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Dynamical Spin-Blockade in a quantum dot with paramagnetic leads

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2009-11-10 v2

Abstract

We investigate current fluctuations in a three-terminal quantum dot in the sequential tunneling regime. Dynamical spin blockade can be induced when the spin-degeneracy of the dot states is lifted by a magnetic field. This results in super-Poissonian shot noise and positive zero-frequency cross-correlations. Our proposed setup can be realized with semiconductor quantum dots.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0401456,
  title  = {Dynamical Spin-Blockade in a quantum dot with paramagnetic leads},
  author = {A. Cottet and W. Belzig},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0401456},
  year   = {2009}
}

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7 pages, 3 figures, final version, to appear in Europhys. Lett