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We show that an Anderson Hamiltonian describing a quantum dot connected to multiple leads is integrable. A general expression for the non-linear conductance is obtained by combining the Bethe ansatz exact solution with Landauer-B\"uttiker…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Sam Young Cho , Huan-Qiang Zhou , Ross H. McKenzie

We study the charge and heat transport through the correlated quantum dot with a finite value of the charging energy U \neq \infty . The Kondo resonance appearing at temperatures below T_K is responsible for several qualitative changes of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Donabidowicz , T. Domanski , K. I. Wysokinski

The out-of-equilibrium transport properties of a double quantum dot system in the Kondo regime are studied theoretically by means of a two-impurity Anderson hamiltonian with interimpurity hopping. The hamiltonian is solved by means of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Ramon Aguado , David C. Langreth

The conductance through a molecular device including electron-electron and electron-phonon interactions is calculated using the Numerical Renormalization Group method. At low temperatures and weak electron-phonon coupling the properties of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 P. S. Cornaglia , H. Ness , D. R. Grempel

We investigate the equilibrium and non-equilibrium transport through a quantum dot in the Kondo regime, embedded between a normal metal and a topological superconductor supporting Majorana bound states at its end points. We find that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-07 Razvan Chirla , I. V. Dinu , V. Moldoveanu , Catalin Pascu Moca

We have measured the current(I)-voltage(V) characteristics of a single-wall carbon nanotube quantum dot coupled to superconducting source and drain contacts in the intermediate coupling regime. Whereas the enhanced differential conductance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Eichler , M. Weiss , S. Oberholzer , C. Schonenberger , A. Levy Yeyati , J. C. Cuevas

We discuss the physics of a of a spin-1 quantum dot, coupled to two metallic leads and develop a simple model for the temperature dependence of its conductance. Such quantum dots are described by a two-channel Kondo model with asymmetric…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-08-15 Anna Posazhennikova , Babak Bayani , P. Coleman

Transport properties of an interacting triple quantum dot system coupled to three leads in a triangular geometry has been studied in the Kondo regime. Applying mean-field finite-U slave boson and embedded cluster approximations to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 E. Vernek , C. A. Busser , G. B. Martins , E. V. Anda , N. Sandler , S. E. Ulloa

We study the Kondo and transport properties of a quantum dot with a single magnetic Mn ion connected to metallic leads. By employing a numerical renormalization group technique we show that depending on the value of ferromagnetic coupling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-04 E. vernek , Fanyao Qu , F. M. Souza , J. C. Egues , E. V. Anda

We measure the non-dissipative supercurrent in a single InAs self-assembled quantum dot (QD) coupled to superconducting leads. The QD occupation is both tuned by a back-gate electrode and lateral side-gate. The geometry of the side-gate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-30 Y. Kanai , R. S. Deacon , A. Oiwa , K. Yoshida , K. Shibata , K. Hirakawa , S. Tarucha

Phonon-assisted electronic tunnelings through a vibrating quantum dot embedded between normal and superconducting leads are studied in the Kondo regime. In such a hybrid device, with the bias applied to the normal lead, we find a series of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-04-05 Zhan Cao , Tie-Feng Fang , Qing-Feng Sun , Hong-Gang Luo

The thermoelectric properties of strongly correlated quantum dots, described by a single level Anderson model coupled to conduction electron leads, is investigated using Wilson's numerical renormalization group method. We calculate the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-07-09 T. A. Costi , V. Zlatic

We study the Kondo effect in a quantum dot driven out of equilibrium by an external ac field. The Kondo effect can be probed by measuring the dc current induced by an auxiliary dc bias $V_{dc}$ applied across the dot. In the absence of ac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Kaminski , Yu. V. Nazarov , L. I. Glazman

We study competition between the Kondo effect and superconductivity in a single self-assembled InAs quantum dot contacted with Al lateral electrodes. Due to Kondo enhancement of Andreev reflections the zero-bias anomaly develops sidepeaks,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-29 Christo Buizert , Akira Oiwa , Kenji Shibata , Kazuhiro Hirakawa , Seigo Tarucha

In this paper, we investigate the transport through a T-shaped double quantum dot coupled to two normal metal leads left and right and a superconducting lead. Analytical expressions of Andreev transmission and local Density of States of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 A. M. Calle , M. Pacheco , P. A. Orellana

In this paper we study the thermopower of a quantum dot connected to two leads in the presence of Kondo correlation by employing a modified second-order perturbation scheme at nonequilibrium. A simple scheme, Ng's ansatz [Phys. Rev. Lett.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Bing Dong , X. L. Lei

We study the gate voltage dependence of the linear conductance through a quantum dot coupled to one-dimensional leads. For interacting dot electrons but noninteracting leads Kondo physics implies broad plateau-like resonances. In the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Andergassen , T. Enss , V. Meden

Electron transport between two superconductors through an Anderson impurity in the Kondo regime is investigated within the slave boson mean field approximation. The current, shot noise power and Fano factor are displayed versus the applied…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Y. Avishai , A. Golub , A. D. Zaikin

In this work, it is considered a nanostructure composed by a quantum dot coupled to two ferromagnets and a superconductor. The transport properties of this system are studied within a generalized mean-field approximation taking into account…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-19 E. C. Siqueira , P. A. Orellana , A. C. Seridonio , R. C. Cestari , M. S. Figueira , G. G. Cabrera

Sub-gap transport properties of a quantum dot (QD) coupled to two superconducting and one metallic leads are studied theoretically, solving the time-dependent equation of motion by the Laplace transform technique. We focus on time-dependent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-17 R. Taranko , T. Kwapinski , T. Domanski