100 research outputs found
Charging effects in quantum wires
We investigate the role of charging effects in a voltage-biased quantum wire.
Both the finite range of the Coulomb interaction and the long-ranged nature of
the Friedel oscillation imply a finite capacitance, leading to a charging
energy. While observable Coulomb blockade effects are absent for a single
impurity, they are crucial if islands are present. For a double barrier, we
give the resonance condition, fully taking into account the charging of the
island.Comment: 6 Pages RevTeX, no figures, Phys. Rev. B (in press
Influence of plasma nucleus form on radiation orientation in high-current pulse plasma diode
The factors accompanied the generation directed super-radiation in high-current pulse discharge in tin vapor are investigated. Basing on measurements of space distribution of radiation intensity and fixing of discharge evolution phases images it was shown that generation of directed super-radiation occurs in the moment of plasma jet gushes from dense plasma formations situated close to the anode, and the orientation of super-radiation is the same as the plasma jet one. It was drown a conclusion about the presence of radiation-stimulated radiation effect in multiply ionized plasma
Influence of external magnetic field on intensity and directivity of EUV radiation from high-current pulse plasma diode
This work is devoted to evaluate the influence of the additional external magnetic field on dynamics of the radiation in the extreme ultraviolet (EUV) range from multi-charged tin plasma of high-current pulse diode. Investigations have shown that the use of an additional external magnetic field has improved the stability of the plasma diode, enhanced the intensity of radiation, and changed the radiation profile.Работа посвящена оценке влияния дополнительного внешнего магнитного поля на динамику излучения в диапазоне вакуумного ультрафиолета (ВУФ) из многозарядной плазмы олова сильноточного импульсного диода. Исследования показали, что использование внешнего магнитного поля позволяет улучшить стабильность работы плазменного диода, повысить интенсивность излучения и изменять диаграмму направленности излучения.Робота присвячена оцінці впливу додаткового магнітного поля на динаміку випромінювання в діапазоні екстремального вакуумного ультрафіолету (ВУФ) з багатозарядної плазми олова сильнострумного імпульсного діодa. Дослідження показали, що використання зовнішнього магнітного поля дозволяє покращити стабільність роботи плазмового діодa, збільшити інтенсивність випромінювання та змінювати діаграму спрямованості випромінювання
On the statistical significance of the conductance quantization
Recent experiments on atomic-scale metallic contacts have shown that the
quantization of the conductance appears clearly only after the average of the
experimental results. Motivated by these results we have analyzed a simplified
model system in which a narrow neck is randomly coupled to wide ideal leads,
both in absence and presence of time reversal invariance. Based on Random
Matrix Theory we study analytically the probability distribution for the
conductance of such system. As the width of the leads increases the
distribution for the conductance becomes sharply peaked close to an integer
multiple of the quantum of conductance. Our results suggest a possible
statistical origin of conductance quantization in atomic-scale metallic
contacts.Comment: 4 pages, Tex and 3 figures. To be published in PR
Dynamical electron transport through a nanoelectromechanical wire in a magnetic field
We investigate dynamical transport properties of interacting electrons moving
in a vibrating nanoelectromechanical wire in a magnetic field. We have built an
exactly solvable model in which electric current and mechanical oscillation are
treated fully quantum mechanically on an equal footing. Quantum mechanically
fluctuating Aharonov-Bohm phases obtained by the electrons cause nontrivial
contribution to mechanical vibration and electrical conduction of the wire. We
demonstrate our theory by calculating the admittance of the wire which are
influenced by the multiple interplay between the mechanical and the electrical
energy scales, magnetic field strength, and the electron-electron interaction
How backscattering off a point impurity can enhance the current and make the conductance greater than e^2/h per channel
It is well known that while forward scattering has no effect on the
conductance of one-dimensional systems, backscattering off a static impurity
suppresses the current. We study the effect of a time-dependent point impurity
on the conductance of a one-channel quantum wire. At strong repulsive
interaction (Luttinger liquid parameter g<1/2), backscattering renders the
linear conductance greater than its value e^2/h in the absence of the impurity.
A possible experimental realization of our model is a constricted quantum wire
or a constricted Hall bar at fractional filling factors nu=1/(2n+1) with a
time-dependent voltage at the constriction.Comment: 7 pages, 2 figure
Quantum Monte Carlo simulation for the conductance of one-dimensional quantum spin systems
Recently, the stochastic series expansion (SSE) has been proposed as a
powerful MC-method, which allows simulations at low for quantum-spin
systems. We show that the SSE allows to compute the magnetic conductance for
various one-dimensional spin systems without further approximations. We
consider various modifications of the anisotropic Heisenberg chain. We recover
the Kane-Fisher scaling for one impurity in a Luttinger-liquid and study the
influence of non-interacting leads for the conductance of an interacting
system.Comment: 8 pages, 9 figure
Fabry-Perot interference and spin filtering in carbon nanotubes
We study the two-terminal transport properties of a metallic single-walled
carbon nanotube with good contacts to electrodes, which have recently been
shown [W. Liang et al, Nature 441, 665-669 (2001)] to conduct ballistically
with weak backscattering occurring mainly at the two contacts. The measured
conductance, as a function of bias and gate voltages, shows an oscillating
pattern of quantum interference. We show how such patterns can be understood
and calculated, taking into account Luttinger liquid effects resulting from
strong Coulomb interactions in the nanotube. We treat back-scattering in the
contacts perturbatively and use the Keldysh formalism to treat non-equilibrium
effects due to the non-zero bias voltage. Going beyond current experiments, we
include the effects of possible ferromagnetic polarization of the leads to
describe spin transport in carbon nanotubes. We thereby describe both
incoherent spin injection and coherent resonant spin transport between the two
leads. Spin currents can be produced in both ways, but only the latter allow
this spin current to be controlled using an external gate. In all cases, the
spin currents, charge currents, and magnetization of the nanotube exhibit
components varying quasiperiodically with bias voltage, approximately as a
superposition of periodic interference oscillations of spin- and
charge-carrying ``quasiparticles'' in the nanotube, each with its own period.
The amplitude of the higher-period signal is largest in single-mode quantum
wires, and is somewhat suppressed in metallic nanotubes due to their sub-band
degeneracy.Comment: 12 pages, 6 figure
Conductance renormalization and conductivity of a multi-subband Tomonaga-Luttinger model
We studied the conductance renormalization and conductivity of multi-subband
Tomonaga-Luttinger models with inter-subband interactions. We found that, as in
single-band systems, the conductance of a multi-subband system with an
arbitrary number of subbands is not renormalized due to interaction between
electrons. We derived a formula for the conductivity in multi-subband models.
We applied it to a simplified case and found that inter-subband interaction
enhances the conductivity, which is contrary to the intra-subband repulsive
interaction, and that the conductivity is further enhanced for a larger number
of subbands.Comment: 12 pages, no figures. to be published in Physical Review B as a brief
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The conductance of interacting nano-wires
The conductance of one-dimensional nano-wires of interacting electrons
connected to non-interacting leads is calculated in the linear response regime.
Two different approaches are used: a many-body Green function technique and a
relation to the persistent current recently proposed based on results of the
non-interacting case. The conductance is evaluated using the functional
renormalization group method and the density matrix renormalization group
algorithm. Our results give a strong indication that the idea of obtaining the
conductance from the persistent current holds for interacting systems.Comment: version accepted for publication in Phys. Rev.
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