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Quantum detector properties of the quantum point contact (QPC) are analyzed for arbitrary electron transparency and coupling strength to the measured system and are shown to be determined by the electron counting statistics. Conditions of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Dmitri V. Averin , Eugene V. Sukhorukov

We report on the realization of a few-electron double quantum dot defined in a two-dimensional electron gas by means of surface gates on top of a GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructure. Two quantum point contacts (QPCs) are placed in the vicinity of…

The theory of time-dependent quantum transport addresses the question: How do electrons flow through a junction under the influence of an external perturbation as time goes by? In this paper, we invert this question and search for a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-10 K. J. Pototzky , E. K. U. Gross

Novel effects emerge from an interplay between multiple Andreev reflections and Coulomb interaction in quantum dot coupled to superconducting leads and subject to a finite potential bias $V$. Combining an intuitive physical picture with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 Yshai Avishai , Anatoly Golub , Andrei D. Zaikin

We study the full-counting statistics of charges transmitted through a single-level quantum dot weakly coupled to a local Einstein phonon which causes fluctuations in the dot energy. An analytic expression for the cumulant generating…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-12 Y. Utsumi , O. Entin-Wohlman , A. Ueda , A. Aharony

Quantum system abruptly driven from its stationary phase can reveal nontrivial dynamics upon approaching a new final state. We investigate here such dynamics for a correlated quantum dot sandwiched between the metallic and superconducting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-28 K. Wrześniewski , B. Baran , R. Taranko , T. Domański , I. Weymann

Understanding topological matter in the fractional quantum Hall (FQH) effect requires identifying the nature of edge state quasiparticles. FQH edge state at the filling factor $\nu=2/3$ in the spin-polarized and non-polarized phases is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-13 Vadim Ponomarenko , Yuli Lyanda-Geller

A quantum dot weakly coupled to two normal metal leads exhibits resonant transmission when one of the dot energy levels lies within the applied bias window. But when the quantum dot is sidecoupled to the transport channel, transmission in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-02 Abhiram Soori

We present the experimental realization of a Quantum Dot (QD) operating as a high-frequency noise detector. Current fluctuations produced in a nearby Quantum Point Contact (QPC) ionize the QD and induce transport through excited states. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 E. Onac , F. Balestro , L. H. Willems van Beveren , U. Hartmann , Y. V. Nazarov , L. P. Kouwenhoven

Charge detection utilizing a highly biased quantum point contact has become the most effective probe for studying few electron quantum dot circuits. Measurements on double and triple quantum dot circuits is performed to clarify a back…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-05-04 D. Taubert , M. Pioro-Ladrière , D. Schröer , D. Harbusch , A. S. Sachrajda , S. Ludwig

Josephson junctions enable dissipation-less electrical current through metals and insulators below a critical current. Despite being central to quantum technology based on superconducting quantum bits and fundamental research into…

We consider a Hamiltonian model for a quantum dot which is placed between two superconducting leads with a constant bias imposed between these leads. Using the non-equilibrium Keldysh technique, we focus on the subgap current, where it is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-12-02 Thibaut Jonckheere , Alex Zazunov , K. Bayandin , Vitaly Shumeiko , Thierry Martin

We study theoretically transitions of a double quantum-dot qubit caused by nonequilibrium charge fluctuations in a nearby quantum point contact (QPC) used as a detector. We show that these transitions are related to the fundamental…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-05 C. E. Young , A. A. Clerk

We investigate the entanglement and the R\'enyi entropies of two electronic leads connected by a quantum point contact. For non-interacting electrons, the entropies can be related to the cumulants of the full counting statistics of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-12 Konrad H. Thomas , Christian Flindt

We report our study of the real-time charge counting statistics measured by a quantum point contact (QPC) coupled to a single quantum dot (QD) under different back-action strength. By tuning the QD-QPC coupling or QPC bias, we controlled…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 HaiOu Li , Ming Xiao , Gang Cao , Cheng Zhou , RuNan Shang , Tao Tu , GuangCan Guo , GuoPing Guo , HongWen Jiang

We investigate the charge-detection-induced dephasing of a charge qubit interacting with an electronic beam collider composed of a quantum point contact. We report that, while the qubit is dephased by the partitioned beam of uncorrelated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-10-02 Youngnae Lee , Gyong Luck Khym , Kicheon Kang

We describe a mechanism by which an electrical bias voltage applied across a unipolar semiconductor quantum well can drive an exciton or polariton supercurrent. The mechanism depends on the properties of electronic quasiparticles in quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-17 Ming Xie , David Snoke , A. H. MacDonald

We investigate electron transport in two quantum circuits with mutual Coulomb interaction. The first circuit is a double quantum dot connected to two electron reservoirs, while the second one is a quantum point contact in the weak tunneling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-29 Robert Hussein , Sigmund Kohler

We consider the counting statistics of electron transport through a double quantum dot with special emphasis on the dephasing induced by a nearby charge detector. The double dot is embedded in a dissipative enviroment, and the presence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-01-08 Alessandro Braggio , Christian Flindt , Tomas Novotny

The electron g-factor measured in a quantum point contact by source-drain bias spectroscopy is significantly larger than its value in a two-dimensional electron gas. This enhancement, established experimentally in numerous studies, is an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-12 Grégoire Vionnet , Oleg P. Sushkov