Institute for Theoretical Physics IV

Publications (since 2007) 

Topological Insulators

• A. Kundu, A. Zazunov, A. Levy Yeyati, T. Martin, and R.Egger, "Energy spectrum and broken spin-surface locking in topological insulator quantum dots,''
  Phys. Rev. B 83, 125429/1-10 (2011).
  
  
• S. Giraud and R. Egger, "Electron-phonon scattering in topological insulators,''
  Phys. Rev. B 83, 245322/1-5 (2011).
  
  
• A. Zazunov, A. Levy Yeyati, and R. Egger, "Coulomb blockade of Majorana fermion induced transport,''
  Phys. Rev. B 84, 165440/1-8 (2011).
  
  
• A. Zazunov, A. Kundu, A. Hütten, and R. Egger, ”Magnetic scattering of Dirac fermions in topological insulators and graphene,"
  Phys. Rev. B 82, 155431 (2010).
  
  
• R. Egger, A. Zazunov, and A. Levy Yeyati, “Helical Luttinger Liquid in Topological Insulator Nanowires,”
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 136403 (2010).
  

• T. Paananen and R. Egger, "Finite-size version of the excitonic instability in graphene quantum dots,''
  Phys. Rev. B 84, 155456/1-8 (2011).
  
  
• A. De Martino, A. Hütten, and R. Egger, "Landau levels, edge states, and strained magnetic waveguides in graphene monolayers with enhanced spin-orbit interactions,''
  Phys. Rev. B 84, 155420/1-11 (2011).
  
  
• T. Paananen, R. Egger, and H. Siedentop, "Signatures of Wigner molecule formation in interacting Dirac fermion quantum dots,''
  Phys. Rev. B 83, 085409/1-7 (2011).
  
  
• R. Egger, A. De Martino, H. Siedentop, and E. Stockmeyer, “Multiparticle equations for interacting Dirac fermions in magnetically confined graphene
  quantum dots,”
  J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 43, 215202/1-18 (2010).
  
  
• A. De Martino and R. Egger, “On the spectrum of a magnetic quantum dot in graphene,”
  Semicond. Sci. Technol. 25, 034006/1-4 (2010). [Invited contribution for Topical Issue on Graphene.]
  
  
• P. Ingenhoven, J. Z. Bernád, U. Zülicke, and R. Egger, “Features due to spin-orbit coupling in the optical conductivity of single-layer graphene,”
  Phys. Rev. B 81, 035421/1-6 (2010).
  
  
• W. Häusler and R. Egger, ”Artificial atoms in interacting graphene quantum dots,”
  Phys. Rev. B (Rapid Comm.) 80, 161402/1-4 (2009).
  
  
• W. Häusler, A. De Martino, T. K. Ghosh, R. Egger, Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid parameters of magnetic waveguides in graphene,
  Phys. Rev. B 78, 165402 (2008).
  
  
• T.K. Ghosh, A De Martino, W. Häusler, L. Dell'Anna, and R. Egger, Conductance quantization and snake states in graphene magnetic waveguides,
  Phys. Rev. B (R)77, 081404/1-4 (2008).
  
  
• A. De Martino, L. Dell'Anna, and R. Egger, Magnetic confinement of massless Dirac fermions in graphene,
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 066802/1-4 (2007).
  
  
• A. De Martino, L. Dell'Anna, and R. Egger, Magnetic barriers and confinement of Dirac-Weyl quasiparticles in graphene,
  Solid State Comm. 144, 547-550 (2007).
  
  
  Fluctuation relations
  
  
• A. Altland, A. De Martino, R. Egger, and B. Narozhny, “Fluctuation relations and rare realizations of transport observables,”
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 170601 (2010).
  
  
• A. Altland, A. De Martino, R. Egger, and B. Narozhny, “Transient fluctuation relations for time-dependent particle transport,”
  Phys. Rev. B 82, 115323 (2010).
  
  
• A. Altland and R. Egger, “Nonequilibrium dephasing in Coulomb blockaded quantum dots,”
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 026805/1-4 (2009)

• ISPI and nonequilibrium quantum transport

• J. Eckel, F. Heidrich-Meisner, S.G. Jakobs, M. Thorwart, M. Pletyukhov and R. Egger, “Comparative study of theoretical methods for non-equilibrium
  quantum transport,”
  New J. Phys. 12, 043042/1-16 (2010).
  
