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We calculate the I-V characteristics of a tunnel junction containing impurities in the barrier. We consider the indirect resonant tunneling involving the impurities. The Coulomb repulsion energy $E_c$ between two electrons with opposite…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 T. Ivanov , V. Valtchinov

We present a discussion of the admittance (ac-conductance) and nonlinear I-V-characteristic for a number of mesoscopic conductors. Our approach is based on a generalization of the scattering approach which now includes the effects of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 M. Buttiker , T. Christen

We study resonant tunneling in a Luttinger liquid with a double barrier enclosing a dot region. Within a microscopic model calculation the conductance G as a function of temperature T is determined over several decades. We identify…

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

N-polar GaN/AlN resonant tunneling diodes are realized on single-crystal N-polar GaN bulk substrate by plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy growth. The room-temperature current-voltage characteristics reveal a negative differential…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-10-08 YongJin Cho , Jimy Encomendero , Shao-Ting Ho , Huili Grace Xing , Debdeep Jena

We investigate the heat flow transport properties of a parallel-coupled double quantum-dot system connected to two reservoirs with a temperature bias in the Coulomb blockade regime. We demonstrate that the effects of thermal rectification…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 Yanchao Zhang , Shanhe Su

Quantum tunneling across double potential barriers is studied. With the assumption that the real space is a continuum, it is rigorously proved that large barriers of arbitrary shapes can be penetrated by low-energy particles with a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-02 Yong Yang

Frequency dependent current noise in ferromagnetic double junctions with Coulomb blockade is studied theoretically in the limit of sequential tunneling. Two different relaxation processes are found in the correlations between spin polarized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 B. R. Bulka , J. Martinek , G. Michalek , J. Barnas

A simple model is considered to study the effects of finite size and internal structure in the tunneling of bound two-body systems through a potential barrier. It is demonstrated that these effects are able to increase the tunneling…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-08-18 V. V. Flambaum , V. G. Zelevinsky

We present a review of features due to resonant tunnelling in transport spectroscopy experiments on quantum dots and single donors. The review covers features attributable to intrinsic properties of the dot as well as extrinsic effects,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-01 C. C. Escott , F. A. Zwanenburg , A. Morello

A new phenomenon is observed experimentally in a heavily doped asymmetric quantum-size structure in a magnetic field parallel to the quantum-well layers - a transverse magnetoresistance which is asymmetric in the field (there can even be a…

We prove an exact duality between the side-coupled and embedded geometries of a single level quantum dot attached to a quantum wire in a Luttinger liquid phase by a tunneling term and interactions. This is valid even in the presence of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-01-20 Moshe Goldstein , Richard Berkovits

We present a class of 2D systems which shows a counterintuitive property that contradicts a semi classical intuition: A 2D quantum particle "prefers" tunneling through a barrier rather than traveling above it. Viewing the one particle 2D…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-02-14 Denys I. Bondar , Wing-Ki Liu , Misha Yu. Ivanov

Resonant electronic transmission through graphene-based double barriers (wells) is studied as a function of the incident wave vector, the widths and heights (depths) of the barriers (wells), and the separation between them. Resonant…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Milton Pereira , P. Vasilopoulos , F. M. Peeters

Fluctuations of the current through a tunnel junction are measured using a Josephson junction. The current noise adds to the bias current of the Josephson junction and affects its switching out of the supercurrent branch. The experiment is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-02-17 Q. Le Masne , H. Pothier , Norman O. Birge , C. Urbina , D. Esteve

The conventional impedance profile of a neuron can identify the presence of resonance and other properties of the neuronal response to oscillatory inputs, such as nonlinear response amplifications, but it cannot distinguish other nonlinear…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-10-24 Rodrigo F. O. Pena , Vinicius Lima , Renan O. Shimoura , Cesar C. Ceballos , Horacio G. Rotstein , Antonio C. Roque

This is a brief review of few relevant topics on tunneling of composite particles and how the coupling to intrinsic and external degrees of freedom affects tunneling probabilities. I discuss the phenomena of resonant tunneling, different…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 C. A. Bertulani

We report the first observation of bound-state proximity resonances in coupled dielectric resonators. The proximity resonances arise from the combined action of symmetry and dissipation. We argue that the large ratio between the widths is a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Kristi Pance , Lorenza Viola , S. Sridhar

We derive a prediction of dynamical tunneling rates from regular to chaotic phase-space regions combining the direct regular-to-chaotic tunneling mechanism in the quantum regime with an improved resonance-assisted tunneling theory in the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2010-03-18 Steffen Löck , Arnd Bäcker , Roland Ketzmerick , Peter Schlagheck

We study resonant mode conversion in the PT-symmetric multimode waveguides, where symmetry breaking manifests itself in sequential destabilization (appearance of the complex eigenvalues) of the pairs of adjacent guided modes. We show that…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-23 Victor A. Vysloukh , Yaroslav V. Kartashov

Understanding quantum tunneling in many-body systems is crucial for advancing quantum technologies and nanoscale device design. Despite extensive studies of quantum tunneling, the role of interactions in determining directional transport…