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We extend the theory of Coulomb blockade oscillations to quantum dots which are deformed by the confining potential. We show that shape deformations can generate sequences of conductance resonances which carry the same internal…

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We consider Coulomb blockade oscillations of thermoelectric coefficients of a single electron transistor based on a quantum dot strongly coupled to one of the leads. Analytic expression for the thermopower as a function of temperature $T$…

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The electronic transport of a noninteracting quantum ring side-coupled to a quantum wire is studied via a single-band tunneling tight-binding Hamiltonian. We found that the system develops an oscillating band with antiresonances and…

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We study the dynamics of charge and energy currents in a Coulomb-coupled double quantum dot system, when only one of the two dots is adiabatically driven by a time-periodic gate that modulates its energy level. Although the Coulomb coupling…

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Cotunneling transport through quantum dots weakly coupled to non-collinearly magnetized leads is analyzed theoretically by means of the real-time diagrammatic technique. The electric current, dot occupations, and dot spin are calculated in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 Ireneusz Weymann , Jozef Barnas

We present an overview of time-dependent transport phenomena in quantum systems, with a particular emphasis on steady-state regimes. We present the ideas after the main theoretical frameworks to study open-quantum systems out of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-15 Matteo Acciai , Liliana Arrachea , Janine Splettstoesser

We investigate the Coulomb blockade in quantum dots asymmetrically coupled to the leads for an arbitrary voltage bias focusing on the regime where electrons do not thermalise during their dwell time in the dot. By solving the quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-01 George McArdle , Rose Davies , Igor V. Lerner , Igor V. Yurkevich

We inspect signatures of dynamical quantum phase transitions driven by two types of quenches acting on a correlated quantum dot embedded between superconducting and metallic reservoirs. Under stationary conditions the proximity induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-29 Kacper Wrześniewski , Ireneusz Weymann , Nicholas Sedlmayr , Tadeusz Domański

Electronic transport through a two-path triple-quantum-dot system with two source leads and one drain is studied. By separating the conductance of the two double dot paths, we are able to observe double dot and triple dot physics in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-03 M. Kotzian , F. Gallego-Marcos , G. Platero , R. J. Haug

We present a theoretical study of the electronic transport through a many-level quantum dot driven by time-dependent signals applied at the contacts to the leads. If the barriers oscillate out of phase the system operates like a turnstile…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Valeriu Moldoveanu , Vidar Gudmundsson , Andrei Manolescu

The non-Fermi-liquid properties of an ultrasmall quantum dot coupled to a lead and to a quantum box are investigated. Tuning the ratio of the tunneling amplitudes to the lead and box, we find a line of two-channel Kondo fixed points for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Frithjof B. Anders , Eran Lebanon , Avraham Schiller

In the present work, we theoretically study the nonlinear regime of charge transport through a quantum dot coupled to the source and drain reservoirs. The investigation is carried out using a nonequilibrium Green's functions formalism…

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We investigate theoretically the transport properties of a mesoscopic system driven by a sequence of rectangular pulses applied at the contact to the input (left) lead. The characteristics of the current which would be measured in the…

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We investigate non-equilibrium transport properties of a quantum dot in the Coulomb blockade regime under the condition of negligible inelastic scattering during the dwelling time of the electrons in the dot. Using the quantum kinetic…

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Time-dependent transport through two capacitively coupled quantum dots is studied in the framework of the generalized master equation. The Coulomb interaction is included within the exact diagonalization method. Each dot is connected to two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-24 Valeriu Moldoveanu , Andrei Manolescu , Vidar Gudmundsson

We study the transport through a quantum dot subject to a randomly fluctuating potential, generated by a sequence of pulses in the gate voltage with the help of the autoregressive model. We find that the tunneling current is multistable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-04 Pei Wang , Gao Xianlong , Shaojun Xu

The dynamics of charge qubit in double quantum dot coupled to phonons is investigated theoretically. The static bias is considered. By means of the perturbation approach based on unitary transformations, the dynamical tunneling current is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Xiufeng Cao , Hang Zheng

We investigate the nonlinear regime of charge and energy transport through Coulomb-blockaded quantum dots. We discuss crossed effects that arise when electrons move in response to thermal gradients (Seebeck effect) or energy flows in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-30 Miguel A. Sierra , David Sanchez

Based on the nonequilibrium Green's function (NEGF), we develop a quantum nonlinear theory to study time-dependent ac transport properties in the low frequency and nonlinear bias voltage regimes. By expanding NEGF in terms of time to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-07 Lei Zhang , Fuming Xu , Jian Chen , Yanxia Xing , Jian Wan