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We consider the effect of electron correlations on tunneling from a 2D electron layer in a magnetic field parallel to the layer. A tunneling electron can exchange its momentum with other electrons, which leads to an exponential increase of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. I. Dykman , T. Sharpee , P. M. Platzman

We report the first observation of bound-state proximity resonances in coupled dielectric resonators. The proximity resonances arise from the combined action of symmetry and dissipation. We argue that the large ratio between the widths is a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Kristi Pance , Lorenza Viola , S. Sridhar

The thesis explores calculating tunneling current densities between planar conducting electrodes in an STM. It considers factors like bias voltages and the separation between electrodes, using Fermi energy and work functions. Pauli blocking…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-02-02 Malati Dessai

Theory of nonlinear resonance, including stochastic one, is developed on the basis of the statistical field theory and using variables action-angle. Explicit expressions of action, proper frequency and nonlinearity parameter as functions of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. I. Olemskoi

We consider a transmission line resonator which is driven by electrons tunneling through a voltage-biased tunnel junction. Using the Born-Markovian quantum master equation in the polaron basis we investigate the nonequilibrium photon state…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-15 Jinshuang Jin , Michael Marthaler , Gerd Schön

Tunneling of fractionally charged quasi-particles (QPs) through a barrier is considered in the context of a multiply connected geometry. In this geometry global constraints do not prohibit such a tunneling process. The tunneling amplitude…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Elad Shopen , Yuval Gefen , Yigal Meir

Electron tunneling through small metallic islands with low capacitance is studied. The large charging energy in these systems is responsible for nonperturbative Coulomb blockade effects. We further consider the effect of electron…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 Jürgen König , Herbert Schoeller , Gerd Schön , Rosario Fazio

We discuss the tunneling of phonon excitations across a potential barrier separating two condensate bulks. It is shown that the strong barrier proves to be transparent for the excitations at low energy $\epsilon$. Moreover, the transmission…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yu. Kagan , D. L. Kovrizhin , L. A. Maksimov

The escape rate of a particle over a fluctuating barrier in a double well potential exhibits resonance at an optimum value of correlation time of fluctuation. This has been shown to be important in several variants of kinetic model of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 Pulak Kumar Ghosh , Debashis Barik , Bidhan Chandra Bag , Deb Shankar Ray

We develop a theory of macroscopic resonant tunneling of flux in a double-well potential in the presence of realistic flux noise with significant low-frequency component. The rate of incoherent flux tunneling between the wells exhibits…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. H. S. Amin , Dmitri V. Averin

In this paper we show an approach to electron transport in double barrier structures which unifies the well known sequential and resonant tunneling models in the widest range of transport regimes, from completely coherent to completely…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Giuseppe Iannaccone , Bruno Pellegrini

This work investigates the feasibility of electrical valley filtering for holes in transition metal dichalcogenides. We look specifically into the scheme that utilizes a potential barrier to produce valley-dependent tunneling rates, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-12 Tzu-Chi Hsieh , Mei-Yin Chou , Yu-Shu Wu

The effect of electron-phonon coupling on the current noise in a molecular junction is investigated within a simple model. The model comprises a 1-level bridge representing a molecular level that connects between two free electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael Galperin , Abraham Nitzan , Mark A. Ratner

In this paper we analyze a free quantum particle in a straight Dirichlet waveguide which has at its axis two Dirichlet barriers of lengths $\ell_\pm$ separated by a window of length 2a. It is known that if the barriers are semiinfinite,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 D. Borisov , P. Exner , A. Golovina

Two-particle scattering probabilities in tunneling scenarios with exchange interaction are analyzed with quasi-particle wave packets. Two initial one-particle wave packets (with opposite central momentums) are spatially localized at each…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 D. Marian , E. Colomés , X. Oriols

The problem of resonant tunneling through a quantum dot weakly coupled to spinless Tomonaga-Luttinger liquids has been studied. We compute the linear conductance due to sequential tunneling processes upon employing a master equation…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Thorwart , R. Egger , M. Grifoni

We investigate electron tunneling in AB bilayer graphene through a triple electrostatic barrier of heights $U_i (i=2,3,4)$ subjected to a perpendicular magnetic field. By way of the transfer matrix method and using the continuity conditions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-26 Mouhamadou Hassane Saley , Ahmed Jellal

The modification of the electronic current resulting from Stark resonances has been studied for the semiconductor nanowire with the double-barrier structure. Based on the calculated current-voltage characteristics we have shown that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-02 Maciej Woloszyn , Janusz Adamowski , Pawel Wojcik , Bartlomiej J. Spisak

We introduce the concept of controlling the nonlinear response of the metamaterial by altering its internal structure. We experimentally demonstrate tuning of the nonlinear response of two coupled split-ring resonators by changing their…

We theoretically study a tunneling effect in a two-dimensional Dirac semimetal with two Dirac points protected by non-symmorphic symmetries. The tunnel barrier can be arranged by a magnetic exchange potential which opens a gap at the Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 Tetsuro Habe