STM中量子点接触的电导计算

采用模式匹配和散射矩阵方法，对扫描隧道显微镜(STM)中量子点接触过程中的电导进行了计算.结果表明由量子点接触形成的纳米结构的电导呈现量子化特征，这种量子化现象随所形成的纳米结构的横向尺寸和锥角的减小而增强.而且在半导体材料中比金属中更易观察到电导量子化现象. 关键词： STM 量子点接触 量子化电导     

半导体微结构中的量子弹道式输运

半导体微结构的尺度可以与电子的相位相干长度相比较，在输运过程中，电子保持“相位记忆”，表现为量子弹道式输运和具有量子相干性．本文着重介绍在零磁场和磁场下，量子点接触微结构中的电子的量子弹道输运过程和电导呈现量子化现象．还介绍了由量子相干性输运导致的相干的电子聚焦现象     

含stubs量子波导系统的电子自旋极化输运性质

理论上研究了含stubs的Rashba自旋轨道耦合（spin-orbit coupling, SOC）量子波导系统的自旋极化输运性质. 利用晶格格林函数方法,发现由于stubs和SOC产生的势阱使系统中出现束缚态,这些束缚态与传播态之间相互干涉导致电导中出现Fano共振结构,同时在对应的自旋极化率中也出现Fano共振或反共振结构. 此外,由于系统结构的突变使电子被反向散射和量子干涉效应,电导中出现一系列的共振峰. 但是,当系统加上外磁场后,所有这些效应都被抑制, 系统重新出现量子化电导, 同时自旋电导也出 关键词： 量子波导 自旋极化输运 自旋轨道耦合     

弹道区的电子输运

本文重点评述了无散射区电子输运在实验和理论方面的最新进展,内容涵盖半导体量子点接触的加工工艺;电导的量子化及其成因;量子点接触串、并联后,欧姆定律的遵从性;弹道输运特性的应用;以及超导量子点接触临界电流的量子化。     

弹道区的电子输运

本文重点评述了无散射区电子输运在实验和理论方面的最新进展,内容涵盖半导体量子点接触的加工工艺;电导的量子化及其成因;量子点接触串、并联后,欧姆定律的遵从性;弹道输运特性的应用;以及超导量子点接触临界电流的量子化。     

室温下弹道金属点接触电导量子化的STM研究

电子工业的发展促进着介观物理的发展，曾经被Ｓｈａｒｖｉｎ用半经典理论研究过的长度小于电子平均自由程、宽度在费米波长范围的量子点接触中的弹道传输正逐渐成为介观物理研究的一个热点．所谓点接触就是两个电极间的很小尺度的接触．当点接触的长度小于材料中的电子平均自由程时，两端电子库中的电子穿过点接触时不发生散射，输运便是弹道的．由于在点接触中电流传输态受到横向限制，从而使这些态的横向动量产生量子化，导致点接触两端电导值随点接触的宽度变化而呈阶跃上升，即量子化．虽然二维电子气中量子点接触电导量子化已经被实验…     

一类弯曲量子线的量子束缚态

对电子在弯曲量子线中的弹道输运性质进行了理论研究.弯曲量子线由T型量子线和单曲量子线组成.该有限长的量子结构分别与两半无限长的量子通道相连,当施加一偏压时,量子通道分别可作为电子的发射极和收集极.计算结果表明,当入射电子的能量小于量子结构横向上的第一个本征模时,电导存在两个峰.进一步指出,这些峰来自于电子共振隧穿量子结构中的量子束缚态.并详尽地讨论了这些量子束缚态的性质. 关键词： 量子束缚态 共振隧穿 电导 量子线     

准粒子分数电荷的实验证明

在分数量子Hall效应中,Hall电导是量子化的.此效应最普遍的现象首先是在一个半导体的GaAs-AlGaAs异质结中的二维电子气中观察到的,即Hall电阻随着磁场强度的增加呈台阶形上升.此台阶的梯级高度与(p/q)e2｜h形式的 Hall电导值相当,出现台阶时,磁场值对应着每个电子有q｜p个磁通量子的情形,其中p和q是整数。且q通常是奇数. 二维电子气在强磁场中的Hall电导是量子化的,按照 Robert Laughlin的理论,这是因为当磁场与每个电子有q｜p个磁通量子的情形对应时,二维电子气的基态能有极小值,也就是在Hall电导发生台阶跳变时的磁场值处有极小值.…     

