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We obtain and analyze the effect of electron-electron Coulomb interaction on the time dependent current flowing through a mesoscopic system connected to biased semi-infinite leads. We assume the contact is gradually switched on in time and…

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We investigate Aharonov-Bohm oscillations of the current through a strongly correlated quantum dot embedded in an arbitrary scattering geometry. Resonant-tunneling processes lead to a flux-dependent renormalization of the dot level. As a…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 C. Bruder , Rosario Fazio , Herbert Schoeller

We find the nonlinear conductance of a dissipative resonant level in the nonequilibrium steady state near its quantum critical point. The system consists of a spin-polarized quantum dot connected to two resistive leads that provide ohmic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-15 Gu Zhang , E. Novais , Harold U. Baranger

We study non-equilibrium electron transport through a quantum dot coupled to metallic leads. We use an alternative equation of motion approach in which we calculate the retarded Green function of the impurity by differentiating Green…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-23 Grzegorz Górski , Jerzy Mizia , Krzysztof Kucab

We study a double quantum dot (DQD) coupled to a strongly biased quantum point contact (QPC), each embedded in independent electric circuits. For weak interdot tunnelling we observe a finite current flowing through the unbiased Coulomb…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. S. Khrapai , S. Ludwig , J. P. Kotthaus , H. P. Tranitz , W. Wegscheider

We study transport through a quantum dot side-coupled to two parallel Luttinger liquid leads in the presence of a Coulombic dot-lead interaction. This geometry enables an exact treatment of the inter-lead Coulomb interactions. We find that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Florian Elste , David Reichman , Andrew Millis

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…

Time-dependent transport through two capacitively coupled quantum dots is studied in the framework of the generalized master equation. The Coulomb interaction is included within the exact diagonalization method. Each dot is connected to two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-24 Valeriu Moldoveanu , Andrei Manolescu , Vidar Gudmundsson

Using Green's function equation of motion within Lacroix decoupling scheme, we examine the thermoelectric transport features of a strongly interacting quantum dot coupled between metallic leads. We demonstrate that a qualitative description…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-22 Sachin Verma , B. S. Tewari , A. Dhyani , Ajay

A fully analytical approach based on the equation of motion technique to investigate the spectral properties and orbital occupations in an interacting double quantum dot in equilibrium is presented. By solving a linear system for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-13 Nahual Sobrino , David Jacob , Stefan Kurth

We analyze the time-evolution of a quantum dot which is proximized by a large-gap superconductor and weakly probed using the charge and heat currents into a wide-band metal electrode. We map out the full time dependence of these currents…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-23 Lara C. Ortmanns , Janine Splettstoesser , Maarten R. Wegewijs

A detailed investigation of the non-equilibrium steady-state electric and thermoelectric transport properties of a quantum dot coupled to the normal metallic and s-wave superconducting reservoirs (N-QD-S) are provided within the Coulomb…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-22 Sachin Verma , Ajay

Using a time-dependent Anderson Hamiltonian, a quantum dot with an ac voltage applied to a nearby gate is investigated. A rich dependence of the linear response conductance on the external frequency and driving amplitude is demonstrated. At…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter Nordlander , Ned S. Wingreen , Yigal Meir , David C. Langreth

We study a steady state non-equilibrium transport between two interacting helical edge states of a two dimensional topological insulator, described by helical Luttinger liquids, through a quantum dot. For non-interacting dot the current is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-09-02 Sung-Po Chao , Salman A. Silotri , Chung-Hou Chung

Employing the Anderson impurity model, we study tunneling properties through an ideal quantum dot near the conductance minima. Considering the Coulomb blockade and the quantum confinement on an equal footing, we have obtained current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Kicheon Kang , B. I. Min

We study theoretically a quantum dot in the quantum Hall regime that is strongly coupled to a single lead via a point contact. We find that even when the transmission through the point contact is perfect, important features of the Coulomb…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Hangmo Yi , C. L. Kane

We develop a non-equilibrium theory to describe weak Coulomb blockade effects in open quantum dots. Working within the bosonized description of electrons in the point contacts, we expose deficiencies in earlier applications of this method,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Piet W. Brouwer , Austen Lamacraft , Karsten Flensberg

We study the non-equilibrium dynamics of a spinful single-orbital quantum dot with an incorporated quantum mechanical spin-1/2 magnetic impurity. Due to the spin degeneracy, double occupancy is allowed, and Coulomb interaction together with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-30 Daniel Becker , Stephan Weiss , Michael Thorwart , Daniela Pfannkuche

We have measured the low-temperature transport properties of a quantum dot formed in a one-dimensional channel. In zero magnetic field this device shows quantized ballistic conductance plateaus with resonant tunneling peaks in each…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 C. -T. Liang , I. M. Castleton , J. E. F. Frost , C. H. W. Barnes , C. G. Smith , C. J. B. Ford , D. A. Ritchie , M. Pepper

We investigated the peculiarities of non-equilibrium charge states and spin configurations in the system of two strongly coupled quantum dots (QDs) weakly connected to the electrodes in the presence of Coulomb correlations. We analyzed the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-12-19 P. I. Arseyev , N. S. Maslova , V. N. Mantsevich