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Spin transport currents and the spin-transfer torques in voltage-biased superconducting-ferromagnetic nanopillars (SFNFS point contacts) are computed. We develop and implement an algorithm based on the Ricatti formulation of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2008-11-17 Erhai Zhao , J. A. Sauls

Transport properties of ultrasmall quantum dots with a single unpaired electron are commonly modeled by the nonequilibrium Kondo model, describing the exchange interaction of a spin-1/2 local moment with two leads of noninteracting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Avraham Schiller , Alessandro Silva

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

We present a theoretical analysis of several aspects of nonequilibirum cotunneling through a strong Coulomb-blockaded quantum dot (QD) subject to a finite magnetic field in the weak coupling limit. We carry this out by developing a generic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Bing Dong , Norman J. M. Horing , H. L. Cui

In a recent experiment, Hirjibehedin {\it et al.} [Science {\bf 317}, 1199 (2007)] performed inelastic tunneling spectroscopy of a single iron atom absorbed on a nonmagnetic substrate. The observed steps in the differential conductance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-08-16 Björn Sothmann , Jürgen König

The electron transport though ferromagnetic metal-superconducting hybrid devices is considered in the non-equilibrium Green's function formalism in the quasiclassical approximation. Attention if focused on the limit in which the exchange…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 W. Belzig , Arne Brataas , Yu. V. Nazarov , Gerrit E. W. Bauer

We study the effect of a dot-lead interaction on transport through a quantum dot hybridized to two semi-infinite Luttinger-liquid leads. A bosonization approach is applied to treat the interaction between charge fluctuations on the dot and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Florian Elste , David R. Reichman , Andrew J. Millis

Non-equilibrium transport in hybrid semiconductor-superconductor nanowires is crucial for many quantum phenomena such as generating entangled states via cross Andreev reflection (CAR) processes, detecting topological superconductivity,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-11 Paweł Szumniak , Daniel Loss , Jelena Klinovaja

We present a microscopic theory for both equilibrium and nonequilibrium transport properties of coupled double quantum dots (DQD). A general formula for current tunneling through the DQD is derived by the nonequilibrium Green's function…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-28 Jun Zang , Joseph L Birman , A. R. Bishop , L. Wang

Non-equilibrium Green's function theory for non-adiabatic effects in quantum transport [Kershaw and Kosov, J.Chem. Phys. 2017, 147, 224109 and J. Chem. Phys. 2018, 149, 044121] is extended to the case of interacting electrons. We consider a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-20 Vincent F. Kershaw , Daniel S. Kosov

Weak spin-orbit coupling produces very limited current induced spin accumulation in semiconductor nanostructures. We demonstrate a possibility to increase parametrically the spin polarization using the Kondo effect. As a model object we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-26 V. N. Mantsevich , D. S. Smirnov

We consider a double quantum dot coupled to two normal leads and one superconducting lead, modeling the Cooper pair beam splitter studied in two recent experiments. Starting from a microscopic Hamiltonian we derive a general expression for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-03-25 D. Chevallier , J. Rech , T. Jonckheere , T. Martin

We study transport through a quantum dot coupled to normal and superconducting leads using the numerical renormalization group method. We show that the low-energy properties of the system are described by the local Fermi liquid theory…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yoichi Tanaka , Norio Kawakami , Akira Oguri

We investigate transport properties of junctions between two spin-split superconductors linked by a spin-polarized tunneling barrier. The spin-splitting fields in the superconductors (S) are induced by adjacent ferromagnetic insulating (FI)…

We study an influence of a finite magnetic field on a small spin-degenerate quantum dot with even number of electrons, attached to metallic leads. It is shown that, under certain conditions, the low energy physics of the system can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Pustilnik , Y. Avishai , K. Kikoin

We study Andreev reflection (AR) tunneling through a quantum dot (QD) connected to a ferromagnet and a superconductor, in which the intradot spin-flip interaction is included. By using the nonequibrium-Green-function method, the formula of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Xiufeng Cao , Yaoming Shi , Xiaolong Song , Shiping Zhou , Hao Chen

We present a general theoretical formulation, based on nonequilibrium Green's functions, for nonlinear DC transport in multi-probe mesoscopic conductors. The theory is gauge invariant and is useful for the predictions of current-voltage…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Baigeng Wang , Jian Wang , Hong Guo

Using Green's function equation of motion within Lacroix decoupling scheme, we examine the thermoelectric transport features of a strongly interacting quantum dot coupled between metallic leads. We demonstrate that a qualitative description…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-22 Sachin Verma , B. S. Tewari , A. Dhyani , Ajay

Transport properties of 2D materials especially close to their boundary has received much attention after the successful fabrication of graphene and other fascinating materials afterwards. While most previous work is devoted to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-15 Fanbing Xia , Jian Wang

Electron transport in periodic quantum dot arrays in the presence of interactions with phonons was investigated using the formalism of nonequilibrium Green's functions. The self-consistent Born approximation was used to model the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Nenad Vukmirović , Zoran Ikonić , Dragan Indjin , Paul Harrison