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Quantum cascade lasers can be modeled within a hierarchy of different approaches: Standard rate equations for the electron densities in the levels, semiclassical Boltzmann equation for the microscopic distribution functions, and quantum…

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We study inelastic electron tunneling through a molecular junction using the non-equilibrium Green function (NEGF) formalism. The effect of the mutual influence between the phonon and the electron subsystems on the electron tunneling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Michael Galperin , Mark A. Ratner , Abraham Nitzan

Quantum tunneling allows electrons to be transferred between two regions separated by an energetically forbidden barrier. Performing a position measurement that finds a particle in the barrier forces the tunneling electrons to transition…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Rafael Sánchez , Alok Nath Singh , Andrew N. Jordan , Bibek Bhandari

Electron transfer processes at molecule-semiconductor interfaces involve a complex mixture of thermionic, tunneling and hopping events. Traditionally these processes have been modeled in a piece-meal fashion, relying on phenomenological…

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We study the low-energy single-electron transport across a junction of two magnetic Weyl semimetals, in which the anisotropy axes are tilted one respect to the other. Using a two-band model with a potential step, we compute the transmission…

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Transport of single-channel spinless interacting fermions (Luttinger liquid) through a barrier has been studied by numerically exact quantum Monte Carlo methods. A novel stochastic integration over the real-time paths allows for direct…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Kevin Leung , Reinhold Egger , C. H. Mak

Spatially indirect electron-hole exciton condensates stabilized by interlayer Fock exchange interactions have been predicted in systems containing a pair of two-dimensional semiconductor or semimetal layers separated by a thin tunnel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-16 Xuehao Mou , Leonard F. Register , Allan H. MacDonald , Sanjay K. Banerjee

The contribution of a built-in electric field to ferroelectric phase transition in asymmetric ferroelectric tunnel junctions is studied using a multiscale thermodynamic model. It is demonstrated in details that there exists a critical…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-16 Yang Liu , Xiaojie Lou , Manuel Bibes , Brahim Dkhil

The new method for the simulation of nonstationary quantum processes is proposed. The method is based on the tomography representation of quantum mechanics, {\it i.e.}, the state of the system is described by the {\it nonnegative} function…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yu. E. Lozovik , V. A. Sharapov , A. S. Arkhipov

The conductivity and the tunneling density of states of disordered itinerant electrons in the vicinity of a ferromagnetic transition at low temperature are discussed. Critical fluctuations lead to nonanalytic frequency and temperature…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 D. Belitz , T. R. Kirkpatrick , R. Narayanan , Thomas Vojta

We present tight-binding calculations of the spin torque in non-collinear magnetic tunnel junctions based on the non-equilibrium Green functions approach. We have calculated the spin torque via the effective local magnetic moment approach…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Kalitsov , I. Theodonis , N. Kioussis , M. Chshiev , W. H. Butler , A. Vedyayev

Vertical tunneling field-effect-transistor (FET) based on graphene heterojunctions with layers of hBN is simulated by self-consistent quantum transport simulations. It is found that the asymmetric p-type and n-type conduction is due to work…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 S. Bala Kumar , Gyungseon Seol , Jing Guo

We study electron transport through a quantum interferometer with side-coupled quantum dots. The interferometer, threaded by a magnetic flux $\phi$, is attached symmetrically to two semi-infinite one-dimensional metallic electrodes. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-12-17 Santanu K. Maiti

Experimental results for sequential transport through a lateral quantum dot in the regime of spin blockade induced by spin dependent tunneling are compared with theoretical results obtained by solving a master equation for independent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. C. Rogge , F. Cavaliere , M. Sassetti , R. J. Haug , B. Kramer

The method of the quasiclassical Green's function is used to determine the equilibrium properties of one-dimensional (1D) interacting Fermi systems, in particular, the bulk and the local (near a hard wall) density of states. While this is a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 U. Eckern , P. Schwab

We study the effects of strong coupling of a localized state charge to one-dimensional electronic channels out of equilibrium. While the state of this charge and the coupling strengths determine the scattering phase shifts in the channels,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-17 Iurii Chernii , Ivan P. Levkivskyi , Eugene V. Sukhorukov

Two-dimensional (2D) device structures have recently attracted considerable attention. Here, we show that most 2D device structures, regardless vertical or lateral, act as a lateral monolayer-bilayer-monolayer junction in their operation.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-11 Junfeng Zhang , Weiyu Xie , Michael L. Agiorgousis , Duk-Hyun Choe , Vincent Meunier , Xiaohong Xu , Jijun Zhao , Shengbai Zhang

We do parametric calculations to elucidate multi-terminal electron transport properties through a molecular system where a single phenalenyl molecule is attached to semi-infinite one-dimensional metallic leads. A formalism based on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-25 Paramita Dutta , Santanu K. Maiti , S. N. Karmakar

We consider a quantum dot, affected by a local vibrational mode and contacted to macroscopic leads, in the non-equilibrium steady-state regime. We apply a variational Lang-Firsov transformation and solve the equations of motion of the Green…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-28 T. Koch , J. Loos , A. Alvermann , H. Fehske