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We study non-equilibrium electronic transport through a quantum dot or impurity weakly coupled to ferromagnetic leads. Based on the rate equation formalism we derive noise spectra for the transport current. We show that due to quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. A. Gurvitz , D. Mozyrsky , G. P. Berman

Current fluctuations can provide additional insight into quantum transport in mesoscopic systems. The present work is carried out for the fluctuation properties of transport through a pair of coupled quantum dots which are connected with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-02 JunYan Luo , Xin-Qi Li , YiJing Yan

Advances in fabrication and control of quantum dots allow the realization of metastructures that may exhibit novel electrical transport phenomena. Here, we investigate the electrical current passing through one such metastructure, a system…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-26 Chen-Yen Lai , Massimiliano Di Ventra , Michael Scheibner , Chih-Chun Chien

We investigate electron transport through a mono-atomic wire which is tunnel coupled to two electrodes and also to the underlying substrate. The setup is modeled by a tight-binding Hamiltonian and can be realized with a scanning tunnel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-25 Tomasz Kwapinski , Sigmund Kohler , Peter Hanggi

The electron transport through the parabolic quantum wire placed in longitudinal magnetic field in the presence of the system of short-range impurities inside the wire is investigated. Using approach based on the zero-range potential theory…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-01-03 I. A. Kokurin , V. A. Margulis

We study theoretically interaction between electrons in a quantum ring embedded in a microcavity and vacuum fluctuations of electromagnetic field in the cavity. It is shown that the vacuum fluctuations can split electron states of the ring…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-02 O. V. Kibis , O. Kyriienko , I. A. Shelykh

Magnetic barriers in graphene are not easily tunable. However, introducing both electric and magnetic fields, provides tunable and far more controllable electronic states in graphene. Here we study such systems. A one-dimensional channel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-02-09 Yury P. Bliokh , Valentin Freilikher , Franco Nori

Electron transport in nonideal quantum wells (QW) with large-scale variations of energy levels is studied when two subbands are occupied. Although the mean fluctuations of these two levels are screened by the in-plane redistribution of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 O. G. Balev , F. T. Vasko , Flavio Aristone , Nelson Studart

A transport methodology to study the electron transport between quantum dots arrays based in Transfer Hamiltonian approach is presented. The interactions between the quantum dots and between the quantum dots and the electrodes are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-10 S. Illera , N. Garcia-Castello , J. D. Prades , A. Cirera

The quantum transport of electrons in a wire of localized dots by hopping, interaction and dissipation is calculated and a representation by an equivalent RCL circuit is found. The exact solution for the electric-field induced currents…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-18 Klaus Morawetz

We develop a theory of electron transport through quantum dots that are weakly coupled to ferromagnetic leads. The theory covers both the linear and nonlinear transport regime, takes non-collinear magnetization of the leads into account,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Matthias Braun , Jürgen König , Jan Martinek

We study an electron transport property in two parallel quantum wires with random potentials. Assuming the same microscopic parameters for both wires, we focus on the relationship between inter-wire interaction and electron backward…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yousuke Takeuchi , Hiroyuki Mori

We investigate the distribution of the electron density and the potential in a quantum wire coupled to reservoirs, treating this structure as a unified quantum system and taking into account the Coulomb interaction of electrons. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 V. A. Sablikov , S. V. Polyakov , M. Buttiker

We theoretically investigate electrical transport in a quantum Hall system hosting bulk and edge current carrying states. Spatially varying magnetic and electric confinement creates pairs of current carrying lines that drift in the same or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-12 Puja Mondal , Alain Nogaret , Sankalpa Ghosh

We study the coherent dynamics of one- and two-electron transport in a linear array of tunnel-coupled quantum dots. We find that this system exhibits a rich variety of coherent phenomena, ranging from electron wavepacket propagation and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. M. Nikolopoulos , D. Petrosyan , P. Lambropoulos

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

We investigate transport properties of different realizations of one-dimensional quantum wires coupled to a number of external electrodes in terms of the full counting statistics. Focusing on the set-ups in which edge states of Majorana…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-15 A. Komnik

Coherent electron transport through a quantum channel in the presence of a general extended scattering potential is investigated using a T-matrix Lippmann-Schwinger approach. The formalism is applied to a quantum wire with Gaussian type…

We study some aspects of the quantum theory of a charged particle moving in a time-independent, uni-directional magnetic field. When the field is uniform, we make a few clarifying remarks on the use of angular momentum eigenstates and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Das , J. Frenkel , S. H. Pereira , J. C. Taylor

We investigate non-linear magneto-transport through a single level quantum dot coupled to ferromagnetic leads, where the electron spin is coupled to a large, external (pseudo)spin via an anisotropic exchange interaction. We find regimes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-12 Carlos López-Monís , Clive Emary , Gerold Kiesslich , Gloria Platero , Tobias Brandes