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We develop a bosonization technique for one-dimensional fermions out of equilibrium. The approach is used to study a quantum wire attached to two electrodes with arbitrary energy distributions. The non-equilibrium electron Green function is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-06-08 D. B. Gutman , Yuval Gefen , A. D. Mirlin

The method of the quasiclassical Green's function is used to determine the equilibrium properties of one-dimensional (1D) interacting Fermi systems, in particular, the bulk and the local (near a hard wall) density of states. While this is a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 U. Eckern , P. Schwab

We analyze dephasing in single and double quantum dot systems. The decoherence is introduced by the B\"{u}ttiker model with current conserving fictitious voltage leads connected to the dots. By using the non-equilibrium Green function…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Junren Shi , Zhongshui Ma , X. C. Xie

Quantum dots (QDs) can act as convenient hosts of two-level quantum szstems, such as single electron spins, hole spins or excitons (bound electron-hole pairs). Due to quantum confinement, the ground state of a single hole confined in a QD…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-03 Y. H. Huo , B. J. Witek , S. Kumar , R. Singh , E. Zallo , R. Grifone , D. Kriegner , R. Trotta , N. Akopian , J. Stangl , V. Zwiller , G. Bester , A. Rastelli , O. G. Schmidt

Compact and electrically controllable on-chip sources of indistinguishable photons are desirable for the development of integrated quantum technologies. We demonstrate that two quantum dot light emitting diodes (LEDs) in close proximity on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-01 J. P. Lee , E. Murray , A. J. Bennett , D. J. P. Ellis , C. Dangel , I. Farrer , P. Spencer , D. A. Ritchie , A. J. Shields

Resonant tunneling through a quantum dot coupled to superconducting reservoirs in the presence of time-dependent external voltage has been studied. A general formula of the current is derived based on the nonequilibrium Green's function…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Sam Young Cho , Kicheon Kang , Chang-Mo Ryu

We demonstrate a novel method for measuring the discrete energy spectrum of a quantum dot connected very weakly to a single lead. A train of voltage pulses applied to a metal gate induces tunneling of electrons between the quantum dot and a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. M. Elzerman , R. Hanson , L. H. Willems van Beveren , L. M. K. Vandersypen , L. P. Kouwenhoven

Laser-atom interaction can be an efficient mechanism for the production of coherent electrons. We analyze the dynamics of monoenergetic electrons in the presence of uniform, perpendicular magnetic and electric fields. The Green function…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tobias Kramer , Christian Bracher , Manfred Kleber

Single-photon sources are essential building blocks in quantum photonic networks, where quantum-mechanical properties of photons are utilised to achieve quantum technologies such as quantum cryptography and quantum computing. Most…

A theoretical study of single electron capacitance spectroscopy in quantum dots is presented. Exact diagonalizations and the unrestricted Hartree-Fock approximation have been used to shed light over some of the unresolved aspects. The…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 J. J. Palacios , L. Martin-Moreno , G. Chiappe , E. Louis , C. Tejedor

We develop a consistent method for calculating non-equilibrium Green's functions for a nano-sized dot coupled to electron reservoirs by tunneling. The leads are generally at different chemical potentials (non-equilibrium), and the dot may…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Jung Hoon Han

Transistors, regardless of their size, rely on electrical gates to control the conductance between source and drain contacts. In atomic-scale transistors, this conductance is exquisitely sensitive to single electrons hopping via individual…

A key ingredient of cavity quantum-electrodynamics (QED) is the coupling between the discrete energy levels of an atom and photons in a single-mode cavity. The addition of periodic ultra-short laser pulses allows one to use such a system as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Neill Lambert , Yueh-Nan Chen , Franco Nori

We discuss the quantum transport of electrons through a resonant tunnel junction coupled to a nanomechanical oscillator at zero temperature. By using the Green's function technique we calculate the transport properties of electrons through…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M Tahir , A MacKinnon

We study the nonequlibrium transport through a quantum dot weakly coupled to Luttinger liquids (LL). A general current expression is derived by using nonequilibrium Green function method. Then a special case of the dot with only a single…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Yi-feng Yang , Tsung-han Lin

We report on the realization of a single-electron source, where current is transported through a single-level quantum dot (Q), tunnel-coupled to two superconducting leads (S). When driven with an ac gate voltage, the experiment demonstrates…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-27 D. M. T. van Zanten , D. M. Basko , I. M. Khaymovich , J. P. Pekola , H. Courtois , C. B. Winkelmann

We solve the master equations of two charged qubits measured by a single-electron transistor (SET) consisted of two islands. We show that in the sequential tunneling regime the SET current can be used for reading out results of quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Tetsufumi Tanamoto , Xuedong Hu

We investigate the nonstationary electronic transport in noninteracting nanostructures driven by a finite bias and time-dependent signals applied at their contacts to the leads. The systems are modelled by a tight-binding Hamiltonian and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Valeriu Moldoveanu , Vidar Gudmundsson , Andrei Manolescu

A dual mode device behaving either as a field-effect transistor or a single electron transistor (SET) has been fabricated using silicon-on-insulator metal oxide semiconductor technology. Depending on the back gate polarisation, an electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-17 Benoît Roche , Benoit Voisin , Xavier Jehl , Romain Wacquez , Marc Sanquer , Maud Vinet , Veeresh Deshpande , Bernard Previtali

Theoretical results for a single electron in multi-level system given by a lens-shape self-assembled quantum dot in the presence of an intense harmonic electric field are presented. A non-perturbative Floquet approach is used to study the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-10-09 Arezky H. Rodríguez , Lilia Meza-Montes , Carlos Trallero-Giner , Sergio E. Ulloa