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In this paper, we present a method to investigate the spin-current shot noise in mesoscopic conductors, by using scattering matrix theory and Green's function technique. We first derive a general expression for the spin-current noise at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Yuhui He

We analyze the frequency-dependent noise of a current through a quantum dot which is coupled to Fermi leads and which is in the Coulomb blockade regime. We show that the asymmetric shot noise as function of frequency shows steps and becomes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hans-Andreas Engel , Daniel Loss

Phonons strongly influence the optical control of semiconductor quantum dots. When modeling the electron-phonon interaction in several theoretical approaches the quantum dot geometry is approximated by a spherical structure, though typical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 S. Lüker , T. Kuhn , D. E. Reiter

The shot noise in the electrical current through a ballistic chaotic quantum dot with N-channel point contacts is suppressed for N --> infinity, because of the transition from stochastic scattering of quantum wave packets to deterministic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Ossipov , J. H. Bardarson , C. W. J. Beenakker , J. Tworzydlo , M. Titov

We study the nonequilibrium spin transport through a quantum dot containing two spin levels coupled to the magnetic electrodes. A formula for the spin-dependent current is obtained and is applied to discuss the linear conductance and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ping Zhang , Qi-Kun Xue , Yu-Peng Wang , X. C. Xie

We study electron transport through a quantum dot, connected to non-magnetic leads, in a magnetic field. A super-Poissonian electron noise due to the effects of both interacting localized states and dynamic channel blockade is found when…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Shi-Hua Ouyang , Chi-Hang Lam , J. Q. You

Electron transport in periodic quantum dot arrays in the presence of interactions with phonons was investigated using the formalism of nonequilibrium Green's functions. The self-consistent Born approximation was used to model the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Nenad Vukmirović , Zoran Ikonić , Dragan Indjin , Paul Harrison

We study a two-level quantum dot embedded in a phonon bath and irradiated by a time-dependent ac field and develope a method that allows us to extract simultaneously the full counting statistics of the electronic tunneling and relaxation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rafael Sánchez , Gloria Platero , Tobias Brandes

The noise spectra associated with correlations of the current through a single level quantum dot, and with the charge fluctuations on the dot, are calculated for a finite bias voltage. The results turn out to be sensitive to the asymmetry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. A. Rothstein , O. Entin-Wohlman , A. Aharony

The magnetization of a ferromagnet (F) driven out of equilibrium injects pure spin current into an adjacent conductor (N). Such F$|$N bilayers have become basic building blocks in a wide variety of spin based devices. We evaluate the shot…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-14 Akashdeep Kamra , Wolfgang Belzig

We study the crucial role played by the solid-state environment in determining the photon emission characteristics of a driven quantum dot. For resonant driving, we predict a phonon-enhancement of the coherently emitted radiation field with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-20 Dara P. S. McCutcheon , Ahsan Nazir

In this paper, we investigate, phonon effects on the optical properties of a spherical quantum dot. For this purpose, we consider the interaction of a spherical quantum dot with classical and quantum fields while the exciton of quantum dot…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-12-30 M. Bagheri Harouni , R. Roknizadeh , M. H. Naderi

We study frequency-dependent current noise through a single-level quantum dot connected to ferromagnetic leads with non-collinear magnetization. We propose to use the frequency-dependent Fano factor as a tool to detect single-spin dynamics…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Matthias Braun , Jürgen König , Jan Martinek

Spin-phonon interactions are one of the mechanisms limiting the lifetime of spin qubits made in semiconductor quantum dots. At variance with other mechanisms such as charge noise, phonons are intrinsic to the device and can hardly be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-19 Jing Li , Benjamin Venitucci , Yann-Michel Niquet

We study electron-acoustic phonon scattering and electron relaxation in quantum rings in the absence and in the presence of external magnetic fields. Electron-phonon interaction is accounted for both the deformation potential and…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Piacente , G. Q. Hai

Spin qubits have been successfully realized in electrostatically defined, lateral few-electron quantum dot circuits. Qubit readout typically involves spin to charge information conversion, followed by a charge measurement made using a…

We investigate decoherence in a triple quantum dot in ring configuration in which one dot is coupled to a damped phonon mode, while the other two dots are connected to source and drain, respectively. In the absence of decoherence, single…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-01 Fernando Domínguez , Sigmund Kohler , Gloria Platero

We derive the symmetrized current-noise spectrum of a quantum dot, which is weakly tunnel-coupled to an electron reservoir and driven by a slow time-dependent gate voltage. This setup can be operated as an on-demand emitter of single…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-12 Niklas Dittmann , Janine Splettstoesser

We study shot noise in the current of quantum dots whose low-energy behaviour corresponds to an SU(N) Kondo model, focusing on the case N=4 relevant to carbon nanotube dots. For general N, two-particle Fermi liquid interactions have two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-01-24 P. Vitushinsky , A. A. Clerk , K. Le Hur

We study the shot noise (nonequilibrium current fluctuation) associated with dynamic nuclear polarization in a nonequilibrium quantum wire (QW) fabricated in a two-dimensional electron gas. We observe that the spin-polarized conductance…