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We develop a theory of tunneling spectroscopy of interacting electrons in a non-equilibrium quantum wire coupled to reservoirs. The problem is modelled as an out-of-equilibrium Luttinger liquid with spatially dependent interaction. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-09 D. B. Gutman , Yuval Gefen , A. D. Mirlin

We show that when one drives a charge current across noncollinear magnetic layers the two electron Coulomb scattering creates a spin flip potential at interfaces. This scattering is found when the interface potential is updated due to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Peter M Levy , Jianwei Zhang

Carbon nanotubes are a versatile material in which many aspects of condensed matter physics come together. Recent discoveries, enabled by sophisticated fabrication, have uncovered new phenomena that completely change our understanding of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-04 E. A. Laird , F. Kuemmeth , G. Steele , K. Grove-Rasmussen , J. Nygård , K. Flensberg , L. P. Kouwenhoven

We consider the problem of electron transport along a one-dimensional disordered multiple-scattering conductor, and study the electron density for all the electronic levels. A model is proposed for the reduced density matrix of the system…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-03-14 Gerardo Rivas , Miztli Yepez , Pier A. Mello

We investigate theoretically electron transfer in a doble dot in a situation where it is governed by nuclear magnetic field: This has been recently achieved in experiment. We show how to partially compensate the nuclear magnetic field to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Oleg N. Jouravlev , Yuli V. Nazarov

We analyze the effect of a gate on the conductance of molecules by separately evaluating the gate-induced polarization and the potential shift of the molecule relative to the leads. The calculations use ab initio density functional theory…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 San-Huang Ke , Harold U. Baranger , Weitao Yang

We study transport properties of a single electron transistor based on elastic nanotube. Assuming that an external compressive force is applied to the nanotube, we focus on the vicinity of the Euler buckling instability. We demonstrate that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-15 S. S. Evseev , I. S. Burmistrov , K. S. Tikhonov , V. Yu. Kachorovskii

The interaction between molecular (atomic) electron(s) and the vacuum field of a reflective cavity generates a significant interest thanks to the rapid developments in nanophotonics. Such interaction which lies within the realm of cavity…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 Alexander Semenov , Abraham Nitzan

Elastic electron scattering is one of the primary means of investigating materials on the atomic scale. It is usually described by modeling the sample as a fixed, static, perturbative potential, thereby completely neglecting the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Stefan Löffler , Peter Schattschneider

The conductance of a weakly interacting electron gas in the presense of a single scatterer is found at arbitrary strength of the scattering potential. At weak interaction, a simple renormalization group approach can be used instead of the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 K. A. Matveev , Dongxiao Yue , L. I. Glazman

Electronic states and transport phenomena in semiconductor quantum dots are studied theoretically. Taking account of the electron-electron Coulomb interaction by the exact diagonalization method, the ground state and low-lying excited…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Mikio Eto

We formulate a theory of transport in graphene bilayers in the weak momentum scattering regime in such a way as to take into account contributions to the electrical conductivity to leading and next-to-leading order in the scattering…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Dimitrie Culcer , R. Winkler

We develop in this paper a theoretical framework that applies to the intermediate regime between the Coulomb blockade and the Luttinger liquid behavior in multi-walled carbon nanotubes. Our main goal is to confront the experimental…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Bellucci , J. Gonzalez , P. Onorato , E. Perfetto

The rates of electron scattering via phonons in the armchair single-wall carbon nanotubes were calculated by using the improved scattering theory within the tight-binding approximation. Therefore, the problem connected with the discrepancy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dmitry Pozdnyakov , Vadim Galenchik , Fadei Komarov , Vladimir Borzdov

Here, we present theoretical analysis of electron transport in polyaniline based (PANi) nanofibers assuming the metalic state of the material. To build up this theory we treat conducting polymers as a special kind of granular metals, and we…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-08-27 Natalya A. Zimbovskaya , Alan T. Johnson, , Nicholas J. Pinto

We demonstrate charge pumping in semiconducting carbon nanotubes by a traveling potential wave. From the observation of pumping in the nanotube insulating state we deduce that transport occurs by packets of charge being carried along by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-16 Peter Leek , Mark Buitelaar , Valery Talyanskii , Charles Smith , David Anderson , Geb Jones , Jiang Wei , David Cobden

We demonstrate the generation of Coulomb-correlated pair, triple and quadruple states of free electrons by femtosecond photoemission from a nanoscale field emitter inside a transmission electron microscope. Event-based electron spectroscopy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-28 Rudolf Haindl , Armin Feist , Till Domröse , Marcel Möller , John H. Gaida , Sergey V. Yalunin , Claus Ropers

The description of electron current through a splitting is a mathematical problem of electron transport in quantum networks. For quantum networks constructed on the interface of narrow-gap semiconductors the relevant scattering problem for…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Harmer , A. Mikhailova , B. S. Pavlov

Recently, the electron transport through a quasi-one dimensional (quasi-1D) electron gas was investigated experimentally as a function of the confining potential. We present a physical model for quantum ballistic transport of electrons…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-19 Godfrey Gumbs , Danhong Huang , Julie Hon , Michael Pepper , Sanjeev Kumar

We show that electron transport in a ballistic microchannel supporting both propagating and reflected modes can be completely blocked by applying a microwave electromagnetic field. The effect is due to resonant reflection caused by multiple…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 L. Y. Gorelik , M. Jonson , R. I. Shekhter