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Electronic transport through a quantum dot strongly coupled to electrodes is studied within a model with two conduction channels. It is shown that multiple scattering and interference of transmitted waves through both channels lead to Fano…

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The dynamics of charge qubit in a double quantum dot coupled to phonons is investigated theoretically in terms of a perturbation treatment based on a unitary transformation. The dynamical tunneling current is obtained explicitly. The result…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Zhuo-Jie Wu , Ka-Di Zhu , Xiao-Zhong Yuan , Yi-Wen Jiang , Hang Zheng

We investigate single-electron transport through quantum dots with negative charging energy induced by a polaronic energy shift. For weak dot-lead tunnel couplings, we demonstrate a bipolaronic blockade effect at low biases which suppresses…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Tie-Feng Fang , Shu-Feng Zhang , Chun-Jiang Niu , Qing-feng Sun

We present a technique to calculate the transport properties through one-dimensional models of molecular wires. The calculations include inelastic electron scattering due to electron-lattice interaction. The coupling between the electron…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 H. Ness , S. A. Shevlin , A. J. Fisher

Based on exactly mapping of a many-body electron-phonon interaction problem onto a one-body problem, we apply the well-established nonequilibrium Green function technique to solve the time-dependent phonon-assisted tunneling at low…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Bing Dong , H. L. Cui , X. L. Lei

In this article, we review recent work about time dependent quantum transport through a quantum dot in Kondo regime. This represents a major step towards designing next generation transistors that are expected to replace current MOSFET's in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-13 Ali Goker , Elif Gedik

The electron motion in rather strong magnetic fields (when only the lowest Landau level is populated) is considered. In this case the electron kinetic energy is frozen out and the electrons are guided by slowly varied potential. Using the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Matulis

We study the Kondo effect in a quantum dot which is coupled to ferromagnetic leads and analyse its properties as a function of the spin polarization of the leads. Based on a scaling approach we predict that for parallel alignment of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Martinek , Y. Utsumi , H. Imamura , J. Barnas , S. Maekawa , J. König , G. Schön

We use a configuration-interaction approach and Fermi golden rule to investigate electron-phonon interaction in realistic multi-electron quantum dots. Lifetimes are computed in the low-density, highly correlated regime. We report numerical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Bertoni , M. Rontani , G. Goldoni , E. Molinari

Evidence for strong electron-phonon coupling in high-Tc cuprates is reviewed, with emphasis on the electron and phonon spectral functions. Effects due to the interplay between the Coulomb and electron-phonon interactions are studied. For…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-01-17 O. Gunnarsson , O. Rösch

We investigate the influences of the electron-phonon interaction on the transport properties of one quantum-dot system with a side-coupled Majorana zero mode (MZM). Our calculation results show that at the zero-temperature limit, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-18 Xiao-Qi Wang , B. H. Wu , Shu-Feng Zhang , Qi Wang , Wei-Jiang Gong

This work establishes the algebraic structure of the Kohn-Sham equations to be solved in a density formulation of electron and phonon dynamics, including the superconducting order parameter. A Bogoliubov transform is required to diagonalize…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-03-21 Chung-Yu Wang , T. Müller , Sangeeta Sharma , E. K. U. Gross , J. K. Dewhurst

We present a theoretical description of the coupling between longitudinal optical phonons and collective excitations of a two-dimensional electron gas. By diagonalizing the Hamiltonian of the system, including Coulomb electron-electron and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-21 Sofia Ribeiro , Angela Vasanelli , Yanko Todorov , Carlo Sirtori

This article presents a systematic theoretical enquiry concerning the conceptual foundations and the nature of phonon-mediated electron-electron interactions. Starting from the fundamental many-body Hamiltonian, we propose a simple scheme…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-09-08 R. Starke , G. A. H. Schober

We report the inclusion of phonon scattering to our recently established numerical package QmeQ for transport in quantum dot systems. This enables straightforward calculations for a large variety of devices. As examples we show (i)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-19 B. Goldozian , G. Kiršanskas , F. A. Damtie , A. Wacker

In this work, a new theoretical approach to study the non-equilibrium transport properties of nanoscale systems coupled to metallic electrodes with strong electron-phonon interactions is presented. The proposed approach consists in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-31 R. Seoane Souto , A. Levy Yeyati , A. Martín-Rodero , R. C. Monreal

Few-electron systems confined in a quantum dot laterally coupled to a surrounding quantum ring in the presence of an external magnetic field are studied by exact diagonalization. The distribution of electrons between the dot and the ring is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 B. Szafran , F. M. Peeters , S. Bednarek

By measuring the thermoelectric effect in high-mobility quantum wells with two occupied subbands in perpendicular magnetic field, we detect magnetophonon oscillations due to interaction of electrons with acoustic phonons. These oscillations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-19 A. D. Levin , G. M. Gusev , O. E. Raichev , A. K. Bakarov

The interplay between vibrational modes and Kondo physics is a fundamental aspect of transport properties of correlated molecular conductors. We present theoretical results for a single molecule in the Kondo regime connected to left and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-05-18 Luis G. Dias da Silva , Elbio Dagotto

We investigate spin-polarized transport phenomena through double quantum dots coupled to ferromagnetic leads in series. By means of the slave-boson mean-field approximation, we calculate the conductance in the Kondo regime for two different…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 Yoichi Tanaka , Norio Kawakami