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We demonstrate theoretically that a charge current and a spin current are generated by spin dynamics in the presence of spin-orbit interaction in the perturbative regime. We consider a general spin-orbit interaction including the spatially…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Akihito Takeuchi , Gen Tatara

We propose a simple setup of three coupled quantum dots in the Coulomb blockade regime as a source for spatially separated currents of spin-entangled electrons. The entanglement originates from the singlet ground state of a quantum dot with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Daniel S. Saraga , Daniel Loss

Coulomb drag between two quantum wires is exponentially sensitive to the mismatch of their electronic densities. The application of a magnetic field can compensate this mismatch for electrons of opposite spin directions in different wires.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Pustilnik , E. G. Mishchenko , O. A. Starykh

We study drag effect in a system of two electrically isolated quantum point contacts (QPC), coupled by Coulomb interactions. Drag current exhibits maxima as a function of QPC gate voltages when the latter are tuned to the transitions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Alex Levchenko , Alex Kamenev

We analyze the effect of Coulomb interaction on the noise of electric current through an open quantum dot. We demonstrate that the ensemble average value of the noise power acquires an interaction correction even for a dot coupled to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-11-15 G. Catelani , M. G. Vavilov

Recent theoretical investigations have shown that spin currents can be generated by passing electric currents through spin-orbit coupled mesoscopic systems. Measuring these spin currents has however not been achieved to date. We show how…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-17 Peter Stano , Philippe Jacquod

We investigate magnetic-field influenced time-dependent transport of Coulomb interacting electrons through a two-dimensional quantum ring in an electromagnetic cavity under non-equilibrium conditions described by a time-convolutionless…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-02 Thorsten Arnold , Chi-Shung Tang , Andrei Manolescu , Vidar Gudmundsson

We present a theoretical study of low temperature nonequilibrium transport through an interacting quantum dot in the presence of Zeeman magnetic field and current injection into one of its leads. By using a self-consistent renormalized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-27 Shaon Sahoo , Adeline Crépieux , Mireille Lavagna

Quantum phase slips (QPS) generate voltage fluctuations in superconducting nanowires. Employing Keldysh technique and making use of the phase-charge duality arguments we develop a theory of QPS-induced voltage noise in such nanowires. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-27 Andrew G. Semenov , Andrei D. Zaikin

Circulating orbital currents produced by the spin-orbit interaction for a single electron spin in a quantum dot are explicitly evaluated at zero magnetic field, along with their effect on the total magnetic moment (spin and orbital) of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-24 J. van Bree , A. Yu. Silov , P. M. Koenraad , M. E. Flatté

We present a method of obtaining information about spin lifetimes in quantum dots from measurements of electrical transport. The dot is under resonant microwave irradiation and at temperatures comparable to or larger than the Zeeman energy.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-01-12 J. Wabnig , B. W. Lovett , J. H. Jefferson , G. A. D. Briggs

We derive general expressions for the current and shot noise, taking into account non-Markovian memory effects. In generalization of previous approaches our theory is valid for arbitrary Coulomb interaction and coupling strength and is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Thielmann , M. H. Hettler , J. König , G. Schön

A quantum dot with spin-orbit interaction can work as an efficient spin filter if it is connected to N (> 2) external leads via tunnel barriers. When an unpolarized current is injected to a quantum dot from a lead, polarized currents are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-12-30 Mikio Eto , Tomohiro Yokoyama

We consider the resonant tunneling through a multi-level system. It is demonstrated that the resonant current displays quantum interference effects due to a possibility of tunneling through different levels. We show that the interference…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. A. Gurvitz

We explore the quantum phases emerging from the interplay between spin and motional degrees of freedom of a one-dimensional quantum fluid of spinful fermionic atoms, effectively interacting via a photon-mediating mechanism with tunable sign…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-04-12 E. Colella , R. Citro , M. Barsanti , D. Rossini , M. L. Chiofalo

Spectral density of current fluctuations in a short ballistic superconducting quantum point contact is calculated for arbitrary bias voltages $V$. Contrary to a common opinion that the supercurrent flow in Josephson junctions is coherent…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 D. Averin , H. Imam

The shot-noise spectrum of a quantum dot p-i-n junction embedded inside a three-dimensional photonic crystal is investigated. Radiative decay properties of quantum dot excitons can be obtained from the observation of the current noise. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Y. N. Chen , D. S. Chuu , T. Brandes

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

Spin-orbit coupling is ubiquitous in quantum dot quantum computing architectures, and makes spin qubits susceptible to charge noise. We derive a Hamiltonian describing the effect of spin-orbit and noise on a single-spin qubit in a quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-14 Adam Bermeister , Daniel Keith , Dimitrie Culcer

Semiclassical methods can now explain many mesoscopic effects (shot-noise, conductance fluctuations, etc) in clean chaotic systems, such as chaotic quantum dots. In the deep classical limit (wavelength much less than system size) the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-21 Robert S. Whitney