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We present an efficient numerical approach for treating ballistic quantum transport across devices described by tight binding (TB) Hamiltonians designated to systems with localized potential defects. The method is based on the wave function…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 K. Kolasiński , A. Mreńca-Kolasińska , B. Szafran

In this theoretical study, we explore the manner in which the quantum correction due to weak localization is suppressed in weakly-disordered graphene, when it is subjected to the application of a non-zero voltage. Using a nonequilibrium…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-01 J. Fransson , R. Somphonsane , H. Ramamoorthy , G. He , J. P. Bird

We develop two generalizations of contraction theory, namely, semi-contraction and weak-contraction theory. First, using the notion of semi-norm, we propose a geometric framework for semi-contraction theory. We introduce matrix…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-06 Saber Jafarpour , Pedro Cisneros-Velarde , Francesco Bullo

We point out that the low temperature saturation of the electron phase decoherence time in a disordered conductor can be explained within the existing theory of weak localization provided the effect of quantum (high frequency) fluctuations…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 Dmitrii S. Golubev , Andrei D. Zaikin

We study the effect of electron-electron interactions on the transport in an inhomogeneous quantum wire. We show that contrary to the well-known Luttinger liquid result, non-uniform interactions contribute substantially to the resistance of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-02-19 J. Rech , K. A. Matveev

In this brief tutorial review, I show how phase coherent properties of disordered conductors can be described in a simple and unified way. These properties include transport properties like weak-localization correction and universal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gilles Montambaux

We develop the theory of quantum transport and magnetoconductivity for two-dimensional electrons with an arbitrary large (even exceeding the Fermi energy), linear-in-momentum Rashba or Dresselhaus spin-orbit splitting. For short-range…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-29 L. E. Golub , I. V. Gornyi , V. Yu. Kachorovskii

In this paper, we discuss the transport phenomena of electromagnetic waves in a two-dimensional random system which is composed of arrays of electrical dipoles, following the model presented earlier by Erdogan, et al. (J. Opt. Soc. Am. B…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Ken Wang , Zhen Ye

We study theoretically the contribution of quantum effects to the exciton diffusion coefficient in atomically thin crystals. It is related to the weak localization caused by the interference of excitonic wavefunctions on the trajectories…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 M. M. Glazov , Z. A. Iakovlev , S. Refaely-Abramson

We extend the Weak Adversarial Neural Pushforward Method to the Wigner transport equation governing the phase-space dynamics of quantum systems. The central contribution is a structural observation: integrating the nonlocal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-13 Andrew Qing He , Wei Cai , Sihong Shao

We systematically investigate the transmission of charge carriers across the grain-boundary defects in polycrystalline graphene by means of the Landauer-B\"uttiker formalism within the tight-binding approximation. Calculations reveal a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-06-05 Fernando Gargiulo , Oleg V. Yazyev

Intrinsic domain-wall resistance (DWR) in (Ga,Mn)As is studied theoretically and compared to experimental results. The recently developed model of spin transport in diluted ferromagnetic semiconductors [Van Dorpe et al., Phys. Rev. B 72,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Oszwałdowski , J. A. Majewski , T. Dietl

We employ the Wigner function formalism to simulate partially coherent, dissipative electron transport in biased semiconductor superlattices. We introduce a model collision integral with terms that describe energy dissipation, momentum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-26 O. Jonasson , I. Knezevic

Quantum site percolation as a limiting case of binary alloy is studied numerically in 2D within the tight-binding model. We address the transport properties in all regimes - ballistic, diffusive (metallic), localized and crossover between…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2008-05-02 I. Travenec

This work considers the propagation of high-frequency waves in highly-scattering media where physical absorption of a nonlinear nature occurs. Using the classical tools of the Wigner transform and multiscale analysis, we derive semilinear…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-23 Joseph Kraisler , Wei Li , Kui Ren , John C. Schotland , Yimin Zhong

We investigate sequential tunneling through a multilevel quantum dot confining multiple electrons, in the regime where several channels are available for transport within the bias window. By analyzing solutions to the master equations of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-02-23 Eduardo Vaz , Jordan Kyriakidis

Thermoelectric transport coefficients are determined for semiconductor quantum wires with weak thickness fluctuations. Such systems exhibit anomalies in conductance near 1/4 and 3/4 of 2e^2/h on the rising edge to the first conductance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 T. Rejec , A. Ramsak , J. H. Jefferson

We present a theory of weak localization (WL) in the presence of generic spin-dependent fields, including any type of spin-orbit coupling, Zeeman fields, and non-homogeneous magnetic textures. We go beyond the usual diffusive approximation,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-30 Alberto Hijano , Stefan Ilić , F. Sebastián Bergeret

This paper is withdrawn. While almost all findings reported here remain valid, some of our comments on the fate of weak localization corrections to the conductance in the deep semiclassical limit are now obsolete. Contrarily to what was…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ph. Jacquod , Robert S. Whitney

Nonlocal (spatial-dispersion) effects in multilayered metamaterials composed of periodic stacks of alternating, deeply subwavelength dielectric layers are known to be negligibly weak. Counterintuitively, under certain critical conditions,…

Optics · Physics 2018-10-03 Giuseppe Castaldi , Andrea Alù , Vincenzo Galdi