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A shallow potential well in a near-perfect quantum wire will bind a single-electron and behave like a quantum dot, giving rise to spin-dependent resonances of propagating electrons due to Coulomb repulsion and Pauli blocking. It is shown…

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We investigate the influence of the chemical potential mismatch $\Delta$ (different electron densities) on Coulomb drag between two parallel ballistic quantum wires. For pair collisions, the drag resistivity $\rho_{\rm D}(\Delta)$ shows a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-10 A. P. Dmitriev , I. V. Gornyi , D. G. Polyakov

A microscopic picture of electron-electron pair scattering in single mode quantum wires is introduced which includes electron spin. A new source of `excess' noise for hot carriers is presented. We show that zero magnetic field `spin'…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Gerhard Fasol , Hiroyuki Sakaki

We theoretically study the single electron transfer through two-terminal quantum ring capacitively coupled to charged dot placed in its center. For this purpose we solve time-dependent Schrodinger equation for fully correlated two-particle…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 T. Chwiej , K. Kutorasinski

Electronic transport through a quantum wire sandwiched between two metallic electrodes and coupled to a quantum ring, threaded by a magnetic flux $\phi$, is studied. An analytic approach for the electron transport through the bridge system…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Santanu K. Maiti

The quantum theory of conductivity of semiconductor objects, to which the quantum wells, wires and dots concern, is constructed. Average values of current and charge densities, induced by a weak electromagnetic field, are calculated. It is…

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In a one dimensional electron gas at low enough density, the magnetic (spin) exchange energy $J$ between neighboring electrons is exponentially suppressed relative to the characteristic charge energy, the Fermi energy $E_F$. At non-zero…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gregory A. Fiete , Karyn Le Hur , Leon Balents

We investigate the effects of Coulomb interaction on charge transfer through a quantum dot attached to a normal and a superconducting lead. While for voltages much larger than the gap we recover the usual result for normal conductors, for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-27 H. Soller , A. Komnik

Recent experiments have revealed that the temperature dependence of the conductance of quasi-ballistic quantum wires bears clear features of the Luttinger-liquid state. In this paper, the conductance of an N-channel quantum wire is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Nancy Sandler , Dmitrii L. Maslov

Using the Calogero model as an example, we show that the transport in interacting non-dissipative electronic systems is essentially non-linear. Non-linear effects are due to the curvature of the electronic spectrum near the Fermi energy. As…

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Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 T. H. Stoof , Gerrit E. W. Bauer

Photo-induced charge separation in nanowires or molecular wires had been studied in previous experiments and simulations. Most researches deal with the carrier diffusions with the classical phenomenological models, or the static energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-13 Hang Xie , Yu Zhang , Yanho Kwok , Wei E. I. Sha

Perhaps the simplest first-principles approach to electronic structure is to fit the charge distribution of each orbital pair and use those fits wherever they appear in the entire electron-electron (EE) interaction energy. The charge…

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The ability to control electronic states at the nanoscale has contributed to our modern understanding of condensed matter. In particular, quantum dot circuits represent model systems for the study of strong electronic correlations,…

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The transfer of charge between different regions of a phase-coherent mesoscopic sample is investigated. Charge transfer from a side branch quantum dot into a ring changes the persistent current through a sequence of plateaus of diamagnetic…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Büttiker , C. A. Stafford

We study electron transport in quasi-one-dimensional wires at relatively weak electrostatic confinements, where the Coulomb interaction distorts the ground state, leading to the bifurcation of the electronic system into two rows. Evidence…

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Very short quantum wires (quantum contacts) exhibit a conductance structure at a value of conductance close to $0.7 \times 2e^2/h$. It is believed that the structure arises due to the electron-electron interaction, and it is also related to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 O. P. Sushkov

The transport properties of quantum dots with up to N=7 electrons ranging from the weak to the strong interacting regime are investigated via the projected Hartree-Fock technique. As interactions increase radial order develops in the dot,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-10 F. Cavaliere , U. De Giovannini , M. Sassetti , B. Kramer

We investigate non-equilibrium transport of charge and heat through an interacting quantum dot coupled to a finite electron reservoir. Both the quantum dot and the finite reservoir are coupled to conventional electric contacts, i.e.,…

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