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Evaluating the time-dependent dynamics of driven open quantum systems is relevant for a theoretical description of many systems, including molecular junctions, quantum dots, cavity-QED experiments, cold atoms experiments and more. Here, we…

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We use a generalized Master equation (GME) formalism to describe the non-equilibrium time-dependent transport through a short quantum wire connected to semi-infinite biased leads. The contact strength between the leads and the wire are…

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The authors apply the generalized master equation to analyze time-dependent transport through a finite quantum wire with an embedded subsystem. The parabolic quantum wire and the leads with several subbands are described by a continuous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Vidar Gudmundsson , Cosmin Gainar , Chi-Shung Tang , Valeriu Moldoveanu , Andrei Manolescu

We use a generalized master equation (GME) formalism to describe the non-equilibrium time-dependent transport of Coulomb interacting electrons through a short quantum wire connected to semi-infinite biased leads. The contact strength…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-07 Kristinn Torfason , Andrei Manolescu , Valeriu Molodoveanu , Vidar Gudmundsson

Spin-dependent transport through a two-level quantum dot in the sequential tunneling regime is analyzed theoretically by means of a real-time diagrammatic technique. It is shown that the current, tunnel magnetoresistance, and shot noise…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 I. Weymann , J. Barnas

We derive simple expressions that relate the noise and correlation properties of a general time-dependent quantum conductor to the wave functions of the system. The formalism provides a practical route for numerical calculations of quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-22 Benoit Gaury , Xavier Waintal

We present a comprehensive theoretical investigation on the dynamic electronic response of a noninteracting quantum dot system to various forms of time-dependent voltage applied to the single contact lead. Numerical simulations are carried…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Xiao Zheng , Jinshuang Jin , YiJing Yan

We propose a highly-scalable method to compute the statistics of charge transfer in driven conductors. The framework can be applied in situations of non-zero temperature, strong coupling to terminals and in the presence of non-periodic…

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…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-15 Valeriu Moldoveanu , Andrei Manolescu , Chi-Shung Tang , Vidar Gudmundsson

By using a propagation scheme for current matrices and an auxiliary mode expansion method, we investigate the transient dynamics of a single molecular junction coupled with a vibrational mode. Our approach is based on the Anderson-Holstein…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-17 Guo-Hui Ding , Bo Xiong , Bing Dong

We analyze theoretically the charging current into, and the transport current through, a nanoscale two-dimensional electron system with two parallel quantum dots embedded in a short wire placed in a photon cavity. A plunger gate is used to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-19 Vidar Gudmundsson , Nzar Rauf Abdullah , Anna Sitek , Hsi-Sheng Goan , Chi-Shung Tang , Andrei Manolescu

So far transport properties of nanoscale contacts have been mostly studied within the static scattering approach. The electron dynamics and the transient behavior of current flow, however, remain poorly understood. We present a numerical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Na Sai , Neil Bushong , Ryan Hatcher , Massimiliano Di Ventra

We present a theory of non-equilibrium superconducting proximity effect in an interacting quantum dot induced by a time-dependent tunnel coupling between dot and a superconducting lead. The proximity effect, that is established when the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-30 Ali G. Moghaddam , Michele Governale , Jürgen König

We present a double quantum wire system containing a coupling element in the middle barrier between the two parallel quantum wires. We explicitly account for the finite length of the double quantum wire with a time-dependent switching-on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-30 Nzar Rauf Abdullah , Chi-Shung Tang , Vidar Gudmundsson

We propose a time-dependent many-body approach to study the short-time dynamics of correlated electrons in quantum transport through nanoscale systems contacted to metallic leads. This approach is based on the time-propagation of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-28 Petri Myohanen , Adrian Stan , Gianluca Stefanucci , Robert van Leeuwen

We present a time-dependent study of electron transport through a strongly correlated quantum dot. The time-dependent current is obtained with the multiple-probe battery method, while adiabatic lattice density functional theory in the Bethe…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-06 A. Pertsova , M. Stamenova , S. Sanvito

We consider resonant transmission through a finite-length quantum wire connected to leads via finite transparency junctions. The coherent electron transport is strongly modified by the Coulomb interaction. The low-temperature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 N. B. Kopnin , Y. M. Galperin , V. M. Vinokur

Systems of quantum dots (QD) connected to leads exhibit periodic conductance peaks as a function of gate voltage arising from the Coulomb blockade effect \cite{review1,review2,review3}. Much effort goes into minimizing the size of QDs and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-29 L. Bitton , R. Berkovits , A. Frydman

We study spin-polarized transient transport in a quantum dot coupled to two ferromagnetic leads subjected to a rectangular bias voltage pulse. Time-dependent spin-resolved currents, occupations, spin accumulation, and tunneling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 F. M. Souza , S. A. Leao , R. M. Gester , A. P. Jauho

We examine transport through a quantum dot coupled to three ferromagnetic leads in the regime of weak tunnel coupling. A finite source-drain voltage generates a nonequilibrium spin on the otherwise non-magnetic quantum dot. This spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-09-28 Daniel Urban , Matthias Braun , Jürgen König