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Distribution of charge induced by a gate voltage in a graphene strip is investigated. We calculate analytically the charge profile and demonstrate a strong(macroscopic) charge accumulation along the boundaries of a micrometers-wide strip.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-06-04 P. G. Silvestrov , K. B. Efetov

We study the effects of electrostatic gating on the lateral distribution of charge carriers in two dimensional devices, in a non-linear dielectric environment. We compute the charge distribution using the Thomas-Fermi approximation to model…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-05 Eylon Persky , Hyeok Yoon , Yanwu Xie , Harold Y. Hwang , Jonathan Ruhman , Beena Kalisky

We present a detailed study of the surface acoustic wave mediated quantized transport of electrons through a split gate device containing an impurity potential defined quantum dot within the split gate channel. A new regime of quantized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 N. E. Fletcher , J. Ebbecke , T. J. B. M. Janssen , F. J. Ahlers , M. Pepper , H. E. Beere , D. A. Ritchie

We discuss the statistical correlation properties of currents and energy flows generated by an adiabatic quantum pump. Our approach emphasizes the important role of quantized energy exchange between the sea of electrons and the oscillating…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Moskalets , M. Buttiker

There is a quickly increasing wealth of experimental data on so-called dusty plasmas i. e. ionized gases or usual plasmas that contain micron sized charged particles. Interest in these structures is driven both by their importance in many…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Barbara Atamaniuk , Krzysztof Zuchowski

We study single-parameter quantized charge pumping via a semiconductor quantum dot in high magnetic fields. The quantum dot is defined between two top gates in an AlGaAs/GaAs heterostructure. Application of an oscillating voltage to one of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-01-21 B. Kaestner , Ch. Leicht , V. Kashcheyevs , K. Pierz , U. Siegner , H. W. Schumacher

In a previous paper we suggested that a macroscopic force field applied across a two-dimensional electron gas channel could induce a microscopic charge density wave as soon as the proper compressibility becomes negative, which happens at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-24 Erica Hroblak , Mohammad Zarenia , Giovanni Vignale

The influence of charge trap states in the dielectric boundary material on capacitively coupled radio frequency plasma discharge is investigated with theory and Particle in cell/Monte Carlo Collision simulation. It is found that the trap…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-04-18 Shu Zhang , Guang-Yu Sun , Volčokas Arnas , Guan-Jun Zhang , An-Bang Sun

We present experimental results of high frequency quantized charge pumping through a quantum dot formed by the electric field arising from applied voltages in a GaAs/AlGaAs system in the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field B. Clear…

We present a model for the scaling laws of the electric field noise spectral density as a function of the distance, $d$, above a conducting surface. Our analytical approach models the patch potentials by introducing a correlation length,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-04-05 Romain Dubessy , Thomas Coudreau , Luca Guidoni

A thermoelectric effect of the noncentrosymmetric electron-phonon coupled system is proposed, in which a temperature difference between electrons and phonons, instead of a spatial temperature gradient, induces an electric current. This is a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-27 Yugo Onishi , Hiroki Isobe , Naoto Nagaosa

Due to presence of magnetic field gradient needed for coherent spin control, dephasing of single-electron spin qubits in silicon quantum dots is often dominated by $1/f$ charge noise. We investigate theoretically fluctuations of ground…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-09 Marcin Kępa , Niels Focke , Łukasz Cywiński , Jan. A. Krzywda

Random noise can generate a unidirectional heat current across asymmetric nano objects in the absence (or against) a temperature gradient. We present a minimal model for a molecular-level stochastic heat pump that may operate arbitrarily…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Dvira Segal

The present study aims at utilizing field effect phenomenon to induce heterogeneous surface charge and consequently changing the fluid flow in a solid state nanochannel with converging-diverging periodicity. It is shown that the proposed…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-02-18 Movaffaq Kateb , Mohammadreza Kolahdouz , Morteza Fathipour

The system made by a charged particle interacting with a single electrostatic wave which propagates perpendicularly to the magnetic field, at a frequency larger than the cyclotron one, has been extensively studied in literature due to its…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 F. Sattin. L. Martinelli

In this Letter, we study the transient electron transfer phenomena of single-electron devices with alternating external gate voltages. We obtain a high frequency limit for pumping electrons one at a time in single-electron devices. Also, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-12-07 Chuan-Yu Lin , Wei-Min Zhang

We study the current noise through an unbiased quantum electron pump and its mesoscopic fluctuations for arbitrary temperatures and beyond the bilinear response. In the bilinear regime, we find the full distributions of the noise power and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. L. Polianski , M. G. Vavilov , P. W. Brouwer

A mechanism is proposed to describe the occurrence of distance-dependent dissipation peaks in the dynamics of an atomic force microscope tip oscillating over a surface characterized by a charge density wave state. The dissipation has its…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-13 Franco Pellegrini

Density waves of granular flow in a pipe using lattice gas automata Gongwen Peng and Hans J. Herrmann HLRZ, KFA J\"ulich, D--52425 J\"ulich, Germany We use a lattice gas automaton modelling the formation of density waves of granular flow…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Gongwen Peng , Hans J Herrmann

We propose and study a novel way to produce a DC transport of vortices when applying an AC electrical current to a sample. Specifically, we study superconductors with a graduated random pinning density, which transports interacting vortices…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 C. J. Olson , C. Reichhardt , B. Janko , Franco Nori