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Shot-noise of electrons that are transmitted with probability $T$ through a quantum point contact (biased at a voltage $V_0$) leads to a fluctuating current that in turn emits radiation in the microwave regime. By calculating the Fano…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-18 Fabian Hassler , Daniel Otten

We study the interference between the Fano and Kondo effects in a side-coupled double-quantum- dot system where one of the quantum dots couples to conduction electron bath while the other dot only side-couples to the first dot via…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Chung-Hou Chung , Tsung-Han Lee

Transport properties of a single plasmon interacting with two quantum dots (QDs) system coupled to one-dimensional surface plasmonic waveguide are investigated theoretically via the real-space approach. We mainly focus on the coupling…

The interplay between vibrational modes and Kondo physics is a fundamental aspect of transport properties of correlated molecular conductors. We present theoretical results for a single molecule in the Kondo regime connected to left and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-05-18 Luis G. Dias da Silva , Elbio Dagotto

Quantum interference (QI) effects in molecular junctions may be used to obtain large thermoelectric responses. We study the electrical conductance G and the thermoelec- tric response of a series of molecules featuring a quinoid core using…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-02 M. Strange , J. S. Seldenthuis , C. J. O. Verzijl , J. M. Thijssen , G. C. Solomon

A Fano-like phonon resonance is observed in few-layer (~3) graphene at room temperature using infrared Fourier transform spectroscopy. This Fano resonance is the manifestation of a strong electron-phonon interaction between the discrete…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Zhihong Liu , Xiaoxiang Lu , Peng Peng , Wei Wu , Steven Pei , Qingkai Yu , Jiming Bao

In the presence of direct trajectories connecting source and drain contacts, the conductance of a quantum dot may exhibit resonances of the Fano type. Since Fano resonances result from the interference of two transmission pathways, their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. A. Clerk , X. Waintal , P. W. Brouwer

We present a microscopic model describing the transition to strong coupling regime for an emitter resonantly coupled to a surface plasmon in a metal-dielectric structure. We demonstrate that the shape of scattering spectra is determined by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-08 Tigran V. Shahbazyan

We show the existence of Fano resonances in the context of near-field radiative heat transfer, which enable the strong suppression and enhancement of the spectral heat flux at specific wavelengths. This is demonstrated by making use of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 Jaime E Perez Rodriguez , Giuseppe Pirruccio , Raul Esquivel-Sirvent

We investigate the nonequilibrium transport properties of a double quantum dot system connected in parallel to two leads, including intradot electron-electron interaction. In the absence of interactions the system supports a bound state in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-04 Miguel A. Sierra , M. Saiz-Bretin , F. Dominguez-Adame , David Sanchez

Quantum interference effects in inter-conversion between cold atoms and diatomic molecules are analysed. Within the framework of Fano's theory, continuum-bound anisotropic dressed state formalism of atom-molecule quantum dynamics is…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-01-22 B. Deb , A. Rakshit , J. Hazra , D. Chakraborty

Spin-crossover (SCO) molecules are versatile magnetic switches with applications in molecular electronics and spintronics. Downscaling devices to the single-molecule level remains, however, a challenging task since the switching mechanism…

We introduce a two-channel tunneling model to generalize the widely used BTK theory of point-contact conductance between a normal metal contact and superconductor. Tunneling of electrons can occur via localized surface states or directly,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-04-02 Mikael Fogelstrom , Matthias J. Graf , V. A. Sidorov , Xin Lu , E. D. Bauer , J. D. Thompson

We report the temperature dependence of the zero-bias conductance of a single-electron transistor in the regime of weak coupling between the quantum dot and the leads. The Fano line shape, convoluted with thermal broadening, provides a good…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 I. G. Zacharia , D. Goldhaber-Gordon , G. Granger , M. A. Kastner , Yu. B. Khavin , Hadas Shtrikman , D. Mahalu , U. Meirav

We have studied the Fano effect in a few-electron quantum dot side-coupled to a quantum wire. The conductance of the wire, which shows an ordinal staircase-like quantization without the dot, is modified through the interference (the Fano…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Tomohiro Otsuka , Eisuke Abe , Shingo Katsumoto , Yasuhiro Iye , Gyong Luck Khym , Kicheon Kang

The transmission probability and phase through a few-electron quantum dot are studied within a resonance theory for the strong coupling regime to the conducting leads. We find that the interaction between overlapping resonances leads to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-09 E. R. Racec

We investigate a tunable Fano interferometer consisting of a quantum dot coupled via tunneling to a one-dimensional channel. In addition to Fano resonance, the channel shows strong Coulomb response to the dot, with a single electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. C. Johnson , C. M. Marcus , M. P. Hanson , A. C. Gossard

Recent experiments demonstrate a temperature control of the electric conduction through a ferrocene-based molecular junction. Here we examine the results in view of determining means to distinguish between transport through single-particle…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-23 Miguel A. Sierra , David Sánchez , Alvar R. Garrigues , Enrique del Barco , Lejia Wang , Christian A. Nijhuis

We present a theoretical study of the electronic transport through single-molecule junctions incorporating a Pt6 metal cluster bound within an organic framework. We show that the insertion of this molecule between a pair of electrodes leads…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-27 Linda A. Zotti , Edmund Leary , Maria Soriano , Juan Carlos Cuevas , Juan Jose Palacios

We demonstrate delicate control over the Kondo effect and its interplay with quantum interference in an Aharonov-Bohm interferometer containing one Kondo dot and one noninteracting dot. It is shown that the Kondo resonance undergoes a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-06-10 Tie-Feng Fang , Hong-Gang Luo