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We report a numerical study of transport properties of a quantum dot with superconducting leads. We introduce a general phenomenological model of quantum dot transport, in which electron tunnel rates are computed within the Fermi's Golden…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 C. B. Whan , T. P. Orlando

We analyze universal transport properties of a strongly interacting quantum dot in the Kondo regime when the quantum dot is placed in an external magnetic field. The quantum dot is described by the asymmetric Anderson model with the spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-30 Sergey Smirnov , Milena Grifoni

In this paper we re-examine the problem of electronic transports through a system consisting of a quantum dot which has well-defined discrete energy levels connected to an infinite quantum wire, using the bosonization method and phase shift…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Yu-Liang Liu , T. K. Ng

We examine the effect of interactions between the electrons on the conductances of some systems of quantum wires with different geometries. The systems include a wire with a stub in the middle, a wire containing a ring which can enclose a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-12-03 Sourin Das , Sumathi Rao , Diptiman Sen

We investigate the effects of voltage induced spin-relaxation in a quantum dot in the Kondo regime. Using nonequilibrium perturbation theory, we determine the joint effect of self-energy and vertex corrections to the conduction electron…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Paaske , A. Rosch , J. Kroha , P. Wölfle

We study the Kondo effect and related transport properties in orbitally degenerate vertical quantum dot systems with plural electrons. Applying the non-crossing approximation to the three-orbital Anderson impurity model with the finite…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-09-10 Tomoko Kita , Rui Sakano , Takuma Ohashi , Sei-ichiro Suga

Spin and charge transport through a quantum dot coupled to external nonmagnetic leads is analyzed theoretically in terms of the non-equilibrium Green function formalism based on the equation of motion method. The dot is assumed to be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 R. Swirkowicz , J. Barnas , M. Wilczynski

Electronic transport through a triple quantum dot system, with only a single dot coupled directly to external leads, is considered theoretically. The model includes Coulomb correlations in the central dot, while such correlations in the two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Piotr Trocha , Józef Barnaś

Transport through two quantum dots laterally embedded in Aharonov-Bohm interferometry with infinite intradot and arbitrary interdot Coulomb repulsion is analyzed in the weak coupling and Coulomb blockade regime. By employing the modified…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jing Ma , Bing Dong , X. L. Lei

The functional renormalization group provides an efficient description of the interplay and competition of correlations on different energy scales in interacting Fermi systems. An exact hierarchy of flow equations yields the gradual…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-10-06 Sabine Andergassen , Tilman Enss , Christoph Karrasch , Volker Meden

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…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-01 Natalya A. Zimbovskaya

We study electron transport through a quantum dot in a Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid with an inhomogeneity induced either by a non-uniform electron interaction or by the presence of tunnel resistances of contacts. The non-analytic temperature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-10 T. Kleimann , F. Cavaliere , M. Sassetti , B. Kramer

We discuss the Luttinger Liquid behaviour of a semiconducting Quantum Wire. We show that the measured value of the bulk critical exponent, $\alpha_{bulk}$, for the tunneling density of states can be easily calculated. Then, the problem of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 S. Bellucci , P. Onorato

We consider a quantum dot coupled to two BCS superconductors with same gap energies $\Delta$. The transport properties are investigated by means of infinite-$U$ noncrossing approximation. In equilibrium density of states, Kondo effect shows…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-08-31 S. Y. Liu , X. L. Lei

We study the Kondo effect in the electron transport through a quantum dot coupled to ferromagnetic leads, using a real-time diagrammatic technique which provides a systematic description of the nonequilibrium dynamics of a system with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yasuhiro Utsumi , Jan Martinek , Gerd Schön , Hiroshi Imamura , Sadamichi Maekawa

Correlation effects on electron transport through a system of T-shaped double-dots are investigated, for which only one of the dots is directly connected to the leads. We evaluate the local density of states and the conductance by means of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Yusuke Takazawa , Yoshiki Imai , Norio Kawakami

While the properties of the Kondo model in equilibrium are very well understood, much less is known for Kondo systems out of equilibrium. We study the properties of a quantum dot in the Kondo regime, when a large bias voltage V and/or a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Rosch , J. Paaske , J. Kroha , P. Wölfle

Thermoelectric transport phenomena in a single-level quantum dot coupled to ferromagnetic leads are considered theoretically in the Kondo regime. The dot is described by the Anderson model with Rashba type spin-orbit interaction. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-10 Łukasz Karwacki , Piotr Trocha , Józef Barnaś

We study the low-temperature transport properties of the systems of parallel quantum dots described by the N-impurity Anderson model. We calculate the quasiparticle scattering phase shifts, spectral functions and correlations as a function…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-03-05 Rok Zitko , Janez Bonca

We study the transport through a quantum dot coupled to two leads by single-mode point contacts. The linear conductance is calculated analytically as a function of a gate voltage and temperature T in the case when transmission coefficients…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 A. Furusaki , K. A. Matveev