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We compute the electron diffusion thermopower at compressible Quantum Hall states corresponding to even denominator fractions in the framework of the composite fermion approach. It is shown that the deviation from the linear low temperature…

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We study transport properties and the charge quantization phenomenon in a small metallic island connected to the leads through two quantum point contacts (QPCs). The linear conductance is calculated perturbatively with respect to weak…

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We study the low temperature thermodynamic properties of a superconducting double-island qubit. For an odd number of electrons in the device, the ground state corresponds to the intrinsic quasiparticle bound to the tunneling contact. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-19 D. A. Pesin , A. V. Andreev

We have studied the temperature dependent thermopower of gate-defined, lateral quantum dots in the Coulomb blockade regime using an electron heating technique. The line shape of the thermopower oscillations depends strongly on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 R. Scheibner , E. G. Novik , T. Borzenko , M. Koenig , D. Reuter , A. D. Wieck , H. Buhmann , L. W. Molenkamp

We study charge transport through a floating mesoscopic superconductor coupled to counterpropagating fractional quantum Hall edges at filling fraction $\nu=2/3$. We consider a superconducting island with finite charging energy and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-08-02 Younghyun Kim , David J. Clarke , Roman M. Lutchyn

We measure the magneto-conductance through a micron-sized quantum dot hosting about 500 electrons in the quantum Hall regime. In the Coulomb blockade, when the island is weakly coupled to source and drain contacts, edge reconstruction at…

Thermoelectric effects in a double quantum dot system coupled to external magnetic/nonmagnetic leads are investigated theoretically. The basic thermoelectric transport characteristics, like thermopower, electronic contribution to heat…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 Piotr Trocha , Józef Barnaś

For the fractional quantum Hall states on a finite disc, we study the thermoelectric transport properties under the influence of an edge and its reconstruction. In a recent study on a torus [Phys. Rev. B 101, 241101 (2020)], Sheng and Fu…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-06-30 Zi-Yi Fang , Dan Ye , Yu-Yu Zhang , Zi-Xiang Hu

We discuss the temperature-dependent thermoelectric transport properties of semiconductor nanostructures comprising a quantum dot coupled to quantum wires: the thermal dependence of the electrical conductance, thermal conductance, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-17 D. F. Aranguren-Quintero , E. Ramos , J. Silva-Valencia , M. S. Figueira , L. N. Oliveira , R. Franco

I discuss thermoelectric properties of a quantum dot coupled to one normal and one superconducting lead in the presence of Kondo effect and Andreev scattering. I will focus on conductance, thermal conductance, thermopower and related…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-10-07 Mariusz Krawiec

We comprehensively show the topological structure--order of zeros felt by an electron at the positions of other electrons --for the enigmatic filling factor 5/2 at the "Pfaffian-shift" in a spherical geometry. A set of linearly independent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-31 Sutirtha Mukherjee , Sudhansu S. Mandal

In the present work, we investigate the thermoelectric properties of a T-shaped double quantum dot system coupled to two metallic leads incorporating the intra-dot Coulomb interaction. We explore the role of the interference effects and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-03 G. Gómez-Silva , P. A. Orellana , E. V. Anda

The thermopower of few-electron quantum dots with Kondo correlations is investigated via a hierarchial equations of motion approach. The thermopower is determined by the line shape of spectral function within a narrow energy window defined…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-16 LvZhou Ye , Dong Hou , Rulin Wang , Xiao Zheng , YiJing Yan

Topological states of matter are characterized by topological invariant, which are physical quantities whose values are quantized and do not depend on details of the measured system. Of these, the easiest to probe in experiments is the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-05 Mitali Banerjee , Moty Heiblum , Vladimir Umansky , Dima E. Feldman , Yuval Oreg , Ady Stern

We have performed both in-plane resistivity, Hall effect and specific heat measurements on the thermoelectric cobalt oxide Ca$_{3}$Co$_{4}$O$_{9}$. Four distinct transport regimes are found as a function of temperature, corresponding to a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Limelette , V. Hardy , P. Auban-Senzier , D. Jerome , D. Flahaut , S. Hebert , R. Fresard , Ch. Simon , J. Noudem , A. Maignan

Large efforts in improving thermoelectric energy conversion are devoted to energy filtering by nanometer size potential barriers. In this work we perform an analysis and optimization of such barriers for improved energy filtering. We merge…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-08-01 Neophytos Neophytou , Hans Kosina

Parafermionic zero modes are fractional topologically protected quasiparticles expected to arise in various platforms. We show that Coulomb charging effects define a parafermion box with unique access options via fractional edge states…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-02-21 Kyrylo Snizhko , Reinhold Egger , Yuval Gefen

Analyzing the effective conformal field theory for the parafermionic Hall states, corresponding to filling fractions nu_k=2+k/(kM+2), k=2,3,..., M odd, we show that the even k plateaux are expected to be more stable than their odd k…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Lachezar Georgiev

We consider the steady-state thermoelectric transport through a vibrating molecular quantum dot that is contacted to macroscopic leads. For moderate electron-phonon interaction strength and comparable electronic and phononic timescales, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 T. Koch , J. Loos , H. Fehske

We study transport through a quantum dot in the fractional quantum Hall regime with filling factors \nu=2/3 and \nu=5/2, weakly coupled to the leads. We account for both injection of electrons to/from the leads, and quasiparticle…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-22 Alex Kamenev , Yuval Gefen