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The dephasing time in coupled mesoscopic conductors is caused by the fluctuations of the dipolar charge permitted by the long range Coulomb interaction. We relate the phase breaking time to elementary transport coefficients which describe…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Markus Buttiker , Andrew M. Martin

We investigate the influence of the Coulomb interaction on the adiabatic pumping current through quantum dots. Using nonequilibrium Green's functions techniques, we derive a general expression for the current based on the instantaneous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-16 A. R. Hernández , F. A. Pinheiro , C. H. Lewenkopf , E. R. Mucciolo

We investigate the role of charging effects in a voltage-biased quantum wire. Both the finite range of the Coulomb interaction and the long-ranged nature of the Friedel oscillation imply a finite capacitance, leading to a charging energy.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Reinhold Egger , Hermann Grabert

The quantum transport of electrons in an artificial atom, such as a quantum dot (QD), is governed by the Coulomb blockade (CB) effects, revealing the ground-state charge configuration of the electronic system under interplays of the on-site…

We show that charge fluctuation processes are crucial for the nonlinear heat conductance through an interacting nanostructure, even far from a resonance. We illustrate this for an Anderson quantum dot accounting for the first two leading…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Niklas M. Gergs , Christoph B. M. Hörig , Maarten R. Wegewijs , Dirk Schuricht

We study mesoscopic fluctuations of the differential capacitance of a dot connected to a lead by a single-mode quantum channel with adjustable conductance G. We show that the amplitude of the fluctuations reaches maximum at a partially…

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

Optical measurements of the real and imaginary frequency dependent conductivity of uncompensated n-type silicon are reported. The experiments are done in the quantum limit, $ \hbar\omega > k_{B}T$, across a broad doping range on the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-07 E. Helgren , N. P. Armitage , G. Gruner

We study transport through a strongly correlated quantum dot and show that Coulomb blockade can appear even in the presence of perfect contacts. This conclusion arises from numerical calculations of the conductance for a microscopic model…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Gabriel Vasseur , Dietmar Weinmann , Rodolfo A. Jalabert

Electron transport in a quantum wire with leads is investigated with actual Coulomb interaction taken into account. The latter includes both the direct interaction of electrons with each other and their interaction via the image charges…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 V. A. Sablikov , B. S. Shchamkhalova

It is shown that the dephasing rate in Coulomb coupled mesoscopic structures is determined by charge relaxation resistances. The charge relaxation resistance together with the capacitance determines the RC-time of the mesoscopic structure…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Markus Buttiker

We study the effect of the exchange interactions in small superconducting grains near the Coulomb blockade regime. We extend the standard description of the grain in terms of a single collective variable, the charge and its conjugated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Pablo San-Jose , Carlos P. Herrero , Francisco Guinea , Daniel P. Arovas

An ultrasmall quantum dot coupled to a lead and to a quantum box (a large quantum dot) is investigated. Tuning the tunneling amplitudes to the lead and box, we find a line of unstable non-Fermi-liquid fixed points as function of the gate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Frithjof B. Anders , Eran Lebanon , Avraham Schiller

We review the quantum interference effects in a system of interacting electrons confined to a quantum dot. The review starts with a description of an isolated quantum dot. We discuss the status of the Random Matrix theory (RMT) of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 I. L. Aleiner , P. W. Brouwer , L. I. Glazman

We report the theory of the \emph{dynamical response of current fluctuations} of a photo-excited conductor. We have performed the calculation for a coherent conductor described by arbitrary energy-dependent transmissions and for arbitrary…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-10 Julien Gabelli , Bertrand Reulet

We develop a non-equilibrium theory to describe weak Coulomb blockade effects in open quantum dots. Working within the bosonized description of electrons in the point contacts, we expose deficiencies in earlier applications of this method,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Piet W. Brouwer , Austen Lamacraft , Karsten Flensberg

We develop a time dependent random matrix theory describing the influence of a time-dependent perturbation on mesoscopic conductance fluctuations in open quantum dots. The effect of external field is taken into account to all orders of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Maxim G. Vavilov , Igor L. Aleiner

We review mechanisms of low-temperature electronic transport through a quantum dot weakly coupled to two conducting leads. Transport in this case is dominated by electron-electron interaction. At temperatures moderately lower than the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Pustilnik , L. I. Glazman

The temperature dependence of Coulomb blockade peaks of a one dimensional quantum dot is calculated. The Coulomb interaction is treated microscopically using the Luttinger liquid model. The electron interaction is assumed to be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 T. Kleimann , M. Sassetti , B. Kramer

Linear transport through a single-walled carbon nanotube ring (CNR), pierced by a magnetic field and capacitively coupled to a gate voltage source, is investigated starting from a model of interacting $p_z$-electrons. The dc-conductance,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Eroms , L. Mayrhofer , M. Grifoni

We consider the Coulomb blockade on a superconductive quantum dot strongly coupled to a lead through a tunnelling barrier and/or normal diffusive metal. Andreev transport of the correlated pairs leads to quantum fluctuations of the charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. V. Feigelman , A. Kamenev , A. I. Larkin , M. A. Skvortsov