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Magnetization measurements of a truly axial symmetry Mn12-tBuAc molecular nanomagnet with a spin ground state of S = 10 show resonance tunneling. This compound has the same magnetic anisotropy as Mn12-Ac but the molecules are better…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 W. Wernsdorfer , M. Murugesu , G. Christou

We develop in this work a simple qualitative quantum electron transport model, in the strong light-matter coupling regime under dipole approximation, able to capture polaritonic signatures in the time-dependent electrical current. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-07 Carlos F. Destefani , Matteo Villani , Xavier Cartoixà , Michael Feiginov , Xavier Oriols

We demonstrate that transport spectroscopy of single molecular magnets shows signatures of quantum tunneling at low temperatures. We find current and noise oscillations as function of bias voltage due to a weak violation of spin selection…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 C. Romeike , M. R. Wegewijs , H. Schoeller

We report on the charge carrier dynamics in single lateral quantum dot molecules and the effect of an applied electric field on the molecular states. Controllable electron tunneling manifests itself in a deviation from the typical excitonic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-29 C. Hermannstädter , G. J. Beirne , M. Witzany , M. Heldmaier , J. Peng , G. Bester , L. Wang , A. Rastelli , O. G. Schmidt , P. Michler

We investigate the dynamics of interacting electrons confined to two types of quantum dot system, when driven by an external AC field. We first consider a system of two electrons confined to a pair of coupled quantum dots by using an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-21 C. E. Creffield , G. Platero

We investigate the non-equilibrium charge dynamics of a triple quantum dot and demonstrate how electron transport through these systems can give rise to non-trivial tunnelling paths. Using a real-time charge sensing method we establish…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-13 M. A. Broome , S. K. Gorman , J. G. Keizer , T. F. Watson , S. J. Hile , W. J. Baker , M. Y. Simmons

We investigate dynamic properties of inhomogeneous nano-materials, which appear in analytical descriptions typically as series of $\delta$-functions with corresponding Gibbs weights. We focus on observables relevant for transport theories…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-14 N. M. Chtchelkatchev , A. Glatz

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

We present a detailed study of the surface acoustic wave mediated quantized transport of electrons through a split gate device containing an impurity potential defined quantum dot within the split gate channel. A new regime of quantized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 N. E. Fletcher , J. Ebbecke , T. J. B. M. Janssen , F. J. Ahlers , M. Pepper , H. E. Beere , D. A. Ritchie

We study the dynamics of an atomic quantum dot, i.e. a single atom in a tight optical trap which is coupled to a superfluid reservoir via laser transitions. Quantum interference between the collisional interactions and the laser induced…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-24 A. Recati , P. O. Fedichev , W. Zwerger , J. von Delft , P. Zoller

We consider the transport through a system of three coupled quantum dots in a perpendicular magnetic field. At zero field, destructive interference can trap an electron in a dark state -- a coherent superposition of dot states that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Clive Emary

The non-perturbation theory of electronic dynamic conductivity for open two-barrier resonance tunnel structure is established for the first time within the model of rectangular potentials and different effective masses of electrons in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-22 M. V. Tkach , Ju. O. Seti , O. M. Voitsekhivska

Stationary electric transport in semiconductor nanostructures is studied by the method of nonequilibrium Green functions. In the case of sequential tunneling the results are compared with density matrix theory, providing almost identical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-09-12 Andreas Wacker

We present measurements of transport through two tunnel-coupled quantum dots of different sizes connected in series in a strong, variable, perpendicular magnetic field. Double dot conductance was measured both as a function of magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 C. Livermore , D. S. Duncan , R. M. Westervelt , K. D. Maranowski , A. C. Gossard

Nonreciprocal effects in nanoelectronic devices offer unique possibilities for manipulating electron transport and engineering quantum electronic circuits for information processing purposes. However, a lack of rigorous theoretical tools is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-15 Junjie Liu , Dvira Segal

We use Scanning Gate Microscopy to study electron transport through an open, gate-defined resonator in a Ga(Al)As heterostructure. Raster-scanning the voltage-biased metallic tip above the resonator, we observe distinct conductance…

We investigate electron transport through an antidot embedded in a narrow strip of two-dimensional topological insulator. We focus on the most generic and experimentally relevant case with broken axial spin symmetry. Spin-non-conservation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-19 Alexia Rod , Giacomo Dolcetto , Stephan Rachel , Thomas L. Schmidt

The phenomenon of spin transfer torque (STT) has attracted a great deal of interests due to its promising prospects in practical spintronic devices. In this paper, we report a theoretical investigation of STT in a noncollinear magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-17 Xiaobin Chen , Chenyi Zhou , Zhaohui Zhang , Jingzhe Chen , Xiaohong Zheng , Lei Zhang , Can-Ming Hu , Hong Guo

We developed the theory of elastic electron tunneling through a potential barrier driven by a strong high-frequency electromagnetic field. It is demonstrated that the driven barrier can be considered as a stationary two-barrier potential…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-13 M. V. Boev , V. M. Kovalev , O. V. Kibis