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We study the Coulomb blockade in a chaotic quantum dot connected to a lead by a single channel at nearly perfect transmission. We take into account quantum fluctuations of the dot charge and a finite level spacing for electron states within…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 I. L. Aleiner , L. I. Glazman

In the talk, I briefly demonstrate the quantum theory for mesoscopic electric circuits and its applications. In the theory, the importance of the charge discreteness in a mesoscopic electric circuit is addressed. As a result, a new kind of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 You-Quan Li

Thermodynamic and transport properties of mesoscopic conductors are strongly influenced by the proximity of a superconductor: An interplay between the large scale quantum coherent wave functions in the normal mesoscopic and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander Altland , B. D. Simons , D. Taras-Semchuk

Current fluctuations can provide additional insight into quantum transport in mesoscopic systems. The present work is carried out for the fluctuation properties of transport through a pair of coupled quantum dots which are connected with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-02 JunYan Luo , Xin-Qi Li , YiJing Yan

We study theoretically transitions of a double quantum-dot qubit caused by nonequilibrium charge fluctuations in a nearby quantum point contact (QPC) used as a detector. We show that these transitions are related to the fundamental…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-05 C. E. Young , A. A. Clerk

Properties of the Kondo effect in quantum dots depend sensitively on the coupling parameters and so on the realization of the quantum dot -- the Kondo temperature itself becomes a mesoscopic quantity. Assuming chaotic dynamics in the dot,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. K. Kaul , Denis Ullmo , Harold U. Baranger

Kinetic Uncertainty Relations (KURs) set fundamental limits on the precision of nonequilibrium transport by bounding the signal-to-noise ratio of currents in terms of the dynamical activity, a quantity that counts exchange events between a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-13 Gianmichele Blasi , Ricard Ravell Rodríguez , Mykhailo Moskalets , Rosa López , Géraldine Haack

We construct a unified semiclassical theory of charge and spin transport in chaotic ballistic and disordered diffusive mesoscopic systems with spin-orbit interaction. Neglecting dynamic effects of spin-orbit interaction, we reproduce the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 I. Adagideli , Ph. Jacquod , M. Scheid , M. Duckheim , D. Loss , K. Richter

We investigate integer and fractional quantum Hall states in quantum point contacts (QPCs) of different geometries, defined in AlGaAs/GaAs heterostructures employing different doping and screening techniques. We find that, even in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-11 S. Baer , C. Rössler , E. C. de Wiljes , P. -L. Ardelt , T. Ihn , K. Ensslin , C. Reichl , W. Wegscheider

We predict that the mesoscopic tensile force fluctuations in metal quantum point contacts (nanowires) arise as a result of finite electric voltage on the contact. They are due to reconfiguration of the electronic subsystem and are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Alexandre M. Zagoskin

We show theoretically that weak quantum fluctuations induced by a non-symmetric electromagnetic environment may lead to a quantized transconductance of a multi-terminal quantum contact rather than to a blockade of transport in the contact.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-08 Klaiv Mertiri , Yuli V. Nazarov

Coupled systems in mesoscopic regime are of interest as charge fluctuation between the sub-systems will depend on electron-electron interactions and will play a dominant role in determining their thermodynamic properties. We study some…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-29 P. Singha Deo , P. Koskinen , M. Manninen

We find that mesoscopic conductance fluctuations in the quantum Hall regime in silicon MOSFETs display simple and striking patterns. The fluctuations fall into distinct groups which move along lines parallel to loci of integer filling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 David H. Cobden , C. H. W. Barnes , C. J. B. Ford

This is a review of the phase coherent transmission through interacting mesoscopic conductors. As a paradigm we study the transmission amplitude and the dephasing rate for electron transport through a quantum dot in the Coulomb blockade…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 G. Hackenbroich

The understanding of out-of-equilibrium fluctuation relations in small open quantum systems has been a focal point of research in recent years. In particular, for systems with adiabatic time-dependent driving, it was shown that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Roman-Pascal Riwar , Janine Splettstoesser

We show that the coherent mixing of different transverse modes, due to forward scattering of carriers by soft impurity- or boundary potentials leads to a nonlinear, asymmetric current response of quantum point contacts (QPC). The…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 A. M. Zagoskin , R. I. Shekhter

Electron transport in mesoscopic conductors has traditionally involved investigations of the mean current and the fluctuations of the current. A complementary view on charge transport is provided by the distribution of waiting times between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-08 Mathias Albert , Géraldine Haack , Christian Flindt , Markus Büttiker

We investigate the transport properties of open quantum chaotic systems in the semiclassical limit. We show how the transmission spectrum, the conductance fluctuations, and their correlations are influenced by the underlying chaotic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Ph. Jacquod , E. V. Sukhorukov

We study the transport properties of an Aharonov-Bohm ring containing two quantum dots. One of the dots has well-separated resonant levels, while the other is chaotic and is treated by random matrix theory. We find that the conductance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kazutaka Takahashi , Tomosuke Aono

The circuit theory of mesoscopic transport provides a unified framework to describe spin-dependent or superconductivity-related phenomena. We extend this theory to hybrid systems of normal metals, ferromagnets and superconductors. Our main…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-27 Daniel Huertas-Hernando , Yu. V. Nazarov , W. Belzig