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We investigate a heat- to charge-current converter consisting of a single-level quantum dot coupled to two ferromagnetic metals and one ferromagnetic insulator held at different temperatures. We demonstrate that this nano engine can act as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-19 Björn Sothmann , Markus Büttiker

We study heat current and the full statistics of heat fluctuations in a capacitively-coupled double quantum dot system. This work is motivated by recent theoretical studies and experimental works on heat currents in quantum dot circuits. As…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-05 Hari Kumar Yadalam , Upendra Harbola

We introduce a new functional nanoscale device, a single-electron heat diode, consisting of two quantum dots or metallic islands coupled to electronic reservoirs by tunnel contacts. Electron transport through the system is forbidden but the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-06-21 Tomi Ruokola , Teemu Ojanen

The temperature dependence of Coulomb blockade peaks of a one dimensional quantum dot is calculated. The Coulomb interaction is treated microscopically using the Luttinger liquid model. The electron interaction is assumed to be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 T. Kleimann , M. Sassetti , B. Kramer

We theoretically propose a simple setup based on a three terminal triple quantum dot in the Coulomb blockade regime as a heat flow allocator to spatially separate heat flows along two different channels at arbitrary proportion. We show that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-06 Yanchao Zhang

The nonlinear electron and heat currents of quantum dot molecules (QDMs) under a temperature bias are theoretically investigated, including all correlation functions arising from electron Coulomb interactions in QDMs. Unlike the case of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-13 Chih-Chieh Chen , David M T Kuo , Yia-Chung Chang

Recent experimental measurements for near-field radiative heat transfer between two bodies have been able to approach the gap distance within $2 \; \textrm{nm}$, where the contributions of Coulomb fluctuation and electron's tunneling are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-06 Zu-Quan Zhang , Jing-Tao Lü , Jian-Sheng Wang

We derive the frequency-resolved heat current expression in the linear response regime for a setup comprised of reservoir, interacting central site, and tunneling barrier under the action of a time dependent electrical signal. We exploit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-21 Guillem Rosello , Rosa Lopez , Jong Soo Lim

In this article we review the thermoelectric properties of three terminal devices with Coulomb coupled quantum dots (QDs) as observed in recent experiments [1,2]. The system we consider consists of two Coulomb-blockade QDs one of which can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-17 Holger Thierschmann , Rafael Sánchez , Björn Sothmann , Hartmut Buhmann , Laurens W. Molenkamp

We consider an interacting quantum dot connected to two reservoirs driven at distinct voltage/temperature and we study the correlations between charge and heat currents first as a function of the applied voltage bias, and second as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-05 Adeline Crépieux , Paul Eyméoud , Fabienne Michelini

We show that charge fluctuation processes are crucial for the nonlinear heat conductance through an interacting nanostructure, even far from a resonance. We illustrate this for an Anderson quantum dot accounting for the first two leading…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Niklas M. Gergs , Christoph B. M. Hörig , Maarten R. Wegewijs , Dirk Schuricht

The rate-equation approach is used to describe sequential tunneling through a molecular junction in the Coulomb blockade regime. Such device is composed of molecular quantum dot (with discrete energy levels) coupled with two metallic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Kamil Walczak

We numerically investigate the thermoelectric properties of a triangle quantum dot connected to metallic electrodes using the non-equilibrium Green's function method in the Anderson model. Exploiting the equation of motion method in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-08 Ahmad Ahmadi Fouladi , Javad Vahedi

We explore electron transport through a quantum dot coupled to the source and drain charge reservoirs We trace the transition from the Coulomb blockade regime to Kondo regime in the electron transport through the dot occuring when we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-10-24 Natalya A. Zimbovskaya

We study theoretically Coulomb drag in capacitively coupled quantum dots (CQDs) -- a biasdriven dot coupled to an unbiased dot where transport is due to Coulomb mediated energy transfer drag. To this end, we introduce a master-equation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-11 Kristen Kaasbjerg , Antti-Pekka Jauho

We discuss the energy current and the energy fluctuations in an isolated quantum wire driven far from equilibrium. The system consists of interacting spinless fermions and is driven by a time--dependent magnetic flux. The energy current is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-28 Dawid Crivelli , Marcin Mierzejewski , Peter Prelovšek

We have observed thermal gating, i.e. electrostatic gating induced by hot electrons. The effect occurs in a device consisting of two capacitively coupled quantum dots. The double dot system is coupled to a hot electron reservoir on one side…

We explore the finite bias DC differential conductance of a correlated quantum dot under the influence of an AC field, from the low-temperature Kondo to the finite temperature Coulomb blockade regime. Real-time simulations are performed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-27 G. Stefanucci , S. Kurth

We investigate transient dynamic response of an Anderson impurity quantum dot to a family of ramp-up driving voltage applied to the single coupling lead. Transient current is calculated based on a hierarchical equations of motion formalism…

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

We analyze the heat current flowing across interacting quantum dots within the Coulomb blockade regime. Power can be generated by either voltage or temperature biases. In the former case, we find nonlinear contributions to the Peltier…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Miguel A. Sierra , David Sanchez