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Using the tools of random matrix theory we develop a statistical analysis of the transport properties of thermoelectric low-dimensional systems made of two electron reservoirs set at different temperatures and chemical potentials, and…

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A general density-matrix formulation of quantum-transport phenomena in semiconductor nanostructures is presented. More specifically, contrary to the conventional single-particle correlation expansion, we shall investigate separately the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Rita Claudia Iotti , Emanuele Ciancio , Fausto Rossi

We study directed transport in periodically forced scattering systems in the regime of fast and strong driving where the dynamics is mixed to chaotic and adiabatic approximations do not apply. The model employed is a square potential well…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-04 A. Castañeda , T. Dittrich , G. Sinuco

We develop the Floquet scattering theory for quantum mechanical pumping in mesoscopic conductors. The nonequilibrium distribution function, the dc charge and heat currents are investigated at arbitrary pumping amplitude and frequency. For…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Moskalets , M. Buttiker

I derive a general set of boundary conditions for quasiclassical transport theory of metals and superconductors that is valid for equilibrium and non-equilibrium situations and includes multi-band systems, weakly and strongly spin-polarized…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-09-22 Matthias Eschrig

We present a diagrammatic theory for coherent backscattering from disordered dilute media in the nonlinear regime. The approach is non-perturbative in the strength of the nonlinearity. We show that the coherent backscattering enhancement…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Thomas Wellens , Benoit Gremaud

We have investigated the weakly non-linear quantum transport properties of a two-dimensional quantum conductor. We have developed a numerical scheme which is very general for this purpose. The nonlinear conductance is computed by explicitly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Wei-Dong Sheng , Jian Wang , Hong Guo

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

Recent experiments on conduction between a semiconductor and a superconductor have revealed a variety of new mesoscopic phenomena. Here is a review of the present status of this rapidly developing field. A scattering theory is described…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 C. W. J. Beenakker

We consider two quantum coherent conductors interacting weakly via long range Coulomb forces. We describe the interaction in terms of two-particle collisions described by a two-particle scattering matrix. As an example we determine the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. C. Goorden , M. Buttiker

A transport theory for atomic matter waves in low-dimensional waveguides is outlined. The thermal fluctuation spectrum of magnetic near fields leaking out of metallic microstructures is estimated. The corresponding scattering rate for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 C. Henkel , S. Potting

Understanding transport processes in complex nanoscale systems, like ionic conductivities in nanofluidic devices or heat conduction in low dimensional solids, poses the problem of examining fluctuations of currents within nonequilibrium…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-04 David T. Limmer , Chloe Y. Gao , Anthony R. Poggioli

Motivated by a recent prediction to engineer the dispersion relation of a waveguide constructed from atomic components [arXiv:2104.08121], we explore the possibility to create directional transport in an open, collective quantum system. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-05 R. Gutiérrez-Jáuregui , A. Asenjo-Garcia

A theory of the dynamical conductance of mesoscopic conductors is presented. It is applied to mesoscopic capacitors, resonant double barriers, ballistic wires, metallic diffusive wires, and to the Corbino disk and the Hall bar in quantizing…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Buttiker , T. Christen

We apply the Poynting theorem to the scattering of monochromatic electromagnetic planes waves with normal incidence to the interface of two different media. We write this energy conservation theorem to introduce a natural definition of the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2008-10-30 V. Dominguez-Rocha , C. Zagoya , M. Martinez-Mares

We present a scattering theory of transport through noncollinear disordered magnetic insulators. For concreteness, we study and compare the random field model (RFM) and the random anisotropy model (RAM). The RFM and RAM are used to model…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-30 Martin Fonnum Jakobsen , Alireza Qaiumzadeh , Arne Brataas

We define a current-conserving approximation for the local conductivity tensor of a disordered system which includes the effects of weak localization. Using this approximation we show that the weak localization effect in conductance is not…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Matthew B. Hastings , A. Douglas Stone , Harold U. Baranger

We use the scattering matrix approach to derive generalized Bardeen-like formulae for the conductances between the contacts of a phase-coherent multiprobe conductor and a tunneling tip which probes its surface. These conductances are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Thomas Gramespacher , Markus Buttiker

The Landauer transport formulation is generalized to the case of a dynamic scatterer with an arbitrary energy level structure, weakly coupled to a long ideal noninteracting wire. The two-terminal linear conductance of the device is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Yoseph Imry , Ora Entin-Wohlman , Amnon Aharony

We develop a theory of electron transport through quantum dots that are weakly coupled to ferromagnetic leads. The theory covers both the linear and nonlinear transport regime, takes non-collinear magnetization of the leads into account,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Matthias Braun , Jürgen König , Jan Martinek