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We report measurements of current noise auto- and cross-correlation in a tunable quantum dot with two or three leads. As the Coulomb blockade is lifted at finite source-drain bias, the auto-correlation evolves from super-Poissonian to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Y. Zhang , L. DiCarlo , D. T. McClure , M. Yamamoto , S. Tarucha , C. M. Marcus , M. P. Hanson , A. C. Gossard

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

We investigate the transport properties of quantum dots placed in strong magnetic field using a quantum-mechanical ' approach based on the 2D tight-binding Hamiltonian with direct Coulomb interaction and the Landauer-B\"{u}ttiker (LB)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 V. Moldoveanu , A. Aldea , A. Manolescu , M. Nita

We develop a theory of electron transport through quantum dots that are weakly coupled to ferromagnetic leads. The theory covers both the linear and nonlinear transport regime, takes non-collinear magnetization of the leads into account,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Matthias Braun , Jürgen König , Jan Martinek

Strong confinement of charges in few electron systems such as in atoms, molecules and quantum dots leads to a spectrum of discrete energy levels that are often shared by several degenerate quantum states. Since the electronic structure is…

Quantum transport properties in quantum Hall wires in the presence of spatially correlated disordered magnetic fields are investigated numerically. It is found that the correlation drastically changes the transport properties associated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Tohru Kawarabayashi , Yoshiyuki Ono , Tomi Ohtsuki , Stefan Kettemann , Alexander Struck , Bernhard Kramer

We extend earlier results on the relation between the dimensionless tunneling channel conductance $g$ and the fractional Coulomb blockade peak splitting $f$ for two electrostatically equivalent dots connected by an arbitrary number…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 John M. Golden , Bertrand I. Halperin

We theoretically investigate resonant tunneling through a linear array of quantum dots with subsequent tunnel coupling. We consider two limiting cases: (i) strong Coulomb blockade, where only one extra electron can be present in the array…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. R. Wegewijs , Yu. V. Nazarov

It is shown that the resonance Kondo tunneling through a double quantum dot (DQD) with even occupation and singlet ground state may arise at a strong bias, which compensates the energy of singlet/triplet excitation. Using the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 M. N. Kiselev , K. Kikoin , L. W. Molenkamp

We study a model proposed recently in which a small quantum dot is coupled symmetrically to several large quantum dots characterized by a charging energy E_c. Even if E_c is much smaller than the Kondo temperature T_K, the long-ranged…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Florens , A. Rosch

We investigate the electronic transport through a suspended carbon-nanotube quantum dot. In the presence of a magnetic field perpendicular to the nanotube and a nearby metallic gate, two forces act on the electrons: the Laplace and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-19 Gianluca Rastelli , Manuel Houzet , Leonid I. Glazman , Fabio Pistolesi

The quantum transport in a narrow channel (NC) is studied in the presence of a time-dependent delta-profile electric field. The electric field is taken to be transversely polarized, with frequency $\omega$, causing inter-subband and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 C. S. Chu , C. S. Tang

We have detected oscillations of the charge around a potential hill (antidot) in a two-dimensional electron gas as a function of a perpendicular magnetic field B. The field confines electrons around the antidot in closed orbits, the areas…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Kataoka , C. J. B. Ford , G. Faini , D. Mailly , M. Y. Simmons , D. R. Mace , C. -T. Liang , D. A. Ritchie

We calculate non-perturbatively the inelastic effects on the conductance through a conjugated molecular wire-metal heterojunction, including realistic electron-phonon coupling. We show that at sub-band-gap energies the current is dominated…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 H. Ness , A. J. Fisher

The problem of resonant transport of strongly interacting electrons through a one-dimensional single-level vibrating quantum dot is being considered. In this paper, we generalize the Komnik and Gogolin model [Phys. Rev. Lett., 90, 246403,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-11-13 Gleb A. Skorobagatko

We present a theory of single-electron tunneling transport through a ferromagnetic nanoparticle in which particle-hole excitations are coupled to spin collective modes. The model employed to describe the interaction between quasiparticles…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 L. Michalak , C. M. Canali , V. G. Benza

The electronic structure of two vertically coupled quantum dots containing two electrons is investigated in the presence of interdot tunneling. Our approach also includes the interdot exchange and we find that the tunneling is affected by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Partoens , A. Matulis , F. M. Peeters

We consider the Coulomb blockade on a superconductive quantum dot strongly coupled to a lead through a tunnelling barrier and/or normal diffusive metal. Andreev transport of the correlated pairs leads to quantum fluctuations of the charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. V. Feigelman , A. Kamenev , A. I. Larkin , M. A. Skvortsov

We report our study of the I-V curves in the transport through the quantum dot when an additional quantum dot lying in the Kondo regime is side-connected to it. Due to the Kondo scattering off the effective spin on a side-connected quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Tae-Suk Kim , S. Hershfield

We discuss a new entangled state that has been observed in the conduction across a quantum dot. At Coulomb blockade, electrons from the contacts correlate strongly to those localized in the dot, due to cotunneling processes. Because of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Domenico Giuliano , Benoit Jouault , Arturo Tagliacozzo