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Quasi-periodic lattice systems offer diverse transport properties. In this work, we investigate the environment induced effects on transport properties for quasi-periodic systems, namely the one-dimensional Aubry-Andr\'e-Harper (AAH)…

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We analyze transport of local magnetization and develop schemes to control transport behavior in finite spin-1/2 Heisenberg chains and spin-1/2 Heisenberg two-leg ladders at zero temperature. By adjusting parameters in the Hamiltonians,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. F. Santos

The Berry curvature and quantum metric are the imaginary part and real part, respectively, of the quantum geometric tensor which characterizes the topology of quantum states. The former is known to generate a zoo of important discoveries…

It is well known that quantized topological charge pumping takes place in the half filled Rice-Mele chain performing a closed cycle in parameter space. We extend previous studies to the case of charge and heat transport at arbitrary filling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-04 P. Roura-Bas , A. A. Aligia

We investigate the electronic transport properties of semiconducting ($m$,$n$) carbon nanotubes (CNTs) on the mesoscopic length scale with arbitrarily distributed realistic defects. The study is done by performing quantum transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-26 Fabian Teichert , Andreas Zienert , Jörg Schuster , Michael Schreiber

When impurity and phonon scattering coexist, the Boltzmann equation has been solved accurately for nonlinear electron transport in a quantum wire. Based on the calculated non-equilibrium distribution of electrons in momentum space, the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-18 Danhong Huang , Godfrey Gumbs

Charge transfer is a fundamental process that underlies a multitude of phenomena in chemistry and biology. Recent advances in observing and manipulating charge and heat transport at the nanoscale, and recently developed techniques for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-26 Galen T. Craven , Abraham Nitzan

I study electron movement in electromagnetic fields beyond the adiabatic approximation, using so-called Stormer theory. Some of the electron orbits are regular or integrable, but their measure is zero. Other orbits, called quasiperiodic,…

Classical Physics · Physics 2026-04-01 Dirk Dubbers

We show that the coherence of charge transfer through a weakly coupled double-dot dimer can be determined by analyzing the statistics of the conductance pattern, and does not require large phase coherence length in the host material. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 L. P. Rokhinson , L. J. Guo , S. Y. Chou , D. C. Tsui , E. Eisenberg , R. Berkovits , B. L. Altshuler

State of the art quantum transport models for semiconductor nanodevices attribute negative (positive) unit charges to states of the conduction (valence) band. Hybrid states that enable band-to-band tunneling are subject to interpolation…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Yuanchen Chu , Prasad Sarangapani , James Charles , Gerhard Klimeck , Tillmann Kubis

We study transport properties of weakly interacting one-dimensional electron systems including on an equal footing thermal equilibration due to three-particle collisions and the effects of large-scale inhomogeneities. We show that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Alex Levchenko , Tobias Micklitz , Jerome Rech , K. A. Matveev

We present a microscopic theory for quantum thermoelectric and heat transport in the Schwarzian regime of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model. As a charged fermion realization of the SYK model in nanostructures we assume a setup based on a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-05-12 Andrei I. Pavlov , Mikhail N. Kiselev

A technique to determine accurately transport properties of integrable and non-integrable quantum-spin chains at finite temperatures by Quantum Monte-Carlo is presented. The reduction of the Drude weight by interactions in the integrable…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 J. V. Alvarez , Claudius Gros

We propose a near-field inelastic thermoelectric heat engine where quantum-dots are used to effectively rectify the charge flow of photo-carriers. The device converts near-field heat radiation into useful electrical power. Heat absorption…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-28 Jian-Hua Jiang , Yoseph Imry

The possibility to exploit quantum coherence to strongly enhance the efficiency of charge transport in solid state devices working at ambient conditions would pave the way to disruptive technological applications. In this work, we tackle…

Zero temperature linear response conductance of molecules with Coulomb interaction and with various types of phonon modes is analysed together with local occupation, local moment, charge fluctuations and fluctuations of molecular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 J. Mravlje , A. Ramsak , T. Rejec

Using detailed balance and scaling properties of integrals that appear in the Coulomb gas reformulation of quantum impurity problems, we establish exact relations between the nonequilibrium transfer rates of the boundary sine-Gordon and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Holger Baur , Andrea Fubini , Ulrich Weiss

The localization of electrons caused by atomic disorder is a well-known phenomenon. However, what circumstances allow electrons to remain delocalized and retain band-like characteristics even when the crystal structure is completely absent,…

The exploitation of the spin in charge-based systems is opening revolutionary opportunities for device architecture. Surprisingly, room temperature electrical transport through magnetic nanowires is still an unresolved issue. Here, we show…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Varlei Rodrigues , Jefferson Bettini , Paulo C. Silva , Daniel Ugarte

Known Majorana fermions models are considered as promising ones for the purposes of quantum computing robust to decoherence. One of the most expecting but unachieved goals is an effective control for braiding of Majoranas. Another one is to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-15 Halina V. Grushevskaya , George Krylov