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The spectral properties of up to four interacting electrons confined within a quasi one--dimensional system of finite length are determined by numerical diagonalization including the spin degree of freedom. The ground state energy is…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Wolfgang Haeusler , Bernhard Kramer , PTB Braunschweig

In order to understand the orbital and spin magnetization of a confined electronic system we analyze these ground state properties in the transition from a quantum dot to a quantum ring of finite thickness. The Coulomb interaction between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gabriel Vasile , Vidar Gudmundsson , Andrei Manolescu

We report the observation of Coulomb blockade in a quantum dot contacted by two quantum point contacts each with a single fully-transmitting mode, a system previously thought to be well described without invoking Coulomb interactions. At…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-06 S. Amasha , I. G. Rau , M. Grobis , R. M. Potok , H. Shtrikman , D. Goldhaber-Gordon

Linear conductance through a quantum dot is calculated under a finite magnetic field using the modified perturbation theory. The method is based on the second-order perturbation theory with respect to the Coulomb repulsion, but the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Osamu Takagi , Tetsuro Saso

We present measurements of transport through two tunnel-coupled quantum dots of different sizes connected in series in a strong, variable, perpendicular magnetic field. Double dot conductance was measured both as a function of magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 C. Livermore , D. S. Duncan , R. M. Westervelt , K. D. Maranowski , A. C. Gossard

We examine a quantum dot with $N_{\rm dot}$ levels which is strongly coupled to leads for varying number of channels $N$ in the leads. It is shown both analytically and numerically that for strong couplings between the dot and the leads, at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Richard Berkovits , Felix von Oppen , Jan W. Kantelhardt

Macroscopic assemblies of one- and two-dimensional materials promise to translate nanoscale electronic properties into device-scale performance, yet the microscopic principles governing charge transport in such networks remain unresolved.…

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 coherent conductance and current is calculated through two quantum dots using the Hubbard model for a single level per spin. The occurrence of negative differential conductance is demonstrated. The Ohmic conductance is calculated for…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 P. Pals , A. MacKinnon

We develop a theory of the conductance of a quantum dot connected to two leads by single-mode quantum point contacts. If the contacts are in the regime of perfect transmission, the conductance shows no Coulomb blockade oscillations as a…

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

We consider the transport spectroscopy of a quantum dot with an even number of electrons at finite bias voltage within the Coulomb blockade diamond. We calculate the tunneling current due to the elastic and inelastic co-tunneling processes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. R. Wegewijs , Yu. V. Nazarov

We investigate the transport characteristics of a redox system weakly coupled to leads in the Coulomb blockade regime. The redox system comprises a donor and acceptor separated by an insulating bridge in a solution. It is modeled by a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-09-08 Sabine Tornow , Gertrud Zwicknagl

The role of energy exchange between a quantum system and its environment is investigated from the perspective of the Onsager conductance matrix. We consider the thermoelectric linear transport of an interacting quantum dot coupled to two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-07 Guillem Rosselló , Rosa López , Rafael Sánchez

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

We explore the finite bias DC differential conductance of a correlated quantum dot under the influence of an AC field, from the low-temperature Kondo to the finite temperature Coulomb blockade regime. Real-time simulations are performed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-27 G. Stefanucci , S. Kurth

Equilibrium transport properties of a single-level quantum dot tunnel-coupled to ferromagnetic leads and exchange-coupled to a side nonmagnetic reservoir are analyzed theoretically in the Kondo regime. The equilibrium spectral functions and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Ireneusz Weymann , Jozef Barnas

Quantum system abruptly driven from its stationary phase can reveal nontrivial dynamics upon approaching a new final state. We investigate here such dynamics for a correlated quantum dot sandwiched between the metallic and superconducting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-28 K. Wrześniewski , B. Baran , R. Taranko , T. Domański , I. Weymann

We theoretically investigate resonant tunneling through a linear array of quantum dots with subsequent tunnel coupling. We consider two limiting cases: (i) strong Coulomb blockade, where only one extra electron can be present in the array…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. R. Wegewijs , Yu. V. Nazarov

We study the differential conductance, spectral density and magnetization, for a quantum dot coupled to two conducting leads as a function of bias voltage, magnetic field and temperature. The system is modeled with the Anderson model solved…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 A. A. Aligia

Coulomb blockaded transport of topological superconducting nanowires provides an opportunity to probe the localization of states at both ends of the system in a two-terminal geometry. In addition, it provides a way for checking for subgap…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-05 Yi-Hua Lai , Sankar Das Sarma , Jay D. Sau