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A new theoretical method is introduced to study coherent electron transport in an interacting multilevel quantum dot. The method yields the correct behavior both in the limit of weak and strong coupling to the leads, giving a unified…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Levy Yeyati , F. Flores , A. Martin-Rodero

We study the thermoelectric properties and heat-to-work conversion performance of an interacting, multi-level quantum dot (QD) weakly coupled to electronic reservoirs. We focus on the sequential tunneling regime. The dynamics of the charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-29 Paolo Andrea Erdman , Francesco Mazza , Riccardo Bosisio , Giuliano Benenti , Rosario Fazio , Fabio Taddei

We study thermoelectric transport through a serial double quantum dot (DQD) coupled to two metallic leads with different thermal energies. We take into account the electron sequential and cotunneling effects via different master equation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-31 Bashdar Rahman Pirot , Nzar Rauf Abdullah , Andrei Manolescu , Vidar Gudmundsson

We analyze the noise properties of both electric charge and heat currents as well as their correlations in a quantum-dot based thermoelectric engine. The engine is a three-terminal conductor with crossed heat and charge flows where heat…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-10 Rafael Sánchez , Björn Sothmann , Andrew N. Jordan , Markus Büttiker

We analyze the charge transport through a single level quantum dot coupled to a normal (N) and superconducting (S) leads where the electron pairs exist either as the coherent (for temperatures below T_c) or incoherent objects (in a region…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-09-20 T. Domanski A. Donabidowicz , K. I. Wysokinski

We analyze the time-evolution of a quantum dot which is proximized by a large-gap superconductor and weakly probed using the charge and heat currents into a wide-band metal electrode. We map out the full time dependence of these currents…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-23 Lara C. Ortmanns , Janine Splettstoesser , Maarten R. Wegewijs

We consider a quantum dot coupled to two BCS superconductors with same gap energies $\Delta$. The transport properties are investigated by means of infinite-$U$ noncrossing approximation. In equilibrium density of states, Kondo effect shows…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-08-31 S. Y. Liu , X. L. Lei

In the present work we theoretically study thermoelectric transport and heat transfer in a junction including a $T$-shaped double quantum dot coupled to nonmagnetic electrodes and supplemented with a third dot in a parallel configuration.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-27 Natalya A. Zimbovskaya

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 discuss a quantum thermal machine that generates power from a thermally driven double quantum dot coupled to normal and superconducting reservoirs. Energy exchange between the dots is mediated by electron-electron interactions. We can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-19 S. Mojtaba Tabatabaei , David Sanchez , Alfredo Levy Yeyati , Rafael Sanchez

The phase and thermal driven transport properties of the T-shaped uncorrelated double quantum dot Josephson junction are analyzed by using Keldysh non-equilibrium Green's function equation of motion technique. In this setup, we have shown…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-10 Bhupendra Kumar , Sachin Verma , Ajay

A quantum-dot thermal transistor consisting of three Coulomb-coupled quantum dots coupled to respective electronic reservoirs by tunnel contacts is established. The heat flows through the collector and emitter can be controlled by the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-11-29 Yanchao Zhang , Zhimin Yang , Xin Zhang , Bihong Lin , Guoxing Lin , Jincan Chen

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 theoretically investigate the propagation of heat currents in a three-terminal quantum dot engine. Electron-electron interactions introduce state-dependent processes which can be resolved by energy-dependent tunneling rates. We identify…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-30 Rafael Sánchez , Holger Thierschmann , Laurens W. Molenkamp

We derive a formula for the current through an interacting quantum dot coupled to two supercouducting leads, using the non-equilibrium Green's function formalism. It is shown that the formula takes an especially simple form, when the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Kicheon Kang

The thermoelectric transport properties of nanostructured devices continue to attract attention from theorists and experimentalist alike as the spatial confinement allows for a controlled approach to transport properties of correlated…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-12 Stefan Kirchner , Farzaneh Zamani , Enrique Muñoz

The interfaces of quantum Hall insulators with superconductors have emerged as a promising platform to realise interesting physics that may be relevant for topologically protected quantum computing. However, these interfaces can host other…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Jordan T. McCourt , John Chiles , Chun-Chia Chen , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Tanaguchi , Francois Amet , Gleb Finkelstein

We report a numerical study of transport properties of a quantum dot with superconducting leads. We introduce a general phenomenological model of quantum dot transport, in which electron tunnel rates are computed within the Fermi's Golden…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 C. B. Whan , T. P. Orlando

We investigate cross-correlations in the tunneling currents through two parallel quantum dots coupled to independent electrodes and gates and interacting via an inter-dot Coulomb interaction. The correlations reveal additional information,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-02-26 Sebastian Haupt , Jasmin Aghassi , Matthias H. Hettler , Gerd Sch"on

We analyze the transport properties of a double quantum dot device in the side-coupled configuration. A small quantum dot (QD), having a single relevant electronic level, is coupled to source and drain electrodes. A larger QD, whose…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-12 J. A. Andrade , Pablo S. Cornaglia , A. A. Aligia