The circulating current in an Aharonov-Bohm ring with a quantum dot: Role of transport current and phonons

We study current and heat of an Aharonov-Bohm ring with a quantum dot, and find that the circulating current can be modulated by the transport current. Similar to the transport current, the circulating current is reduced by the polaron effect. Moreover, there exists an additional contribution from the electron-phonon interaction.     

关于超导弱连接的电流阶跃

在电池电源和辐射场作用下,对超导弱连接可采取电流源驱动的电阻分路约瑟夫逊结模型。在上述模型下,本文对弱连接发生的常电压电流阶跃提供一个一般的判据,据此还讨论了分谐波电流阶跃的存在问题;在小辐射场情形下给出了电流阶跃高度的表示式,在中等辐射场的情形下还给出了电流阶跃高度依赖于辐射场强度的数值计算结果。 关键词：     

Electrical generation of pure spin current with oscillating spin-orbit interaction

We propose an electrical scheme for the generation of a pure spin current without a charge current in a two-terminal device, which consists of a scattering region of a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) with Rashba (R) and/or Dresselhaus (S) spin-orbit interaction (SOI) and two normal leads. The SOI is modulated by a time-dependent gate voltage to pump a spin current. Based on a tight-binding model and the Keldysh Green’s function technique, we obtain the analytical expression of the spin current. It is shown that a pure spin current can be pumped out, and its magnitude could be modulated by device parameters such as the oscillating frequency of the SOI, as well as the SOI strength. Moreover, the spin polarisation direction of the spin current could also be tuned by the strength ratio between RSOI and DSOI. Our proposal provides not only a fully electrical means to generate a pure spin current but also a way to control the spin polarisation direction of the generated spin current.     

Dielectric recovery of copper chromium vacuum interrupter contactsafter short-circuit interruption

The recovery of a vacuum interrupter gap after short-circuit interruption was measured by application of an overshooting transient recovery voltage (TRV) several tens of microseconds after current zero. Copper chromium contact materials were employed varying in composition (25 and 50% chromium content), gas content, and production method. The gap failure was either pure dielectric or it was dominated by a significant postarc current. Therefore, postarc current phenomena were experimentally investigated focused on the relationship among the postarc current, the power frequency current amplitude, and the gap length. It was found that two postarc current maxima exist: the first strongly dependent on the power frequency current, and the second on the field strength. A correlation among postarc current facilitated failures, the ultimately dielectric recovery, and the erosion rate of the material was found. Strong indication is given that all of these effects are dominated by the metal vapor pressure rise given by the constricted rotating arc. A significant influence of the material properties can be drawn from these experiments, allowing a good estimation of the capability for short-circuit current interruption, thus providing a useful tool for material development     

Current clamping in a long pulse electron beam-gas interaction

Current clamping (constant current behavior) was observed in measurements of the current drawn by a metal plate acting as a beam collector for long-pulse (300 ns) electron beam, propagating a short distance through low-pressure gas (40-1000 mtorr). When the clamping occurs, oscillations in the beam collector current are reduced, resulting in a flat current pulse. Good agreement is found with a model which considers the impedance of the plasma produced by the electron beam in parallel with the inductance of the beam-collector current path. The current clamping occurs when the plasma impedance is smaller than the inductive impedance of the beam-collector current path     

Valley Hall effect and Nernst effect in strain engineered graphene

We theoretically predict the existence of tunneling valley Hall effect and Nernst effect in the normal/strain/normal graphene junctions, where a strained graphene is sandwiched by two normal graphene electrodes. By applying an electric bias a pure transverse valley Hall current with longitudinal charge current is generated. If the system is driven by a temperature bias, a valley Nernst effect is observed, where a pure transverse valley current without charge current propagates. Furthermore, the transverse valley current can be modulated by the Fermi energy and crystallographic orientation. When the magnetic field is further considered, we obtain a fully valley-polarized current. It is expected these features may be helpful in the design of the controllable valleytronic devices.     

Properties of monolithic integration of a resonant tunneling diode and a quantum well laser

An investigation of the electrical and optical characteristics of a resonant tunneling diode monolithically integrated with a quantum well laser is carried out. An analytic expression for the propagating model current is given in terms of the total spontaneous emission rate. The laser is pumped by the current emitted by the resonant tunneling diode. When the current in the laser exceeds the threshold current, laser light is produced. Since the current in the laser exhibits negative differential resistance similar in behavior to the current of a resonant tunneling diode, a bistable light output can be obtained from this new device.     

Quasisteady high-confinement reversed shear plasma with large bootstrap current fraction under full noninductive current drive condition in JT-60U

A quasisteady reversed shear plasma with a large bootstrap current fraction ( approximately 80%) has been obtained for the first time in the JT-60U tokamak. The shrinkage of reversed shear region was suppressed by the bootstrap current peaked at the internal transport barrier (ITB) layer and the ITBs at a large radius were sustained, which, by combination with an H-mode edge pedestal, resulted in a high confinement or 2.2 times the H-mode scaling for 6 times energy confinement time or 2.7 s. Furthermore, a full noninductive current drive was obtained by the bootstrap current and the beam driven current.     

