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We investigate a double quantum dot coupled to a transmission line resonator. By driving a current through the double dot, a population inversion between the dot levels can be created, and a lasing state of the radiation field is generated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-25 Pei-Qing Jin , Michael Marthaler , Jared H. Cole , Alexander Shnirman , Gerd Schön

It is demonstrated that non-equilibrium vibrational effects are enhanced in molecular devices for which the effective potential for vibrations is sensitive to the charge state of the device. We calculate the electron tunneling current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Maarten R. Wegewijs , Katja C. Nowack

In the regime of strong coupling between molecular excitons and confined optical modes, the intra-molecular degrees of freedom are profoundly affected, leading to a reduced vibrational dressing of polaritons compared to bare electronically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-17 Javier del Pino , Florian A. Y. N. Schröder , Alex W. Chin , Johannes Feist , Francisco J. Garcia-Vidal

We present a detailed study of the conduction properties of a molecular wire where hopping processes between electronic sites are coupled to a vibrational mode of the molecule. The latter is sandwiched between two electronic leads at finite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 Simon Pigeon , Lorenzo Fusco , Gabriele De Chiara , Mauro Paternostro

Motivated by recent experiments, in which the Kondo effect has been observed for the first time in a double quantum-dot structure, we study electron transport through a system consisting of two ultrasmall, capacitively-coupled dots with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Teemu Pohjola , Herbert Schoeller , Gerd Schön

We investigate the influences of the electron-phonon interaction on the transport properties of one quantum-dot system with a side-coupled Majorana zero mode (MZM). Our calculation results show that at the zero-temperature limit, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-18 Xiao-Qi Wang , B. H. Wu , Shu-Feng Zhang , Qi Wang , Wei-Jiang Gong

The topic of this review is the effects of electron-phonon interaction (EPI) on the transport properties of molecular nano-conductors. A nano-conductor connects to two electron leads and two phonon leads, possibly at different temperatures…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-07 Jing-Tao Lü , Hangbo Zhou , Jin-Wu Jiang , Jian-Sheng Wang

The increased decay rate of a two-level system weakly coupled to an optical cavity, known as the Purcell effect, is a cornerstone of cavity QED. However, the effect of cavity coupling is not well understood if the two-level system is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-19 Charlie Nation , Valentina Notararigo , Alexandra Olaya-Castro

We report transport measurements on a quantum dot in a partly suspended carbon nanotube. Electrostatic tuning allows us to modify and even switch 'on' and 'off' the coupling to the quantized stretching vibration across several charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 P. Weber , H. L. Calvo , J. Bohle , K. Goß , C. Meyer , M. R. Wegewijs , C. Stampfer

Electron transport through molecular quantum dots coupled to a single vibrational mode is studied in the Kondo regime. We apply a generalized Schrieffer-Wolff transformation to determine the effective low-energy…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Jens Paaske , Karsten Flensberg

Molecular electronics is a rapidly developing field focused on using molecules as the structural basis for electronic components. It is common in such devices for the system of interest to couple simultaneously to multiple environments.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-27 Conor McConnell , Ahsan Nazir

The conductance through a molecular device including electron-electron and electron-phonon interactions is calculated using the Numerical Renormalization Group method. At low temperatures and weak electron-phonon coupling the properties of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 P. S. Cornaglia , H. Ness , D. R. Grempel

We investigate the effect of vibrational degrees of freedom on the linear thermoelectric transport through a single-level quantum dot described by the spinless Anderson-Holstein impurity model. To study the effects of strong electron-phonon…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-11-30 A. Khedri , V. Meden , T. A. Costi

We investigate the effect of tuning the phonon energy on the correlation effects in models of electron-phonon interactions using DMFT. In the regime where itinerant electrons, instantaneous electron-phonon driven correlations and static…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 J. P. Hague , N. d'Ambrumenil

Vibrationally inelastic electron transport through a flexible molecular junction is investigated. The study is based on a mechanistic model for a biphenyl molecule between two metal electrodes. Employing methods from electron-molecule…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-26 Martin Cizek , Michael Thoss , Wolfgang Domcke

The interplay between discrete vibrational and electronic degrees of freedom directly influences the chemical and physical properties of molecular systems. This coupling is typically studied through optical methods such as fluorescence,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. J. LeRoy , S. G. Lemay , J. Kong , C. Dekker

The Kondo effect and the Fano-Kondo effect are important phenomena that have been observed in quantum dots (QDs). We theoretically investigate the transport properties of a coupled QD system in order to study the possibility of detecting a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-05-09 Tetsufumi Tanamoto , Yu-xi Liu , Xuedong Hu , Franco Nori

We study the effect of quantum vibronic coupling on the electronic properties of carbon allotropes, including molecules and solids, by combining path integral first principles molecular dynamics (FPMD) with a colored noise thermostat. In…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-08-04 Arpan Kundu , Marco Govoni , Han Yang , Michele Ceriotti , Francois Gygi , Giulia Galli

Electronic transport through a triple quantum dot system, with only a single dot coupled directly to external leads, is considered theoretically. The model includes Coulomb correlations in the central dot, while such correlations in the two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Piotr Trocha , Józef Barnaś

We investigate the Josephson current through a suspended carbon nanotube double quantum dot which, at sufficiently low temperatures, is characterized by the ground state of the electronic subsystem. Depending on parameters like a magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-17 Robert Hussein , Wolfgang Belzig