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We investigate how the conductance G through a clean interacting quantum wire is affected by the presence of contacts and noninteracting leads. The contacts are defined by a vanishing two-particle interaction to the left and a finite…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 K. Janzen , V. Meden , K. Schoenhammer

We investigate dynamical transport properties of interacting electrons moving in a vibrating nanoelectromechanical wire in a magnetic field. We have built an exactly solvable model in which electric current and mechanical oscillation are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Hangmo Yi , Kang-Hun Ahn

The electric current conservation in a two-dimensional quantum wire under a time dependent field is investigated. Such a conservation is obtained as the global density of states contribution to the emittance is balanced by the contribution…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 J. Wang , Q. R. Zheng , H. Guo

We study the effects of electron-electron interactions on the transport properties of a junction of three quantum wires enclosing a magnetic flux. The wires are modeled as single channel spin-1/2 Tomonaga-Luttinger liquids. The system…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-01-22 Chang-Yu Hou , Claudio Chamon

We study the effect of electron-electron backscattering interactions on spin transport in a quantum wire. Even if these interactions have no significant effect on charge transport, they strongly influence the transport of spin. We use the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 Cristina Bena , Leon Balents

A method is proposed for studying wave and particle transport in disordered waveguide systems of dimension higher than unity by means of exact one-dimensionalization of the dynamic equations in the mode representation. As a particular case,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-01-31 Yu. V. Tarasov

We analyze electron transport through relatively short coherent conductors in the presence of Coulomb interaction. We evaluate the current-voltage characteristics of such conductors taking into account the effect of an external environment.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. D. Zaikin , D. S. Golubev

We present transport measurements of the Kondo effect in a double quantum dot charged with only one or two electrons, respectively. For the one electron case we observe a surprising quasi-periodic oscillation of the Kondo conductance as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. M. Schröer , A. K. Hüttel , K. Eberl , S. Ludwig , M. N. Kiselev , B. L. Altshuler

We study transport through a one-dimensional quantum wire of correlated fermions connected to semi-infinite leads. The wire contains either a single impurity or two barriers, the latter allowing for resonant tunneling. In the leads the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Enss , V. Meden , S. Andergassen , X. Barnabe-Theriault , W. Metzner , K. Schoenhammer

The influence of Coulomb interaction on the electron transport through molecular wires is studied in the regime of incoherent tunneling. In the limit of strong Coulomb repulsion, the current for spinless electrons is determined. It is shown…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jörg Lehmann , Gert-Ludwig Ingold , Peter Hänggi

We study the effect of electron-electron interactions on the transport in an inhomogeneous quantum wire. We show that contrary to the well-known Luttinger liquid result, non-uniform interactions contribute substantially to the resistance of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-02-19 J. Rech , K. A. Matveev

We show that electron transport in disordered quantum wires can be described by a modified Cooperon equation, which coincides in form with the Dirac equation for the massive fermions in a 1+1 dimensional system. In this new formalism, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Kang-Hun Ahn

We investigate the transport properties of a quantum wire of weakly interacting fermions in the presence of local particle loss. We calculate current and conductance in this system due to applied external chemical potential bias that can be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-11-18 Marcel Gievers , Thomas Müller , Heinrich Fröml , Sebastian Diehl , Alessio Chiocchetta

The influence of electromagnetic vacuum fluctuations in the presence of the perfectly conducting plate on electrons is studied with an interference experiment. The evolution of the reduced density matrix of the electron is derived by the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Jen-Tsung Hsiang , Da-Shin Lee

We study the conductance of three or more semi-infinite wires which meet at a junction. The electrons in the wires are taken to interact weakly with each other through a short-range density-density interaction, and they encounter a general…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 Siddhartha Lal , Sumathi Rao , Diptiman Sen

We consider the conductance of a one-dimensional wire interrupted by a double-barrier structure allowing for a resonant level. Using the electron-electron interaction strength as a small parameter, we are able to build a non-perturbative…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Yu. V. Nazarov , L. I. Glazman

One-dimensional quantized conductance is derived from the electrons in a homogeneous electric field by calculating the traveling time of the accelerated motion and the number of electrons in the one-dimensional region. As a result, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-25 Daiju Terasawa

We investigate interference effects of the backscattering current through a double-barrier structure in an interacting quantum wire attached to noninteracting leads. Depending on the interaction strength and the location of the barriers,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Shaoqing Wang , Liling Zhou , Zhao Yang Zeng

The conductance through two quantum dots in series is studied using general qualitative arguments and quantitative slave-boson mean-field theory. It is demonstrated that measurements of the conductance can explore the phase diagram of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Antoine Georges , Yigal Meir

We study a finite quantum wire connected to external leads, and show that the conductance of the system significantly depends upon the length of the quantum wire and the position of the impurity in it. For a very long quantum wire and the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 Yu-Liang Liu