热克尔态下介观LC电路的量子涨落

基于介观电容可看作介观隧道结的物理事实，利用旋波近似方法，对介观LC电路进行量子化处理，量子化后介观LC电路系统等效为一个克尔系统.再利用热场动力学理论方法 研究了介观LC电路在有限温度时热克尔态下电荷和磁通的量子涨落，并对结果进行了讨 论. 关键词： 介观LC电路 热克尔态 量子涨落     

平行耦合双量子点分子A-B干涉仪的电荷及其自旋输运

利用非平衡格林函数方法,理论研究每臂中嵌有一个平行耦合双量子点分子的A-B干涉仪(平行耦合双量子点分子A-B干涉仪)的电荷及其自旋输运性质.无外磁场时,与每臂中嵌有一个量子点的A-B干涉仪相比较,平行耦合双量子点分子A-B干涉仪中电子隧穿变得更加容易发生.当平行耦合双量子点分子A-B干涉仪中引入外磁场时,能够在电导能谱中观察到一个Fano共振和一个反共振,这两种输运状态在磁场取适当数值时能够同时消失.此外,通过调节左右两电极间的偏压、磁通和Rashba自旋轨道相互作用,可以对体系自旋输运进行调控.     

Thermopower and conductance for a graphene p-n junction

The thermopower and conductance in a zigzag graphene p-n junction are studied by using the nonequilibrium Green's function method combined with the tight-binding Hamiltonian. Our results show that the conductance and thermopower of the junction can be modulated by its width, the potential drop, and the applied perpendicular magnetic fields. A narrow graphene p-n junction shows insulating characteristics, and its thermopower is much larger than that of the wider one around the Dirac point. The insulating characteristic of the junction decreases as the width increases. In particular, with increasing junction width or the potential drop, the first conductance plateau is strongly enhanced and the thermopower is inverted around the Dirac point. A perpendicular magnetic field strongly suppresses the conductance and enhances the thermopower in the p-n region. The influence of edge vacancy defects on the conductance and thermopower is also discussed. Our results provide theoretical references for modulating the electronic and thermal properties of a graphene p-n junction by tuning its geometry and working conditions.     

Thermoelectric transport through a quantum dot with a magnetic impurity

We study the thermoelectric effect in a small quantum dot with a magnetic impurity in the Coulomb blockade regime.The electrical conductance,thermal conductance,thermopower,and the thermoelectrical figure of merit(FOM)are calculated by using Green’s function method.It is found that the peaks in the electrical conductance are split by the exchange coupling between the electron entering into the dot and the magnetic impurity inside the dot,accompanied by the decrease in the height of peaks.As a result,the resonances in the thermoelectric quantities,such as the thermal conductance,thermopower,and the FOM,are all split,opening some effective new working regions.Despite of the significant reduction in the height of the electrical conductance peaks induced by the exchange coupling,the values of the FOM and the thermopower can be as large as those in the case of zero exchange coupling.We also find that the thermoelectric efficiency,characterized by the magnitude of the FOM,can be enhanced by adjusting the left–right asymmetry of the electrode–dot coupling or by optimizing the system’s temperature.     

Spin-polarized transport and thermopower of organometallic nanocontacts

We present a theoretical study of the length dependence of both conductance and thermopower of organometallic vanadium-benzene molecules (V _nBz_n+1) sandwiched between magnetic Co(100) electrodes. We show that the molecules with n≥3 are efficient spin filters. Namely, we find that the zero bias conductance of the majority electrons is small and decays exponentially with increasing length of the molecule and is in the tunneling regime while the minority electrons show metallic conductance. We show furthermore that the thermopower strongly depends on the length of the molecules and can even change sign as a function of length and temperature.     

Thermopower, figure of merit and spin-transfer torque induced by the temperature gradient in planar tunnel junctions

The thermopower, charge and thermal conductance, and figure of merit as well as the spin-transfer torque generated by the temperature gradient in the planar tunnel junction consisting of ferromagnetic layers and the nonmagnetic tunnel barrier are investigated in the free-electron-like spin-polarized one-band model. In particular, the influence of the parameters of the junction as well as the influence of the relative orientation of magnetic moments on the studied phenomena are investigated. The thermopower can be related to the voltage drop generated by the temperature difference between electrodes under the condition that the charge current vanishes. It depends on the magnetic configuration of the junction. In junctions with high barriers the thermopower is maximal in the antiparallel configuration and it can be enhanced in junctions with strong spin-splitting of the electron bands. The component of the torque studied in the present paper is oriented in the plane formed by magnetic moments and it appears in the absence of the bias voltage. Its magnitude is insensitive to the sign of the temperature difference in contrast to the bias-induced in-plane torque which strongly depends on the polarization of the bias. The studied torque is usually smaller than the torque generated by the bias: however, it can be significant in junctions with low barriers.     

