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Quantum point contact (QPC), one of the typical mesoscopic transport devices, has been suggested to be an efficient detector for quantum measurement. In the context of two-state charge qubit, our previous studies showed that the QPC's…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Xue-Ning Hu , Xin-Qi Li

We investigate theorerically the non-equilibrium transport through a molecular quantum dot as a function of gate and bias voltage, taking into account the typical situation in molecular electronics. In this respect, our study includes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-03 A. A. Aligia , P. Roura Bas , S. Florens

Quantum measurements disturb the quantum system being measured, and this is known as measurement-induced backaction. In this work, we consider a double quantum dot monitored by a nearby quantum point contact where the measurement-induced…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-14 Wei Cui , Daoyi Dong

We study a double quantum dot (DQD) coupled to a strongly biased quantum point contact (QPC), each embedded in independent electric circuits. For weak interdot tunnelling we observe a finite current flowing through the unbiased Coulomb…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. S. Khrapai , S. Ludwig , J. P. Kotthaus , H. P. Tranitz , W. Wegscheider

We study the transport properties of a four-terminal corner junction made by etching a two- dimensional topological insulator to form a quantum point contact (QPC). The QPC geometry enables inter-boundary tunneling processes allowing for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-08 F. Romeo , R. Citro

A non-equilibrium theory describing the charge qubit dynamics measured by a quantum point contact is developed based on Schwinger-Keldysh's approach. Using the real-time diagram technique, we derive the master equation to all orders in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ming-Tsung Lee , Wei-Min Zhang

We consider electron-electron interaction effects in quantum point contacts on the first quantization plateau, taking into account all scattering processes. We compute the low-temperature linear and nonlinear conductance, shot noise, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-02-27 A. M. Lunde , A. De Martino , A. Schulz , R. Egger , K. Flensberg

We use a many-body rate-equation approach to calculate the thermopower of a quantum dot in the presence of an exchange interaction. At temperatures much smaller than the single-particle level spacing, the known quantum jumps…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Gabriel Billings , A. Douglas Stone , Y. Alhassid

We investigate nonequilibrium transport in a triple-quantum-dot (TQD) system, where the central dot acts as a discrete tunnel barrier, subject to continuous monitoring by a quantum point contact (QPC) that is capacitively coupled to all…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-20 Alok Nath Singh , Rafael Sánchez , Andrew N. Jordan

A theoretical study is reported of electron transport at finite temperature in a double quantum dot (DQD) capacitively coupled to a quantum point contact (QPC). Starting from a Hamiltonian model, a master equation is obtained for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Gregory Bulnes Cuetara , Massimiliano Esposito , Gernot Schaller , Pierre Gaspard

We report on noise measurements in a quantum dot in the presence of Kondo correlations. Close to the unitary limit, with the conductance reaching 1.8e2/h, we observed an average backscattered charge of e*~5e/3, while weakly biasing the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 O. Zarchin , M. Zaffalon , M. Heiblum , D. Mahalu , V. Umansky

We found analytical solution for the time evolution of localized electron density in a system of two coupled single-level quantum dots (QDs) connected with continuous spectrum states in the presence of Coulomb interaction. This solution…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-30 P. I. Arseev , N. S. Maslova , V. N. Mantsevich

We investigate nonlinear thermal transport properties of a single interacting quantum dot with two energy levels tunnel-coupled to two electrodes using nonequilibrium Green function method and Hartree-Fock decoupling approximation. In the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Chen Xue-Ou , Bing Dong , X. L. Lei

We investigated the tunneling current peculiarities in the system of two coupled by means of the external field quantum dots (QDs) weakly connected to the electrodes in the presence of Coulomb correlations. It was found that tuning of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-06 V. N. Mantsevich , N. S. Maslova , P. I. Arseyev

We demonstrate the role of measurement back-action of a coherent spin environment on the dynamics of a spin (qubit) coupled to it, by inducing non-classical (Quantum Random Walk like) statistics on its measurement trajectory. We show how…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-14 D. D. Bhaktavatsala Rao , Sen Yang , Stefan Jesenski , Florian Kaiser , Jörg Wrachtrup

We study the charge transport properties of triangular quantum dot molecule (TQDM) connected to metallic electrodes, taking into account all correlation functions and relevant charging states. The quantum interference (QI) effect of TQDM…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-24 Chih-Chieh Chen , Yia-chung Chang , David M T Kuo

Electron charge transport through a quantum point contact (QPC) driven by an asymmetric spin bias is studied. A large charge current is induced when the transmission coefficient of the QPC jumps from one integer plateau to the next.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yanxia Xing , Qing-feng Sun , Jian Wang

We consider the counting statistics of electron transport through a double quantum dot with special emphasis on the dephasing induced by a nearby charge detector. The double dot is embedded in a dissipative enviroment, and the presence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-01-08 Alessandro Braggio , Christian Flindt , Tomas Novotny

The electrical conductance, thermal conductance, thermal power and figure of merit (ZT) of semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) embedded into an insulator matrix connected with metallic electrodes are theoretically investigated in the Coulomb…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 David M. -T. Kuo , Yia-chung Chang

Quantum detector properties of the quantum point contact (QPC) are analyzed for arbitrary electron transparency and coupling strength to the measured system and are shown to be determined by the electron counting statistics. Conditions of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Dmitri V. Averin , Eugene V. Sukhorukov