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The time dependent full counting statistics of charge transport through an interacting quantum junction is evaluated from its generating function, controllably computed with the inchworm Monte Carlo method. Exact noninteracting results are…

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A sensitive technique for the readout of the state of a qubit is based on the measurement of the conductance through a proximal sensor quantum dot (SQD). Here, we theoretically study the coherent backaction of such a measurement on a…

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We use the non-equilibrium bosonization technique to investigate effects of the Coulomb interaction on quantum Hall edge states at filing factor nu=2, partitioned by a quantum point contact (QPC). We find, that due to the integrability of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Ivan P. Levkivskyi , Eugene V. Sukhorukov

We study drag effect in a system of two electrically isolated quantum point contacts (QPC), coupled by Coulomb interactions. Drag current exhibits maxima as a function of QPC gate voltages when the latter are tuned to the transitions…

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The dynamic capture of electrons in a semiconductor quantum dot (QD) by raising a potential barrier is a crucial stage in metrological quantized charge pumping. In this work, we use a quantum point contact (QPC) charge sensor to study…

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We present a set of modified quantum rate equations, with the help of the nonequilibrium Green's function and slave-particle techniques along with the correct quantization, for description of the quantum transport through an interacting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Bing Dong , H. L. Cui , X. L. Lei

We measure the electron escape-rate from surface-acoustic-wave dynamic quantum dots (QDs) through a tunnel barrier. Rate-equations are used to extract the tunnelling rates, which change by an order of magnitude with tunnel-barrier gate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. R. Astley , M. Kataoka , C. J. B. Ford , C. H. W. Barnes , D. Anderson , G. A. C. Jones , I. Farrer , D. A. Ritchie , M. Pepper

We explore the full counting statistics of single electron tunneling through a quantum dot using a quantum point contact as non-invasive high bandwidth charge detector. The distribution of counted tunneling events is measured as a function…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. Fricke , F. Hohls , W. Wegscheider , R. J. Haug

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…

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We explain recent experimental observations on effective charge of edge states tunneling through a quantum point contact in the weak backscattering regime. We focus on the behavior of the excess noise and on the effective tunneling charge…

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As an homage to Quantum Energy Teleportation, we generalize the idea to arbitrary physical observables, not limited to energy, and prove a rigorous upper bound on the activated ("teleported") quantity. The essence of this protocol is a…

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We report on measurements of single electron tunneling through a quantum dot using a quantum point contact as non-invasive charge detector with fast time response. We elaborate on the unambiguous identification of individual tunneling…

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In this paper, we study the quantum decoherence induced by accumulation of electron tunnelings during the quantum measurement of a charge qubit. The charge qubit is a single electron confined in coupled quantum dots. The measurement of the…

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

Quasi-static transport measurements are employed on a laterally defined tunnel-coupled double quantum dot. A nearby quantum point contact allows us to track the charge as added to the device. If charged with only up to one electron, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. K. Huettel , S. Ludwig , K. Eberl , J. P. Kotthaus

We investigated the peculiarities of non-equilibrium charge configurations in the system of two strongly coupled quantum dots (QDs) weakly connected to the reservoirs in the presence of Coulomb correlations. We revealed that total electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-23 V. N. Mantsevich , N. S. Maslova , P. I. Arseyev

We propose powering a quantum clock with the non-thermal resources offered by the stationary state of an integrable quantum spin chain, driven out of equilibrium by a quench in a parameter of our choice. Analyzing the bias conditions of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-18 Daniele Nello , Alessandro Silva

We study the thermoelectric properties and heat-to-work conversion performance of an interacting, multi-level quantum dot (QD) weakly coupled to electronic reservoirs. We focus on the sequential tunneling regime. The dynamics of the charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-29 Paolo Andrea Erdman , Francesco Mazza , Riccardo Bosisio , Giuliano Benenti , Rosario Fazio , Fabio Taddei

We investigate the Charge-Charge Correlation (QQC) in electron-positron annihilation as a probe of charge dynamics in Quantum Chromodynamics. While generally divergent beyond leading order, we show that the QQC is infrared and collinear…

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In the present work, we theoretically study the nonlinear regime of charge transport through a quantum dot coupled to the source and drain reservoirs. The investigation is carried out using a nonequilibrium Green's functions formalism…

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