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In this article we present a novel semi-analytical approach to calculate first-order electron-vibration coupling constants within the framework of density functional theory. It combines analytical expressions for the first-order derivative…

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Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-26 Chikako Uchiyama , William J. Munro , Kae Nemoto

Current auto- and cross-correlations are studied in a system of two capacitively coupled quantum dots. We are interested in a role of Coulomb interaction in dynamical correlations, which occur outside the Coulomb blockade region (for high…

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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…

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A unified description of multitime correlation functions, nonlinear response functions, and quantum measurements is developed using a common generating function which allows a direct comparison of their information content. A general formal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Shaul Mukamel

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Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-09 Nathan Ho , Clive Emary

The problem of electron transport by means of a dumbbell shaped shuttle in strong Coulomb blockade regime is solved. The electrons may be shuttled only in the cotunneling regime during the time spans when both shoulders of the shuttle…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Guy Z. Cohen , V. Fleurov , K. Kikoin

We review our recent studies on the Kondo effect in the tunneling phenomena through quantum dot systems. Numerical methods to calculate reliable tunneling conductance are developed. In the first place, a case in which electrons of odd…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Osamu Sakai , Wataru Izumida

We study the effect of electron tunneling on the level statistics of quantum dots. While the coupling between individual levels and the electron reservoir leads predominantly to the expected level broadening, the indirect coupling of…

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A general theoretical formulation for the effect of a strong on-site Coulomb interaction on the time-dependent electron transport through a quantum dot under the influence of arbitrary time-varying bias voltages and/or external fields is…

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We analyze the effect of electron-phonon coupling on the full counting statistics of a molecular junction beyond the lowest order perturbation theory. Our approach allows to take into account analytically the feedback between the…

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