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We derive a formula for the current through an interacting quantum dot coupled to two supercouducting leads, using the non-equilibrium Green's function formalism. It is shown that the formula takes an especially simple form, when the…

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Here we present a theoretical analysis of inelastic effects on thermoelectric properties of molecular-scale junction in both linear and nonlinear response regimes. Considered device is composed of molecular quantum dot (with discrete energy…

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The role of multimode vibrational dynamics in electron transport through single molecule junctions is investigated. The study is based on a generic model, which describes charge transport through a single molecule that is attached to metal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-26 R. Härtle , C. Benesch , M. Thoss

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

The nonequilibrium dynamics of a quantum dot with electron-phonon interactions described by a generalized Holstein model is presented. A combination of methodologies including the reduced density matrix formalism, the multilayer…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-18 Eli Y. Wilner , Haobin Wang , Michael Thoss , Eran Rabani

The influence of excited levels on nonlinear transport properties of a quantum dot weakly coupled to leads is studied using a master--equation approach. A charging model for the dot is compared with a quantum mechanical model for…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 W. Pfaff , D. Weinmann , W. Haeusler , B. Kramer , U. Weiss , PTB Braunschweig

We theoretically investigate the non-equilibrium current through a quantum dot coupled to one- dimensional electron leads, utilizing a controlled frequency-dependent renormalization group (RG) approach. We compute the non-equilibrium…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-18 C. -H. Chung , K. V. P. Latha , K. Le Hur , M. Vojta , P. Woelfle

Here we present theoretical studies of the effect of vibronic coupling on nonlinear transport characteristics (current-voltage and conductance-voltage) in molecular electronic devices. Considered device is composed of molecular quantum dot…

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

An ab initio based theoretical approach to describe nonequilibrium many-body effects in molecular transport is developed. We introduce a basis of localized molecular orbitals and formulate the many-body model in this basis. In particular,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-12 Dmitry A. Ryndyk , Andrea Donarini , Milena Grifoni , Klaus Richter

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…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yasuhiro Utsumi , Jan Martinek , Gerd Schön , Hiroshi Imamura , Sadamichi Maekawa

In this paper, we develop a nonequilibrium theory for transient electron transport dynamics in nanostructures based on the Feynman-Vernon influence functional approach. We extend our previous work on the exact master equation describing the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-08-10 Jinshuang Jin , Matisse W. Y. Tu , Wei-Min Zhang , YiJing Yan

The effects of long-range interactions in quantum transport are still largely unexplored, mainly due to the difficulty of devising efficient embedding schemes. In this work we present a substantial progress in the interacting resonant level…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-25 E. Perfetto , G. Stefanucci , M. Cini

The influence of electron--phonon interactions on the dynamics of a quantum dot coupled to a photonic cavity mode is investigated using a nonequilibrium Green's function approach. Within a polaron frame, the self-consistent-Born…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-11 Gaston Hornecker , Alexia Auffèves , Thomas Grange

We investigate the electronic transport behavior of Fano-Anderson (FA) systems, consisting of a one-dimensional finite backbone chain and an attached side-group of varying length. The tight-binding model within the non-equilibrium Green's…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-08 Koushik R. Das , Sudipta Dutta

The resonant-level model represents a paradigmatic quantum system which serves as a basis for many other quantum impurity models. We provide a comprehensive analysis of the non-equilibrium transport near a quantum phase transition in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Chung-Hou Chung , Karyn Le Hur , Gleb Finkelstein , Matthias Vojta , Peter Woelfle

The linear and nonlinear transport through a multi-level lateral quantum dot connected to two leads is investigated using a generalized finite-$U$ slave-boson mean field approach. For a two-level quantum dot, our calculation demonstrates a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Bing Dong , X. L. Lei

We investigate the nonequilibrium transport properties of a double quantum dot system connected in parallel to two leads, including intradot electron-electron interaction. In the absence of interactions the system supports a bound state in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-04 Miguel A. Sierra , M. Saiz-Bretin , F. Dominguez-Adame , David Sanchez

Nonequilibrium properties of correlated quantum matter are being intensively investigated because of the rich interplay between external driving and the many-body correlations. Of particular interest is the nonequilibrium behavior near a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-02-17 G. Zhang , C. -H. Chung , C. T. Ke , C. -Y. Lin , H. Mebrahtu , A. I. Smirnov , G. Finkelstein , H. U. Baranger

We have studied the electron transport through a quantum dot coupled to three leads in the presence of external microwave fields supplied to different parts of the considered mesoscopic system. Additionally, we introduced a possible…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 T. Kwapinski , R. Taranko , E. Taranko

Electronic properties of heterostructures in which a finite number of Mott-insulator layers are sandwiched by semi-infinite metallic leads are investigated by using the dynamical-mean-field method combined with the Keldysh Green's function…

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