  
• S. Weiss, J. Eckel, M. Thorwart, and R. Egger, Iterative real-time path integral approach to nonequilibrium quantum transport,
  Phys. Rev. B 77, 195316 (2008)
  
  
  Superconducting transport through quantum dots
  
  
• A. Zazunov and R. Egger, “Adiabatic polaron dynamics and Josephson effect in a superconducting molecular quantum dot,”
  Phys. Rev. B 81, 104508/1-11 (2010).
  
  
• A. Zazunov, A. Levy Yeyati, and R. Egger, ”Josephson effect for SU(4) carbon-nanotube quantum dots,”
  Phys. Rev. B 81, 012502/1-4 (2010).
  
  
• A. Zazunov, R. Egger, T. Jonckheere, and T. Martin, ”Anomalous Josephson current through a spin-orbit coupled quantum dot,”
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 147004/1-4 (2009).
  
  
• A. Schulz, A. Zazunov, and R. Egger, ”Critical Josephson current through a bistable single-molecule junction,”
  Phys. Rev. B 79, 184517/1-6 (2009).
  
  
• A. Zazunov, A. Schulz, and R. Egger, “Josephson-current-induced conformational switching of a molecular quantum dot,”
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 047002/1-4 (2009).
  
  
• L. Dell'Anna, A. Zazunov, and R. Egger, Superconducting nonequilibrium transport through a weakly interacting quantum dot,
  Phys. Rev. B 77, 104525 (2008).


• L. Dell'Anna, A. Zazunov, R. Egger, and T. Martin, Josephson current through a quantum dot with spin-orbit coupling,
  Phys. Rev. B 75, 085305/1-7 (2007).
  
  

• N. Bode, S. Viola Kusminskiy, R. Egger, and F. von Oppen, "Scattering theory of current-induced forces in mesoscopic systems,''
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 036804/1-4 (2011).
  
  
• M. Thorwart and R. Egger, Current induced non-adiabatic spin torques and domain-wall motion with spin relaxation in a ferromagnetic wire,
  Phys. Rev.  B 76, 214418/1-9 (2007).
  
  

Interacting one-dimensional systems and carbon nanotubes


• A. Schulz, A. De Martino, and R. Egger, “Effective low-energy theory and spectral function of interacting carbon nanotubes with spin-orbit coupling,”
  Phys. Rev. B 82, 033407/1-4 (2010).
  
  
• A. Schulz, A. De Martino, P. Ingenhoven, and R. Egger, ”Low-energy theory and RKKY interaction in interacting quantum wires with Rashba
  spin-orbit coupling,”
  Phys. Rev. B 79, 205432/1-10 (2009).
  
  
• A. De Martino, R. Egger, and A.O. Gogolin, ”Phonon-phonon interactions and phonon damping in carbon nanotubes,”
  Phys. Rev. B 79, 205408/1-14 (2009).
  
  
• A. M. Lunde, A. De Martino, A. Schulz, R. Egger, and K. Flensberg, “Electron-electron interaction effects in quantum point contacts,”
  New. J. Phys. 11, 023031/1-27 (2009).
  
  
• R. Egger and A.O. Gogolin, vibration-induced correction to the current through a single molecule,
  Phys. Rev. B 77, 113405 (2007).
  
  
• C. Mora, R. Egger, and A. Altland, From Luttinger liquid to Altshuler-Aronov anomaly in multichannel quantum wires,
  Phys. Rev. B 75, 035310/1-14 (2007).
  

Quantum Dots in semiconductor heterostructures


• M. Thorwart, R. Egger, A.O. Gogolin, Interaction-induced frequency mixing in quantum dots,
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 036806 (2008)
  

• A.O. Gogolin, C. Mora, and R. Egger, Analytic solution of the bosonic three-body problem,
  Phys. Rev Lett 100, 140404 (2008).
  
  
• K.V. Krutisky, M. Thorwart, R. Egger, and R. Graham, Ultarcold bosons in lattices with binary disorder,
  Phys. Rev. A 77, 053609 (2008).
  
  
• V. Peano, M. Thorwart, C. Mora, and R. Egger, Shape resonances for ultracold atom gases in carbon nanotube waveguides, preprint
  cond-mat/0411517, unpublished.


Elastic defects in crystalline and plastic materials


• L.A. Turski, R. Bausch, R. Schmitz, Gauge theory of sound propagation in crystals with dislocations,
  J. Phys.: Condens.. Matter  19, 096211 (2007).