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Motivated by activities of several experimental groups we investigate electron transport through two coherent, strongly coupled quantum dots ("double quantum dots"), taking into account both intra- and inter-dot Coulomb interactions. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Jasmin Aghassi , Axel Thielmann , Matthias H. Hettler , Gerd Schön

We study differential shot noise in mesoscopic diffusive normal-superconducting (NS) heterostructures at finite voltages where nonlinear effects due to the superconducting proximity effect arise. A numerical scattering-matrix approach is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-06-17 Markku P. V. Stenberg , Tero T. Heikkilä

Using nonequilibrium Green functions and several complementary many-body approximations we calculate shot noise and spin dependent conductance in carbon nanotube semiconducting quantum dot in spin-orbital Kondo regime. We point out on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-19 Stanislaw Lipinski , Damian Krychowski

We measured the shot noise in the CoFeB/MgO/CoFeB-based magnetic tunneling junctions with a high tunneling magnetoresistance ratio (over 200% at 3 K). Although the Fano factor in the anti-parallel configuration is close to unity, it is…

We theoretically compare transport properties of Fano-Kondo effect with those of Fano effect. We focus on shot noise characteristics of a triple quantum dot (QD) system in the Fano-Kondo region at zero temperature, and discuss the effect of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 Tetsufumi Tanamoto , Yoshifumi Nishi , Shinobu Fujita

The sensitivity of shot noise to the interplay between Kondo correlations and superconductivity is investigated in a carbon nanotube quantum dot connected to superconducting electrodes. Depending on the gate voltage, the SU(2) and SU(4)…

We study shot noise in the current of quantum dots whose low-energy behaviour corresponds to an SU(N) Kondo model, focusing on the case N=4 relevant to carbon nanotube dots. For general N, two-particle Fermi liquid interactions have two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-01-24 P. Vitushinsky , A. A. Clerk , K. Le Hur

We investigate the zero-frequency shot noise of electronic tunneling through a single quantum dot (SQD) and coherently coupled quantum dots (CQD) taking into account the Coulomb interaction. Within Hartree-Fock approximation, the analytical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-11 Bo Xiong , Guo-Hui Ding , Bing Dong

We study sequential tunneling through a metallic nanoparticle close to the Stoner instability coupled to parallely magnetized electrodes. Increasing the bias voltage successively opens transport channels associated with excitations of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-20 Björn Sothmann , Jürgen König , Yuval Gefen

We study frequency-dependent current noise through a single-level quantum dot connected to ferromagnetic leads with non-collinear magnetization. We propose to use the frequency-dependent Fano factor as a tool to detect single-spin dynamics…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Matthias Braun , Jürgen König , Jan Martinek

We study shot noise for generic quantum dots coupled to two leads and allow for an arbitrary strength of diffractive impurity scattering inside the dots. The ballistic quantum dots possess a mixed classical phase space, where regular and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. -S. Sim , H. Schomerus

An on-chip detection scheme for high frequency signals is used to detect noise generated by a quantum dot formed in a single wall carbon nanotube. The noise detection is based on photon assisted tunneling in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 E. Onac , F. Balestro , B. Trauzettel , C. F. J. Lodewijk , L. P. Kouwenhoven

We analyze an AC-driven dimer chain connected to a strongly biased electron source and drain. It turns out that the resulting transport exhibits fingerprints of topology. They are particularly visible in the driving-induced current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-18 Michael Niklas , Mónica Benito , Sigmund Kohler , Gloria Platero

We investigate the current and noise characteristics of a double quantum dot system. The strong correlations induced by the Coulomb interaction create entangled two-electron states and lead to signatures in the transport properties. We show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. Bodoky , W. Belzig , C. Bruder

Quantum dots (QDs) investigated through electron transport measurements often exhibit varying, state-dependent tunnel couplings to the leads. Under specific conditions, weakly coupled states can result in a strong suppression of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-07 M. -C. Harabula , V. Ranjan , R. Haller , G. Fülöp , C. Schönenberger

We investigate the shot noise for phase-coherent quantum transport in the chaotic-to-regular crossover regime. Employing the Modular Recursive Green's Function Method for both ballistic and disordered two-dimensional cavities we find the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Aigner , S. Rotter , J. Burgdorfer

We have carried out numerical simulations of shot noise in 2D arrays of single-electron islands with random background charges. The results show that in contrast with the 1D arrays, at low currents the current noise is strongly colored, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Daniel M. Kaplan , Victor A. Sverdlov , Konstantin K. Likharev

We report first-principles calculations of shot noise properties of parallel carbon wires in the regime in which the interwire distance is much smaller than the inelastic mean free path. We find that, with increasing interwire distance, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Johan Lagerqvist , Yu-Chang Chen , Massimiliano Di Ventra

Based on our recently developed quantum transport theory in term of an exact master equation, the corresponding particle-number resolved ($n$-resolved) master equation and the related shot noise spectrum formalism covering the full…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-12 Jinshuang Jin , Wei-Min Zhang , Xin-Qi Li , YiJing Yan

Experimental investigations of current shot noise in quantum point contacts show a reduction of the noise near the 0.7 anomaly. It is demonstrated that such a reduction naturally arises in a model proposed recently to explain the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Golub , T. Aono , Yigal Meir