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We study the conductance of a quantum T-junction coupled to two electron reservoirs and a quantum dot. In the absence of electron-electron interactions, the conductance $g$ is sensitive to interference between trajectories which enter the…

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We discuss fluctuations near the second order phase transition where the free energy has an additional non-Hermitian term. The spectrum of the fluctuations changes when the odd-parity potential amplitude exceeds the critical value…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-10-11 N. M. Chtchelkatchev , A. A. Golubov , T. I. Baturina , V. M. Vinokur

We investigate the thermoelectric transport properties of an interacting parallel double quantum dot in the Coulomb-blockade regime. Building on an analytical solution based on an equation-of-motion technique, we extend the formalism for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-24 Nahual Sobrino

We investigate the electrical conductance and thermopower of a quantum dot tunnel coupled to external leads described by an extension of the Anderson impurity model which takes into account the assisted hopping processes, i.e., the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-02 S. B. Tooski , A. Ramsak , B. R. Bulka , R. Zitko

We discuss out-of-equilibrium population imbalances between different orbital states due to applied thermal gradients. This purely thermoelectric orbital effect appears quite generically in nanostructures with a pseudospin degree of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-06 Jong Soo Lim , Rosa Lopez , David Sanchez

Superconductivity results from an instability of the Fermi surface -- contour of \textit{poles} of the single particle propagator -- to an infinitesimally small attraction between electrons. Here, we instead discuss the analogous problem on…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-05-14 Chandan Setty

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

We consider a specific instance of a superconducting circuit, the so-called charge-qubit, consisting of a capacitor and a Josephson junction. Starting from the microscopic description of the latter in terms of two tunneling BCS models in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-27 F. Benatti , F. Carollo , R. Floreanini , H. Narnhofer , F. Valiera

We calculate the counting statistics of electron transfer through an open quantum dot with charging interaction. A dot that is connected to leads by two single-channel quantum point contacts in an in-plane magnetic field is described by a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Markus Kindermann , Bjoern Trauzettel

Thermoelectric effects through a serial double quantum dot system weakly coupled to ferromagnetic leads are analyzed. Formal expressions of electrical conductance, thermal conductance, and thermal coefficient are obtained by means of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-18 M. Bagheri Tagani , H. Rahimpour Soleimani

Quantum dots (QDs) are good model systems for fundamental studies of mesoscopic transport phenomena using thermoelectric effects because of their small size, electrostatically tunable properties and thermoelectric response characteristics…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-16 Artis Svilans , Martin Leijnse , Heiner Linke

We study the conductance statistical features of ballistic electrons flowing through a chaotic quantum dot. We show how the temperature affects the universal conductance fluctuations by analyzing the influence of dephasing and thermal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 E. R. P. Alves , C. H. Lewenkopf

A theoretical study is reported of electron transport at finite temperature in a double quantum dot (DQD) capacitively coupled to a quantum point contact (QPC). Starting from a Hamiltonian model, a master equation is obtained for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Gregory Bulnes Cuetara , Massimiliano Esposito , Gernot Schaller , Pierre Gaspard

We investigate transport and thermoelectric properties of hybrid systems based on a single-level quantum dot and one superconducting lead. The other lead is generally normal-metallic ferromagnet. In the latter case single-particle transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-03 Piotr Trocha , Józef Barnaś

We study the combined effect of finite temperature, underlying classical dynamics, and deformations on the statistical properties of Coulomb blockade conductance peaks in quantum dots. These effects are considered in the context of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Raul O. Vallejos , Caio H. Lewenkopf , Eduardo R. Mucciolo

We develop the theory of conductance of a quantum dot which carries a spin and is coupled via RKKY interaction to another spin-carrying quantum dot. The found dependence of the differential conductance on bias and magnetic field at fixed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. G. Vavilov , L. I. Glazman

We study the behavior of a single electron transistor (SET) represented by a dissipative tunnel junction between a pair of quantum dots described by two (possibly, different) Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) models. A combined influence of the soft…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-11-17 D. V. Khveshchenko

We revisit a model describing Seebeck effect on a weak link between two charge Kondo circuits, which has been proposed in the [Phys. Rev. B 97, 085403 (2018)]. We calculate the thermoelectric coefficients in the perturbation theory assuming…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-25 T. K. T. Nguyen , M. N. Kiselev

The search for semiconductors with high thermoelectric figure of merit has been greatly aided by theoretical modeling of electron and phonon transport, both in bulk materials and in nanocomposites. Recent experiments have studied…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-25 Subroto Mukerjee , J. E. Moore

We study the steady-state properties as well as the relaxation dynamics of the nonequilibrium interacting resonant level model at finite temperatures. It constitutes the prototype model of a correlated charge fluctuating quantum dot. The…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-03-14 D. M. Kennes , V. Meden