Correlated electron current and temperaturedependence of the conductanceof a quantum point contact

September 20 2006
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Séminaire SPEC
O.P. SUSHKOV
SPEC Salle Itzykson, Bât.774
20/09/2006
from 11:00

We investigate finite temperature corrections to the Landauer formula due to electron-electron interaction within the quantum point contact.
When the Fermi level is close to the barrier height, the interaction is strongly enhanced due to semiclassical slowing of the electrons. To describe electron transport we formulate and solve a nonlocal kinetic equation for the density matrix of electrons. The correction to the conductance G is negative and strongly enhanced in the region $0.5frac{2e^2}{h}

University of New South Wales, Sydney 2052, Australia