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In this article, we study the quantum transport through a single-level quantum-dot in Kondo regime, coupled to current leads and embedded between two one-dimensional topological superconductors, each hosting Majorana zero modes at their…

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The Kondo effect in coupled quantum dots is investigated from the viewpoint of transmission spectroscopy using the slave-boson formalism of the Anderson model. The antiferromagnetic spin-spin coupling $J$ between the dots is taken into…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Tomosuke Aono , Mikio Eto

The Kondo effect in quantum dots attached to ferromagnetic leads with general polarization directions is studied combining poor man scaling and Wilson's numerical renormalization group methods. We show that polarized electrodes will lead in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 P. Simon , P. S. Cornaglia , D. Feinberg , C. A. Balseiro

Spin-polarized transport through a quantum dot strongly coupled to ferromagnetic electrodes with non-collinear magnetic moments is analyzed theoretically in terms of the non-equilibrium Green function formalism. Electrons in the dot are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. Swirkowicz , M. Wilczynski , J. Barnas

Quantum dots connected to larger systems containing a continuum of states like charge reservoirs allow the theoretical study of many-body effects such as the Coulomb blockade and the Kondo effect. Here, we analyze the nonequilibrium Kondo…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-31 Levente Máthé , Ioan Grosu

The Kondo-effect is a many-body phenomenon arising due to conduction electrons scattering off a localized spin. Coherent spin-flip scattering off such a quantum impurity correlates the conduction electrons and at low temperature this leads…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Paaske , A. Rosch , P. Woelfle , N. Mason , C. M. Marcus , J. Nygard

We observe a strong Kondo effect in a semiconductor quantum dot when a small magnetic field is applied. The Coulomb blockade for electron tunneling is overcome completely by the Kondo effect and the conductance reaches the unitary-limit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 W. G. van der Wiel , S. De Franceschi , T. Fujisawa , J. M. Elzerman , S. Tarucha , L. P. Kouwenhoven

The Kondo effect is a key many-body phenomenon in condensed matter physics. It concerns the interaction between a localised spin and free electrons. Discovered in metals containing small amounts of magnetic impurities, it is now a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-10 S. Sasaki , S. De Franceschi , J. M. Elzerman , W. G. van der Wiel , M. Eto , S. Tarucha , L. P. Kouwenhoven

The Kondo effect, a hallmark of strong correlation physics, is characterized by the formation of an extended cloud of singlet states around magnetic impurities at low temperatures. While many implications of the Kondo cloud's existence have…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-28 André Erpenbeck , Guy Cohen

We show that through an interdot off-site electron correlation in a double quantum-dot (DQD) device, Kondo resonances emerge in the local density of states without the electron spin-degree of freedom. We identify the physical mechanism…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Qing-feng Sun , Hong Guo

The Kondo effect is the many-body screening of a local spin by a cloud of electrons at very low temperature. It has been proposed as an explanation of the zero-bias anomaly in quantum point contacts where interactions drive a spontaneous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-30 B. Brun , F. Martins , S. Faniel , B. Hackens , A. Cavanna , C. Ulysse , A. Ouerghi , U. Gennser , D. Mailly , P. Simon , S. Huant , V. Bayot , M. Sanquer , H. Sellier

We consider a triple-quantum-dot (TQD) system composed by an interacting quantum dot connected to two effectively non-interacting dots, which in turn are both connected in parallel to metallic leads. As we show, this system can be mapped…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-12-21 Arturo Wong , Francisco Mireles

We study a strongly interacting "quantum dot 1" and a weakly interacting "dot 2" connected in parallel to metallic leads. Gate voltages can drive the system between Kondo-quenched and non-Kondo free-moment phases separated by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-30 Arturo Wong , W. Brian Lane , Luis G. G. V. Dias da Silva , Kevin Ingersent , Nancy Sandler , Sergio E. Ulloa

The Kondo effect may develop in those cases where there are non-commuting operators describing the interaction between the conduction electrons and impurities or defects with internal degrees of freedom. This interaction may involve spin or…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-24 O. Újsághy , G. Zaránd , A. Zawadowski

GaN and the heterostructures are attractive in condensed matter science and applications for electronic devices. We measure the electron transport in GaN/AlGaN field-effect transistors (FETs) at cryogenic temperature. We observe formation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-11 Tomohiro Otsuka , Takaya Abe , Takahito Kitada , Norikazu Ito , Taketoshi Tanaka , Ken Nakahara

We investigate Kondo correlations in a quantum dot with normal and superconducting electrodes, where a spin bias voltage is applied across the device and the local interaction $U$ is either attractive or repulsive. When the spin current is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-06-13 Tie-Feng Fang , Ai-Min Guo , Qing-Feng Sun

Molecular electronic devices currently serve as a platform for studying a variety of physical phenomena only accessible at the nanometer scale. One such phenomenon is the highly correlated electronic state responsible for the Kondo effect,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 Gavin D. Scott , Douglas Natelson

Spin and charge transport through a quantum dot coupled to external nonmagnetic leads is analyzed theoretically in terms of the non-equilibrium Green function formalism based on the equation of motion method. The dot is assumed to be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 R. Swirkowicz , J. Barnas , M. Wilczynski

We study the interplay of superconducting and ferromagnetic correlations on charge transport in different geometries with a focus on both a quantum point contact as well as a quantum dot in the even and the odd state with and without…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-19 H. Soller , L. Hofstetter , S. Csonka , A. Levy Yeyati , C. Schönenberger , A. Komnik

Non-equilibrium spin transport through an interacting quantum dot is analyzed. The coherent spin oscillations in the dot provide a generating source for spin current. In the interacting regime, the Kondo effect is influenced in a…

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