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We investigate two schemes for pumping spin adiabatically from a ferromagnet through an interacting quantum dot into a normal lead, which exploit the possibility to vary in time the ferromagnet's magnetization, either its amplitude or its…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-17 Nina Winkler , Michele Governale , Jürgen König

We consider a sequence of quantized Lorentzian pulses of non-interacting electrons impinging on a quantum point contact (QPC) and study the waiting time distribution (WTD), for any transmission and any number of pulses. As the degree of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-24 Mathias Albert , Pierre Devillard

We evaluate the joint distributions of electron waiting times in coherent conductors described by scattering theory. Successive electron waiting times in a single-channel conductor are found to be correlated due to the fermionic statistics…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 David Dasenbrook , Patrick P. Hofer , Christian Flindt

The distribution of electron waiting times is useful to characterize quantum transport in mesoscopic structures. Here we consider a generic quantum-coherent conductor consisting of a mesoscopic scatterer in a two-terminal setup. We extend…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-04 Géraldine Haack , Mathias Albert , Christian Flindt

We investigate the distribution of waiting times between electrons emitted from a periodically driven single-electron turnstile. To this end, we develop a scheme for analytic calculations of the waiting time distributions for arbitrary…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-26 Elina Potanina , Christian Flindt

Few-electron systems confined in a quantum dot laterally coupled to a surrounding quantum ring in the presence of an external magnetic field are studied by exact diagonalization. The distribution of electrons between the dot and the ring is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 B. Szafran , F. M. Peeters , S. Bednarek

A crucial requirement for quantum information processing is the realization of multiple-qubit quantum gates. Here, we demonstrate an electron spin based all-electrical two-qubit gate consisting of single spin rotations and inter-dot spin…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 R. Brunner , Y. -S. Shin , T. Obata , M. Pioro-Ladrière , T. Kubo , K. Yoshida , T. Taniyama , Y. Tokura , S. Tarucha

We have studied the Waiting Time Distributions (WTDs) for sub-gap transport through a single-level quantum dot tunnel coupled to one normal and one superconducting lead. The WTDs reveal the internal dynamics of the system in particular the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-23 Leila Rajabi , Christina Pöltl , Michele Governale

Manipulation of the spin-states of a quantum dot by purely electrical means is a highly desirable property of fundamental importance for the development of spintronic devices such as spin-filters, spin-transistors and single-spin memory as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-10-20 J. R. Hauptmann , J. Paaske , P. E. Lindelof

Spintronics devices rely on spin-dependent transport behavior evoked by the presence of spin-polarized electrons. Transport through nanostructures, on the other hand, is dominated by strong Coulomb interaction. We study a model system in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-09 Jürgen König , Jan Martinek , Jozef Barnas , Gerd Schön

We explore theoretically the spin transport in nanostructures consisting of a gold quantum dot bridging nonmagnetic electrodes and two Mn12-Ph single molecule magnets (SMMs) that are thiol-bonded to the dot but are not in direct contact…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Fatemeh Rostamzadeh Renani , George Kirczenow

Spin dynamics of optically excited electrons confined in asymmetric coupled quantum wells are investigated through time resolved Faraday rotation experiments. The inter-well coupling is shown to depend on applied electric field and barrier…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Poggio , G. M. Steeves , R. C. Myers , N. P. Stern , A. C. Gossard , D. D. Awschalom

We consider the distribution of waiting times between non-interacting fermions on a tight-binding chain. We calculate the waiting time distribution for a quantum point contact and find a cross-over from Wigner-Dyson statistics at full…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-06-17 Konrad H. Thomas , Christian Flindt

We consider the time-dependent electron transport through a quantum dot connected to multiple leads in the presence of the additional over-dot (bridge) tunnelling channels by using the evolution operator technique. Each terminal and quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-06-13 R. Taranko , T. Kwapinski , E. Taranko

We study the effects of spin-flip scatterings on the time-dependent transport properties through a magnetic quantum dot attached to normal and ferromagnetic leads. The transient spin-dynamics as well as the steady-state tunneling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Enrico Perfetto , Gianluca Stefanucci , Michele Cini

We study the influence of spin waves on transport through a single-level quantum dot weakly coupled to ferromagnetic electrodes with noncollinear magnetizations. Side peaks appear in the differential conductance due to emission and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-15 Björn Sothmann , Jürgen König , Anatoli Kadigrobov

We investigate the quench dynamics of a quantum dot strongly coupled to spin-polarized ferromagnetic leads. The real-time evolution is calculated by means of the time-dependent density-matrix numerical renormalization group method…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-10 Kacper Wrześniewski , Ireneusz Weymann

The coherent quantum dynamics of an electron in the quantum-dot ring structure under the resonant electromagnetic pulse is studied theoretically. A possibility of the selective electron transfer between any two dots is demonstrated. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. V. Tsukanov , L. A. Openov

The distribution of waiting times between successive tunneling events is an already established method to characterize current fluctuations in mesoscopic systems. Here, I investigate mechanisms generating correlations between subsequent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-23 Krzysztof Ptaszynski

Time-resolved Faraday rotation has recently demonstrated coherent transfer of electron spin between quantum dots coupled by conjugated molecules. Using a transfer Hamiltonian ansatz for the coupled quantum dots, we calculate the Faraday…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Florian Meier , Veronica Cerletti , Oliver Gywat , Daniel Loss , D. D. Awschalom