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We examine the influence of the superconducting proximity effect on the transport properties of a T-shaped double quantum dot strongly coupled to two normal, nonmagnetic or ferromagnetic leads. We show that the two-stage Kondo screening may…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-02 Krzysztof P. Wójcik , Ireneusz Weymann

We propose a setup based on two coupled quantum dots where thermodynamics of a measurement can be quantitatively characterized. The information obtained in the measurement can be utilized by performing feedback in a manner apparently…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-04-06 Aki Kutvonen , Takahiro Sagawa , Tapio Ala-Nissilä

We propose a nanoscale device consisting of a double quantum dot with a full exchange and pair hopping interaction. In this design, the current can only flow through the upper dot, but is sensitive to the spin state of the lower dot. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-25 Pierre Lombardo , Imam Makhfudz , Steffen Schäfer , Roland Hayn

We calculate the thermopower of a quantum dot described by two doublets hybridized with two degenerate bands of two conducting leads, conserving orbital (band) and spin quantum numbers, as a function of the temperature $T$ and a splitting…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-10-23 P. Roura-Bas , L. Tosi , A. A. Aligia , P. S. Cornaglia

A few-electron double quantum dot was fabricated using metal-oxide-semiconductor(MOS)-compatible technology and low-temperature transport measurements were performed to study the energy spectrum of the device. The double dot structure is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-04-28 W. H. Lim , H. Huebl , L. H. Willems van Beveren , S. Rubanov , P. G. Spizzirri , S. J. Angus , R. G. Clark , A. S. Dzurak

The thermoelectric effect in a quantum dot system connected to two electron reservoirs in the presence of a photon cavity is investigated using a quantum master equation in the steady-state regime. If a quantized photon field is applied to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-21 Nzar Rauf Abdullah , Chi-Shung Tang , Andrei Manolescu , Vidar Gudmundsson

Quantum thermal devices which can manage heat as their electronic analogues for the electronic currents have attracted increasing attention. Here a three-terminal quantum thermal device is designed by three coupling qubits interacting with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-12 Bao-qing Guo , Tong Liu , Chang-shui Yu

Studies of thermally induced transport in nanostructures provide access to an exciting regime where fluctuations are relevant, enabling the investigation of fundamental thermodynamic concepts and the realization of thermal energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-09 Sven Dorsch , Artis Svilans , Martin Josefsson , Bahareh Goldozian , Mukesh Kumar , Claes Thelander , Andreas Wacker , Adam Burke

We study a three-terminal setup consisting of a single-level quantum dot capacitively coupled to a quantum point contact. The point contact connects to a source and drain reservoirs while the quantum dot is coupled to a single base…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-31 Jing Yang , Cyril Elouard , Janine Splettstoesser , Björn Sothmann , Rafael Sánchez , Andrew N. Jordan

Understanding the thermodynamic role of measurement in quantum mechanical systems is a burgeoning field of study. In this article, we study a double quantum dot (DQD) connected to two macroscopic fermionic thermal reservoirs. We assume that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 Laetitia P. Bettmann , Michael J. Kewming , John Goold

We consider effects of magnetic field on the thermopower and thermoconductance of a single-electron transistor based on a quantum dot strongly coupled to one of the leads by a single-mode quantum point contact. We show appearance of two new…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 T. K. T. Nguyen , M. N. Kiselev , V. E. Kravtsov

A single electron transistor (SET) consisting of parallel double quantum dots fabricated in a GaAs/Al$_{x}$Ga$_{1-x}$As heterostructure crystal is demonstrated to serve as an extremely high sensitive detector of submillimeter waves (SMMW).…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 O. Astafiev , S. Komiyama , T. Kutsuwa

We study thermoelectric effects in Kondo correlated quantum dot coupled to ferromagnetic electrodes by calculating thermopower S in the Kondo regime as function of on-dot energy level and temperature. The system is represented by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Krawiec , K. I. Wysokinski

A double quantum dot is formed in a graphene nanoribbon device using three top gates. These gates independently change the number of electrons on each dot and tune the inter-dot coupling. Transport through excited states is observed in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-13 Xing Lan Liu , Dorothee Hug , Lieven M. K. Vandersypen

Quantum dots in the quantum Hall regime can have pairs of single Slater determinant states that are degenerate in energy. We argue that these pairs of many body states may give rise to a Kondo effect which can be mapped into an ordinary…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Mahn-Soo Choi , Nak Yeon Hwang , S. -R. Eric Yang

Nanoscale conductors are interesting for thermoelectrics because of their particular spectral features connecting separated heat and particle currents. Multiterminal devices in the quantum regime benefit from phase-coherent phenomena, which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-23 José Balduque , Rafael Sánchez

We investigate theoretically the linear conductance of a two-level quantum dot as a function of the gate voltage and different strength of coupling to the external electronic system (the reservoir). Apart from the weak coupling regime,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. L. Chudnovskiy , S. E. Ulloa

Contents: (1) Model of a lateral quantum dot system (2) Thermally-activated conduction: onset of the Coulomb blockade oscillations and Coulomb blockade peaks at low temperature (3) Activationless transport through a blockaded quantum dot:…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-13 L. I. Glazman , M. Pustilnik

We study thermoelectric phenomena in a system consisting of strongly correlated quantum dot coupled to external leads in the Kondo regime. We calculate linear and nonlinear electrical and thermal conductance and thermopower of the quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Krawiec , K. I. Wysokinski

While the properties of the Kondo model in equilibrium are very well understood, much less is known for Kondo systems out of equilibrium. We study the properties of a quantum dot in the Kondo regime, when a large bias voltage V and/or a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Rosch , J. Paaske , J. Kroha , P. Wölfle