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We investigate the effects induced by spin polarization in the contacts attached to a serial double quantum dot. The polarization generates effective magnetic fields and suppresses the Kondo effect in each dot. The super-exchange…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-14 Rok Žitko , Jong Soo Lim , Rosa Lopez , Jan Martinek , Pascal Simon

The zero-temperature magnetic field-dependent conductance of electrons through a one-dimensional non-interacting tight-binding chain with an interacting {\it side} dot is reviewed and analized further. When the number of electrons in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 M. E. Torio , K. Hallberg , C. Proetto

Kondo physics in nonequilibrium interacting nanoscale devices is an attractive fundamental many-particle phenomenon with a rich potential for applications. Due to enormous complexity its clear and flexible theory is still highly desirable.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-12 Sergey Smirnov , Milena Grifoni

We study theoretically the combined effect of the spin-orbit and Zeeman interactions on the tunneling electron transport through a single-channel quantum ring threaded by magnetic flux. We focus on the high temperature case (temperature is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 P. M. Shmakov , A. P. Dmitriev , V. Yu. Kachorovskii

We study the quantum interference effects induced by the Aharonov-Casher phase in a ring structure in a two-dimensional heavy hole (HH) system with spin-orbit interaction realizable in narrow asymmetric quantum wells. The influence of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 Alexey A. Kovalev , Mario F. Borunda , T. Jungwirth , L. W. Molenkamp , Jairo Sinova

We use two different methods, the Hirsch-Fye quantum Monte Carlo simulation and the slave-boson mean field analysis to estimate the effect of spin-orbit coupling on the Kondo temperature in a quantum wire. In quantum Monte Carlo simulation,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-11-16 Liang Chen , Rong-Sheng Han

We study thermoelectric effects in Kondo correlated quantum dot coupled to ferromagnetic electrodes by calculating thermopower S in the Kondo regime as function of on-dot energy level and temperature. The system is represented by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Krawiec , K. I. Wysokinski

We examine the Chern Kondo insulator proposed in a square optical lattice with staggered flux induced by $s$-$p$ orbital hybridization by revisiting its realization and taking into account the magnetic effects for the Kondo phases. The…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-09-26 Sen Niu , Xiong-Jun Liu

The conventional unpolarized current injected into a {\em quantum-coherent} semiconductor ring attached to two external leads can be modulated from perfect conductor to perfect insulator limit via Rashba spin-orbit (SO) coupling. This…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Satofumi Souma , Branislav K. Nikolic

The influence of spin-orbit interactions on the Kondo effect has been under debate recently. Studies conducted recently on a system composed by an Anderson impurity on a 2DEG with Rashba spin-orbit have been shown that it can enhance or…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-09-14 G. R. de Sousa , Joelson F. Silva , E. Vernek

We study the influence of spin polarization on the degree of coherence of electron transport through interacting quantum dots. To this end, we identify transport regimes in which the degree of coherence can be related to the visibility of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-04 Bastian Hiltscher , Michele Governale , Jürgen König

The Kondo effect arises due to the interaction between a localized spin and the electrons of a surrounding host. Studies of individual magnetic impurities by scanning tunneling spectroscopy have renewed interest in Kondo physics; however, a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-08-22 Yong-hui Zhang , Steffen Kahle , Tobias Herden , Christophe Stroh , Marcel Mayor , Uta Schlickum , Markus Ternes , Peter Wahl , Klaus Kern

We discuss the physics of a of a spin-1 quantum dot, coupled to two metallic leads and develop a simple model for the temperature dependence of its conductance. Such quantum dots are described by a two-channel Kondo model with asymmetric…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-08-15 Anna Posazhennikova , Babak Bayani , P. Coleman

We study the current through a quantum wire side coupled to a quantum dot, and compare it with the case of an embedded dot. The system is modeled by the Anderson Hamiltonian for a linear chain, with one atom either coupled to (side-dot) or…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 A. A. Aligia , C. R. Proetto

We study the nonequilibrium spin transport through a quantum dot containing two spin levels coupled to the magnetic electrodes. A formula for the spin-dependent current is obtained and is applied to discuss the linear conductance and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ping Zhang , Qi-Kun Xue , Yu-Peng Wang , X. C. Xie

We calculate the finite temperature and non-equilibrium electric current through systems described generically at low energy by a singlet and \emph{two} spin doublets for $N$ and $N \pm 1$ electrons respectively, coupled asymmetrically to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-08-24 P. Roura-Bas , L. Tosi , A. A. Aligia , K. Hallberg

We investigate the effect that Rashba spin-orbit coupling has on the low energy behaviour of a two dimensional magnetic impurity system. It is shown that the Kondo effect, the screening of the magnetic impurity at temperatures T < T_K, is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-11-01 Justin Malecki

We explore the influence of a circularly polarized cavity photon field on the transport properties of a finite-width ring, in which the electrons are subject to spin-orbit and Coulomb interaction. The quantum ring is embedded in an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-21 Thorsten Arnold , Chi-Shung Tang , Andrei Manolescu , Vidar Gudmundsson

The Aharonov-Casher (AC) oscillations of spin current through a 2D ballistic ring in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit interaction and external magnetic field has been calculated using the semiclassical path integral method. For classically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-21 V. V. Shlyapin , A. G. Mal'shukov

We investigate the effect of magnetic fields on a Kondo insulator by using the periodic Anderson model. The analysis by dynamical mean field theory combined with quantum Monte Carlo simulations reveals that the magnetic field drives the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 Takuma Ohashi , Akihisa Koga , Sei-ichiro Suga , Norio Kawakami