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We study theoretically the effects of long-range and on-site Coulomb interactions on the topological phases and transport properties of spin-orbit-coupled quasi-one-dimensional quantum wires imposed on an s-wave superconductor. The…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-10-12 Hengyi Xu , Ye Xiong , Jun Wang

An electron-phonon cavity consisting of a quantum dot embedded in a free-standing GaAs/AlGaAs membrane is characterized in Coulomb blockade measurements at low temperatures. We find a complete suppression of single electron tunneling around…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 E. M. Höhberger , R. H. Blick , T. Brandes , J. Kirschbaum , W. Wegscheider , M. Bichler , J. P. Kotthaus

Employing the Anderson impurity model, we study tunneling properties through an ideal quantum dot near the conductance minima. Considering the Coulomb blockade and the quantum confinement on an equal footing, we have obtained current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Kicheon Kang , B. I. Min

We study the Coulomb drag effect in double layer electronic systems with local tunneling links. The possibility of tunneling between the layers leads to a pronounced exchange contribution to the transconductance, which is negative and…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 Yuval Oreg , Alex Kamenev

We study interaction-induced localization of electrons in an inhomogeneous quasi-one-dimensional system--a wire with two regions, one at low density and the other high. Quantum Monte Carlo techniques are used to treat the strong Coulomb…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-09-02 A. D. Guclu , C. J. Umrigar , Hong Jiang , H. U. Baranger

We (re) consider in this paper the problem of tunneling through an impurity in a quantum wire with arbitrary Luttinger interaction parameter. By combining the integrable approach developed in the case of Quantum Hall edge states with the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Koutouza , F. Siano , H. Saleur

We investigate theoretically the effects of the Coulomb interaction and spin-orbit interactions (SOIs) on the anisotropic transport property of semiconductor quantum wires embedded in (110) plane. The anisotropy of the dc conductivity can…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-03 Fang Cheng , Kai Chang

Recent experiments performed on weakly pinched quantum point contacts, have shown a resistance that tend to decrease at low source drain voltage. We show that enhanced Coulomb interactions, prompt by the presence of the point contact, may…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 Dganit Meidan , Yuval Oreg

Signatures of "mesoscopic Coulomb blockade" are reported for quantum dots with one fully transmitting point-contact lead, T1 = 1, T2 << 1. Unlike Coulomb blockade (CB) in weak-tunneling devices (T1, T2 << 1), one-channel CB is a mesoscopic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. M. Cronenwett , S. M. Maurer , S. R. Patel , C. M. Marcus , C. I. Duruoz , J. S. Harris

A long one-dimensional wire with a finite density of strong random impurities is modelled as a chain of weakly coupled quantum dots. At low temperature T and applied voltage V its resistance is limited by "breaks": randomly occuring…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. M. Fogler , S. V. Malinin , T. Nattermann

We performed point-contact spectroscopy tunneling measurements on Cu$_x$TiSe$_2$ bulk with $x=0.02$ and $0.06$ at temperatures ranging from $T=4-40$ K and observe a suppression in the density of states around zero-bias that we attribute to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-23 Katherine Luna , Phillip M. Wu , Justin S. Chen , Emilia Morosan , Malcolm R. Beasley

We study point-contact tunneling in the integer quantum Hall state of bosons. This symmetry-protected topological state has electrical Hall conductivity equal to $2 e^2/h$ and vanishing thermal Hall conductivity. In contrast to the integer…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-07-24 Michael Mulligan , Matthew P. A. Fisher

We present a theory of negative Coulomb drag in capacitively coupled quantum wires based on the commensurability of the electron density and the long-range nature of the Coulomb interaction in the Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid. The…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-10 Shunsuke C. Furuya , Hiroyasu Matsuura , Masao Ogata

We study nonperturbative interaction corrections to the thermodynamic quantities of multichannel disordered wires in the presence of the Coulomb interactions. Within the replica nonlinear $\sigma$-model (NL$\sigma$M) formalism, they arise…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-19 D. A. Pesin , A. V. Andreev

We study the effect of Coulomb interaction on the full counting statistics of an Aharonov-Bohm (AB) interferometer with a single-level quantum dot in one arm in the regime of weak dot-lead and lead-lead tunnel couplings. In the absence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Daniel Urban , Jürgen König , Rosario Fazio

A system of an array of side-coupled quantum-dots attached to a quantum wire is studied theoretically. Transport through the quantum wire is investigated by means of a noninteracting Anderson tunneling Hamiltonian. Analytical expressions of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 P. A. Orellana , F. Dominguez-Adame , E. Diez

In a tunneling experiment across a quantum dot it is possible to change the coupling between the dot and the contacts at will, by properly tuning the trasparency of the barriers and the temperature. Gate voltages allow for changes of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 Domenico Giuliano , Adele Naddeo , Arturo Tagliacozzo

Recent experiments about the low temperature behaviour of a Single Wall Carbon Nanotube (SWCNT) showed typical Coulomb Blockade (CB) peaks in the zero bias conductance and allowed us to investigate the energy levels of interacting…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Bellucci , P. Onorato

We study the Coulomb interaction-induced Aharonov-Bohm (AB) oscillations in the linear response transport through a remote quantum dot which has no tunnel coupling but has Coulomb coupling with the quantum dot embedded in an AB…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-04 Toshihiro Kubo , Yasuhiro Tokura

We consider a metallic wire coupled to two metallic electrodes via two junctions placed nearby. A bias voltage applied to one of such junctions alters the electron distribution function in the wire in the vicinity of another junction thus…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-03-09 D. S. Golubev , A. D. Zaikin