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We present a computationally efficient transferable single-band tight-binding model (SBTB) for spin polarized transport in heterostructures with an effort to capture the band structure effects. As an example, we apply it to study transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-02-24 Tehseen Z. Raza , Hassan Raza

We study the Hubbard model on the honeycomb lattice with nearest-neighbor hopping ($t>0$) and next-nearest-neighbor one ($t'<0$). When $t'<-t/6$, the single-particle spectrum is featured by the continuously distributed Van-Hove saddle…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-18 Tianxing Ma , Fan Yang , Hong Yao , Hai-Qing Lin

A novel approach to investigate the electron transport of cis- and trans-polyacetylene chains in the single-electron approximation is presented by using microwave emulation measurements and tight-binding calculations. In the emulation we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-14 Thomas Stegmann , John A. Franco-Villafañe , Yenni P. Ortiz , Ulrich Kuhl , Fabrice Mortessagne , Thomas H. Seligman

We study the electronic transport through short DNA chains with various sequences of base pairs between voltage-biased leads. The strong coupling of the charge carriers to local vibrations of the base pairs leads to the formation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Benjamin B. Schmidt , Matthias H. Hettler , Gerd Schön

An 1d model with time-dependent random hopping is proposed to describe charge transport in DNA. It admits to investigate both diffusion of electrons and their tunneling between different sites in DNA. The tunneling appears to be strongly…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 E. I. Kats , V. V. Lebedev

We present a tight-binding (TB) model and $\mathbf{k\cdot p}$ theory for electrons in monolayer and few-layer InSe. The model is constructed from a basis of all $s$ and $p$ valence orbitals on both indium and selenium atoms, with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-05 S. J. Magorrian , V. Zólyomi , V. I. Fal'ko

In the field of DNA nanotechnology, it is common wisdom that charge transport occurs through the {\pi} stacked bases of double-stranded DNA. However, recent experimental findings by Zhuravel et. al. [Nat. Nanotech. 15, 836 (2020)] suggest…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-31 Sourav Kundu , Siddhartha Lal

The high field charge injection and transport properties in reinforced silicone dielectrics were investigated by measuring the time-dependent space charge distribution and the current under dc conditions up to the breakdown field, and were…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-04 Yanhui Huang , Linda. S. Schadler

The dynamical conductivity of interacting multiband electronic systems derived in Ref.[1] is shown to be consistent with the general form of the Ward identity. Using the semiphenomenological form of this conductivity formula, we have…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-09 I. Kupcic

We illuminate the influence of transition mutations and disorder on charge localization and transfer along B-DNA sequences. Homopolymers are the best for charge transfer (cf. Refs.~ \cite{LVBMS:2018, MLTS:2019}). Hence, we consider as…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-30 Pavlos Banev , Anastasia Falliera , Constantinos Simserides

Semi-Empirical Tight Binding (TB) is known to be a scalable and accurate atomistic representation for electron transport for realistically extended nano-scaled semiconductor devices that might contain millions of atoms. In this paper an…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-18 Ganesh Hegde , Michael Povolotskyi , Tillmann Kubis , Timothy Boykin , Gerhard Klimeck

We consider the influence of electrostatic forces on driven translocation dynamics of a flexible polyelectrolyte being pulled through a nanopore by an external force on the head monomer. To this end, we augment the iso-flux tension…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-07-07 Jalal Sarabadani , Sahin Buyukdagli , Tapio Ala-Nissila

Achieving high thermoelectric performance requires efficient manipulation of thermal conductivity and a fundamental understanding of the microscopic mechanisms of phonon transport in crystalline solids. One of the major challenges in…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-05-18 Jiaoyue Yuan , Yubi Chen , Bolin Liao

Microscopic mechanisms of positive charge transfer in DNA remain unclear. A quantum state of electron hole in DNA is determined by the competition of the pi-stacking interaction $b$ sharing a charge between different base pairs and the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-06-06 Dmitry B. Uskov , Alexander L. Burin

DNA capture with high fidelity is an essential part of nanopore translocation. We report several important aspects of the capture process and subsequent translocation of a model DNA polymer through a solid-state nanopore in presence of an…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-07-06 Swarnadeep Seth , Aniket Bhattacharya

As a secondary structure of DNA, DNA tetrahedra exhibit intriguing charge transport phenomena and provide a promising platform for wide applications like biosensors, as shown in recent electrochemical experiments. Here, we study charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-30 Pei-Jia Hu , Si-Xian Wang , Xiao-Feng Chen , Xiao-Hui Gao , Tie-Feng Fang , Ai-Min Guo , Qing-Feng Sun

Motivated by recent theoretical and experimental studies on the role of flatbands in the thermoelectric properties of Ni$_3$In$_{1-x}$Sn$_x$ compounds, we investigate electron transport in two minimal one-dimensional flatband models, the…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-20 F. Cosco , R. Tuovinen , F. Plastina , N. Lo Gullo

We present a strong-coupling approach to the theory of high-temperature superconductivity based on the observation of a quantum critical point in the plaquette within the t,t' Hubbard model. The crossing of ground state energies in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-09-28 M. Harland , M. I. Katsnelson , A. I. Lichtenstein

We report theoretical studies of charge transport in single-stranded DNA in the direction perpendicular to the backbone axis. We find that, if the electrodes which sandwich the DNA have the appropriate spatial width, each nucleotide carries…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-11-03 Michael Zwolak , Massimiliano Di Ventra

The present paper gives an elaborate theoretical description of a new molecular charge transport mechanism applying to a single molecule trapped between two macroscopic electrodes in a solid state device. It is shown by a Hubbard type model…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Per Hedegard , Thomas Bjornholm