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We investigate spin-polarized transport phenomena through double quantum dots coupled to ferromagnetic leads in series. By means of the slave-boson mean-field approximation, we calculate the conductance in the Kondo regime for two different…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 Yoichi Tanaka , Norio Kawakami

We study the transport properties of a double quantum dot (DQD) molecule at zero and at finite temperature. The properties of the zero temperature conductance depends on whether the level attraction between the symmetric and antisymmetric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-07-26 Laszlo Oroszlany , Andor Kormanyos , Janos Koltai , Jozsef Cserti , Colin Lambert

We study the transport properties of a serial double quantum dot (DQD) coupled to two superconducting leads, focusing on the Josephson current through the DQD and the associated 0-$\pi$ transitions which result from the subtle interplay…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-03-31 Rok Zitko , Minchul Lee , Rosa Lopez , Ramon Aguado , Mahn-Soo Choi

We present a microscopic theory of transport through quantum dot set-ups coupled to superconducting leads. We derive a master equation for the reduced density matrix to lowest order in the tunneling Hamiltonian and focus on quasiparticle…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-24 Sebastian Pfaller , Andrea Donarini , Milena Grifoni

We study the transport through side-coupled double quantum dots, connected to normal and superconducting (SC) leads with a T-shape configuration. We find, using the numerical renormalization group, that the Coulomb interaction suppresses SC…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yoichi Tanaka , Norio Kawakami , Akira Oguri

We study the transport properties of a quantum dot coupled to a normal and a superconducting lead. The dot is represented by a generalized Anderson model. Correlation effects are taken into account by an appropriate self-energy which…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 J. C. Cuevas , A. Levy Yeyati , A. Martin-Rodero

We present a theory of non-equilibrium superconducting proximity effect in an interacting quantum dot induced by a time-dependent tunnel coupling between dot and a superconducting lead. The proximity effect, that is established when the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-30 Ali G. Moghaddam , Michele Governale , Jürgen König

We study Andreev transport through double quantum dots connected in series normal and superconducting (SC) leads, using the numerical renormalization group. The ground state of this system shows a crossover between a local Cooper-pairing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Yoichi Tanaka , Norio Kawakami , Akira Oguri

We study transport through a double quantum dot with interdot hopping $t$, intradot repulsion $U$ and interdot repulsion $U^{\prime}$, using the numerical renormalization group (NRG) method. At half-filling, the conductances in two-terminal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yunori Nisikawa , Akira Oguri

We study the critical Josephson current flowing through a double quantum dot weakly coupled to two superconducting leads. We use analytical as well as numerical methods to investigate this setup in the limit of small and large bandwidth…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-02 B. Probst , F. Domínguez , A. Schroer , A. Levy Yeyati , P. Recher

We report conductance and supercurrent measurements for InAs single and parallel double quantum dot Josephson junctions contacted with Nb or NbTiN superconducting electrodes. Large superconducting gap energy, high critical field and large…

We investigate non-linear transport in a double quantum dot connected to two normal electrodes and a central superconducting finger. By this means, we perform a transport spectroscopy of such a system which implements a Cooper pair…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-10 L. G. Herrmann , P. Burset , W. J. Herrera , F. Portier , P. Roche , C. Strunk , A. Levy Yeyati , T. Kontos

In the present work, we investigate the thermoelectric properties of a T-shaped double quantum dot system coupled to two metallic leads incorporating the intra-dot Coulomb interaction. We explore the role of the interference effects and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-03 G. Gómez-Silva , P. A. Orellana , E. V. Anda

We analyze the magnetic and transport properties of a double quantum dot coupled to superconducting leads. In addition to the possible phase transition to a $\pi$ state, already present in the single dot case, this system exhibits a richer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 F. S. Bergeret , A. Levy Yeyati , A. Martin-Rodero

We study transport through a double quantum dot system in which each quantum dot is coupled to a phonon mode. Such a system can be realized, e.g., using a suspended carbon nanotube. We find that the interplay between strong electron-phonon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-26 Stefan Walter , Björn Trauzettel , Thomas L. Schmidt

Electron transport through a quantum dot coupled to superconducting leads shows a sharp conductance onset when a quantum dot orbital level crosses the superconducting coherence peak of one lead. We study superconducting single electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-06 D. M. T. van Zanten , H. Courtois , C. B. Winkelmann

The transport properties of nanostructured systems are deeply affected by the geometry of the effective connections to metallic leads. In this work we derive a conductance expression for interacting systems whose connectivity geometries do…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-15 Luis G. G. V. Dias da Silva , Caio H. Lewenkopf , Edson Vernek , Gerson J. Ferreira , Sergio E. Ulloa

The equilibrium current-phase structure of a tri-terminal superconducting Josephson junction (bijunction) is analyzed as a function of the two relevant phases. The bijunction is made of two noninteracting quantum dots, each one carrying a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 D. Feinberg , T. Jonckheere , J. Rech , T. Martin , B. Douçot , R. Mélin

Using the modified perturbation theory, we theoretically study the nonequilibrium Andreev transport through a quantum dot coupled to normal and superconducting leads (N-QD-S), which is strongly influenced by the Kondo and superconducting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-18 Yasuhiro Yamada , Yoichi Tanaka , Norio Kawakami

We analyze heat and charge transport through a single-level quantum dot coupled to two BCS superconductors at different temperatures to first order in the tunnel coupling. In order to describe the system theoretically, we extend a real-time…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-28 Mathias Kamp , Björn Sothmann