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We use a double quantum dot as a frequency-tunable on-chip microwave detector to investigate the radiation from electron shot-noise in a near-by quantum point contact. The device is realized by monitoring the inelastic tunneling of…

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We present a theoretical study of time-dependent transport via a quantum shuttle within the non-equilibrium Green's function technique. An arbitrary voltage is applied to the tunnel junction and electrons in the leads are considered to be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-30 Muhammad Tahir , Angus MacKinnon

We present a theoretical analysis of the effect of inelastic electron scattering on current and its fluctuations in a mesoscopic quantum dot (QD) connected to two leads, based on a recently developed nonperturbative technique involving the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Bing Dong , H. L. Cui , X. L. Lei , Norman J. M. Horing

Within the framework of nonequilibrium Green's functions, we investigate the thermoelectric transport in a single molecular junction with electron-phonon and electron-electron interactions. By transforming into a displaced phonon basis, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-26 Jie Ren , Jian-Xin Zhu , James E. Gubernatis , Chen Wang , Baowen Li

Resonant electron transport through a mesoscopic region (quantum dot or single molecule) with electron-phonon interaction is considered at finite voltage. In this case the standard Landauer-B\"uttiker approach cannot be applied. Using the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. A. Ryndyk , J. Keller

Using the Keldysh nonequilibrium Green function technique, we study the current and shot noise spectroscopy of a single molecular quantum dot coupled to a local phonon mode. It is found that in the presence of electron-phonon coupling, in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jian-Xin Zhu , A. V. Balatsky

We consider transport through a vibrating molecular quantum dot contacted to macroscopic leads acting as charge reservoirs. In the equilibrium and nonequilibrium regime, we study the formation of a polaron-like transient state at the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-04 T. Koch , H. Fehske , J. Loos

The thermoelectric effect in a quantum dot (QD) attached to two leads in the presence of microwave fields is studied by using the Keldysh nonequilibrium Green function technique. When the microwave is applied only on the QD and in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-17 Feng Chi , Yonatan Dubi

The interplay between vibrational modes and Kondo physics is a fundamental aspect of transport properties of correlated molecular conductors. We present theoretical results for a single molecule in the Kondo regime connected to left and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-05-18 Luis G. Dias da Silva , Elbio Dagotto

We theoretically study the electrical transport properties of a single level quantum dot connected to two normal conducting leads, which is coupled to the lattice vibrations. We determine the current through the quantum dot in two different…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-01 Levente Máthé , Ioan Grosu

We theoretically analyze phonon-assisted tunneling transport in a quantum dot side connected to a Majorana bound state in a topological superconducting nanowire. We investigate the behavior of the current through the dot, for a range of…

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We develope a model to describe the transmission coefficient and tunneling current in the presence of photon-electron coupling in a resonant diode. Our model takes into account multiphoton processes as well as the transitions between…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-08-17 Jesus Inarrea , Ramon Aguado , Gloria Platero

We formulate a semiclassical theory for electron transport in open quantum systems with electron-phonon interactions adequate for situations when the system's phonon dynamics is comparable with the electron transport timescale. Starting…

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We derive a formula for the current through an interacting quantum dot coupled to two supercouducting leads, using the non-equilibrium Green's function formalism. It is shown that the formula takes an especially simple form, when the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Kicheon Kang

We consider a single level quantum dot interacting with a phonon mode and weakly coupled to metallic leads which are subjected to a time dependent gate voltage. Electrical conductance, thermopower, and figure of merit are investigated in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-30 M. Bagheri Tagani , H. Rahimpour Soleimani

Within a phonon-assisted resonance level model we develop a self-consistent procedure for calculating electron transport currents in molecular junctions with intermediate to strong electron-phonon interaction. The scheme takes into account…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael Galperin , Abraham Nitzan , Mark A. Ratner

We study phonon-assisted electron tunneling in semiconductor quantum dot molecules. In particular, singlet-singlet relaxation in a two-electron doped structure is considered. The influence of Coulomb interaction is discussed via comparison…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-04-27 A. Grodecka , P. Machnikowski , J. Förstner

The nonequilibrium dynamics of a quantum dot with electron-phonon interactions described by a generalized Holstein model is presented. A combination of methodologies including the reduced density matrix formalism, the multilayer…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-18 Eli Y. Wilner , Haobin Wang , Michael Thoss , Eran Rabani

We develop a consistent method for calculating non-equilibrium Green's functions for a nano-sized dot coupled to electron reservoirs by tunneling. The leads are generally at different chemical potentials (non-equilibrium), and the dot may…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Jung Hoon Han

We present a Green's function based treatment of the effects of electron-phonon coupling on transport through a molecular quantum dot in the quantum limit. Thereby we combine an incomplete variational Lang-Firsov approach with a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 T. Koch , J. Loos , A. Alvermann , A. R. Bishop , H. Fehske