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The dynamics of charge qubit in double quantum dot coupled to phonons is investigated theoretically. The static bias is considered. By means of the perturbation approach based on unitary transformations, the dynamical tunneling current is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Xiufeng Cao , Hang Zheng

We study the influence of phonon scattering on the single-triplet measurement of two-electron spin states in a double quantum dot doped with two electrons. We point out that at low temperatures phonon-induced relaxation to the ground state…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-25 Łukasz Marcinowski , Katarzyna Roszak , Paweł Machnikowski , Mateusz Krzyżosiak

We investigate the nonequilibrium transport properties of a three-terminal quantum dot in the strongly interacting limit. At low temperatures, a Kondo resonance arises from the antiferromagnetic coupling between the localized electron in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 David Sanchez , Rosa Lopez

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…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Axel Thielmann , Matthias H. Hettler , Jürgen König , Gerd Schön

Differences in the confinement of electrons and holes in quantum dots are shown to profoundly impact the magnitude of scattering with acoustic phonons in materials where crystal deformation shifts the conduction and valence band in the same…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-03 A. Nysteen , P. Kaer , J. Mork

The spin-polarized transport through a coherent strongly coupled double quantum dot (DQD) system is analyzed theoretically in the sequential and cotunneling regimes. Using the real-time diagrammatic technique, we analyze the current,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 I. Weymann

In this paper, we investigate the quantum transport of a double quantum dot coupled with a nanomechanical resonator at arbitrary strong electron-phonon coupling regimes. We employ the generalized quantum master equation to study full…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-22 Chen Wang , Jie Ren , Baowen Li , Qing-Hu Chen

The shot noise produced by tunneling of electrons and holes into a double dot system incorporated inside a p-i-n junction is investigated theoretically. The enhancement of the shot noise is shown to originate from the entangled…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Y. N. Chen , T. Brandes , C. M. Li , D. S. Chuu

We report on simulations of the degree of polarization entanglement of photon pairs simultaneously emitted from a quantum dot-cavity system that demand revisiting the role of phonons. Since coherence is a fundamental precondition for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-26 Tim Seidelmann , Florian Ungar , Andreas M. Barth , Alexei Vagov , Vollrath Martin Axt , Moritz Cygorek , Tilmann Kuhn

Quantum dots (QDs) investigated through electron transport measurements often exhibit varying, state-dependent tunnel couplings to the leads. Under specific conditions, weakly coupled states can result in a strong suppression of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-07 M. -C. Harabula , V. Ranjan , R. Haller , G. Fülöp , C. Schönenberger

We study charge entanglement in two Coulomb-coupled double quantum dots in thermal equilibrium and under stationary non-equilibrium transport conditions. In the transport regime, the entanglement exhibits a clear switching threshold and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 N. Lambert , R. Aguado , T. Brandes

We predict a new electron pair-tunneling (PT) resonance in non-linear transport through quantum dots with positive charging energies exceeding the broadening due to thermal and quantum fluctuations. The PT resonance shows up in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-10 M. Leijnse , M. R. Wegewijs , M. H. Hettler

The shot noise in tunneling experiments reflects the Poissonian nature of the tunneling process. The shot noise power is proportional to both the magnitude of the current and the effective charge of the carrier. Shot noise spectroscopy thus…

Semiconductor quantum dots have emerged as an especially promising platform for the generation of polarization-entangled photon pairs. However, it was demonstrated recently that the two-photon excitation scheme employed in state-of-the-art…

In this work, we have investigated conduction through an artificial molecule comprising two coupled quantum dots. The question addressed is the role of inter-dot coupling on electronic transport. We find that the current through the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-09-22 M. Imran , B. Tariq , M. Tahir , K. Sabeeh

Experimental investigations of current shot noise in quantum point contacts show a reduction of the noise near the 0.7 anomaly. It is demonstrated that such a reduction naturally arises in a model proposed recently to explain the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Golub , T. Aono , Yigal Meir

Coupling a quantum system to a bosonic environment always give rise to inelastic processes, which reduce the coherency of the system. We measure energy dependent rates for inelastic tunneling processes in a fully controllable two-level…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Toshimasa Fujisawa , Wilfred G. van der Wiel , Leo P. Kouwenhoven

In this paper, we present theoretical investigation of the zero-frequency shot noise spectra in electron tunneling through an interacting quantum dot connected to two ferromagnetic leads with possibility of spin-flip scattering between the…

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

We present non-perturbative solutions for multi-level quantum dot structures coupled to interacting one-dimensional electrodes out of equilibrium. At a special correlation strength the Hamiltonian can be mapped to the Kondo problem which…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Komnik , A. O. Gogolin

We study theoretically the full counting statistics of electron transport through side-coupled double quantum dot (QD) based on an efficient particle-number-resolved master equation. It is demonstrated that the high-order cumulants of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-02 Hai-Bin Xue