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Considering a double-barrier structure formed by a silicon quantum dot covered by natural oxide with two metallic terminals, we derive simple conditions for a step-like voltage-current curve. Due to standard chemical properties, doping…

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We study the integrable model of one-dimensional bosons with contact repulsion. In the limit of weak interaction, we use the microscopic hydrodynamic theory to obtain the excitation spectrum. The statistics of quasiparticles changes with…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-07-04 Zoran Ristivojevic

The electronic structure of the ICl+ molecular ion is investigated by using high-level multireference configuration interaction (MRCI) method. To improve computational accuracy, Davidson corrections, spin-orbit coupling (SOC), and…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Rui Li , Ronglong Dou , Ting Gao , Qinan Li , Chaoqun Song

Quantum transport through single molecules is very sensitive to the strength of the molecule-electrode contact. Here, we investigate the behavior of a model molecular junction weakly coupled to external electrodes in the case where charging…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Bo Song , Dmitry A. Ryndyk , Gianaurelio Cuniberti

We present a method which computes many-electron energies and eigenfunctions by a full configuration interaction which uses a basis of atomistic tight-binding wave functions. This approach captures electron correlation as well as atomistic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Erik Nielsen , Rajib Rahman , Richard P. Muller

We use frequency-dependent capacitance-voltage spectroscopy to measure the tunneling probability into self-assembled InAs quantum dots. Using an in-plane magnetic field of variable strength and orientation, we are able to obtain information…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Oliver S. Wibbelhoff , Axel Lorke , Dirk Reuter , Andreas D. Wieck

Characterizing the local voltage distribution within nanophysiological domains, driven by ionic currents through membrane channels, is crucial for studying cellular activity in modern biophysics, yet it presents significant experimental and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-14 Frédéric Paquin-Lefebvre , Alejandro Barea Moreno , David Holcman

Elucidation of the mechanism for optical spin initialization of point defects in solids in the context of quantum applications requires an accurate description of the excited electronic states involved. While variational density functional…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-07-14 Aleksei V. Ivanov , Yorick L. A. Schmerwitz , Gianluca Levi , Hannes Jónsson

The very high precision of current measurements and theory predictions of spectral lines in few-electron atoms allows to efficiently probe the existence of exotic forces between electrons, neutrons and protons. We investigate the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-12-13 Cédric Delaunay , Claudia Frugiuele , Elina Fuchs , Yotam Soreq

Electric field dynamics at a positive ion imbedded in an electron gas is considered using a semiclassical description. The dependence of the field autocorrelation function on charge number is studied for strong ion-electron coupling via MD…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 James Dufty , Ilya Pogorelov , Bernard Talin , Annette Calisti

We have used the method of generating functional in imaginary time to derive the current-voltage characteristics of a tunnel junction with arbitrary tunneling conductance, connected in series with an external impedance and a voltage source.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 X. H. Wang , K. A. Chao

Charge carrier transport through the probe-sample junction can have substantial consequences for outcomes of electrical and electromechanical atomic-force-microscopy (AFM) measurements. For understanding physical processes under the probe,…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-05-05 K. N. Romanuk , D. O. Alikin , B. N. Slautin , A. Tselev , V. Ya. Shur , A. L. Kholkin

Starting from the quasiclassical equations for non-equilibrium Green's functions we derive a simple kinetic equation that governs ac Josephson effect in a superconducting quantum point contact at small bias voltages. In contrast to existing…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 D. Averin , A. Bardas

We have studied the Stark effect in the soft x-ray region for various small molecules by calculating the field-dependent x-ray absorption spectra. This effect is explained in terms of the response of molecular orbitals (core and valence),…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-03-26 Avdhoot Datar , Catherine Wright , Devin A. Matthews

We investigate the role of electronic-vibrational coupling in resonant electron transport through single-molecule junctions, taking into account that the corresponding coupling strengths may depend on the charge and excitation state of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Andre Erpenbeck , Rainer Härtle , Michel Bockstedte , Michael Thoss

The current-voltage characteristics of long and narrow superconducting channels are investigated using the time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau equations for complex order parameter. We found out that the steps in the current voltage…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-27 V. V. Baranov , A. G. Balanov , V. V. Kabanov

The many-particle ground state and excitations of self-assembled InAs quantum dots are investigated using far-infrared (FIR) and capacitance spectroscopy. The contributions of quantization and charging energies to the $n$--electron energy…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Fricke , A. Lorke , M. Haslinger , J. P. Kotthaus , G. Medeiros-Ribeiro , P. M. Petroff

We study the electrostatic potential of a molecular wire bridging two metallic electrodes in the limit of weak contacts. With the use of a tight-binding model including a fully three-dimensional treatment of the electrostatics of the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stéphane Pleutin , Hermann Grabert , Gert-Ludwig Ingold , Abraham Nitzan

We have studied the current-voltage characteristics of superconducting weak links in which the coupling medium is the 2-D electron gas in InAs-based semiconductor quantum wells, with relatively large (typically 0.5 micron) separations…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Thomas , H. R. Blank , K. C. Wong , H. Kroemer , E. Hu

The latest molecular data - potential energy curves and Rydberg-valence interactions - characterising the super-excited electronic states of BF are reviewed in order to provide the input for the study of their fragmentation dynamics.…