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We present a new theoretical approach to describe the quantum behavior of a macroscopic system interacting with an external irradiation field, close to the resonant condition. Here we consider the extremely underdamped regime for a system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yu. N. Ovchinnikov , S. Rombetto , B. Ruggiero , V. Corato , P. Silvestrini

We propose a device for studying the Fermi-Hubbard model with long-range Coulomb interactions using an array of quantum dots defined in a semiconductor two-dimensional electron gas system. Bands with energies above the lowest energy band…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Tim Byrnes , Na Young Kim , Kenichiro Kusudo , Yoshihisa Yamamoto

Using the Keldysh formalism the tunneling current through a hybrid structure where a confined magnetic insulator (I) is sandwiched between two non-magnetic leads is calculated. The leads can be either normal metals (M) or superconductors…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 N. Sandschneider , W. Nolting

We present a simple model for electron transport in semiconductor devices that exhibit tunneling between the conduction and valence bands. The model is derived within the usual Bloch-Wannier formalism by a k-expansion, and is formulated in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Omar Morandi , Michele Modugno

Inspired by a recent paper$^*$ by C. Fefferman, J. Shapiro and M. Weinstein, we investigate quantum tunneling for a Hamiltonian with a symmetric double well and a uniform magnetic field. In the simultaneous limit of strong magnetic field…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-09-06 B. Helffer , A. Kachmar

One-electron tunneling through a quantum dot with a strong magnetic field in the direction of the current is studied. The linear magneto-conductance is computed for a model parabolic dot with seven electrons in the intermediate states and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Augusto Gonzalez , Roberto Capote

We investigate the nonequilibrium phenomena through the quantum dot coupled to the normal and superconducting leads using a weak-coupling continuous-time Monte Carlo method. Calculating the time evolution of particle number, double…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-03-21 Akihisa Koga

We develope a model to describe the transmission coefficient and tunneling current in the presence of photon-electron coupling in a resonant diode. Our model takes into account multiphoton processes as well as the transitions between…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-08-17 Jesus Inarrea , Ramon Aguado , Gloria Platero

We have calculated the linear conductance associated with tunneling of individual quasiparticles of primary quantum Hall liquids with filling factors $\nu =1/(2m+1)$ through a system of two antidots in series. On-site Coulomb interaction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Dmitri V. Averin , James A. Nesteroff

In this paper we show an approach to electron transport in double barrier structures which unifies the well known sequential and resonant tunneling models in the widest range of transport regimes, from completely coherent to completely…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Giuseppe Iannaccone , Bruno Pellegrini

A two miniband model for electron transport in semiconductor superlattices that includes scattering and interminiband tunnelling is proposed. The model is formulated in terms of Wigner functions in a basis spanned by Pauli matrices,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 M. Alvaro , L. L. Bonilla

We calculate the tunneling current for a bilayer quantum Hall system in the interlayer incoherent regime. In order to capture the strong correlation effects we model the layers as two Wigner crystals coupled through interlayer Coulomb…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 F. D. Klironomos , A. T. Dorsey

We study point contact tunneling between two leads of a Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid through two degenerate resonant levels in parallel. This is one of the simplest cases of a quantum junction problem where the Fermi statistics of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Sumathi Rao , Diptiman Sen

The phase diagram of diluted magnetic semiconductor quantum wells is investigated. The interaction between the carriers in the hole gas can lead to first order ferromagnetic transitions, which remain abrupt in applied fields. These…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 L. Brey , F. Guinea

The quasi-energy spectrum recently measured in experiments with a squeeze-driven superconducting Kerr oscillator showed good agreement with the energy spectrum of its corresponding static effective Hamiltonian. The experiments also…

We study inelastic cotunneling through a strong Coulomb-blockaded quantum dot subject to a static magnetic field and a perpendicular circularly-polarized magnetic field using a quantum Langevin equation approach. Our calculation predicts an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Bing Dong , X. L. Lei

We present a quantum theoretical analysis of the electroluminescence from an intersubband transition of a quantum well structure embedded in a planar microcavity. By using a cluster factorization method, we have derived a closed set of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Simone De Liberato , Cristiano Ciuti

We examine the robustness of a recently predicted exchange-induced zero-field magnetic phase in semiconductor double quantum wells in which each well is spin-polarized and the polarization vectors are antiparallel. Magnetic instabilities…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 R. J. Radtke , S. Das Sarma , A. H. MacDonald

We analyze the tunneling of two bosons in a double-well, for contact, soft-, and hard-core Coulomb interaction of tunable strength. Transitions from correlated to uncorrelated tunneling of the left well's two-particle ground state are due…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-24 Jonathan Brugger , Christoph Dittel , Andreas Buchleitner

Spatial distribution of local tunneling conductivity was investigated for deep and shallow impurities on semiconductor surfaces. Non-equilibrium Coulomb interaction and interference effects were taken into account and analyzed theoretically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 V. N. Mantsevich , N. S. Maslova