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The transport properties of diluted magnetic semiconductors (DMS) are calculated using dynamical mean field theory (DMFT) and Boltzmann transport theory. Within DMFT we study the density of states and the dc-resistivity, which are strongly…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 E. H. Hwang , S. Das Sarma

We investigate the behavior of the superconducting transition temperature within a previously developed BCS-Bose Einstein crossover picture. This picture, based on a decoupling scheme of Kadanoff and Martin, further extended by Patton, can…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Qijin Chen , Ioan Kosztin , Boldizsar Janko , K. Levin

We discuss heat transport through a Josephson tunnel junction under various bias conditions. We first derive the formula for the cooling power of the junction valid for arbitrary time dependence of the Josephson phase. Combining it with the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-04 Dmitry Golubev , Timothé Faivre , Jukka P. Pekola

Using a microscopic model for stochastic transport through a single quantum dot that is modified by the Coulomb interaction of environmental (weakly coupled) quantum dots, we derive generic properties of the full counting statistics for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-07 Gernot Schaller , Gerold Kießlich , Tobias Brandes

Superflow in a phenomenological tight-binding model for the superconducting state of some High-temperature superconductors is discussed thoroughly. The formalism used is explicitly gauge-invariant and currents are computed exactly within…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Ferrer , M. A. Gonzalez-Alvarez , J. Sanchez-Cañizares

We present a general theory for the full counting statistics of multiple Andreev reflections in incoherent superconducting-normal-superconducting contacts. The theory, based on a stochastic path integral approach, is applied to a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Pilgram , P. Samuelsson

We develop a scheme for the computation of the full-counting statistics of transport described by Markovian master equations with an arbitrary time dependence. It is based on a hierarchy of generalized density operators, where the trace of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-30 Mónica Benito , Michael Niklas , Sigmund Kohler

We analyse the full counting statistics (FCS) of a superconducting junction in non-equilibrium in the limit of small interface transparency. In this limit we treat both supercurrent and multiple Andreev reflections on equal footing and show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-06 H. Soller

A theory of electron counting statistics in quantum transport is presented. It involves an idealized scheme of current measurement using a spin 1/2 coupled to the current so that it precesses at the rate proportional to the current. Within…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-04-12 L. S. Levitov , H. -W. Lee , G. B. Lesovik

A quantum dot is a sub-micron-scale conducting device containing up to several thousand electrons. Transport through a quantum dot at low temperatures is a quantum-coherent process. This review focuses on dots in which the electron's…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Y. Alhassid

We study analytically the full counting statistics of charge transport through single molecules, strongly coupled to a weakly damped vibrational mode. The specifics of transport in this regime - a hierarchical sequence of avalanches of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jens Koch , M. E. Raikh , Felix von Oppen

Transport measurements are fundamental for understanding condensed matter phenomena, from superconductivity to the fractional quantum Hall effect. Analogously, they can be powerful tools for probing synthetic quantum matter in quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-06 Botao Du , Ramya Suresh , Santiago López , Jeremy Cadiente , Ruichao Ma

The transport properties on the two-dimensional surface of coupled multilayer heterostructures are studied in the integer quantum Hall states. We emphasize the criticality of the surface state and the phase coherent transport properties in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Vasiliki Plerou , Ziqiang Wang

In this article, I review progress towards an understanding of the normal state (in-plane) transport properties of high-$T_c$ cuprates in the light of recent developments in both spectroscopic and transport measurement techniques. Against a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2008-04-21 N. E. Hussey

We investigate thermally-driven transport of heat and charge in a superconducting single-electron transistor by means of a real-time diagrammatic transport theory. Our theoretical approach allows us to account for strong Coulomb…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-01 Alexander G. Bauer , Björn Sothmann

We consider the steady-state nonequilibrium behavior of mesoscopic superconducting wires connected to normal-metal reservoirs. Going beyond the diffusive limit, we utilize the quasiclassical theory and perform a self-consistent calculation…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-11-22 Kevin Marc Seja , Tomas Löfwander

Microscopic theory of counting statistics of electrical noise is reviewed. We discuss a model of passive charge detector based on current fluctuations coupled to a spin, and its relation with the theory of photon counting in quantum optics.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. S. Levitov

We consider the ballistic transport of quasiparticles with exclusion statistics through a 1D wire within the Landauer-Buttiker approach. We demonstrate that quasiparticle transport coefficients (electrical and heat conductance, as well as…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 I. V. Krive , E. R. Mucciolo

We investigate photo assisted electronic transport in a normal-metal/BCS-superconductor junction with a microscopic Hamiltonian approach, for several types of periodic voltage drives applied on the normal-metal side. The time-dependent…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-03-23 B. Bertin-Johannet , J. Rech , T. Jonckheere , B. Grémaud , L. Raymond , T. Martin

We analyze the transport properties of a semiconductor based bilayer system under non-equilibrium conditions with special emphasis on the charge transfer statistics in the regime dominated by the exciton transport. We consider two different…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-06 H. Soller , A. Komnik