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We investigate a lateral semiconductor quantum dot with a large number of electrons in the limit of strong coupling to the leads. A Kondo effect is observed and can be tuned in a perpendicular magnetic field. This Kondo effect does not…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 C. Fuhner , U. F. Keyser , R. J. Haug , D. Reuter , A. D. Wieck

We investigate the Fano-Kondo interplay in an Aharonov-Bohm ring with an embedded non-interacting quantum dot and a Coulomb interacting quantum dot. Using a slave-boson mean-field approximation we diagonalize the Hamiltonian via scattering…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 R. R. Agundez , J. Verduijn , S. Rogge , M. Blaauboer

We study the spin-valley Kondo effect of a silicon quantum dot occupied by $% \mathcal{N}$ electrons, with $\mathcal{N}$ up to four. We show that the Kondo resonance appears in the $\mathcal{N}=1,2,3$ Coulomb blockade regimes, but not in…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-09-04 Shiueyuan Shiau , Robert Joynt

We investigate the linear and nonlinear transport through a single level quantum dot connected to two ferromagnetic leads in Kondo regime, using the slave-boson mean field approach for finite on-site Coulomb repulsion. We find that for…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Jing Ma , Bing Dong , X. L. Lei

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

Tunneling conductance of an Aharonov-Bohm circuit including two quantum dots is calculated based on the general expression of the conductance in the linear response regime of the bias voltage. The calculation is performed in a wide…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Wataru Izumida , Osamu Sakai , Yukihiro Shimizu

Using a time-dependent Anderson Hamiltonian, a quantum dot with an ac voltage applied to a nearby gate is investigated. A rich dependence of the linear response conductance on the external frequency and driving amplitude is demonstrated. At…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter Nordlander , Ned S. Wingreen , Yigal Meir , David C. Langreth

Numerical analysis of the simplest odd-numbered system of coupled quantum dots reveals an interplay between magnetic ordering, charge fluctuations and the tendency of itinerant electrons in the leads to screen magnetic moments. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Zitko , J. Bonca , A. Ramsak , T. Rejec

We study the Kondo effect in a quantum dot coupled to half-metallic ferromagnetic electrodes in the regime of strong on-dot correlations. Using the equation of motion technique for nonequilibrium Green functions in the slave boson…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Mariusz Krawiec

The transmission of electrons through a non-interacting tight-binding chain with an interacting side quantum dot (QD) is analized. When the Kondo effect develops at the dot the conductance presents a wide minimum, reaching zero at the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 M. E. Torio , K. Hallberg , A. H. Ceccatto , C. R. Proetto

Transport properties of the two-orbital Kondo effect involving both spin and orbital (pseudospin) degrees of freedom were examined in a parallel double quantum dot with a sufficient interdot Coulomb interaction and negligibly small interdot…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-25 Yuma Okazaki , Satoshi Sasaki , Koji Muraki

In this work,we study the Kondo effect of a quantum dot (QD) connected to leads and to a discrete set of one particle states provided by a quantum box represented by a quantum ring (QR) pierced by a magnetic flux side attached to the QD.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 V. M. Apel , Pedro A. Orellana , Monica Pacheco , E. V. Anda

We demonstrate theoretically how the Kondo effect may be observed in the transport of spinless electrons through a quantum dot. The role of conduction electron spin is played by a lead index. The Kondo effect takes place if there are two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. G. Silvestrov , Y. Imry

Iron, cobalt and nickel are archetypal ferromagnetic metals. In bulk, electronic conduction in these materials takes place mainly through the $s$ and $p$ electrons, whereas the magnetic moments are mostly in the narrow $d$-electron bands,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-06-18 M. R. Calvo , J. Fernández-Rossier , J. J. Palacios , D. Jacob , D. Natelson , C. Untiedt

We investigate the equilibrium and out-of-equilibrium Kondo effects in a single-level interacting quantum dot connected to two ferromagnetic leads. Within the non-crossing approximation, we calculate the total density of states (DOS), the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Bing Dong , H. L. Cui , S. Y. Liu , X. L. Lei

We present lateral transport measurements on strongly, vertically coupled quantum dots formed in separate quantum wells in a GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructure. Coulomb oscillations are observed forming a honeycomb lattice consistent with two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. W. Rushforth , C. G. Smith , I. Farrer , D. A. Ritchie , G. A. C. Jones , D. Anderson , M. Pepper

Many-body entanglement is at the heart of the Kondo effect, which has its hallmark in quantum dots as a zero-bias conductance peak at low temperatures. It signals the emergence of a conducting singlet state formed by a localized dot degree…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-01 M. Niklas , S. Smirnov , D. Mantelli , M. Marganska , N. -V. Nguyen , W. Wernsdorfer , J. -P. Cleuziou , M. Grifoni

We consider a flux-threaded Aharonov-Bohm ring with an embedded quantum dot coupled to two normal leads. The local Rashba spin-orbit interaction acting on the dot electrons leads to a spin-dependent phase factor in addition to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-14 Jong Soo Lim , Mircea Crisan , David Sanchez , Rosa Lopez , Ioan Grosu

We consider electronic transport through break-junctions bridged by a single molecule in the Kondo regime. We describe the system by a two-channel Anderson model. We take the tunneling matrix elements to depend on the position of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Jernej Mravlje , Anton Ramsak

The quantum interference effect among coupled identical quantum dots is studied in the present paper in the limit of strong intra-dot Coulomb interaction. When the average electron number in each dot is a fraction of an integer, quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Xi Dai , T. K. Ng