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We study a finite quantum wire connected to external leads, and show that the conductance of the system significantly depends upon the length of the quantum wire and the position of the impurity in it. For a very long quantum wire and the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 Yu-Liang Liu

The inhomogeneous Tomonaga Luttinger liquid model describing an interacting quantum wire adiabatically coupled to non-interacting leads is analyzed in the presence of a weak impurity within the wire. Due to strong electronic correlations in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Fabrizio Dolcini , Bjoern Trauzettel , Ines Safi , Hermann Grabert

We study transport through a one-dimensional quantum wire of correlated fermions connected to semi-infinite leads. The wire contains either a single impurity or two barriers, the latter allowing for resonant tunneling. In the leads the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Enss , V. Meden , S. Andergassen , X. Barnabe-Theriault , W. Metzner , K. Schoenhammer

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 study the conductance of a quantum wire in the presence of weak electron-electron scattering. In a sufficiently long wire the scattering leads to full equilibration of the electron distribution function in the frame moving with the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-03-19 J. Rech , T. Micklitz , K. A. Matveev

We use the non-equilibrium Green's function formalism along with a self-consistent Hartree-Fock approximation to numerically study the effects of a single impurity and interactions between the electrons (with and without spin) on the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 Amit Agarwal , Diptiman Sen

Nonequilibrium transport properties are determined exactly for an adiabatically connected single channel quantum wire containing one impurity. Employing the Luttinger liquid model with interaction parameter $g$, for very strong interactions…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Egger , H. Grabert , A. Koutouza , H. Saleur , F. Siano

We study the transport properties of a long non-uniform quantum wire where the electron-electron interactions and the density vary smoothly at large length scales. We show that these inhomogeneities lead to a finite resistivity of the wire,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-04-08 J. Rech , K. A. Matveev

We investigate the dynamical interplay between currents and electromagnetic fields in frequency-dependent transport through a single-channel quantum wire with an impurity potential in the presence of electron-electron interactions. We…

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

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

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

We theoretically investigate the electron transport properties for a semiconductor quantum wire containing a single finite-size attractive impurity under an external terahertz electromagnetic field illumination in the ballistic limit.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Guanghui Zhou , Yuan Li , Fang Cheng , Wenfu Liao

We analyze the transport properties of a Luttinger liquid with an imbedded impurity of explicitly time-dependent strength. We employ a radiative boundary condition formalism to describe the coupling to the voltage sources. Assuming the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-09-22 T. L. Schmidt , A. Komnik

We evaluate the Coulomb drag current in two finite-length Tomonaga-Luttinger-liquid wires coupled by an electrostatic backscattering interaction. The drag current in one wire shows oscillations as a function of the bias voltage applied to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-08-27 J. Peguiron , C. Bruder , B. Trauzettel

The conductance of a ballistic elliptically shaped quantum wire is investigated theoretically. It is shown that the effect of the curvature results in strong oscillating dependence of the conductance on the applied bias.

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-26 S. N. Shevchenko , Yu. A. Kolesnichenko

We calculate the AC conductance and the finite-frequency non-symmetrized noise in interacting quantum wires and single-wall carbon nanotubes in the presence of an impurity. We observe a strong asymmetry in the frequency spectrum of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-11-20 Ines Safi , Cristina Bena , Adeline Crépieux

I study the dynamical correlations that a quantum impurity induces in the Fermi sea to which it is coupled. I consider a quantum transport set-up in which the impurity can be realised in a double quantum dot. The same Hamiltonian describes…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-18 I. Snyman

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

We calculate the linear and nonlinear conductance of spinless fermions in clean, long quantum wires where short-ranged interactions lead locally to equilibration. Close to the quantum phase transition where the conductance jumps from zero…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 T. Micklitz , A. Levchenko , A. Rosch

The stationary current induced by a strong running potential wave in one-dimensional system is studied. Such a wave can result from illumination of a straight quantum wire with special grating or spiral quantum wire by circular-polarized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 M. V. Entin , L. I. Magarill
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