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A tunnel barrier in a degenerate electron gas was recently discovered as a source of entangled particle-hole excitations. The entanglement is produced by elastic tunneling events, without requiring electron-electron interactions. Here we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-06 C. W. J. Beenakker , M. Kindermann

We develop a linear theory of electron transport for a system of two identical quantum wires in a wide range of the wire length L, unifying both the ballistic and diffusive transport regimes. The microscopic model, involving the interaction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 O. E. Raichev , P. Vasilopoulos

We argue that at subgap energies quantum behavior of superconducting weak links can be exactly accounted for by an effective Hamiltonian for a Josephson particle in a quantum dissipative environment formed by Andreev levels. This…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-10-18 A. V. Galaktionov , D. S. Golubev , A. D. Zaikin

A tunneling transistor without heterojunction as a theoretical design, or more precisely controlled electron current transmission by barrier potential, is under consideration. The electrons from the conduction band of the source tunnel…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-04-27 Pawel Pfeffer

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

We study time-domain electron interferometry in a Hong-Ou-Mandel (HOM) geometry, where a thin superconductor between two quantum Hall systems acts as the beam splitter. By comparing the measurable current cross correlations at the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-13 Maxime Jamotte , Tom Menei , Manohar Kumar , Alexander Zyuzin , Thomas L. Schmidt

We investigate electron transport through a mono-atomic wire which is tunnel coupled to two electrodes and also to the underlying substrate. The setup is modeled by a tight-binding Hamiltonian and can be realized with a scanning tunnel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-25 Tomasz Kwapinski , Sigmund Kohler , Peter Hanggi

Effects of the electron-electron interaction on tunneling into a metal in ultra-high magnetic field (ultra-quantum limit) are studied. The range of the interaction is found to have a decisive effect both on the nature of the field-induced…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-10-30 Shan-Wen Tsai , D. L. Maslov , L. I. Glazman

Novel experimental and computational studies have uncovered the proton momentum distribution in hydrogen bonded systems. In this work, we utilize recently developed open path integral Car-Parrinello molecular dynamics methodology in order…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 Joseph A. Morrone , Lin Lin , Roberto Car

The transient processes of electron transport in nano-scale devices exhibit special phenomena that exist only in the transient regime. Besides how fast the steady states are approached, one interesting aspect of transient transport arises…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-01 Matisse Wei-Yuan Tu , Amnon Aharony , Ora Entin-Wohlman , Avraham Schiller , Wei-Min Zhang

At low temperatures, the transport through a superconductor-ferromagnet tunnel interface is due to tunneling of electrons in pairs. Exchange field of a monodomain ferromagnet aligns electron spins and suppresses the two electron tunneling.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Nikolai M. Chtchelkatchev , Igor S. Burmistrov

Work is devoted to physics of current transport in a wide class of the hetero-phase granulated mediums and similar systems with set of metal or semi-conductor granules, quantum dots or potential wells in which the exit from Coulomb blockade…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-13 E. S. Demidov , N. E. Demidova

It is shown that in a structure consisting of a superconducting ring-shaped electrode overlapped by a normal metal contact through a thin oxide barrier, measurements of the tunnel current in magnetic field can probe persistent currents in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-04-07 K. Yu. Arutyunov , T. T. Hongisto , D. Y. Vodolazov

We argue that the interpretation of the experiment [Nature Physics 21, 708-715 (2025)] is misleading in two respects. First, the bias voltages impact the non-local differential conductance randomly, rather than systematically, and the bias…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-30 E. S. Tikhonov , V. S. Khrapai

We discuss two phenomenological descriptions of low-current transport in bilayer quantum Hall system with exciton condensates, one based on a Landauer-Buttiker description of Andreev scattering at contacts to coherent bilayers and one based…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 D. A. Pesin , A. H. MacDonald

We present a microscopic theory of transport through quantum dot set-ups coupled to superconducting leads. We derive a master equation for the reduced density matrix to lowest order in the tunneling Hamiltonian and focus on quasiparticle…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-24 Sebastian Pfaller , Andrea Donarini , Milena Grifoni

Nanodevices consisting of a quantum dot tunnel coupled to one superconducting and two normal electrodes may serve as a source of entangled electrons. As a result of crossed Andreev reflection the Cooper pair of s-wave character may be split…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-02 G. Michalek , T. Domanski , K. I. Wysokinski

Atomtronics experiments with ultracold atomic gases allow us to explore quantum transport phenomena of a weakly-interacting Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). Here, we focus on two-terminal transport of such a BEC in the vicinity of zero…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-10-25 Shun Uchino

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

The interplay between various many body effects in a quantum dot attached to two normal and one superconducting lead is considered in the limit of large superconducting gap. By the proximity effect the superconducting lead induces pairing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Grzegorz Michalek , Bogdan R. Bulka , Tadeusz Domanski , Karol I. Wysokinski