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The system described in this work consists of a quantum dot inserted in a mesoscopic ring threaded by a magnetic flux. Our aim is to present a complete description for this device and to predict the physics of a experiment with these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Valeria Ferrari , Guillermo Chiappe , Enrique Anda

Quantum pumping holds great potential for future applications in micro- and nanotechnology. Its main feature, dissipationless charge transport, is theoretically possible via several different mechanisms. However, since no unambiguous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Markku Jaaskelainen , Frank Corvino , Christopher P. Search , Vassilios Fessatidis

We develop a very general perturbative theory of time-dependent transport in a weak tunneling junction which is independent of experimental details and on many-body correlated states in the coupled conductors. These can be similar or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-24 Ines Safi

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

We have studied theoretically the Kondo effect in the quantum dot(QD) within the whole range of temperature by using the equation-of-motion(EOM) technique based on the non-equilibrium Green function formalism. We have taken the finiteness…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-09-12 Kuk-Chol Ri , Chol-Won Ri , Gum-Hyok Jong

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

Experimental results for sequential transport through a lateral quantum dot in the regime of spin blockade induced by spin dependent tunneling are compared with theoretical results obtained by solving a master equation for independent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. C. Rogge , F. Cavaliere , M. Sassetti , R. J. Haug , B. Kramer

We calculate the two-time current correlation function using the experimental data of the current-time characteristics of the Gas-DNA-decorated carbon nanotube field effect transistor. The pattern of the correlation function is a measure of…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 P. Poonam , N. Deo

The ability to coherently transport electron-spin states between different sites of gate-defined semiconductor quantum dots is an essential ingredient for a quantum-dot-based quantum computer. Previous shuttles using electrostatic gating…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-27 T. A. Baart , N. Jovanovic , C. Reichl , W. Wegscheider , L. M. K. Vandersypen

We have studied quantum wires using the Green's function technique and the density-functional theory, calculating the electronic structure and the conductance. All the numerics are implemented using the finite-element method with a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Paula Havu , Martti Puska , Risto Nieminen , Ville Havu

We present a detailed theoretical investigation of the effect of Coulomb interactions on electron transport through quantum dots and double barrier structures connected to a voltage source via an arbitrary linear impedance. Combining real…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Dmitri S. Golubev , Andrei D. Zaikin

One of the most important problems in nanoelectronic device theory is to estimate how fast or how slow a quantum device can turn on/off a current. For an arbitrary noninteracting phase-coherent device scattering region connected to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-17 Joseph Maciejko , Jian Wang , Hong Guo

Quantum shot noise probes the dynamics of charge transfers through a quantum conductor, reflecting whether quasiparticles flow across the conductor in a steady stream, or in syncopated bursts. We have performed high-sensitivity shot noise…

We follow the nonequilibrium Green's function formalism to study time-dependent thermal transport in a linear chain system consisting of two semi-infinite leads connected together by a coupling that is harmonically modulated in time. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-08-18 Eduardo C. Cuansing , Jian-Sheng Wang

We study thermoelectric transport through a coherent molecular conductor connected to two electron and two phonon baths using the nonequilibrium Green's function method. We focus on the mutual drag between electron and phonon transport as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-11 Jing-Tao Lü , Jian-Sheng Wang , Per Hedegård , Mads Brandbyge

Electronic transport in a triple quantum dot shuttle device in the presence of an ac field is analyzed within a fully quantum mechanical framework. A generalized density matrix formalism is used to describe the time evolution for electronic…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-05-20 J. Villavicencio , I. Maldonado , R. Sánchez , E. Cota , G. Platero

The transport and gain properties of quantum cascade (QC) structures are investigated using a nonequilibrium Green's function (NGF) theory which includes quantum effects beyond a Boltzmann transport description. In the NGF theory, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. -C. Lee , A. Wacker

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 study electron transport properties of some molecular wires and a unconventional disordered thin film within the tight-binding framework using Green's function technique. We show that electron transport is significantly affected by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-06-29 Santanu K. Maiti