Cover Abstract in Chinese Abstract in English Acknowledgment Contents List of Figures 1 Introduction 1.1 Introductory Touring to this Dissertation 1.2 Motivations and Goals 1.3 Historical Background of the Quanturn Transport 1.4 Length Scales and Transport Regimes 1.5 Conductance Quantization 1.6 Impurity-induced Quasi-bound-states 1.7 Time-dependent Phenomena 1.8 Other Interaction Effects not Included 2 Landauer-Biittiker Formalism 2.1 Density of States 2.2 The Single-channel Landauer Formulation 2.3 The Multichannel Landauer-Biittiker Formulation 3 Time-Modulated Gate-Potential in a Narrow Constriction 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Theory 3.3 Numerical Results 3.4 Concluding Remarks 4 Time-Modulated Gate-Voltage in a Saddle-Point Constriction 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Theory 4.3 Numerical Examples 4.4 Concluding Remarks 5 Longitudinally Polarized Time-Dependent Electric Field 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Formulation 5.3 Numerical Examples 5.4 Concluding Remarks 6 δ-Profile Transversely Polarized Tim-Dependent Electric Field 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Formulation 6.3 Numerical Examples 6.4 Concluding Remarks 7 Finite-Range Transversely Polarized Tim-Dependent Electric Field 7.1 Introduction 7.2 Theory 7.3 Numerical Examples 7.4 Concluding Remarks 8 Summary and Future Research 8.1 Results and Discussions 8.2 Future Reseasch Appendix A Detail Calculation for a Bias Potential That Becomes a Constant in the Reservoirs Bibliography Curriculum Vitae and List of Publications
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