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We study linear electron transport through a single-molecule magnet (SMM) and the interplay of its anisotropic spin with quantized vibrational distortions of the molecule. We show that, despite the longitudinal anisotropy barrier and small…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-02-15 F. May , M. R. Wegewijs , W. Hofstetter

We formulate the problem of electron transport through a single-molecule magnet (SMM) in the Coulomb blockade regime taking into account topological interference effects for the tunneling of the large spin of a SMM. The interference…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Gabriel Gonzalez , Michael N. Leuenberger

We investigate a lateral semiconductor quantum dot with a large number of electrons in the limit of strong coupling to the leads. A Kondo effect is observed and can be tuned in a perpendicular magnetic field. This Kondo effect does not…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 C. Fuhner , U. F. Keyser , R. J. Haug , D. Reuter , A. D. Wieck

We demonstrate theoretically how the Kondo effect may be observed in the transport of spinless electrons through a quantum dot. The role of conduction electron spin is played by a lead index. The Kondo effect takes place if there are two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. G. Silvestrov , Y. Imry

We investigate the spin-resolved transport properties, such as the linear conductance and the tunnel magnetoresistance, of a double quantum dot device attached to ferromagnetic leads and look for signatures of SU(4) symmetry in the Kondo…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 Ireneusz Weymann , Razvan Chirla , Piotr Trocha , Catalin Pascu Moca

We study the Kondo effect in a quantum dot coupled to half-metallic ferromagnetic electrodes in the regime of strong on-dot correlations. Using the equation of motion technique for nonequilibrium Green functions in the slave boson…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Mariusz Krawiec

We present a general description of low temperature transport through a quantum dot with any number of electrons at filling factor $1<\nu <2$. We provide a general description of a novel Kondo effect which is turned on by application of an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 C. Tejedor , L. Martin-Moreno

Equilibrium transport properties of a single-level quantum dot tunnel-coupled to ferromagnetic leads and exchange-coupled to a side nonmagnetic reservoir are analyzed theoretically in the Kondo regime. The equilibrium spectral functions and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Ireneusz Weymann , Jozef Barnas

We analyze the equilibrium transport properties of underscreened Kondo effect in the case of a two-level quantum dot coupled to ferromagnetic leads. Using the numerical renormalization group (NRG) method, we have determined the gate voltage…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Ireneusz Weymann , Laszlo Borda

The interplay between magnetic field and microwave applied in a single-electron transistor(SET) has a profound influence on the Kondo effect, as shown in a recent experiment[B. Hemingway, S. Herbert, M. Melloch and A. Kogan,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-06-26 Zhan Cao , Chen Cheng , Fu-Zhou Chen , Hong-Gang Luo

The Kondo effect in coupled quantum dots is investigated theoretically under magnetic fields. We show that the magnetoconductance (MC) illustrates peak structures of the Kondo resonant spectra. When the dot-dot tunneling coupling $V_C$ is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tomosuke Aono , Mikio Eto

We study the spin-resolved transport through single-level quantum dots strongly coupled to ferromagnetic leads in the Kondo regime, with a focus on contact and material asymmetry-related effects. By using the numerical renormalization group…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 K. P. Wojcik , I. Weymann , J. Barnas

We study peculiarities of transport through a Coulomb blockade system tuned to the vicinity of the spin transition in its ground state. Such transitions can be induced in practice by application of a magnetic field. Tunneling of electrons…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Pustilnik , L. I. Glazman

Kondo effect originates from antiferromagnetic (AFM) s-d coupling between magnetic impurity and the conduction electron, while it will be totally quenched in ferromagnetic (FM) regime due to malfunction of spin-flip. We investigate the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-11-30 B. Q. Song , L. D. Pan , S. X. Du

We study the nonequilibrium spin transport through a quantum dot containing two spin levels coupled to the magnetic electrodes. A formula for the spin-dependent current is obtained and is applied to discuss the linear conductance and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ping Zhang , Qi-Kun Xue , Yu-Peng Wang , X. C. Xie

Molecular electronics offers unique scientific and technological possibilities, resulting from both the nanometre scale of the devices and their reproducible chemical complexity. Two fundamental yet different effects, with no classical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-12 Andrew K. Mitchell , Kim G. L. Pedersen , Per Hedegaard , Jens Paaske

We present the first quantitative experimental evidence for the underscreened Kondo effect, an uncomplete compensation of a quantized magnetic moment by conduction electrons, as originally proposed by Nozieres and Blandin. The device…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Nicolas Roch , Serge Florens , Theo A. Costi , Wolfgang Wernsdorfer , Franck Balestro

In this article, we study the quantum transport through a single-level quantum-dot in Kondo regime, coupled to current leads and embedded between two one-dimensional topological superconductors, each hosting Majorana zero modes at their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-24 G. A. Lara , J. P. Ramos-Andrade , D. Zambrano , P. A. Orellana

We study the Kondo effect in the electron transport through a quantum dot coupled to ferromagnetic leads, using a real-time diagrammatic technique which provides a systematic description of the nonequilibrium dynamics of a system with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yasuhiro Utsumi , Jan Martinek , Gerd Schön , Hiroshi Imamura , Sadamichi Maekawa

The usual Kondo-lattice, including an antiferromagnetic exchange interaction between nearest-neighboring localized spins, is treated here in a mean-field scheme that introduces two mean-field parameters: one associated with the local Kondo…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 A. R. Ruppenthal , J. R. Iglesias , M. A. Gusmão