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The many-body state of carriers confined in a quantum dot is controlled by the balance between their kinetic energy and their Coulomb correlation. In coupled quantum dots, both can be tuned by varying the inter-dot tunneling and…

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A many-body theory of molecular junction transport based on nonequilibrium Green's functions is developed, which treats coherent quantum effects and Coulomb interactions on an equal footing. The central quantity of the many-body theory is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-07 J. P. Bergfield , C. A. Stafford

In one-dimensional waveguide quantum electrodynamics systems, quantum emitters interact through infinite-range, dispersive, and dissipative dipole-dipole interactions mediated by guided photonic modes. These interactions give rise to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-13 Wei Chen , Guin-Dar Lin , H. H. Jen

We consider the transport spectroscopy of a quantum dot with an even number of electrons at finite bias voltage within the Coulomb blockade diamond. We calculate the tunneling current due to the elastic and inelastic co-tunneling processes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. R. Wegewijs , Yu. V. Nazarov

We present experimental studies of the current pumped through a dynamic quantum dot over a wide range of magnetic fields. At low fields we observe repeatable structure indicating increased confinement of the electrons in the dynamic dot. At…

We report a numerical study of transport properties of a quantum dot with superconducting leads. We introduce a general phenomenological model of quantum dot transport, in which electron tunnel rates are computed within the Fermi's Golden…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 C. B. Whan , T. P. Orlando

We show both theoretically and experimentally that scanning tunneling spectroscopy (STS) images of semiconductor quantum dots may display clear signatures of electron-electron correlation. We apply many-body tunneling theory to a realistic…

By viewing the non-equilibrium transport setup as a quantum open system, we propose a reduced-density-matrix based quantum transport formalism. At the level of self-consistent Born approximation, it can precisely account for the correlation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Ping Cui , Xin-Qi Li , Jiushu Shao , YiJing Yan

Quantum dots are versatile systems for exploring quantum transport, electron correlations, and many-body phenomena such as the Kondo effect. While equilibrium properties are well understood through methods like the numerical renormalization…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-06 Gustavo Diniz , Silvio Quintino , Vivian V. França

We study electronic configurations in a single pair of vertically coupled self-assembled InAs quantum dots, holding just a few electrons. By comparing the experimental data of non-linear single-electron transport spectra in a magnetic field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 T. Ota , M. Rontani , S. Tarucha , Y. Nakata , H. Z. Song , T. Miyazawa , T. Usuki , M. Takatsu , N. Yokoyama

We present a low-temperature experimental test of the fluctuation theorem for electron transport through a double quantum dot. The rare entropy-consuming system trajectories are detected in the form of single charges flowing against the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-20 B. Küng , C. Rössler , M. Beck , M. Marthaler , D. S. Golubev , Y. Utsumi , T. Ihn , K. Ensslin

The conductance through a finite quantum dot network is studied as a function of inter-dot coupling. As the coupling is reduced, the system undergoes a transition from the antidot regime to the tight binding limit, where Coulomb resonances…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 August Dorn , Thomas Ihn , Klaus Ensslin , Werner Wegscheider , Max Bichler

We report transport measurements on a semiconductor quantum dot with a small number of confined electrons. In the Coulomb blockade regime, conduction is dominated by cotunneling processes. These can be either elastic or inelastic, depending…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. De Franceschi , S. Sasaki , J. M. Elzerman , W. G. van der Wiel , S. Tarucha , L. P. Kouwenhoven

A strong coupling between an electronic cavity and a quantum dot has been recently demonstrated [Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 166603 (2015)] and described in a comprehensive theoretical framework [Phys. Rev. B 96, 235431 (2017)]. Here, we focus on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-22 Michael Sven Ferguson , Clemens Rössler , Thomas Ihn , Klaus Ensslin , Gianni Blatter , Oded Zilberberg

We report the observation of unconventional transport phenomena in a spin-1 model that supports a tower of quantum many-body scars, and we discuss their properties uncovering their peculiar nature. In quantum many-body systems, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-31 Gianluca Morettini , Luca Capizzi , Maurizio Fagotti , Leonardo Mazza

Quasi-static transport measurements are employed to characterize a few electron quantum dot electrostatically defined in a GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructure. The gate geometry allows observations on one and the same electron droplet within a wide…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-08-19 A. K. Huettel , K. Eberl , S. Ludwig

Effects of the electron-electron interaction on tunneling in a semiconductor nanowhisker are studied in a magnetic quantum limit. We consider the system with which bulk and edge states coexist. In bulk states, the temperature dependence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Toshihiro Kubo , Yasuhiro Tokura

We address the problem of non-linear transport through discrete electronic levels in a small quantum dot coupled to superconducting electrodes. In our approach the low temperature I-V characteristics can be calculated including all multiple…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-28 A. Levy Yeyati , J. C. Cuevas , A. Lopez-Davalos , A. Martin-Rodero

We investigate the time-dependent, coherent, and dissipative dynamics of bound particles in single multilevel quantum dots in the presence of sequential tunnelling transport. We focus on the nonequilibrium regime where several channels are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-02-11 Eduardo Vaz , Jordan Kyriakidis

We investigate to which extent a many-body Bloch-Redfield master equation description of quantum transport is consistent with the exact generalized equilibrium conditions known as exchange fluctuation theorems. Thereby we identify a class…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-23 Robert Hussein , Sigmund Kohler