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We study non-equilibrium electronic transport through a quantum dot or impurity weakly coupled to ferromagnetic leads. Based on the rate equation formalism we derive noise spectra for the transport current. We show that due to quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. A. Gurvitz , D. Mozyrsky , G. P. Berman

We study spin-polarized transient transport in a quantum dot coupled to two ferromagnetic leads subjected to a rectangular bias voltage pulse. Time-dependent spin-resolved currents, occupations, spin accumulation, and tunneling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 F. M. Souza , S. A. Leao , R. M. Gester , A. P. Jauho

One of the most important problems in nanoelectronic device theory is to estimate how fast or how slow a quantum device can turn on/off a current. For an arbitrary noninteracting phase-coherent device scattering region connected to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-17 Joseph Maciejko , Jian Wang , Hong Guo

The fluctuations of electrical current provide information on the dynamics of electrons in quantum devices. Understanding the nature of these fluctuations in a quantum dot is thus a crucial step insofar as this system is the elementary…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-08 A. Crépieux , S. Sahoo , T. Q. Duong , R. Zamoum , M. Lavagna

We find that, under certain condition, a quantum dot with odd number of electron and coupled to two leads can be described by a non-equilibrium 2-channel Kondo model, when the two leads has a large voltage bias between them. The model is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Xiao-Gang Wen

We examine electronic transport in a spin-blockaded double quantum dot. We show that by tuning the strength of the spin-orbit interaction the current flowing through the double dot exhibits a dip at zero magnetic field or a peak at a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 G. Giavaras , Neill Lambert , Franco Nori

We use Lippman-Schwinger scattering theory to study nonequilibrium electron transport through an interacting open quantum dot. The two-particle current is evaluated exactly while we use perturbation theory to calculate the current when the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-09 Dibyendu Roy , Abhiram Soori , Diptiman Sen , Abhishek Dhar

We study the out-of-equilibrium current through an interacting quantum dot modelled as an Anderson impurity contacted by two BCS superconductors held at fixed voltage bias. In order to account for multiple Andreev reflections, we develop a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2008-03-26 L. Dell'Anna , A. Zazunov , R. Egger

We study nonequilibrium generation of spin-dependent transport through a single-level quantum dot embedded in a ring with the Rashba spin-orbit coupling. We consider nonmagnetic systems, involving no magnetic field nor ferromagnetic leads.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-23 Nobuhiko Taniguchi , Kenta Isozaki

We propose an improved method of the equation of motion approach to study the Kondo problem in spin-dependent non-equilibrium conditions. We find that the previously introduced additional renormalization for non-equilibrium Kondo effects is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 Yunong Qi , Jian-Xin Zhu , Shufeng Zhang , C. S. Ting

We propose a spin polarizer device composed of a quantum dot connected to the spin polarized leads. The spin control of the current flowing through the device is entirely due to the Coulomb interactions present inside the dot. We show that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Piotr Stefanski

Equilibrium transport properties of a single-level quantum dot tunnel-coupled to ferromagnetic leads and exchange-coupled to a side nonmagnetic reservoir are analyzed theoretically in the Kondo regime. The equilibrium spectral functions and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Ireneusz Weymann , Jozef Barnas

We develop a non-equilibrium theory to describe weak Coulomb blockade effects in open quantum dots. Working within the bosonized description of electrons in the point contacts, we expose deficiencies in earlier applications of this method,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Piet W. Brouwer , Austen Lamacraft , Karsten Flensberg

A theory is presented of quantum criticality in open (coupled to reservoirs) itinerant electron magnets, with nonequilibrium drive provided by current flow across the system. Both departures from equilibrium at conventional (equilibrium)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Aditi Mitra , So Takei , Yong Baek Kim , A. J. Millis

We investigate nonequilibrium phenomena in magnetic nano-junctions using a numerical approach that combines classical spin dynamics with the hierarchical equations of motion technique for quantum dynamics of conduction electrons. Our focus…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-26 Rudolf Smorka , Michael Thoss , Martin Žonda

Thermoelectric effects in a quantum dot coupled to the source and drain charge reservoirs are explored using a nonequilibrium Green's functions formalism beyond the Hartree-Fock approximation. Thermal transport is analyzed within a linear…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-03-18 Natalya A. Zimbovskaya

We calculate the nonsymmetrized current noise in a quantum dot connected to two reservoirs by using the non-equilibrium Green function technique. We show that both the current auto-correlator (inside a single reservoir) and the current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-08 R. Zamoum , M. Lavagna , A. Crépieux

Cotunneling transport through quantum dots weakly coupled to non-collinearly magnetized leads is analyzed theoretically by means of the real-time diagrammatic technique. The electric current, dot occupations, and dot spin are calculated in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 Ireneusz Weymann , Jozef Barnas

We propose a novel approach to explore the properties of a quantum dot in the presence of the spin-orbit interaction and in a tilted magnetic field. The spin-orbit coupling within the quantum dot manifest itself as anti-crossing of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Hong-Yi Chen , Vadim Apalkov , Tapash Chakraborty

Coulomb drag between two quantum wires is exponentially sensitive to the mismatch of their electronic densities. The application of a magnetic field can compensate this mismatch for electrons of opposite spin directions in different wires.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Pustilnik , E. G. Mishchenko , O. A. Starykh