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We study transport through a one-dimensional quantum wire of correlated fermions connected to semi-infinite leads. The wire contains either a single impurity or two barriers, the latter allowing for resonant tunneling. In the leads the…

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

A one-dimensional, two-channel quantum wire is studied in the effective non-Hermitian Hamiltonian framework. Analytical expressions are derived for the band structure of the isolated wire. Quantum states and transport properties of the wire…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-27 Amin Tayebi , Vladimir Zelevinsky

When impurity and phonon scattering coexist, the Boltzmann equation has been solved accurately for nonlinear electron transport in a quantum wire. Based on the calculated non-equilibrium distribution of electrons in momentum space, the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-18 Danhong Huang , Godfrey Gumbs

We use a generalized master equation (GME) to describe the nonequilibrium magnetotransport of interacting electrons through a broad finite quantum wire with an embedded ring structure. The finite quantum wire is weakly coupled to two broad…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-15 Vidar Gudmundsson , Chi-Shung Tang , Olafur Jonasson , Valeriu Moldoveanu , Andrei Manolescu

We investigate static charge and spin density modulation patterns along a ferromagnet/semiconductor single junction quantum wire in the presence of spin-orbit coupling. Coherent scattering theory is used to calculate the charge and spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Minchul Lee , Christoph Bruder

Interactions in one-dimensional (1D) electron systems are expected to cause a dynamical separation of electronic spin and charge degrees of freedom. A promising system for experimental observation of this non-Fermi-liquid effect consists of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 U. Zuelicke , M. Governale

We show that quasi-bound electron states are formed in a quantum wire as a result of electron backscattering in the transition regions between the wire and the electron reservoirs, to which the wire is coupled. The backscattering mechanism…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 B S Shchamkhalova , V A Sablikov

We study the way back-scattering electron--electron interaction generates Coulomb drag between quantum wires with different densities. At low temperature $T$ the system can undergo a commensurate-- incommensurate transition as the potential…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Thomas Fuchs , Rochus Klesse , Ady Stern

We evaluate the Coulomb drag current in two finite-length Tomonaga-Luttinger-liquid wires coupled by an electrostatic backscattering interaction. The drag current in one wire shows oscillations as a function of the bias voltage applied to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-08-27 J. Peguiron , C. Bruder , B. Trauzettel

We develop a linear theory of electron transport for a system of two identical quantum wires in a wide range of the wire length L, unifying both the ballistic and diffusive transport regimes. The microscopic model, involving the interaction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 O. E. Raichev , P. Vasilopoulos

We study the effects of a perpendicular magnetic field on the spin and charge distribution across a quantum wire. Using momentum resolved tunneling between two parallel wires we measure the dispersion relation for different perpendicular…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-12-10 Gilad Barak , Loren N. Pfeiffer , Ken W. West , Bertrand I. Halperin , Amir Yacoby

We explore the role of electron correlation in quasi one dimensional quantum wires as the range of the interaction potential is changed and their thickness is varied by performing exact quantum Monte Carlo simulations at various electronic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 L. Shulenburger , M. Casula , G. Senatore , R. M. Martin

We derive a master equation for the electron transport through molecular wires in the limit of strong Coulomb repulsion. This approach is applied to two typical situations: First, we study transport through an open conduction channel for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Franz J. Kaiser , Michael Strass , Sigmund Kohler , Peter Hänggi

We explore electron transport properties in a quantum wire attached to two metallic electrodes. A simple tight-binding model is used to describe the system and the coupling of the wire to the electrodes (source and drain) is treated through…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-01-10 Santanu K. Maiti

We consider the effect of electron-electron interaction on the electron transport through a finite length single-mode quantum wire with reflectionless contacts. The two-particle scattering events cannot alter the electric current and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Anders Mathias Lunde , Karsten Flensberg , Leonid I. Glazman

We study correlated quantum wires subject to harmonic modulation of the onsite-potential concentrating on the limit of large times, where the response of the system has synchronized with the drive. We identify the ratio…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-01-10 D. M. Kennes

We introduce a theoretical approach based on scattering theory and total energy methods that treats transport non-linearities, conformational changes and charging effects in molecular wires in a unified way. We apply this approach to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Eldon Emberly , George Kirczenow

We have measured the collective excitation spectrum of interacting electrons in one-dimension. The experiment consists of controlling the energy and momentum of electrons tunneling between two clean and closely situated, parallel quantum…

The form of an effective electron-electron interaction in a quantum wire with a large static dielectric constant is determined and the resulting properties of the electron liquid in such a one-dimensional system are described. The exchange…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 K. Byczuk , T. Dietl

The electron transport through a monoatomic metallic wire connected to leads is investigated using the tight-binding Hamiltonian and Green's function technique. Analytical formulas for the transmittance are derived and M-atom oscillations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 T. Kwapinski