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We study correlations of spin currents flowing through a Coulomb blockaded quantum dot. While vanishing for elastic co-tunneling, these correlations develop as the quantum dot enters the Kondo regime. They are a manifestation of Kondo…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Kindermann

We study current fluctuations in an interacting three-terminal quantum dot with ferromagnetic leads. For appropriately polarized contacts, the transport through the dot is governed by a novel dynamical spin blockade, i.e., a spin-dependent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Cottet , W. Belzig , C. Bruder

Double quantum dot systems in the spin blockade regime exhibit leakage currents that have been attributed to the Hyperfine interaction. We model weakly coupled double-dot transport using a rate equation approach which accounts for Hyperfine…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Inarrea , C. Lopez-Monis , A. H. MacDonald , G. Platero

We study spin-resolved noise in Coulomb blockaded double quantum dots coupled to ferromagnetic electrodes. The modulation of the interdot coupling and spin polarization in the electrodes gives rise to an intriguing dynamical spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 JunYan Luo , HuJun Jiao , BiTao Xiong , Xiao-Ling He , Changrong Wang

We develop a theoretical description of transport through quantum dots connected to reservoirs via spin-polarized ballistic contacts. Rate equations account for spin accumulation inside the dot, electron-electron interactions, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Eugene G. Mishchenko , Arne Brataas , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

Self-sustained current oscillation observed in spin-blockaded double quantum dots is explained as a consequence of periodic motion of dynamically polarized nuclear spins (along a limit cycle) in the spin-blockaded regime under an external…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 B. Hu , X. R. Wang

We analyzed the electronic transport through a double quantum dot in the spin blockade regime. Experiments of current rectification by Pauli exclusion principle in double quantum dots were discussed. The electron and nuclei spin dynamics…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-08-22 Jesus Inarrea , Gloria Platero , A. H. MacDonald

We calculate spin relaxation rates in lateral quantum dot systems due to electron exchange between dots and leads. Using rate equations, we develop a theoretical description of the experimentally observed electric current in the spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-12-08 A. B. Vorontsov , M. G. Vavilov

We present studies of the Coulomb blockade and Kondo regimes of transport through a quantum dot connected to current leads through spin-polarizing quantum point contacts (QPCs). This structure, arising from the effect of lateral spin-orbit…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-12-21 Anh T. Ngo , Edson Vernek , Sergio E. Ulloa

We analyze experimentally and theoretically the transport spectra of a gated lateral GaAs double quantum dot containing two holes. The strong spin-orbit interaction present in the hole subband lifts the Pauli spin blockade and allows to map…

Spin qubits based on interacting spins in double quantum dots have been successfully demonstrated. Readout of the qubit state involves a conversion of spin to charge information, universally achieved by taking advantage of a spin blockade…

Non-equilibrium spin transport through an interacting quantum dot is analyzed. The coherent spin oscillations in the dot provide a generating source for spin current. In the interacting regime, the Kondo effect is influenced in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ping Zhang , Qi-Kun Xue , X. C. Xie

We propose a mechanism for very slow coherent oscillations of current and nuclear spins in a quantum dot system, that may qualitatively explain some recent experimental observations. We concentrate on an experimentally relevant double dot…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sigurdur I. Erlingsson , Oleg N. Jouravlev , Yuli V. Nazarov

As devices to control spin currents using the spin-orbit interaction are proposed and implemented, it is important to understand the fluctuations that spin-orbit coupling can impose on transmission through a quantum dot. Using random matrix…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Jacob J. Krich

The charge transport of a serially coupled quantum dots (SCQD) connected to the metallic electrodes is theoretically investigated in the Coulomb blockade regime. A closed-form expression for the tunneling current of SCQD in the {\color{red}…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 David M. -T. Kuo , Shiue-Yuan , Yia-chung Chang

This article reviews steady-state spin densities and spin currents in materials with strong spin-orbit interactions. These phenomena are intimately related to spin precession due to spin-orbit coupling which has no equivalent in the steady…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Dimitrie Culcer

We study the full counting statistics of electronic transport through a single-level quantum dot weakly coupled to two leads, with either one or both of them being ferromagnetic. The interplay of Coulomb interaction and finite spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-06-05 Stephan Lindebaum , Daniel Urban , Jürgen König

We investigate the persistent current influenced by the spin fluctuations in a mesoscopic ring weakly coupled to a quantum dot. It is shown that the Kondo effect gives rise to some unusual features of the persistent current in the limit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Sam Young Cho , Kicheon Kang , Chul Koo Kim , Chang-Mo Ryu

We present a theory of Coulomb blockade oscillations in tunneling through a pair of quantum dots connected by a tunable tunneling junction. The positions and amplitudes of peaks in the linear conductance are directly related, respectively,…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 K. A. Matveev , L. I. Glazman , H. U. Baranger

Spin rotations induced by an AC electric field in a two-electron double quantum dot are studied by an exact numerical solution of the time dependent Schroedinger equation in the context of recent electric dipole spin resonance experiments…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-24 M. P. Nowak , B. Szafran , F. M. Peeters