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We theoretically study electron transport in disordered, quantum-well based, semiconductor superlattices with structural short-range correlations. Our system consists of equal width square barriers and quantum wells with two different…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Francisco Dominguez-Adame , Angel Sanchez , Enrique Diez

Electron conductivity is an important material property that can provide a wealth of information about the underlying system. Especially, the response of the conductivity with respect to electromagnetic fields corresponds to various…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-27 Yang Gao

We generalize the fermionic renormalization group method to describe analytically transport through a double barrier structure in a one-dimensional system. Focusing on the case of weakly interacting electrons, we investigate thoroughly the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 D. G. Polyakov , I. V. Gornyi

We use the scattering approach to investigate the nonlinear current-voltage characteristic of mesoscopic conductors. We discuss the leading nonlinearity by taking into account the self-consistent nonequilibrium potential. We emphasize…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 T. Christen , M. Buttiker

Nonlinear effects are omnipresent in thin films of ion conducting materials showing up as a significant increase of the conductivity. For a disordered hopping model general physical mechanisms are identified giving rise to the occurrence of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-06-18 Andreas Heuer , Lars Luehning

The dynamical-mean-field method is applied to investigate the transport properties of heterostructures consisting of a strongly-correlated electron system connected to metallic leads. The spectral function inside the correlated region is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-09-12 Satoshi Okamoto

The goal of this paper is to sketch a broader outline of the mathematical structures present in the Nonlinear Maxwell Theory in continuation of work presented in my previous articles. In particular, I display new types of both dynamic and…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Artur Sowa

The influence of the charging effects on the transport characteristics of a molecular wire bridging two metallic electrodes in the limit of weak contacts is studied by generalized Breit-Wigner formula. Molecule is modeled as a quantum dot…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Kamil Walczak

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 develop a diagrammatic theory for transport of waves in disordered media with weak nonlinearity. We first represent the solution of the nonlinear wave equation as a nonlinear Born series. From this, we construct nonlinear ladder and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Thomas Wellens , Benoit Gremaud

We consider a nonlinear microcavity separating a waveguide channel into two parts so as the coupling between them is possible only due to the resonant properties of the microcavity. We provide a rigorous derivation of the equations used in…

Optics · Physics 2011-09-06 Victor Grigoriev , Fabio Biancalana

We analyze the dynamical evolution of the resonant tunneling of an ensemble of electrons through a double barrier in the presence of the self-consistent potential created by the charge accumulation in the well. The intrinsic nonlinearity of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Carlo Presilla , Giovanni Jona-Lasinio , Federico Capasso

We analyze the transport properties of a semiconductor based bilayer system under non-equilibrium conditions with special emphasis on the charge transfer statistics in the regime dominated by the exciton transport. We consider two different…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-06 H. Soller , A. Komnik

We study theoretically the current-voltage characteristics, shot noise, and full counting statistics of a quantum wire double barrier structure. We model each wire segment by a spinless Luttinger liquid. Within the sequential tunneling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Jaeuk U. Kim , Mahn-Soo Choi , Ilya V. Krive , Jari M. Kinaret

The thermoelectric transport properties of nanostructured devices continue to attract attention from theorists and experimentalist alike as the spatial confinement allows for a controlled approach to transport properties of correlated…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-12 Stefan Kirchner , Farzaneh Zamani , Enrique Muñoz

In this paper, we study transport features of a one-dimensional beam-plasma system in the presence of multiple resonances. As a model description of the general problem of a warm energetic particle beam, we assume $n$ cold supra-thermal…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-09-07 Nakia Carlevaro , Matteo V. Falessi , Giovanni Montani , Fulvio Zonca

We use an adiabatic approximation in terms of instantaneous resonances to study the steady-state and time-dependent transport properties of interacting electrons in biased resonant tunneling heterostructures. This approach leads, in a…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Carlo Presilla , Johannes Sjöstrand

Nonlinear transport phenomena in condensed matter reflect the geometric nature, quantum coherence, and many-body correlation of electronic states. Electric currents in solids are classified into (i) Ohmic current, (ii) supercurrent, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-01 Hiroki Isobe , Naoto Nagaosa

A nonlinear Schroedinger model in a square well and managed nonlinearity is shown to possess nonlinear states as continuous extensions of the linear levels. The solutions are remarkably stable up to a threshold amplitude where a soliton is…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2013-05-29 J. Leon

This work is focused on the doubly nonlinear equation, whose solutions represent the bending motion of an extensible, elastic bridge suspended by continuously distributed cables which are flexible and elastic with stiffness k^2. When the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-02-07 Ivana Bochicchio , Claudio Giorgi , Elena Vuk