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We present explicit kinetic equations for quantum transport through a general molecular quantum-dot, accounting for all contributions up to 4th order perturbation theory in the tunneling Hamiltonian and the complete molecular density…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Leijnse , M. R. Wegewijs

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

We address the problem of non-linear transport through discrete electronic levels in a small quantum dot coupled to superconducting electrodes. In our approach the low temperature I-V characteristics can be calculated including all multiple…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-28 A. Levy Yeyati , J. C. Cuevas , A. Lopez-Davalos , A. Martin-Rodero

We report a strong Kondo effect (Kondo temperature ~ 4K) at high magnetic field in a selective area growth semiconductor quantum dot. The Kondo effect is ascribed to a singlet-triplet transition in the ground state of the dot. At the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 W. G. van der Wiel , S. De Franceschi , J. M. Elzerman , S. Tarucha , L. P. Kouwenhoven , J. Motohisa , F. Nakajima , T. Fukui

We study the charge current transmitted through the correlated quantum dot characterized by a finite magnitude of the Coulomb interaction |U|. At low temperatures the correlations can lead to appearance of the spin (for U>0) or charge (for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-05-08 T. Domanski , A. Donabidowicz

In this paper we analyze transport through a double dot system connected to two external leads. Imagining each dot possessing a single active level, we model the system through a generalization of the Anderson model. We argue that this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Robert M. Konik

Non-equilibrium spin transport through an interacting quantum dot is analyzed. The coherent spin oscillations in the dot provide a generating source for spin current. In the interacting regime, the Kondo effect is influenced in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ping Zhang , Qi-Kun Xue , X. C. Xie

We study the thermopower and some related transport quantities due to the orbital Kondo effect in a single quantum dot system with a finite value of Coulomb repulsion by means of the noncrossing approximation applied to the multiorbital…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rui Sakano , Tomoko Kita , Norio Kawakami

We investigated the peculiarities of non-equilibrium charge configurations in the system of two strongly coupled quantum dots (QDs) weakly connected to the reservoirs in the presence of Coulomb correlations. We revealed that total electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-23 V. N. Mantsevich , N. S. Maslova , P. I. Arseyev

We investigate a system of three tunnel-coupled semiconductor quantum dots in a triangular geometry, one of which is connected to a metallic lead, in the regime where each dot is essentially singly occupied. Both ferro- and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-12-22 Andrew K. Mitchell , Thomas F. Jarrold , David E. Logan

We analyze the transport properties of a double quantum dot device with both dots coupled to perfect conducting leads and to a finite chain of N non-interacting sites connecting both of them. The inter-dot chain strongly influences the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-08 L. Costa Ribeiro , I. J. Hamad , G. Chiappe , E. V. Anda

We study the combined effect of finite temperature, underlying classical dynamics, and deformations on the statistical properties of Coulomb blockade conductance peaks in quantum dots. These effects are considered in the context of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Raul O. Vallejos , Caio H. Lewenkopf , Eduardo R. Mucciolo

We consider a `quantum dot' in the Coulomb blockade regime, subject to an arbitrarily large source-drain voltage V. When V is small, quantum dots with odd electron occupation display the Kondo effect, giving rise to enhanced conductance.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 P. Coleman , C. Hooley , Y. Avishai , Y. Goldin , A. F. Ho

We consider Coulomb blockade oscillations of thermoelectric coefficients of a single electron transistor based on a quantum dot strongly coupled to one of the leads. Analytic expression for the thermopower as a function of temperature $T$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. V. Andreev , K. A. Matveev

We present electronic transport measurements of a single wall carbon nanotube quantum dot coupled to Nb superconducting contacts. For temperatures comparable to the superconducting gap peculiar transport features are observed inside the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-06-17 M. Gaass , S. Pfaller , T. Geiger , A. Donarini , M. Grifoni , A. K. Hüttel , C. Strunk

We demonstrate theoretically how the Kondo effect may be observed in the transport of spinless electrons through a quantum dot. The role of conduction electron spin is played by a lead index. The Kondo effect takes place if there are two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. G. Silvestrov , Y. Imry

Transport through molecular magnets is studied in the regime of strong coupling to the leads. We consider a resonant-tunneling model where the electron spin in a quantum dot or molecule is coupled to an additional local, anisotropic spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Florian Elste , Carsten Timm

We investigate electronic transport through parallel double quantum dot(DQD) system with strong on-site Coulomb interaction and capacitive interdot coupling. By applying numerical renormalization group(NRG) method, the ground state of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Guo-Hui Ding , Fei Ye , Bing Dong

A small quantum ring with less than 10 electrons was studied by transport spectroscopy. For strong coupling to the leads a Kondo effect is observed and used to characterize the spin structure of the system in a wide range of magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 U. F. Keyser , C. Fuhner , S. Borck , R. J. Haug , M. Bichler , G. Abstreiter , W. Wegscheider

We study the thermoelectric transport through a single-level quantum dot (QD) coupled to two normal metallic leads and side-coupled to Majorana bound state (MBS). The Coulomb interaction in QD is considered. To investigate only the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-10 Chol Won Ri , Kum Hyok Jong , Song Jin Im , Hak Chol Pak