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It is theoretically demonstrated that the figure of merit ($ZT$) of quantum dot (QD) junctions can be significantly enhanced when the degree of degeneracy of the energy levels involved in electron transport is increased. The theory is based…

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The strongly interacting partonic medium created post ultrarelativistic heavy ion collision experiments exhibits a significant temperature-gradient between the central and peripheral regions of the collisions, which in turn, is capable of…

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We examine cross-correlations (CCs) in the tunneling currents through two parallel interacting quantum dots coupled to four independent ferromagnetic electrodes. We find that when either one of the two circuits is in the parallel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Bing Dong , X. L. Lei , N. J. M. Horing

Charge fluctuations of a large quantum dot coupled to a two-dimensional lead via a single-mode good Quantum Point Contact (QPC) and capacitively coupled to a back-gate, are investigated in the presence of a parallel magnetic field. The…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 Karyn Le Hur

We consider a spin-orbit-coupled two-dimensional electron system under the influence of a thermal gradient externally applied to two attached reservoirs. We discuss the generated voltage bias (charge Seebeck effect), spin bias (spin Seebeck…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-05 M. I. Alomar , Llorenç Serra , David Sanchez

We theoretically show that intriguing features of coherent many-body physics can be observed in electron transport through a quantum dot (QD). We first derive a master equation based framework for electron transport in the Coulomb-blockade…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-03 Martin J. A. Schuetz , Eric M. Kessler , J. Ignacio Cirac , Geza Giedke

Controlling the direction and magnitude of both heat and electronic currents using rectifiers has significant implications for the advancement of molecular circuit design. In order to facilitate the implementation of new transport phenomena…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-02 Galen T. Craven , Dahai He , Abraham Nitzan

Motivated by the demand of efficient quantum devices to engineer the energy transport, we analyze some inhomogeneous quantum spin systems, including the XXZ chains, with magnetization baths at the ends. Aimed at finding general properties,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-29 Emmanuel Pereira

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 study theoretically the transport properties of a molecular two level system with large electron-vibron coupling in the Coulomb blockade regime. We show that when the electron-vibron coupling induces polaron states, the current-voltage…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Gregers A. Kaat , Karsten Flensberg

We study a double quantum dot each dot of which is tunnel-coupled to superconducting leads. In the Coulomb blockade regime, a spin-dependent Josephson coupling between two superconductors is induced, as well as an antiferromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Mahn-Soo Choi , C. Bruder , Daniel Loss

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 theoretically explore the behavior of thermal transport in the topological SQUIPT, in the linear and nonlinear regime. The device consists of a topological Josephson junction based on a two-dimensional topological insulator in contact…

Electronic structure and transport characteristics of coupled CdS and ZnSe quantum dots are studied using density functional theory and non equilibrium Greens function method respectively. Our investigations show that in these novel coupled…

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We investigate the spin dynamics of a quantum dot with a spin-1/2 ground state in the Coulomb blockade regime and in the presence of a magnetic rf field leading to electron spin resonances (ESR). We show that by coupling the dot to leads,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Hans-Andreas Engel , Daniel Loss

We analyze the charge transport through a single level quantum dot coupled to a normal (N) and superconducting (S) leads where the electron pairs exist either as the coherent (for temperatures below T_c) or incoherent objects (in a region…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-09-20 T. Domanski A. Donabidowicz , K. I. Wysokinski

Coupled double quantum dots (c-2QD) connected to leads have been widely adopted as prototype model systems to verify interference effects on quantum transport at the nanoscale. We provide here an analytic study of the thermoelectric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-25 Guido Menichetti , Giuseppe Grosso , Giuseppe Pastori Parravicini

We analyze the transport properties of a double quantum dot device in the side-coupled configuration. A small quantum dot (QD), having a single relevant electronic level, is coupled to source and drain electrodes. A larger QD, whose…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-12 J. A. Andrade , Pablo S. Cornaglia , A. A. Aligia

We study electrical and thermoelectrical properties for a double quantum dot system. We consider the cases of both single-level and multilevel quantum dots whatever the way they are coupled, either in a series or in a parallel arrangement.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-28 M. Lavagna , V. Talbo , T. Q. Duong , A. Crépieux