English
Related papers

Related papers: Tunneling spin Nernst effect for a single quantum …

200 papers

A quadruple quantum-dot (QQD) cell is proposed as a spin filter. The transport properties of the QQD cell were studied in linear response regime on the basis of the equations of motion for retarded Green's functions. The developed approach…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-28 M. Yu. Kagan , V. V. Val'kov , S. V. Aksenov

It is shown that a flux of unpolarized electrons across a symmetric double barrier quantum well induces a spin polarization inside the well. Besides, the transmitted current acquires a spin polarized component and the spin-Hall current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. G. Mal'shukov , C. S. Chu

We study the performance of a quantum wire spin filter that is based on the Rashba spin-orbit interaction in the presence of the electron-electron interaction. The finite length wire is attached to two semi-infinite nonmagnetic leads.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 J. E. Birkholz , V. Meden

We study the spin-dependent transport through a quantum dot coupled to two ferromagnetic electrodes using the equation of motion method for the nonequilibrium Green's functions. Our results show that the conductance and the density of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Huanwen Lai , Xuean Zhao , Zhu-An Xu , You-Quan Li

Employing the Anderson impurity model, we study tunneling properties through an ideal quantum dot near the conductance minima. Considering the Coulomb blockade and the quantum confinement on an equal footing, we have obtained current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Kicheon Kang , B. I. Min

The total energy of a quasi-one-dimensional electron system is calculated using density functional theory. It is shown that spontaneous ferromagnetic state in quantum wire occurs at low one-dimensional electron density. The critical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-14 A. A. Vasilchenko

Spin-orbit effects on electron-electron interaction are studied theoretically. The corrections to the Coulomb interaction of quantum well electrons induced by the spin-orbit coupling are derived. The developed theory is applied to calculate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-05-08 M. M. Glazov , V. D. Kulakovskii

A numerically exact calculation of the T=0 transport properties of a quantum wire interacting with a lateral two-level quantum dot is presented. The wire conductance is calculated for all different states of charge and spin of the quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Maria A. Davidovich , E. V. Anda , C. A. Busser , G. Chiappe

Single-electron tunneling through a zero-dimensional state in an asymmetric double-barrier resonant-tunneling structure is studied. The broadening of steps in the $I$--$V$ characteristics is found to strongly depend on the polarity of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-25 J. Könemann , B. Kubala , J. König , R. J. Haug

A weakly bound electron in a semiconductor quantum wire is shown to become entangled with an itinerant electron via the coulomb interaction. The degree of entanglement and its variation with energy of the injected electron, may be tuned by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 J. H. Jefferson , A. Ramsak , T. Rejec

We investigate the total spin in an individual single-wall carbon nanotube quantum dot with various numbers of electrons in a shell by using the ratio of the saturation currents of the first steps of Coulomb staircases for positive and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-22 Satoshi Moriyama , Tomoko Fuse , Tomohiro Yamaguchi , Koji Ishibashi

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 study two tunnel-coupled quantum dots each with a spin 1/2 and attached to leads in the Coulomb blockade regime. We study the interplay between Kondo correlations and the singlet-triplet exchange splitting $K$ between the two spins. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 Vitaly N. Golovach , Daniel Loss

We report a study of spin dependent transport in a system composed of a quantum dot coupled to a normal metal lead and a ferromagnetic lead (NM-QD-FM). We use the master equation approach to calculate the spin-resolved currents in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. M. Souza , J. C. Egues , A. P. Jauho

We investigate real-time dynamics of spin-polarized current in a quantum dot coupled to ferromagnetic leads in both parallel and antiparallel alignments. While an external bias voltage is taken constant in time, a gate terminal,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-22 Fabricio M. Souza , Thiago L. Carrara , E. Vernek

We propose a novel approach to explore the properties of a quantum dot in the presence of the spin-orbit interaction and in a tilted magnetic field. The spin-orbit coupling within the quantum dot manifest itself as anti-crossing of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Hong-Yi Chen , Vadim Apalkov , Tapash Chakraborty

We report on our investigation of the low-lying energy spectra and charge density of a two-dimensional quantum Hall liquid at $\nu=\frac25$ that is Coulomb coupled to a quantum dot. The dot contains a hole and two/three electrons. We found…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 V. M. Apalkov , Tapash Chakraborty , C. Schuller

We study the effect of the electron-electron interaction on the transport of spin polarized currents in metals and doped semiconductors in the diffusive regime. In addition to well-known screening effects, we identify two additional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 Irene D'Amico , Giovanni Vignale

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

A triangular triple quantum dot gives various Kondo effects, such as the emergence of an electric polarization accompanied by a complete compensation of spin degrees of freedom. The interplay of spin and charge of electrons in quantum dots…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-03 Mikito Koga , Masashige Matsumoto , Hiroaki Kusunose