Time Dependence of Anode Spot Formation Threshold Current in Vacuum Arcs

The variation of threshold current for the transition between the low current quiescent vacuum arc mode, and the high voltage noisy mode associated with anode spot formation, was measured as a function of peak current, current waveform frequency, and electrode separation on fixed diameter (25 mm) Cu and Ni electrodes. At current waveform frequencies of about 60 Hz on Cu electrodes, the threshold current depends mainly on electrode spacing, as has been observed by other investigators. However, at higher waveform frequencies, the threshold current becomes a strong function of peak current as well. At 347 Hz on 25 mm. diam. Cu electrodes separated by 10 mm, the threshold current rose from approximately 2 kA to 5.5 kA, as the peak current rose from 2 kA to 6 kA. At 543 Hz on 25 mm diam Ni electrodes separated by 9 mm, a saturation in threshold current at about 7.5 kA was observed for peak currents greater than 9 kA. Simultaneous anode temperature measurements indicated that the Ni anode surface temperature immediately prior to transition rose from about 1550° K to 2250° K with variations of peak current from 5 kA to 13 kA. Predictions of the variation of threshold current based on random transitions, and on cathode spot migration over the edge of the cathode, are compared with the experimental data.     

高能电子照射绝缘样品的泄漏电流特性

建立了考虑电子散射、输运、俘获和自洽场的数值计算模型, 研究了高能电子束照射下绝缘厚样品的泄漏电流特性, 并采用一个实验平台测量了泄漏电流. 结果表明: 在电子束持续照射下, 电子总产额会下降; 由于电子在样品内部的输运, 样品近表面呈现微弱的正带电, 在样品内部呈现较强的负带电; 样品内部电子会向下输运形成电子束感生电流, 长时间照射下会形成泄漏电流; 随着照射, 泄漏电流逐渐增大并趋于稳定值; 泄漏电流随样品厚度的增大而减小, 随电子束能量、电子束电流的增大而增大. 关键词： 绝缘样品 泄漏电流 电子产额 数值模拟     

色散效应对聚光多结太阳电池性能的影响及优化

针对色散效应导致聚光多结太阳电池性能降低的问题,使用分布式三维等效电路模型计算高倍聚光下GaInP/GaInAs/Ge三结太阳电池的输出特性,通过分析电池各层的电压分布、暗电流分布以及横向电流分布,研究了不同电池尺寸下色散效应对电池性能影响的机理.结果表明:色散使多结太阳电池在局部区域的光生电流变得不匹配,随着电池尺寸的减小,局部区域之间失配的光生电流能够以横向电流的形式相互补偿,使电池整体的电流更加匹配,从而减小色散效应的影响.当电池芯片尺寸较大(20 mm×20 mm)时,色散主要降低电池的短路电流密度,色散光斑下电池的效率仅相当于无色散时的94%;当电池芯片尺寸减小到2 mm×2 mm时,短路电流密度与无色散时相等,但横向电阻降低了电池的填充因子.当电池芯片尺寸进一步减小到0.4 mm×0.4 mm时,色散与无色散光斑下电池的各项性能几乎没有差别,效率均约为34.5%,色散效应的影响可忽略不计.     

Controllable Spin Polarization of Charge Current by Rashba Spin Orbital Coupling

We report a theoretic study on modulating the spin polarization of charge current in a mesoscopic four-terminal device of cross structure by using the inverse spin hall effect. The scattering region of device is a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) with Rashba spin orbital interaction (RSOI), one of lead is ferromagnetic metal and other three leads are spin-degenerate normal metals. By using Landauer-Büttiker formalism, we found that when alongitudinal charge current flows through 2DEG scattering region from FM lead by external bias, the transverse current can be either a pure spin current or full-polarized charge current due to the combined effect of spin hall effect and its inverse process, and the polarization of this transverse current can be easily controlled by several device parameters such as the Fermi energy, ferromagnetic magnetization, and the RSOI constant. Our method may pave a new way to control the spin polarization of a charge current.     

Investigation of ion behavior associated with anode-spot modetransition in vacuum arcs

The ion behavior phenomenon associated with transitions of the anode discharge mode to the anode-spot mode is studied by measuring the wall ion current and by spectroscopic observation in vacuum arcs. The anode mode transfers when the wall ion current attains a certain magnitude that is independent of the cathode, but dependent on the anode. The ion-current function to the arc current increases when the arc current increases in the diffuse arc. Spectral-line intensity of Cu III emitted from the plasma in the anode region increases with an instantaneous arc current of a 5-kA peak (kAp) sinusoidal half-wave. These findings suggest an idea for the mode transition, that an ion generation region appears, and that an increase in the ion density produces a positive potential hump near the anode, which results in the negative anode voltage drop triggering the mode transition. After the mode transition, an arc current is found to reduce the ion current near the crest of a sinusoidal current in a copper arc. This appears to be significant for the arc on a small anode. The decrease in the ion current is attributed to the recombination of ions decelerated by anode vapor with electrons emitted from the hot spot on the anode     

Influence of direct current on dc receptor potentials from cochlear inner hair cells in the guinea pig

