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A short introduction to the theory of matrix quasiclassical Green's functions is given and possible applications of this theory to transport properties of mesoscopic superconducting-normal metal (S/N) structures are considered. We discuss a…

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This talk is assumed to exhibit an overview of the quantum theory for mesoscopic electric circuits and some of its further developments. In the theory the importance of the discreteness of electronic charge in mesoscopic electric circuit is…

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A microscopic theory of the transport properties of quantum point contacts giving a unified description of the normal conductor- superconductor (N-S) and superconductor-superconductor (S-S) cases is presented. It is based on a model…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 J. C. Cuevas , A. Martin-Rodero , A. Levy Yeyati

Recent advances in nano-thermometry motivate the extension of the Landauer-B\"uttiker scattering theory as to include the non-local dissipation associated with charge transport. Such a program is implemented by describing the inelastic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Rodolfo A. Jalabert

Coherent electron transport through a quantum channel in the presence of a general extended scattering potential is investigated using a T-matrix Lippmann-Schwinger approach. The formalism is applied to a quantum wire with Gaussian type…

We present an extension of the work of D'Amato and Pastawski on electron transport in a one-dimensional conductor modeled by the tight binding lattice Hamiltonian and in which inelastic scattering is incorporated by connecting each site of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Dibyendu Roy , Abhishek Dhar

We report the measurement of the third moment of current fluctuations in a short metallic wire at low temperature. The data are deduced from the statistics of voltage fluctuations across the conductor using a careful determination of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-18 Edouard Pinsolle , Samuel Houle , Christian Lupien , Bertrand Reulet

We discuss a simple, semiclassical scattering theory for spin-dependent transport in a many-terminal formulation, with special attention to the four terminal device of Johnson referred to as spin transistor

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We report a variational approach to the nonlinearly screened interaction of charged particles with a many-electron system. This approach has been developed by introducing a modification of the Schwinger variational principle of scattering…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 V. U. Nazarov , S. Nishigaki , J. M. Pitarke , C. S. Kim

We use the Landauer-B\"uttiker scattering theory for electronic transport to calculate the current cross-correlations in a voltage-biased three-terminal junction with all superconducting leads. At low bias voltage, when charge transport is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-27 Roman-Pascal Riwar , Driss M. Badiane , Manuel Houzet , Julia S. Meyer , Yuli V. Nazarov

We calculate the transport properties of multilayer graphene, considering the effect of multisubband scattering in a high density regime, where higher subbands are occupied by charge carriers. To calculate the conductivity of multilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-12 Seungchan Woo , E. H. Hwang , Hongki Min

The purpose of this paper is to provide an introduction to the physics of scattering theory, to define the dosimetric concept of linear energy transfer in terms of scattering theory, and to provide an introduction to the concepts underlying…

General Physics · Physics 2008-07-01 Gordon McCabe

In this paper, a phenomenological theory of saturated ferromagnetoelastic conductors is established using a multi-continuum model and the classical laws of mechanics, thermodynamics and electromagnetics. The theory is nonlinear and is valid…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-08-01 Jiashi Yang

An easy to implement and powerful method for the solution of 3D scattering problems that can be well described by Helmholtz equation is presented. The matrix algebra used provides excellent stability versus the number of junctions as well…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. A. Torres , J. J. Saenz

For matter wave scattering from passive quantum obstacles, we propose a phase diagram in terms of phase and modulus of scattering coefficients to explore all possible directional scattering patterns. In the phase diagram, we can not only…

Optics · Physics 2018-12-26 Jeng Yi Lee , Ray-Kuang Lee

We formulate a generalized scattering field theory a la Buttiker describing particles transport in magnetic/superconducting heterostructures. The proposed formalism, characterized by a four- component spinorial wavefunction of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-02 F. Romeo , R. Citro

We derive a density matrix (DM) theory for quantum cascade lasers (QCLs) that describes the influence of scattering on coherences through a generalized scattering superoperator. The theory enables quantitative modeling of QCLs, including…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-28 Andrew Pan , Benjamin A. Burnett , Chi On Chui , Benjamin S. Williams

The impact of coherence on the nonlinear optical response and stationary transport is studied in quantum cascade laser structures. Nonequilibrium effects such as pump-probe signals, the spatio-temporally resolved electron density evolution,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-05-12 C. Weber , A. Wacker , A. Knorr

Quantum-confined semiconductor structures are the cornerstone of modern-day electronics. Spatial confinement in these structures leads to formation of discrete low-dimensional subbands. At room temperature, carriers transfer among different…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-08-14 I. Knezevic , E. B. Ramayya , D. Vasileska , S. M. Goodnick

Harmonic generation in the scattered fields produced by a dielectric sphere coated with a time-varying conductive shell is studied using a Mie theory approach hybridized with conversion matrix methods. Analytic results are derived for plane…

Optics · Physics 2022-09-21 Kurt Schab , Bradley Shirley , K. C. Kerby-Patel