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We consider electrons in a quantum wire interacting via a long-range Coulomb potential screened by a nearby gate. We focus on the quantum phase transition from a strictly one-dimensional to a quasi-one-dimensional electron liquid, that is…

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We use the technique of bosonization to understand a variety of recent experimental results on the conductivity of a quantum wire. The quantum wire is taken to be a finite-length Luttinger liquid connected on two sides to semi-infinite…

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The effects of a long range electronic potential on a one dimensional chain of spinless fermions are investigated by numerical techniques (Exact Diagonalisation of rings with up to 30 sites complemented by finite size analysis) and analytic…

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We calculate non-perturbatively the inelastic effects on the conductance through a conjugated molecular wire-metal heterojunction, including realistic electron-phonon coupling. We show that at sub-band-gap energies the current is dominated…

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We study theoretically the current-voltage characteristics, shot noise, and full counting statistics of a quantum wire double barrier structure. We model each wire segment by a spinless Luttinger liquid. Within the sequential tunneling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Jaeuk U. Kim , Mahn-Soo Choi , Ilya V. Krive , Jari M. Kinaret

The influence of an electron-vibrational coupling on the laser control of electron transport through a molecular wire that is attached to several electronic leads is investigated. These molecular vibrational modes induce an effective…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jörg Lehmann , Sigmund Kohler , Volkhard May , Peter Hänggi

We study Coulomb drag in a pair of parallel one-dimensional electron systems within the framework of the Tomanaga-Luttinger model. We find that Coulomb coupling has a much stronger effect on one dimensional wires than on two-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Rochus Klesse , Ady Stern

We study the transport properties of interacting electrons in a disordered quantum wire within the framework of the Luttinger liquid model. We demonstrate that the notion of weak localization is applicable to the strongly correlated…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 I. V. Gornyi , A. D. Mirlin , D. G. Polyakov

The complex ac-response of a quasi-one dimensional electron system in the one-band approximation with an interaction potential of finite range is investigated. It is shown that linear response is exact for this model. The influence of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gianaurelio Cuniberti , Maura Sassetti , Bernhard Kramer

The electrical current noise of a quantum wire is expected to increase with increasing applied voltage. We show that this intuition can be wrong. Specifically, we consider a single channel quantum wire with impurities and with a capacitive…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Dolcini , B. Trauzettel , I. Safi , H. Grabert

The transport in a pure one-dimensional quantum wire is investigated for any range of interactions. First, the wire is connected to measuring leads. The transmission of an incident electron is found to be perfect, and the conductance is not…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-30 Ines Safi

We use a generalized master equation (GME) formalism to describe the non-equilibrium time-dependent transport of Coulomb interacting electrons through a short quantum wire connected to semi-infinite biased leads. The contact strength…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-07 Kristinn Torfason , Andrei Manolescu , Valeriu Molodoveanu , Vidar Gudmundsson

A numerically exact calculation of the T=0 transport properties of a quantum wire interacting with a lateral two-level quantum dot is presented. The wire conductance is calculated for all different states of charge and spin of the quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Maria A. Davidovich , E. V. Anda , C. A. Busser , G. Chiappe

A linearly coupled chain of spin-polarized quantum dots is investigated under the condition that the number of electrons is equal to or less than the number of the dots. The chemical potential of the system, $\mu_{N}=E(N)-E(N-1)$,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Kicheon Kang , Min-Chul Cha , S. -R. Eric Yang

We consider free electrons in rectangular quantum dots, with either hard wall boundary conditions or anharmonic confinement. In both cases, due to finite size effects, a homogeneous electric field applied along one of the rectangular axis…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stephane Pleutin

We develop a detailed theoretical investigation of the effect of Coulomb interaction on electron transport in arrays of chaotic quantum dots and diffusive metallic wires. Employing the real time path integral technique we formulate a new…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. S. Golubev , A. D. Zaikin

We study coherent transport in a system of a periodic linear chain of quantum dots placed between two parallel quantum wires. We show that resonant-tunneling conductance between the wires exhibits a Rabi splitting of the resonance peak as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-15 L. S. Petrosyan , T. V. Shahbazyan

We show that Rashba spin-orbit coupling may result in an energy gap in the spectrum of electrons in a two-mode quantum wire if a suitable confining potential is chosen. This leads to a dip in the conductance and a spike in the spin current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-03 K. E. Nagaev , A. S. Goremykina

Quantum energy teleportation (QET) is a proposed protocol related to the quantum vacuum. The edge channels in a quantum Hall system is well suited for the experimental verification of QET. For this purpose, we examine a charge density wave…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-14 Masahiro Matsuura , Takaaki Mano , Takeshi Noda , Naokazu Shibata , Masahiro Hotta , Go Yusa

The effects of Umklapp scattering on the zero-temperature conductance in one-dimensional quantum wires are reexamined by taking into account both the screening of external potential and the non-uniform chemical potential shift due to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Fujimoto , N. Kawakami