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Proximity induced quantum coherence of electrons in multi-terminal voltage-driven hybrid normal-superconducting nanostructures may result in a non-trivial interplay between topology-dependent Josephson and Aharonov-Bohm effects. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-05 Pavel E. Dolgirev , Mikhail S. Kalenkov , Andrei D. Zaikin

We show that a strongly correlated quantum dot embedded in an Aharonov-Bohm interferometer can be used to filter both charge and spin at zero voltage bias. The magnitude with which the Aharonov-Bohm arm is coupled to the system controls the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 R. J. Heary , J. E. Han , Lingyin Zhu

We study the effects of Kondo correlations on the transmission phase shift of a quantum dot coupled to two leads in comparison with the experimental determinations made by Aharonov-Bohm (AB) quantum interferometry. We propose here a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Jerez , P. Vitushinsky , M. Lavagna

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

In the seminal works from Santos and Gozalo [Europhys. Lett. $\mathbf{45}$, 418 (1999)] and Marletto and Vedral [Phys. Rev. Lett. $\mathbf{125}$, 040401 (2020)], it is shown how the Aharonov-Bohm effect can be described as the result of an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-05 Pablo L. Saldanha

We report on the phase measurements on a quantum dot containing a single electron in the Kondo regime. Transport takes place through a single orbital state. Although the conductance is far from the unitary limit, we measure for the first…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Zaffalon , Aveek Bid , M. Heiblum , D. Mahalu , V. Umansky

The zero-temperature magnetic field-dependent conductance of electrons through a one-dimensional non-interacting tight-binding chain with an interacting {\it side} dot is reviewed and analized further. When the number of electrons in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 M. E. Torio , K. Hallberg , C. Proetto

We study the transport properties of an interferometer composed by a quantum dot (QD) coupled with two normal leads and two one-dimensional topological superconductor nanowires (TNWs) hosting Majorana bound states (MBS) at their ends. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-09 J. P. Ramos-Andrade , P. A. Orellana , S. E. Ulloa

The thermoelectric transport through a ring threaded by an Aharonov-Bohm flux, with a molecular bridge on one of its arms, is analyzed. The transport electrons also interact with the vibrational excitations of that molecule. This…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 O. Entin-Wohlman , A. Aharony

In the weak regime, we suggest a model where superconductivity types I and II bind assuming an adiabatic hypothesis where the frequency of oscillation of free electrons is much smaller than of polarons coupled to phonons, and an itinerant…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-06-11 Paulo Sérgio de Abreu Bonfim

We study the effect of electron-electron interaction on transport through a tunnel-coupled single-channel ring. We find that the conductance as a function of magnetic flux shows a series of interaction-induced resonances that survive…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-07-13 A. P. Dmitriev , I. V. Gornyi , V. Yu. Kachorovskii , D. G. Polyakov

We study the electron transport through the quantum dot coupled to the normal metal and BCS-like superconductor (N - QD - S) in the presence of the Kondo effect and Andreev scattering. The system is described by the single impurity Anderson…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Krawiec , K. I. Wysokinski

We investigate the effect of local electron correlations on transport through parallel quantum dots. The linear conductance as a function of gate voltage is strongly affected by the interplay of the interaction U and quantum interference.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 V. Meden , F. Marquardt

We develop a theory of electron transport through quantum dots that are weakly coupled to ferromagnetic leads. The theory covers both the linear and nonlinear transport regime, takes non-collinear magnetization of the leads into account,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Matthias Braun , Jürgen König , Jan Martinek

We study transport of interacting bosons through an Aharonov-Bohm cage - a building block of flat band networks - with coherent pump and sink leads. In the absence of interactions the cage is insulating due to destructive interference. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-26 A. R. Kolovsky , P. S. Muraev , S. Flach

We study electron transport in a normal-metal ring modeled by the tight binding lattice Hamiltonian, coupled to two electron reservoirs. First, Buttiker's model of incorporating inelastic scattering, hence decoherence and dissipation, has…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Dibyendu Roy

We demonstrate real-time detection of self-interfering electrons in a double quantum dot embedded in an Aharonov-Bohm interferometer, with visibility approaching unity. We use a quantum point contact as a charge detector to perform…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 S. Gustavsson , R. Leturcq , M. Studer , T. Ihn , K. Ensslin , D. C. Driscoll , A. C. Gossard

Using renormalization group techniques, we study spectral and transport properties of a spinless interacting quantum dot consisting of two levels coupled to metallic reservoirs. For strong Coulomb repulsion $U$ and an applied Aharonov-Bohm…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Daniel Boese , Walter Hofstetter , Herbert Schoeller

The transport properties of a double quantum-dot device with one of the dots coupled to perfect conductors are analyzed using the numerical renormalization group technique and slave-boson mean-field theory. The coupling between the dots…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. S. Cornaglia , D. R. Grempel

Phase effects on the conductance of a double-dot system in a ring structure threaded by a magnetic flux are studied. The Aharonov-Bohm effect combined with the dot many-body charging effects determine the phases of the currents going…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 V. M. Apel , Maria A. Davidovich , G. Chiappe , E. V. Anda