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In this paper we study analytically a one-dimensional model for a semiconductor-metal junction. We study the formation of Tamm states and how they evolve when the semi-infinite semiconductor and metal are coupled together. The non-linear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-01-12 N. M. R. Peres

Spin-polarized transport through a marginal Fermi liquid (MFL) which is connected to two noncollinear ferromagnets via tunnel junctions is discussed in terms of the nonequilibrium Green function approach. It is found that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Hai-Feng Mu , Gang Su , Qing-Rong Zheng , Biao Jin

Quantum transport for different models of isomer molecules attached to two semi-infinite leads is studied on the basis of Green's function technique. Electronic transport properties are significantly affected by (a) the relative position of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-15 Santanu K. Maiti

We investigate the Josephson transport through ferromagnetic insulators (FIs) by taking into account the band structure of FIs explicitly. Using the recursive Green's function method, we found the formation of a pi-junction in such systems.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-11-13 Shiro Kawabata , Yasuhiro Asano

We study the conductance oscillation of an antiferromagnetic layer tunnel junction composed of antiferromagnetic topological insulators (MTIs) such as MnBi$_{2}$Te$_{4}$. In presence of an in-plane magnetic field, we find that the two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-05 Sang-Jun Choi , Hai-Peng Sun , Björn Trauzettel

My research is dedicated to the electronic properties of functional oxides. My activity specifically focuses on ferroelectric tunnel junctions in which an ultrathin layer of ferroelectric material is intercalated between two metallic…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-11-17 Vincent Garcia

We study the thermal transport in magnetic tunnel junctions. Thermal gradients across the tunneling barrier appear around the Fowler-Nordheim tunneling regime, due to the current-induced heat caused by quantum interference. Both…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-08-22 J. F. Feng , D. P. Liu , Q. L. Ma , H. X. Wei , X. F. Han

Van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures have opened new opportunities to develop atomically thin (opto)electronic devices with a wide range of functionalities. The recent focus on manipulating the interlayer twist angle has led to the…

We investigate the interplay of ferroelectricity and quantum electron transport at the nanoscale in the regime of Coulomb blockade. Ferroelectric polarization in this case is no longer the external parameter but should be self-consistently…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-02 S. A. Fedorov , A. E. Korolkov , N. M. Chtchelkatchev , O. G. Udalov , I. S. Beloborodov

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

Electron transport through fully depleted ferroelectric tunnel barriers sandwiched between two metal electrodes and its dependence on ferroelectric polarization direction are investigated. The model assumes a polarization direction…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-10-07 Daniel Pantel , Marin Alexe

Ferroelectric tunnel junctions offer potential for non-volatile memory with low power, fast switching, and scalability, but their performance is limited by a high resistance-area product and a low tunnel electroresistance ratio. To address…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-16 Balram Khattar , Adarsh Tripathi , Manmohan Brahma , Abhishek Sharma

We present a theoretical study of time-dependent quantum transport in a resonant tunnel junction coupled to a nanomechanical oscillator within the non-equilibrium Green's function technique. An arbitrary voltage is applied to the tunnel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 M. Tahir , A. MacKinnon

In the present work, we theoretically study the nonlinear regime of charge transport through a quantum dot coupled to the source and drain reservoirs. The investigation is carried out using a nonequilibrium Green's functions formalism…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-01 Natalya A. Zimbovskaya

An exact expression is derived for the electron Green function in two-channel Kondo models with one and two impurities, describing the crossover from non-Fermi liquid (NFL) behavior at intermediate temperatures to standard Fermi liquid (FL)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-06-19 Andrew K. Mitchell , Eran Sela

We have shown that the electron transport through junctions of one-dimensional and two-dimensional systems, as well as through quantum point contacts, is considerably affected by the interaction of electrons of different subbands. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 V. A. Sablikov

A set of stacked two-dimensional electron systems in a perpendicular magnetic field exhibits a three-dimensional version of the quantum Hall effect if interlayer tunneling is not too strong. When such a sample is in a quantum Hall plateau,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 J. W. Tomlinson , J. -S. Caux , J. T. Chalker

We investigate the electronic transport behavior of Fano-Anderson (FA) systems, consisting of a one-dimensional finite backbone chain and an attached side-group of varying length. The tight-binding model within the non-equilibrium Green's…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-08 Koushik R. Das , Sudipta Dutta

Non-equilibrium spin-dependent transport in magnetic tunnel junctions comprising a ferroelectric barrier is theoretically investigated. The exact solutions of the free electron Schr\"odinger equation for electron tunneling in the presence…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-20 A. Useinov , A. Manchon

The tunnel splitting in biaxial antiferromagnetic particles is studied with a magnetic field applied along the hard anisotropy axis. We observe the oscillation of tunnel splitting as a function of the magnetic field due to the quantum phase…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-08-17 Yi-Hang Nie , Yan-Hong Jin , J. -Q. Liang , H. J. W. Müller-Kirsten , D. K. Park , F. -C. Pu