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The current noise in a quantum dot coupled to two leads is investigated in the Kondo regime with and without the influence of magnetic fields by employing a finite-$U$ slave-boson mean field theory to calculate the current-current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Bing Dong , X. L. Lei

We study non-equilibrium differential conductance and current fluctuations in a single quantum point contact. The two-terminal electrical transport properties -- differential conductance and shot noise -- are measured at 1.5 K as a function…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 N. Y. Kim , W. D. Oliver , Y. Yamamoto , Y. Hirayama

In this article we characterize the macroscopic electromagnetic response of a nested wire metamaterial with a high degree of bulk structural asymmetry. The unit cell of the considered metamaterial contains two sets of metallic wires, one…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-01-17 David E. Fernandes , Sylvain Lannebère , Tiago A. Morgado

The conductance of a quantum wire containing a single magnetic barrier is studied numerically by means of the recursive Greens function technique. For sufficiently strong and localized barriers, Fano - type reflection resonances are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Hengyi Xu , T. Heinzel , M. Evaldsson , S. Ihnatsenka , I. V. Zozoulenko

The unexpected "0.7" plateau of conductance quantisation is usually observed for ballistic one-dimensional devices. In this work we study a quasi-ballistic quantum wire, for which the disorder induced backscattering reduces the conductance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-03-24 M. Czapkiewicz , P. Zagrajek , J. Wrobel , G. Grabecki , K. Fronc , T. Dietl , Y. Ono , S. Matsuzaka , H. Ohno

The current noise of a voltage biased interacting quantum wire adiabatically connected to metallic leads is computed in presence of an impurity in the wire. We find that in the weak backscattering limit the Fano factor characterizing the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 B. Trauzettel , I. Safi , F. Dolcini , H. Grabert

We consider a N-dot-S junction in the Kondo regime in the limit where the superconducting gap is much smaller than the Kondo temperature. A generalization of the floating of the Kondo resonance is proposed and many body corrections to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-12-14 Pierre Devillard , Adeline Crépieux

We study the low frequency current correlations of an individual single-walled carbon nanotube at liquid He temperature. We have distinguished two physical regimes -- zero dimensional quantum dot and one dimensional quantum wire -- in terms…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 N. Y. Kim , W. D. Oliver , Y. Yamamoto , J. Kong , H. Dai

We report shot noise measurements for a quantum dot formed in an InAs nanowire suspended between superconducting electrodes. We find a clear alternation for the shot noise value in the Coulomb blockade regime between even and odd electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-30 Keiko Takase , Yasuhiro Utsumi , Yamato Ashikawa , Guoqiang Zhang , Kouta Tateno , Yuma Okazaki , Satoshi Sasaki

In this paper, we present theoretical investigation of the zero-frequency shot noise spectra in electron tunneling through an interacting quantum dot connected to two ferromagnetic leads with possibility of spin-flip scattering between the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Ivana Djuric , Bing Dong , H. L. Cui

We propose a quantum mechanical approach to noise in resonant tunneling structures, that can be applied in the whole range of transport regimes, from completely coherent to completely incoherent. In both limiting cases, well known results…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 G. Iannaccone , M. Macucci , B. Pellegrini

We analyze an AC-driven dimer chain connected to a strongly biased electron source and drain. It turns out that the resulting transport exhibits fingerprints of topology. They are particularly visible in the driving-induced current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-18 Michael Niklas , Mónica Benito , Sigmund Kohler , Gloria Platero

We report shot noise spectroscopy on a semiconductor quantum dot in a cotunneling regime. The DC conductance measurements show clear signatures of both elastic and inelastic cotunneling transport inside a Coulomb diamond. We observed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-10 Yuma Okazaki , Satoshi Sasaki , Koji Muraki

The shot noise of spin polarized electrons is shown to be generically dependent upon spin-flip processes. Such a situation represents perhaps the simplest instance where the two-particle character of current fluctuations out of equilibrium…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Lamacraft

We predict shot noise enhancement in defect-free carbon nanotube field-effect transistors through a numerical investigation based on the self-consistent solution of the Poisson and Schrodinger equations within the non-equilibrium Green…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Alessandro Betti , Gianluca Fiori , Giuseppe Iannaccone

We report our studies of zero-frequency shot noise in tunneling through a parallel-coupled quantum dot interferometer by employing number-resolved quantum rate equations. We show that the combination of quantum interference effect between…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 Bing Dong , X. L. Lei

We report low-temperature shot noise measurements of short diffusive Au wires attached to electron reservoirs of varying sizes. The measured noise suppression factor compared to the classical noise value $2e\left| I\right| $ strongly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-15 M. Henny , S. Oberholzer , C. Strunk , C. Schönenberger

We propose a three-terminal spin-valve setup, to determine experimentally the spin-dependent shot noise, which carries information on the spin-relaxation processes. Based on a spin-dependent Boltzmann-Langevin approach, we show that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Zareyan , W. Belzig

We have measured shot noise in single walled carbon nanotubes (SWNT) with good contacts at 4.2 K at low frequencies ($f=600 - 850$ MHz). We find a strong modulation of shot noise over the Fabry-Perot pattern; in terms of differential Fano…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. Wu , P. Queipo , T. Tsuneta , T. H. Wang , E. Kauppinen , P. J. Hakonen

A gate-defined quantum dot in an InAs nanowire is fabricated on top of a quantum point contact realized in a two-dimensional electron gas. The strong coupling between these two quantum devices is used to perform time-averaged as well as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-21 Theodore Choi , Thomas Ihn , Silke Schön , Klaus Ensslin