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We study non-equilibrium electronic transport through a quantum dot or impurity weakly coupled to ferromagnetic leads. Based on the rate equation formalism we derive noise spectra for the transport current. We show that due to quantum…

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Here we explore the applicability of the two current model in understanding the transport behavior of Fe 2 CoSi compound by using the first principles calculations in combination with the Boltzmann transport theory. The spin-unpolarized…

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We investigate theoretically the thermoelectric transport properties of a T-shaped double quantum dot side-coupled to a topological superconducting nanowire hosting Majorana zero-energy modes. The calculations are performed using the…

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We experimentally study the transport features of electrons in a spin-diode structure consisting of a single semiconductor quantum dot (QD) weakly coupled to one nonmagnetic (NM) and one ferromagnetic (FM) lead, in which the QD has an…

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We study the electronic current through a quantum dot coupled to two superconducting leads which is driven by either a voltage $V$ or temperature $\Delta T$ bias. Finite biases beyond the linear response regime are considered. The local…

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We study the interaction corrections to the transport coefficients in open quantum dots (i.e. dots connected to leads of large conductance $G \gg e^2/\pi\hbar$), via a quantum kinetic equation approach. The effects of all the channels of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-09-25 Y. Ahmadian , G. Catelani , I. L. Aleiner

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…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-19 M. Hell , M. R. Wegewijs , D. P. DiVincenzo

The rate-equation approach is used to describe sequential tunneling through a molecular junction in the Coulomb blockade regime. Such device is composed of molecular quantum dot (with discrete energy levels) coupled with two metallic…

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We report measurements of the Kondo effect in a double quantum dot (DQD), where the orbital states act as pseudospin states whose degeneracy contributes to Kondo screening. Standard transport spectroscopy as a function of the bias voltage…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 S. Amasha , A. J. Keller , I. G. Rau , A. Carmi , J. A. Katine , H. Shtrikman , Y. Oreg , D. Goldhaber-Gordon

We study the nonequilibrium Seebeck spin transport across metal-magnetic insulator interfaces. The conjugate-converted thermal-spin transport is assisted by the exchange interaction at the interface, between conduction electrons in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-19 Jie Ren

We report measurements of spin transitions for GaAs quantum dots in the Coulomb blockade regime, and compare ground and excited state transport spectroscopy to direct measurements of the spin polarization of emitted current. Transport…

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We propose a highly efficient thermoelectric diode device built from the coupling of a quantum dot with a normal or ferromagnetic electrode and a superconducting reservoir. The current shows a strongly nonlinear behavior in the forward…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-16 Sun-Yong Hwang , David Sanchez , Rosa Lopez

We theoretically study the conditional counting statistics of electron transport through a system consisting of a single quantum dot (SQD) or coherently coupled double quantum dots (DQD's) monitored by a nearby quantum point contact (QPC)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-01 Yen-Jui Chang , Tsung-Kang Yeh , Chao-Hung Wan , D. Wahyu Utami , Gerard J. Milburn , Hsi-Sheng Goan

We analyze cotunneling transport through two quantum dots in series weakly coupled to external ferromagnetic leads. In the Coulomb blockade regime the electric current flows due to third-order tunneling, while the second-order…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 I. Weymann

We investigate the heat flow transport properties of a parallel-coupled double quantum-dot system connected to two reservoirs with a temperature bias in the Coulomb blockade regime. We demonstrate that the effects of thermal rectification…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 Yanchao Zhang , Shanhe Su

We propose an idea for probing spin states of two coupled quantum dots (CQD), by the dc Josephson current flowing through them. This theory requires weak coupling between CQD and electrodes, but allows arbitrary inter-dot tunnel coupling,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Yu Zhu , Qing-feng Sun , Tsung-han Lin

Using analytical arguments and the numerical renormalization group method we investigate the spin-thermopower of a quantum dot in a magnetic field. In the particle-hole symmetric situation the temperature difference applied across the dot…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-24 Tomaz Rejec , Rok Zitko , Jernej Mravlje , Anton Ramsak

We study thermoelectric transport through a serial double quantum dot (DQD) coupled to two metallic leads with different thermal energies. We take into account the electron sequential and cotunneling effects via different master equation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-31 Bashdar Rahman Pirot , Nzar Rauf Abdullah , Andrei Manolescu , Vidar Gudmundsson

We investigated electron transport through ultra small Si quantum dots. We found that the $B$-dependence of energy levels is dominated by the Zeeman shift, allowing us to measure the spin difference between two successive ground states…

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