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Sequential tunneling model is used to study electron transport in molecular rectifiers based on structures of donor-bridge-acceptor type. The device is made of two metallic electrodes connected by a molecule, which contains acceptor and…

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Nonequilibrium electron transport through the Kondo impurity is investigated numerically for the system with twenty conduction-electron levels. The electron current under finite voltage drop is calculated in terms of the `conductance viewed…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Yoshihiro Nishiyama

The non-equilibrium dynamics beyond linear response of Weyl semimetals is studied after a sudden switching on of a DC electric field. The resulting current is a nonmonotonic function of time, with an initial quick increase of polarization…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-08-19 Szabolcs Vajna , Balázs Dóra , R. Moessner

In a recent experiment, Hirjibehedin {\it et al.} [Science {\bf 317}, 1199 (2007)] performed inelastic tunneling spectroscopy of a single iron atom absorbed on a nonmagnetic substrate. The observed steps in the differential conductance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-08-16 Björn Sothmann , Jürgen König

In this paper I study the posibility of inducing a single-electron current by rotating a non-magnetic conducting rod with a small tunnel junction immerse in a uniform magnetic field perpendicular to the plane of motion. I show first, by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-09 Gabriel Gonzalez

We employ a non-linear sigma model defined on a Keldysh contour to study the current and the current noise in a diffusive micro-bridge in the presence of electron-electron interactions. Out of equilibrium the fluctuation-dissipation theorem…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-03-29 D. B. Gutman , Yuval Gefen

Non - equilibrium tunneling current of an Anderson impurity system subject to both constant and alternating electric fields is studied. A time - dependent Schrieffer - Wolff transformation maps the time - dependent Anderson Hamiltonian onto…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-30 Y. Goldin , Y. Avishai

The nonlinear conductance of semiconductor heterostructures and single molecule devices exhibiting Kondo physics has recently attracted attention. We address the observed sample dependence of the measured steady state transport coefficients…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-14 Enrique Muñoz , C. J. Bolech , Stefan Kirchner

We study the nonequilibrium characteristics of superconducting tunnel structures in the case when one of the superconductors is a small island confined between large superconductors. The state of this island can be probed for example via…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 M. A. Laakso , P. Virtanen , F. Giazotto , T. T. Heikkila

We present a unified transport theory of hybrid structures, in which a confined normal state ($N$) sample is sandwiched between two leads each of which can be either a ferromagnet ($F$) or a superconductor ($S$) via tunnel barriers. By…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Z. Y. Zeng , Baowen Li , F. Claro

We derive a general expression for the electron nonequilibrium (NE) distribution function in the context of steady state quantum transport through a two-terminal nanodevice with interaction. The central idea for the use of NE distributions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-26 H. Ness

We study the linear conductance of single electron devices showing Coulomb blockade phenomena. Our approach is based on a formally exact path integral representation describing electron tunneling nonperturbatively. The electromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 Georg Goeppert , Hermann Grabert

Equilibrium transport properties of a single-level quantum dot tunnel-coupled to ferromagnetic leads and exchange-coupled to a side nonmagnetic reservoir are analyzed theoretically in the Kondo regime. The equilibrium spectral functions and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Ireneusz Weymann , Jozef Barnas

We study the nonequlibrium transport through a quantum dot weakly coupled to Luttinger liquids (LL). A general current expression is derived by using nonequilibrium Green function method. Then a special case of the dot with only a single…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Yi-feng Yang , Tsung-han Lin

We analyze the broad range of spin-dependent nonequilibrium transport properties of hybrid systems composed of a normal region tunnel coupled to two superconductors with exchange fields induced by the proximity to thin ferromagnetic layers…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-11-21 F. Giazotto , F. Taddei , P. D'Amico , Rosario Fazio , F. Beltram

We show that nonequilibrium spin fluctuations significantly influence the electronic transport in a single-electron transistor, when the spin relaxation on the island is slow compared to other relaxation processes, and when size effects…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-16 Jan Martinek , Józef Barnas , Gerd Schön , Saburo Takahashi , Sadamichi Maekawa

We present a theory of non-equilibrium long range charge transfer between donor and acceptor centers in a model polymer mediated by magnetic exciton (Kondo) bound states. Our model produces electron tunneling lengths easily exceeding…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 R. G. Endres , D. L. Cox , R. R. P. Singh , S. K. Pati

We present exact results on the non-equilibrium current fluctuations for 2 quantum dots in series throughout a crossover from non-Fermi liquid to Fermi liquid behavior described by the 2 impurity Kondo model. The result corresponds to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Eran Sela , Ian Affleck

We present an extension of the Keldysh-Green's function method, which allows to calculate the full distribution of transmitted particles through a mesoscopic superconductor. The method is applied to the statistics of supercurrent in short…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 W. Belzig , Yu. V. Nazarov

Electro-thermal transport phenomena in semiconductors are described by the non-isothermal drift-diffusion system. The equations take a remarkably simple form when assuming the Kelvin formula for the thermopower. We present a novel,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-08-21 Markus Kantner , Thomas Koprucki