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The spatial distribution of electric current under magnetic field and the resultant orbital magnetism have been studied for two-dimensional electrons under a harmonic confining potential $V(\vecvar{r})=m \omega_0^2 r^2/2$ in various regimes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Y. Ishikawa , H. Fukuyama

In a recent experiment, the local current distribution of a two-dimensional electron gas in the quantum Hall regime was probed by measuring the variation of the conductance due to local gating. The main experimental finding was the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Y. Dubi , Y. Meir , Y. Avishai

We study fluctuations of electric current in a quantum resistor and derive a general quantum-mechanical formula for the distribution of transmitted charge. For that we introduce a scheme of current measurement that involves a spin $1/2$…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 L. S. Levitov , G. B. Lesovik

We provide a theoretical framework for the electric field control of the electron spin in systems with diffusive electron motion. The approach is valid in the experimentally important case where both intrinsic and extrinsic spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-10 R. Raimondi , P. Schwab

We study the Hall constant in a homogeneous two-dimensional fluid of correlated electrons immersed in a perpendicular magnetic field, with special focus on the regime of low carrier density. The model consists of a one-band tight-binding…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-01-31 Giacomo Morpurgo , Louk Rademaker , Christophe Berthod , Thierry Giamarchi

We examine the spatial distribution of electrons generated by a fixed energy point source in uniform, parallel electric and magnetic fields. This problem is simple enough to permit analytic quantum and semiclassical solution, and it harbors…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Christian Bracher , Tobias Kramer , John B. Delos

We study the current magnification effect and associated circulating currents in mesoscopic systems at equilibrium. Earlier studies have revealed that in the presence of transport current(non-equilibrium situation), circulating currents can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Colin Benjamin , A. M. Jayannavar

We consider a stable open queuing network as a steady non-equilibrium system of interacting particles. The network is completely specified by its underlying graphical structure, type of interaction at each node, and the Markovian transition…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-18 Vladimir Y. Chernyak , Michael Chertkov , David A. Goldberg , Konstantin Turitsyn

We investigate the dynamical interplay between currents and electromagnetic fields in frequency-dependent transport through a single-channel quantum wire with an impurity potential in the presence of electron-electron interactions. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrea Fechner , Gianaurelio Cuniberti , Maura Sassetti , Bernhard Kramer

Electron plasmas confined by an external magnetic field exhibit variations in a two-dimensional plane orthogonal to the confining magnetic field. A nonlinear fluid simulation code to investigate the properties of 2-D electron plasma wave…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Dastgeer Shaikh , P. K. Shukla

We study a relativistic two-dimensional electron gas in the presence of a uniform external magnetic field and a random static scalar potential. We compute, in first order perturbation theory, the averages of the charge density and of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 N. Bralic , C. A. A. de Carvalho , R. M. Cavalcanti , P. Donatis

Recently we have proposed an unusual mechanism of superconducting current that is specific for Quantum Hall Edge channels connected to superconducting electrodes. We have shown that the supercurrent can be mediated by a nonlocal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-16 Xiao-Li Huang , Yuli V. Nazarov

In the watt balance experiments, separate measurements of the magnetic and electromotive forces in a coil in a magnetic field enable a virtual comparison between mechanical and electric powers to be carried out, which lead to an accurate…

Classical Physics · Physics 2014-02-04 Carlo Paolo Sasso , Enrico Massa , Giovanni Mana

Like orbitals in atoms and molecules, persistent currents may appear in larger aggregates. Though classically, equilibrium magnetic moment of non-rotating objects is forbidden, it is known that equilibrium quantum circulating currents are…

Superconductivity · Physics 2008-07-14 Zeev Vager

We study the current and charge distribution of a two dimensional electron gas under strong perpendicular magnetic fields within the linear response regime. We show within a self-consistent screening theory that incompressible strips with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Afif Siddiki , Rolf R. Gerhardts

A numerical study is made of current distribution in small Hall bars with disorder. It is observed, in particular, that in the Hall-plateau regime the Hall current tends to concentrate near the sample edges while it diminishes on average in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 K. Shizuya

The set of moments and the distribution function of the one-electron current in a one-dimensional disordered ring with arbitrary magnetic flux are calculated.

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 A. S. Cattaneo , A. Gamba , I. V. Kolokolov

When the quantum Hall effect occurs in a two-dimensional electron gas, all low-energy elementary excitations are localized near the system edge. The edge acts in many ways like a one-dimensional ring of electrons, except that a finite…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 A. H. MacDonald

A multiply connected system in both its open and closed form variations but in equilibrium is studied using quantum waveguide theory. The system exhibits remarkable features, in its open form variation we see current enhancement, hitherto…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Colin Benjamin , A. M. Jayannavar

A theory of transport in the quantum Hall regime is developed for separately contacted double-layer electron systems. Inter-layer tunneling provides a channel for equilibration of the distribution functions in the two layers and influences…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 D. Yoshioka , A. H. MacDonald