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We study spin-polarized transient transport in a quantum dot coupled to two ferromagnetic leads subjected to a rectangular bias voltage pulse. Time-dependent spin-resolved currents, occupations, spin accumulation, and tunneling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 F. M. Souza , S. A. Leao , R. M. Gester , A. P. Jauho

We investigate the Coulomb blockade in quantum dots asymmetrically coupled to the leads for an arbitrary voltage bias focusing on the regime where electrons do not thermalise during their dwell time in the dot. By solving the quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-01 George McArdle , Rose Davies , Igor V. Lerner , Igor V. Yurkevich

Interacting fermions on a lattice can develop strong quantum correlations, which lie at the heart of the classical intractability of many exotic phases of matter. Seminal efforts are underway in the control of artificial quantum systems,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-16 T. Hensgens , T. Fujita , L. Janssen , Xiao Li , C. J. Van Diepen , C. Reichl , W. Wegscheider , S. Das Sarma , L. M. K. Vandersypen

Interfacing s-wave superconductors and quantum spin Hall edges produces time-reversal-invariant topological superconductivity of a type that can not arise in strictly 1D systems. With the aim of establishing sharp fingerprints of this novel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-13 David Aasen , Shu-Ping Lee , Torsten Karzig , Jason Alicea

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

We study a steady state non-equilibrium transport between two interacting helical edge states of a two dimensional topological insulator, described by helical Luttinger liquids, through a quantum dot. For non-interacting dot the current is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-09-02 Sung-Po Chao , Salman A. Silotri , Chung-Hou Chung

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

Spintronics devices rely on spin-dependent transport behavior evoked by the presence of spin-polarized electrons. Transport through nanostructures, on the other hand, is dominated by strong Coulomb interaction. We study a model system in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-09 Jürgen König , Jan Martinek , Jozef Barnas , Gerd Schön

We investigate the time-dependent, coherent, and dissipative dynamics of bound particles in single multilevel quantum dots in the presence of sequential tunnelling transport. We focus on the nonequilibrium regime where several channels are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-02-11 Eduardo Vaz , Jordan Kyriakidis

We investigate Aharonov-Bohm oscillations of the current through a strongly correlated quantum dot embedded in an arbitrary scattering geometry. Resonant-tunneling processes lead to a flux-dependent renormalization of the dot level. As a…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 C. Bruder , Rosario Fazio , Herbert Schoeller

The dynamical spin susceptibility is studied in the magnetically-disordered phase of heavy-Fermion systems near the antiferromagnetic quantum phase transition. In the framework of the $S=1/2$ Kondo lattice model, we introduce a perturbative…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 C. Pepin , M. Lavagna

We study the electronic current through a quantum dot coupled to two superconducting leads which is driven by either a voltage $V$ or temperature $\Delta T$ bias. Finite biases beyond the linear response regime are considered. The local…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-06-12 Jan F. Rentrop , Severin G. Jakobs , Volker Meden

The conductance through a finite quantum dot network is studied as a function of inter-dot coupling. As the coupling is reduced, the system undergoes a transition from the antidot regime to the tight binding limit, where Coulomb resonances…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 August Dorn , Thomas Ihn , Klaus Ensslin , Werner Wegscheider , Max Bichler

We investigate a quantum dot (Anderson impurity) coupled to metallic leads, with a time-periodic voltage bias across the device. Using a time-dependent Schrieffer-Wolff transformation, we show that the Floquet Hamiltonian of the model can…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-04-10 Martin Eckstein , Philipp Werner

We employ the time-dependent non-crossing approximation to study the time averaged conductance for a single electron transistor in the Kondo regime when the dot level is sinusoidally driven from its equilibrium position by means of a gate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ali Goker

The effective interaction between magnetic impurities in metals that can lead to various magnetic ground states often competes with a tendency for electrons near impurities to screen the local moment (Kondo effect). The simplest system…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 N. J. Craig , J. M. Taylor , E. A. Lester , C. M. Marcus , M. P. Hanson , A. C. Gossard

The coherent time evolution of electrons in double quantum dots induced by fast bias-voltage switches is studied theoretically. As it was shown experimentally, such driven double quantum dots are potential devices for controlled…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-14 Alexander Croy , Ulf Saalmann

Based on Keldysh non-equilibrium Green function method, we have investigated spin current production in a hybrid T-shaped device, consisting of a central quantum dot connected to the leads and a side dot which only couples to the central…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-14 I. L. Fernandes , G. G. Cabrera

We consider a quantum dot attached to leads in the Coulomb blockade regime which has a spin 1/2 ground state. We show that by applying an ESR field to the dot-spin the stationary current in the sequential tunneling regime exhibits a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Hans-Andreas Engel , Daniel Loss

We experimentally study the transport features of electrons in a spin-diode structure consisting of a single semiconductor quantum dot (QD) weakly coupled to one nonmagnetic (NM) and one ferromagnetic (FM) lead, in which the QD has an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 K. Hamaya , M. Kitabatake , K. Shibata , M. Jung , S. Ishida , T. Taniyama , K. Hirakawa , Y. Arakawa , T. Machida