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We consider electrical transport through single molecules coupled to metal electrodes via tunneling barriers. Approximating the molecule by the Anderson impurity model as the simplest model which includes Coulomb charging effects, we extend…

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We present explicit kinetic equations for quantum transport through a general molecular quantum-dot, accounting for all contributions up to 4th order perturbation theory in the tunneling Hamiltonian and the complete molecular density…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Leijnse , M. R. Wegewijs

We derive the symmetrized current-noise spectrum of a quantum dot, which is weakly tunnel-coupled to an electron reservoir and driven by a slow time-dependent gate voltage. This setup can be operated as an on-demand emitter of single…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-12 Niklas Dittmann , Janine Splettstoesser

We study Cooper pair transport through a quantum point contact between a superconductor and a quantum Hall edge state at integer and fractional filling factors. We calculate the tunnelling current and its finite-frequency noise to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-09 Andreas B. Michelsen , Thomas L. Schmidt , Edvin G. Idrisov

The interplay between vibrational modes and Kondo physics is a fundamental aspect of transport properties of correlated molecular conductors. We present theoretical results for a single molecule in the Kondo regime connected to left and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-05-18 Luis G. Dias da Silva , Elbio Dagotto

In this paper we investigate the spin-current and its shot-noise spectrum in a single-molecule quantum dot coupled with a local phonon mode. We pay special attention on the effect of phonon on the quantum transport property. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Hui Yu , J. -Q. Liang

We present a theoretical study of current noise of a resonant tunnel junction coupled to a nanomechanical oscillator within the non-equilibrium Green's function technique. An arbitrary voltage is applied to the tunnel junction and electrons…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-21 M. Tahir , A. MacKinnon

We study resonant tunneling through a single-level quantum dot in the presence of strong Coulomb repulsion beyond the perturbative regime. The level is either spin-degenerate or can be split by a magnetic field. We, furthermore, discuss the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Jürgen König , Jörg Schmid , Herbert Schoeller , Gerd Schön

We analyze resonant tunneling subject to a non-adiabatic time-dependent bias-voltage through an asymmetric single molecular quantum dot with coupling between the electronic and vibrational degrees of freedom using a {\em Tien-Gordon-type}…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Bing Dong , X. L. Lei , N. J. M. Horing

We investigate the effect of quantisation of vibrational modes on a system in which the transport path is through a quantum dot mounted on a cantilever or spring such that tunnelling to and from the dot is modulated by the oscillation. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 Angus MacKinnon , Andrew D Armour

We investigate the transient effects occurring in a molecular quantum dot described by an Anderson-Holstein Hamiltonian which is instantly coupled to two fermionic leads biased by a finite voltage. In the limit of weak electron-phonon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-03-30 R. -P. Riwar , T. L. Schmidt

We study resonant tunneling through a quantum dot with one degenerate level in the presence of a strong Coulomb repulsion and a bosonic environment. Using a real-time approach we calculate the spectral density and the nonlinear current…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Jürgen König , Herbert Schoeller , Gerd Schön

Quantum shot noise probes the dynamics of charge transfers through a quantum conductor, reflecting whether quasiparticles flow across the conductor in a steady stream, or in syncopated bursts. We have performed high-sensitivity shot noise…

We investigate transport through a mononuclear transition-metal complex with strong tunnel coupling to two electrodes. The ground state of this molecule is a singlet while the first excited state is a triplet. We show that a modulation of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Kikoin , M. N. Kiselev , M. R. Wegewijs

In the literature, the study of electron transport in quantum devices is mainly devoted to DC properties. The fluctuations of the electrical current around these DC values, the so-called quantum noise, are much less analyzed. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-11 Damiano Marian , Enrique Colomés , Zhen Zhan , Xavier Oriols

Based on exactly mapping of a many-body electron-phonon interaction problem onto a one-body problem, we apply the well-established nonequilibrium Green function technique to solve the time-dependent phonon-assisted tunneling at low…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Bing Dong , H. L. Cui , X. L. Lei

By using a propagation scheme for current matrices and an auxiliary mode expansion method, we investigate the transient dynamics of a single molecular junction coupled with a vibrational mode. Our approach is based on the Anderson-Holstein…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-17 Guo-Hui Ding , Bo Xiong , Bing Dong

The interplay between discrete vibrational and electronic degrees of freedom directly influences the chemical and physical properties of molecular systems. This coupling is typically studied through optical methods such as fluorescence,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. J. LeRoy , S. G. Lemay , J. Kong , C. Dekker

We study charge transport through a chain of quantum dots. The dots are fully coherent among each other and weakly coupled to metallic electrodes via the dots at the interface, thus modelling a molecular wire. If the non-local Coulomb…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 J. Aghassi , A. Thielmann , M. H. Hettler , G. Schön

We consider the problem of shot noise in resonant tunneling through double quantum dots in the case of interacting particles. Using a many-body quantum mechanical description we evaluate the energy dependent transmission probability, the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Brahim Elattari , S. A. Gurvitz