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Quantum measurements disturb the quantum system being measured, and this is known as measurement-induced backaction. In this work, we consider a double quantum dot monitored by a nearby quantum point contact where the measurement-induced…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-14 Wei Cui , Daoyi Dong

We develop a master equation approach to study the backaction of quantum point contact (QPC) on a double quantum dot (DQD) at zero bias voltage. We reveal why electrons can pass through the zero-bias DQD only when the bias voltage across…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Shi-Hua Ouyang , Chi-Hang Lam , J. Q. You

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

Both quantum transport measurements in the Pauli blockade regime and microwave cavity transmission measurements are important tools for spin-qubit readout and characterization. Based on a generalized input-output theory we derive a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-28 Florian Ginzel , Guido Burkard

We investigate nonequilibrium transport in a triple-quantum-dot (TQD) system, where the central dot acts as a discrete tunnel barrier, subject to continuous monitoring by a quantum point contact (QPC) that is capacitively coupled to all…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-20 Alok Nath Singh , Rafael Sánchez , Andrew N. Jordan

We investigate electron transport in two quantum circuits with mutual Coulomb interaction. The first circuit is a double quantum dot connected to two electron reservoirs, while the second one is a quantum point contact in the weak tunneling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-29 Robert Hussein , Sigmund Kohler

We introduce a rate formalism to treat classically forbidden electron transport through a quantum dot (cotunneling) in the presence of a coupled measurement device. We demonstrate this formalism for a toy model case of cotunneling through a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-27 Oded Zilberberg , Assaf Carmi , Alessandro Romito

We obtain the finite-temperature unconditional master equation of the density matrix for two coupled quantum dots (CQD) when one dot is subjected to a measurement of its electron occupation number using a point contact (PC). To determine…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Hsi-Sheng Goan , G. J. Milburn , H. M. Wiseman , He Bi Sun

The current revolution in quantum technologies relies on the ability to isolate, coherently control, and measure the state of quantum systems. The act of measurement in quantum mechanics, however, is naturally invasive as the measurement…

We study a double quantum dot (DQD) coupled to a strongly biased quantum point contact (QPC), each embedded in independent electric circuits. For weak interdot tunnelling we observe a finite current flowing through the unbiased Coulomb…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. S. Khrapai , S. Ludwig , J. P. Kotthaus , H. P. Tranitz , W. Wegscheider

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 study single-electron transport through a double quantum dot (DQD) monitored by a capacitively coupled quantum point-contact (QPC) electrometer. We derive the full counting statistics for the coupled DQD - QPC system and obtain the joint…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-16 D. S. Golubev , Y. Utsumi , M. Marthaler , Gerd Schoen

Quasi-static transport measurements are employed on a laterally defined tunnel-coupled double quantum dot. A nearby quantum point contact allows us to track the charge as added to the device. If charged with only up to one electron, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. K. Huettel , S. Ludwig , K. Eberl , J. P. Kotthaus

We propose a current correlation spectrum approach to probe the quantum behaviors of a nanome-chanical resonator (NAMR). The NAMR is coupled to a double quantum dot (DQD), which acts as a quantum transducer and is further coupled to a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Zeng-Zhao Li , Shi-Hua Ouyang , Chi-Hang Lam , J. Q. You

The charge transport of a serially coupled quantum dots (SCQD) connected to the metallic electrodes is theoretically investigated in the Coulomb blockade regime. A closed-form expression for the tunneling current of SCQD in the {\color{red}…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 David M. -T. Kuo , Shiue-Yuan , Yia-chung Chang

We study the role of continuous measurement in the quantum to classical transition for a system with coupled internal (spin) and external (motional) degrees of freedom. Even when the measured motional degree of freedom can be treated…

We investigated the electron transport properties of parallel-coupled double quantum dot (DQD) devices under magnetic fields. When a low magnetic field was applied, electron tunneling through parallel-coupled DQDs was observed. Under a high…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-13 Tsuyoshi Hatano , Toshihiro Kubo , Shinichi Amaha , Yasuhiro Tokura , Seigo Tarucha

Quantum point contact (QPC), one of the typical mesoscopic transport devices, has been suggested to be an efficient detector for quantum measurement. In the context of two-state charge qubit, our previous studies showed that the QPC's…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Xue-Ning Hu , Xin-Qi Li

We address a foundational question in quantum mechanics: Can a particle be directly found in a classically forbidden virtual state? We instantiate this conceptual question by investigating the traversal of electrons through a tunnel…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Alok Nath Singh , Bibek Bhandari , Rafael Sánchez , Andrew N. Jordan

We investigate the spectral and transport properties of parallel double-quantum-dot (DQD) system with interdot tunneling coupling in both the equilibrium and nonequilibrium cases. The special geometry of DQD system is considered, in which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rong Lu , Zhi-Rong Liu , Guang-Ming Zhang
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