Electron transport through a quantum dot assisted by cavity photons
Abstract
We investigate transient transport of electrons through a single-quantum-dot controlled by a plunger gate. The dot is embedded in a finite wire that is weakly coupled to leads and strongly coupled to a single cavity photon mode. A non-Markovian density-matrix formalism is employed to take into account the full electron-photon interaction in the transient regime. In the absence of a photon cavity, a resonant current peak can be found by tuning the plunger gate voltage to lift a many-body state of the system into the source-drain bias window. In the presence of an -polarized photon field, additional side peaks can be found due to photon-assisted transport. By appropriately tuning the plunger-gate voltage, the electrons in the left lead are allowed to make coherent inelastic scattering to a two-photon state above the bias window if initially one photon was present in the cavity. However, this photon-assisted feature is suppressed in the case of a -polarized photon field due to the anisotropy of our system caused by its geometry.
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@article{arxiv.1308.4536,
title = {Electron transport through a quantum dot assisted by cavity photons},
author = {Nzar Rauf Abdullah and Chi-Shung Tang and Andrei Manolescu and Vidar Gudmundsson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1308.4536},
year = {2013}
}
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RevTeX, 12 pages with included eps figures