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The electrical current through an arbitrary junction connecting quantum wires of spinless interacting fermions is calculated in fermionic representation. The wires are adiabatically attached to two reservoirs at chemical potentials…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-12-09 D. N. Aristov , P. Wölfle

It is shown that electron-electron interactions lead to a novel quantum-interference contribution to non-equilibrium current noise in mesoscopic conductors. The corresponding noise spectrum is obtained in detail for diffusive systems. It is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 Felix von Oppen , Ady Stern

The coherent tunneling spin current in the bilayer system with spin-orbit coupling is investigated. Based on the continuity-like equations, we discuss the definition of the tunneling current and show that the overlaps between wavefunctions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-01-12 Pei-Qing Jin , You-Quan Li

We study electron transport properties of some molecular wires and a unconventional disordered thin film within the tight-binding framework using Green's function technique. We show that electron transport is significantly affected by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-06-29 Santanu K. Maiti

Transport and thermodynamic properties of disordered conductors are considerably modified when the angle through which the electron spin precesses due to spin-orbit interaction (SOI) during the mean free time becomes significant. Cooperon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Yuli Lyanda-Geller

Spin dependent single electron tunneling in a ferromagnetic double junction is investigated theoretically in the limit of incoherent sequential tunneling. The junction consists of a small nonmagnetic metallic grain with discrete energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Michalek , J. Martinek , J. Barnas , B. R. Bulka

A linear theory of electron transport is developed for a system of two ideal quantum wires, of length L, coupled by tunneling and Coulomb interaction. The interaction of electrons with acoustical phonons is included and the results are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 O. E. Raichev , P. Vasilopoulos

A shallow potential well in a near-perfect quantum wire will bind a single-electron and behave like a quantum dot, giving rise to spin-dependent resonances of propagating electrons due to Coulomb repulsion and Pauli blocking. It is shown…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-04-02 J. H. Jefferson , A. Ramsak , T. Rejec

We study tunneling of the magnetic moment in a particle that has full rotational freedom. Exact energy levels are obtained and the ground-state magnetic moment is computed for a symmetric rotor. The effect of the mechanical freedom on spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-07 M. F. O'Keeffe , E. M. Chudnovsky , D. A. Garanin

We explore the role of electron correlation in quasi one dimensional quantum wires as the range of the interaction potential is changed and their thickness is varied by performing exact quantum Monte Carlo simulations at various electronic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 L. Shulenburger , M. Casula , G. Senatore , R. M. Martin

We study the effect of electron-electron backscattering interactions on spin transport in a quantum wire. Even if these interactions have no significant effect on charge transport, they strongly influence the transport of spin. We use the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 Cristina Bena , Leon Balents

The theory for the quantum tunneling of nano-magnets is developed within the intermediate spin framework. Periodic magnetic effects are seen to reflect that associated with a change of flux by a single flux quantum $\Phi_{0}$. Essential are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. E. Barnes

We study the effects of a perpendicular magnetic field on the spin and charge distribution across a quantum wire. Using momentum resolved tunneling between two parallel wires we measure the dispersion relation for different perpendicular…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-12-10 Gilad Barak , Loren N. Pfeiffer , Ken W. West , Bertrand I. Halperin , Amir Yacoby

We investigate electron quantum transport through nano-wires with one-sided surface roughness in the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field. Exponentially diverging localization lengths are found in the quantum-to-classical crossover…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-01-19 J. Feist , A. Bäcker , R. Ketzmerick , J. Burgdörfer , S. Rotter

Scaling laws for characteristic length scales (in time or in the model parameters) are both experimentally robust and accessible for rigorous analysis. In multiscale situations cross--overs between different scaling laws are observed. We…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Felix Otto

We study electronic transport through a one-dimensional, finite-length quantum wire of correlated electrons (Luttinger liquid) coupled at arbitrary position via tunnel barriers to two semi-infinite, one-dimensional as well as stripe-like…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 P. Wächter , V. Meden , K. Schönhammer

Optical transitions in coupled InAs/InP self-assembled quantum wires are studied within the single-band effective mass approximation including effects due to strain. Both vertically and horizontally coupled quantum wires are investigated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Y. Sidor , B. Partoens , F. M. Peeters , T. Ben , A. Ponce , D. L. Sales , S. I. Molina , D. Fuster , L. Gonzalez , Y. Gonzalez

Tunneling of electrons of definite chirality into a quantum wire creates counterpropagating excitations, carrying both charge and energy. We find that the partitioning of energy is qualitatively different from that of charge. The partition…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-04 Torsten Karzig , Gil Refael , Leonid I. Glazman , Felix von Oppen

The spin-incoherent regime of one-dimensional electrons has recently been explored using the Bethe ansatz and a bosonized path integral approach, revealing that the spin incoherence dramatically influences the correlations of charge…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-10-23 Paata Kakashvili , Henrik Johannesson

We explore a regime of unipolar electronic transport in a multiple quantum well structure with very large current discontinuities - up to five orders of magnitude. Magneto-transport experiments reveal different transport regimes. Quantum…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Gomez , V. Berger , N. Pere-Laperne , L. A. De Vaulchier