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Viscous electronics is an emerging field dealing with systems in which strongly interacting electrons behave as a fluid. Electron viscous flows are governed by a nonlocal current-field relation which renders the spatial patterns of current…

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Current enhancement- a novel quantum phenomena is found to occur in a mesoscopic hybrid ring at equilibrium. The hybrid system is described by a ring with bubble which is in turn coupled to a reservoir. In the system the ring encloses a…

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

In the ballistic regime we study both semiclassically and quantum mechanically the electron's dynamics in two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in the presence of an inhomogeneous magnetic field applied perpendicular to the plane. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-07 Róbert Németh , Zoltán Kaufmann , József Cserti

The electromagnetic vacuum is known to have energy. It has been recently argued that the quantum vacuum can possess momentum, that adds up to the momentum of matter. This ``Casimir momentum'' is closely related to the Casimir effect, in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Sebastien Kawka , Bart Van Tiggelen

The effect of a perpendicular magnetic field on the quantized current induced by a surface acoustic wave in a quasi-1D channel is studied. The channel has been produced experimentally in a GaAs heterostructure by shallow etching techniques…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Natalya A. Zimbovskaya , Godfrey Gumbs

We collect and review works which treat two-dimensional electron gases in quantum wells (mostly GaAs/GaAlAs heterostructures) in the presence of quantizing magnetic fields as open systems in contact with outside reservoirs. If a reservoir…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-16 W. Zawadzki , A. Raymond , M. Kubisa

In double quantum wells electrons experience a Lorentz force oriented perpendicular to the structure plane when an electric current is driven perpendicular to the direction of an in-plane magnetic field. Consequently, the excess charge is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Kolorenc , L. Smrcka , P. Streda

We study numerically conductance fluctuations near the integer quantum Hall effect plateau transition. The system is presumed to be in a mesoscopic regime, with phase coherence length comparable to the system size. We focus on a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Sora Cho , Matthew P. A. Fisher

Quantum mechanics requires that identical particles are treated as indistinguishable. This requirement leads to correlations in the fluctuating properties of a system. Theoretical predictions are made for an experiment on a multi-lead…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 S. A. van Langen , M. Buttiker

Spin effects in a normal two-dimensional (2D) electron gas in lateral contact with a 2D region with spin-orbit interaction are studied. The peculiarity of this system is the presence of spin-dependent scattering of electrons from the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Aleksei A. Sukhanov , Vladimir A. Sablikov , Yurii Ya. Tkach

Electron transport in nonideal quantum wells (QW) with large-scale variations of energy levels is studied when two subbands are occupied. Although the mean fluctuations of these two levels are screened by the in-plane redistribution of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 O. G. Balev , F. T. Vasko , Flavio Aristone , Nelson Studart

We calculate the quantum states corresponding to the drifting and channeled classical orbits in a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) with strong magnetic and electric modulations along one spatial direction, $x$. The channeled states carry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Manolescu , S. D. M. Zwerschke , M. Nita , U. J. Gossmann , R. R. Gerhardts

A quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) insulator is characterized by quantized Hall and vanishing longitudinal resistances at zero magnetic field that are protected against local perturbations and independent of sample details. This insensitivity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-28 G. M. Ferguson , Run Xiao , Anthony R. Richardella , David Low , Nitin Samarth , Katja C. Nowack

We consider the quantum Hall effect of two-dimensional electrons with a periodic potential and study the time dependence of the Hall and longitudinal currents when the electric field is applied abruptly. We find that the currents oscillate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-12-16 Manabu Machida , Jun Goryo , Naomichi Hatano

We have developed a theory of the anomalous Hall effect in two-dimensional electron gas in the case where the time of electron-electron collisions is much smaller than the transport relaxation time. The transition between the diffusion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-30 D. S. Zohrabyan , M. M. Glazov

A very good as well as simple approximate solution is suggested to the problem which flat circular distribution of electric current in finite film produces a given axially symmetric distribution of normal-to-film magnetic field.

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Yuriy E. Kuzovlev

The density of states and the Hall conductivity of a two-dimensional electron gas in a uniform magnetic field and in the presence of a delta impurity are exactly calculated using elementary field theoretic techniques. Although these results…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 R. M. Cavalcanti , C. A. A. de Carvalho

Currents in a few-electron parabolic quantum dot placed into a perpendicular magnetic field are considered. We show that traditional ways of investigating the Wigner crystallization by studying the charge density correlation function can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Anisimovas , A. Matulis , F. M. Peeters

We consider electron transport through a quantum point contact between compressible Quantum Hall liquids and derive the contact's impedance function for both diffusive and ballistic regimes of the bulk electron motion. In either regime, the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 D. V. Khveshchenko

We theoretically investigate the nonlinear response current of a two-dimensional system under an in-plane magnetic field. Based on the extended semiclassical theory, we develop a unified theory including both longitudinal and transverse…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-26 Yue-Xin Huang , Yang Wang , Hui Wang , Cong Xiao , Xiao Li , Shengyuan A. Yang