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Aharonov-Bohm oscillations and resonant tunneling in strongly correlated quantum dots

Condensed Matter 2009-10-28 v1

Abstract

We investigate Aharonov-Bohm oscillations of the current through a strongly correlated quantum dot embedded in an arbitrary scattering geometry. Resonant-tunneling processes lead to a flux-dependent renormalization of the dot level. As a consequence we obtain a fine structure of the current oscillations which is controlled by quantum fluctuations. Strong Coulomb repulsion leads to a continuous bias voltage dependent phase shift and, in the nonlinear response regime, destroys the symmetry of the differential conductance under a sign change of the external flux.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9511119,
  title  = {Aharonov-Bohm oscillations and resonant tunneling in strongly correlated quantum dots},
  author = {C. Bruder and Rosario Fazio and Herbert Schoeller},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9511119},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

RevTex, 5 pages, 3 PostScript figures. Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Lett