 Eduardo V. Flores

We study coherent backscattering of a monochromatic laser by a dilute gas of cold two-level atoms in the weakly nonlinear regime. The nonlinear response of the atoms results in a modification of both the average field propagation (nonlinear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Thomas Wellens , Benoit Gremaud , Dominique Delande , Christian Miniatura

We derive an explicit expression for the quantum conductivity of a molecular wire containing a redox center, which is embedded in an electrochemical environment. The redox center interacts with the solvent, and the average over the solvent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 A. V. B. Cruz , A. K. Mishra , W. Schmickler

We consider a phase-coherent system of two parallel quantum wires that are coupled via a tunneling barrier of finite length. The usual perturbative treatment of tunneling fails in this case, even in the diffusive limit, once the length L of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Daniel Boese , Michele Governale , A. Rosch , U. Zuelicke

The coherent quantum transport of matter wave through a ring-shaped circuit attached to leads defines an iconic system in mesoscopic physics that has allowed both to explore fundamental questions in quantum science and to draw important…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-06-17 Francesco Perciavalle , Oliver Morsch , Davide Rossini , Luigi Amico

Due to their rich level structure, molecules are well-suited for probing time variation of fundamental constants, precisely measuring parity violation and time-reversal non-invariance effects, studying quantum mechanical aspects of chemical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 S. Ding , D. N. Matsukevich

We study the landscape of solutions of the coherent quantum states in a ring shaped lattice potential in the context of ultracold atoms with an effective positive nonlinearity induced by interatomic interactions. The exact analytical…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-11-28 Hongyi Huang , Kunal K. Das

External coherent fields can drive quantum materials into non-equilibrium states, revealing exotic properties that are unattainable under equilibrium conditions -- an approach known as ``Floquet engineering.'' While optical lasers have…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-27 Christopher Yang , Will Hunt , Gil Refael , Iliya Esin

The fundamental issues associated with the magnetoplasmon excitations are investigated in a quantum wire characterized by a confining harmonic potential and subjected to a perpendicular magnetic field. We embark on the charge-density…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Manvir S Kushwaha