Thermoelectric effects in normal metal/superconductor interface structures

The thermopower of Andreev interferometers, which are doubly connected loops in which one arm is a superconductor and one arm is a normal metal, oscillates as a function of magnetic field with a fundamental period corresponding to a flux quantum h / 2 e through the area of the loop. While the magnetoresistance of an Andreev interferometer is symmetric with respect to the magnetic field, the thermopower can be either symmetric or antisymmetric, depending on the topology of the sample. The temperature dependence of the thermopower oscillations is nonmonotonic. This nonmonotonic behavior does not appear to be related to the reentrance observed by many groups in the conductance of normal-metal/superconductor (NS) structures.     

Enhanced spin-dependent thermopower in a double-quantum-dot sandwiched between two-dimensional electron gases

We study the spin-dependent thermopower in a double-quantum-dot(DQD) embedded between the left and right two-dimensional electron gases(2DEGs) in doped quantum wells under an in-plane magnetic field. When the separation between the DQD is smaller than the Fermi wavelength in the 2DEGs, the asymmetry in the dots' energy levels leads to pronounced quantum interference effects characterized by the Dicke line-shape of the conductance, which are sensitive to the properties of the 2DEGs. The magnitude of the thermopower, which denotes the generated voltage in response to an infinitesimal temperature difference between the two 2DEGs under vanishing charge current, will be obviously enhanced by the Dicke effect. The application of the in-plane magnetic field results in the polarization of the spin-up and spin-down conductances and thermopowers, and enables an efficient spin-filter device in addition to a tunable pure spin thermopower in the absence of its charge counterpart.     

电子-声子相互作用对平行双量子点体系热电效应的影响

量子点体系是一种典型的低维体系, 该体系的独特物理特性有利于提高热电转换效率. 本文采用非平衡态格林函数方法, 选择平行双量子点结构, 详细讨论了电子-声子相互作用对该体系的电导、热电功率、热电优值以及热导等热电效应相关参数的影响, 全面描述了电子-声子相互作用对该结构中热电效应的影响. 理论计算结果表明, 在低温情况下, 该体系中的法诺干涉能够有效增强热电效应, 而电子-声子相互作用通过破坏法诺干涉而在一定程度上抑制电导以及热导过程. 然而, 电子-声子相互作用不会显著地影响热电功率的幅值, 并且热电优值的极值几乎不会改变, 因此在低温条件下电子-声子相互作用并不是破坏量子点体系热电效应的必要条件. 本文的结果将有利于澄清电子-声子相互作用对量子点体系热电效应的影响.     

Interaction-induced resonance in conductance and thermopower of quantum wires

We study the effect of electron-electron interaction on the transport properties of short clean quantum wires adiabatically connected to reservoirs. Interactions lead to resonances in a multichannel wire at particular values of the Fermi energy. We investigate in detail the resonance in a two-channel wire. The (negative) conductance correction peaks at the resonance, and decays exponentially as the Fermi energy is tuned away, the resonance width being given by the temperature. Likewise, the thermopower shows a characteristic structure, which is surprisingly well approximated by the so-called Mott formula. Finally, fourfold splitting of the resonance in a magnetic field provides a unique signature of the effect.     

Thermopower of a multilevel quantum dot coupled with leads in Coulomb blockade

We study the thermopower of a multilevel quantum dot which is coupled with the two leads. From our theoretic results, the thermopower of a multilevel quantum dot shows an oscillatory dependence on the gate voltage, which has been found in a lot of experiment data. The Fano effect of the electronic transport through the multilevel quantum dot is also shown as an obvious asymmetric line shape of the thermopower which come from the interference between the resonant and nonresonant multilevel paths of the conductive electrons. In addition, at the higher temperature, to thermopower, not conductance, it is the multilevel that is much easier to do contribution to the Fano effect.