Inner hair cell responses to sound were monitored while direct current was applied across the membranous labyrinth in the first turn of the guinea pig cochlea. The current injection electrodes were positioned in the scala vestibuli and on the round window membrane. Positive and negative current (less than 100 microA) caused changes in the sound-evoked dc receptor potentials which were dependent on the sound frequency and intensity. The frequencies most affected by this extracellular current were those comprising the "tip" portion of the inner hair cell frequency tuning characteristic (FTC). The influence of current increased with increasing frequency. Positive current increased the amount of dc receptor potential for the affected frequencies while negative current decreased the potential. Current-induced changes (on a percentage basis) were greater for low intensity sounds and the negative current direction. These frequency specific changes are evidenced as a loss in sensitivity for the tip area of the FTC and a downward shift of the inner hair cell characteristic frequency. Larger current levels (greater than 160 microA) cause more complex changes including unrecoverable loss of cell performance. In separate experiments positive and negative currents (less than 1.1 microA) were injected into the inner hair cell from the recording electrode during simultaneous measurement of the sound-evoked dc receptor potential. This condition caused a shift in IHC sensitivity that was independent of sound frequency and intensity. Positive current decreased the sensitivity of the level of the cell while negative current increased the responses. The effect of current level on sound-evoked dc receptor potential was nonlinear, as comparatively greater increases in cell response were observed for negative than decreases for positive current. The intracellular current injection results are accounted for by the mechano-resistive model of hair cell transduction, where nonlinear responses with current level may reflect outward rectification. Response changes induced by extracellular current are evidence of current effects on both inner and outer hair cells. The frequency and intensity dependences are hypothesized to represent voltage mediated control of inner hair cell response by the outer hair cells.     

Ward-Takahashi identity for the electromagnetic current of two-particle systems on the light front

The problem of nonconservation of the electromagnetic current for two-boson systems on the light front obtained by truncation of the quasi-potential expansion is studied. We found that current conservation can be restored by a subtle choice of the truncation of the expansion of the current operator, while the naive truncation of the expansion of both current and effective interaction violates covariance and current conservation. The framework allows to treat at the same level the current operator for bound and scattering states. The generalization to two-fermion systems is briefly discussed.     

Current noise in ac-driven nanoscale conductors

The theory for current fluctuations in ac-driven transport through nanoscale systems is put forward. By use of a generalized, non-Hermitian Floquet theory we derive novel explicit expressions for the time-averaged current and the zero-frequency component of the power spectrum of current fluctuations. A distinct suppression of both the zero-frequency noise and the dc current occurs for suitably tailored ac fields. The relative level of transport noise, being characterized by a Fano factor, can selectively be manipulated by ac sources; in particular, it exhibits both characteristic maxima and minima near current suppression.     

Spin current and its heat effect in a multichannel quantum wire with Rashba spinben orbit coupling

Using the perturbation method, we theoretically study the spin current and its heat effect in a multichannel quantum wire with Rashba spin—orbit coupling. The heat generated by the spin current is calculated. With the increase of the width of the quantum wire, the spin current and the heat generated both exhibit period oscillations with equal amplitudes. When the quantum-channel number is doubled, the oscillation periods of the spin current and of the heat generated both decrease by a factor of 2. For the spin current j_s,xy, the amplitude increases with the decrease of the quantum channel; while the amplitude of the spin current j_s,yx remains the same. Therefore we conclude that the effect of the quantum-channel number on the spin current j_s,xy is greater than that on the spin current j_s,yx. The strength of the Rashba spin—orbit coupling is tunable by the gate voltage, and the gate voltage can be varied experimentally, which implies a new method of detecting the spin current. In addition, we can control the amplitude and the oscillation period of the spin current by controlling the number of the quantum channels. All these characteristics of the spin current will be very important for detecting and controlling the spin current, and especially for designing new spintronic devices in the future.     

Nonlinear domain-wall velocity enhancement by spin-polarized electric current

The interaction between a dc spin-polarized electric current and a magnetic domain wall in a Permalloy nanowire was studied by high-bandwidth scanning Kerr polarimetry. The full functional dependence of wall velocity on electric current and magnetic field is presented. With the pinning potential nulled by a field, current-induced velocity enhancements exceeded 35 m/s at a current density of approximately 6 x 10(11) A/m(2). This large enhancement, more than 10 times that found in pinning-dominated experiments, results in part from an interaction that is nonlinear in current and independent of current direction.     

Photon-mediated spin-polarized current in a quantum dot under thermal bias

Spin-polarized current generated by thermal bias across a system composed of a quantum dot(QD) connected to metallic leads is studied in the presence of magnetic and photon fields. The current of a certain spin orientation vanishes when the dot level is aligned to the lead's chemical potential, resulting in a 100% spin-polarized current. The spin-resolved current also changes its sign at the two sides of the zero points. By tuning the system's parameters, spin-up and spin-down currents with equal strength may flow in opposite directions, which induces a pure spin current without the accompany of charge current. With the help of the thermal bias, both the strength and the direction of the spin-polarized current can be manipulated by tuning either the frequency or the intensity of the photon field, which is beyond the reach of the usual electric bias voltage.