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We investigated spin-resolved electronic transport through a junction composed of a nonmagnetic metal electrode and a zigzag carbon nanotube by means of self-consistent Green's function method in the tight binding approximation and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-09-12 Zhan-Feng Jiang , Jian Li , Shun-Qing Shen , W. M. Liu

We have studied the current through a carbon nanotube quantum dot with one ferromagnetic and one normal-metal lead. For the values of gate voltage at which the normal lead is resonant with the single available non-degenerate energy level on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-08-20 Christopher A. Merchant , Nina Markovic

Current fluctuations can provide additional insight into quantum transport in mesoscopic systems. The present work is carried out for the fluctuation properties of transport through a pair of coupled quantum dots which are connected with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-02 JunYan Luo , Xin-Qi Li , YiJing Yan

Based on Keldysh non-equilibrium Green function method, we have investigated spin current production in a hybrid T-shaped device, consisting of a central quantum dot connected to the leads and a side dot which only couples to the central…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-14 I. L. Fernandes , G. G. Cabrera

The spin-resolved thermoelectric transport properties of correlated nanoscale junctions, consisting of a quantum dot/molecule asymmetrically coupled to external ferromagnetic contacts, are studied theoretically in the far-from-equilibrium…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-21 Anand Manaparambil , Ireneusz Weymann

We investigate transport and thermoelectric properties of hybrid systems based on a single-level quantum dot and one superconducting lead. The other lead is generally normal-metallic ferromagnet. In the latter case single-particle transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-03 Piotr Trocha , Józef Barnaś

Spin-dependent electronic transport through a quantum dot side-coupled to two quantum dots and attached to ferromagnetic leads with collinear (parallel and antiparallel) magnetizations is analyzed theoretically. The intra-dot Coulomb…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-03-05 Piotr Trocha , Józef Barnaś

We calculate current, spin current and tunnel magnetoresistance (TMR) for a quantum dot coupled to ferromagnetic leads in the presence of a square wave of bias voltage. Our results are obtained via time-dependent nonequilibrium Green…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 F. M. Souza , J. A. Gomez

We investigate coherent transport through open lateral quantum dots using recursive Green's function technique, incorporating exchange-correlation effects within local spin-density approximation (LSDA). At low electron densities the current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Evaldsson , I. V. Zozoulenko

We present a theoretical study based on the Anderson model of the transport properties of a Kondo impurity (atom or quantum dot) connected to ferromagnetic leads, which can sustain a non-equilibrium spin current. We analyze the case where…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-08 Jong Soo Lim , Rosa Lopez , Laurent Limot , Pascal Simon

Non-equilibrium Green's function technique has been used to calculate spin-dependent electronic transport through a quantum dot in the Kondo regime. The dot is described by the Anderson Hamiltonian and is coupled either symmetrically or…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 R. Swirkowicz , M. Wilczynski , J. Barnas

We consider the problem of tunneling between two leads via a localized spin 1/2 or any other microscopic system which can be modeled by a two-level Hamiltonian. We assume that a constant magnetic field ${\bf B}_0$ acts on the spin, that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 L. N. Bulaevskii , M. Hruška , G. Ortiz

We study spin-polarized transient transport in a quantum dot coupled to two ferromagnetic leads subjected to a rectangular bias voltage pulse. Time-dependent spin-resolved currents, occupations, spin accumulation, and tunneling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 F. M. Souza , S. A. Leao , R. M. Gester , A. P. Jauho

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

Based on Keldysh's nonequilibrium Green function method, the spin-dependent transport properties in a ferromagnet-quantum dot (QD)-ferromagnet coupled system are investigated. It is shown the spin current shows quite different…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Hai-Feng Mu , Gang Su , Qing-Rong Zheng

We examine transport through a quantum dot coupled to three ferromagnetic leads in the regime of weak tunnel coupling. A finite source-drain voltage generates a nonequilibrium spin on the otherwise non-magnetic quantum dot. This spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-09-28 Daniel Urban , Matthias Braun , Jürgen König

We consider fluctuation relations between the transport coefficients of a spintronic system where magnetic interactions play a crucial role. We investigate a prototypical spintronic device (a spin-diode) which consists of an interacting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-25 Jong Soo Lim , Rosa Lopez , David Sanchez

We theoretically study the spin-polarized transport through a single-molecule magnet, which is weakly coupled to ferromagnetic leads, by means of the rate-equation approach. We consider both the ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-22 Haiqing Xie , Qiang Wang , Bo Chang , Hujun Jiao , J. -Q. Liang

Electron transport properties in nanostructures can be modeled, for example, by using the semiclassical Wigner formalism or the quantum mechanical Green's functions formalism. We compare the performance and the results of these methods in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Paula Havu , Noora Tuomisto , Riikka Vaananen , Martti J. Puska , Risto M. Nieminen

We study the full counting statistics of electronic transport through a single-level quantum dot weakly coupled to two leads, with either one or both of them being ferromagnetic. The interplay of Coulomb interaction and finite spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-06-05 Stephan Lindebaum , Daniel Urban , Jürgen König