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We develop a theory for spin transport and magnetization dynamics in a quantum-dot spin valve, i.e., two magnetic reservoirs coupled to a quantum dot. Our theory is able to take into account effects of strong correlations. We demonstrate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-09 N. M. Gergs , S. A. Bender , R. A. Duine , D. Schuricht

In a mesoscopic system, under zero bias voltage, a finite charge is transferred by quantum adiabatic pumping by adiabatically and periodically changing two or more control parameters. We obtained expressions for the pumped charge for a ring…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-22 Masahiko Taguchi , Satoshi Nakajima , Toshihiro Kubo , Yasuhiro Tokura

We theoretically propose quantum spin pumping mediated by magnons, under a time-dependent transverse magnetic field, at the interface between a ferromagnetic insulator and a non-magnetic metal. The generation of a spin current under a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-31 Kouki Nakata

The spin transport in a strongly interacting spin-pump nano-device is studied using the time-dependent variational-matrix-product-state (VMPS) approach. The precession magnetic field generates a dissipationless spin current through the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-08 Lei Wang , Hua Jiang , J. N. Zhuang , Xi Dai , X. C. Xie

We study the effect of a magnetic field on the conductance through a strongly interacting quantum dot by using the finite temperature extension of Wilson's numerical renormalization group method to dynamical quantities. The quantum dot has…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 T. A. Costi

We propose a new mode of operation of an electron pump consisting of two weakly coupled quantum dots connected to reservoirs. An electron can be transferred within the device at zero bias voltage when it is subjected to electromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 B. L. Hazelzet , M. R. Wegewijs , T. H. Stoof , Yu. V. Nazarov

In a quantum charge pump, the periodic variation of two parameters that affect the phase of the electronic wavefunction causes the flow of a direct current. The operating mechanism of a quantum pump is based on quantum interference, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Saar Rahav , Piet W. Brouwer

We determine the exact time-resolved photoemission spectroscopy for a nesting driven charge-density-wave (described by the spinless Falicov-Kimball model within dynamical mean-field theory). The pump-probe experiment involves two light…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-10-05 O. P. Matveev , A. M. Shvaika , T. P. Devereaux , J. K. Freericks

The interaction between electrons and the vibrational degrees of freedom of a molecular quantum dot can lead to an exponential suppression of the conductance, an effect which is commonly termed Franck-Condon blockade. Here, we investigate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-11 Patrick Haughian , Han Hoe Yap , Jiangbin Gong , Thomas L. Schmidt

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 consider a quantum dot attached to leads in the Coulomb blockade regime which has a spin 1/2 ground state. We show that by applying an ESR field to the dot-spin the stationary current in the sequential tunneling regime exhibits a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Hans-Andreas Engel , Daniel Loss

We investigate non-linear magneto-transport through a single level quantum dot coupled to ferromagnetic leads, where the electron spin is coupled to a large, external (pseudo)spin via an anisotropic exchange interaction. We find regimes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-12 Carlos López-Monís , Clive Emary , Gerold Kiesslich , Gloria Platero , Tobias Brandes

We present a proposal for a fully electrically controllable quantum dot based spin current injector. The device consists of a quantum dot that is strongly coupled to a ferromagnetic electrode on one side and weakly coupled to a nonmagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-23 Szabolcs Csonka , Ireneusz Weymann , Gergely Zarand

The description of interacting many-electron systems in external magnetic fields is considered in the framework of the optimized effective potential method extended to current-spin-density functional theory. As a case study, a…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-01-14 N. Helbig , S. Kurth , S. Pittalis , E. Räsänen , E. K. U. Gross

We propose a time-dependent approach to investigate the motion of electrons in quantum pump device configurations. The occupied one-particle states are propagated in real time and used to calculate the local electron density and current. An…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Stefanucci , S. Kurth , A. Rubio , E. K. U. Gross

We study electron pumping through a system of barriers, whose heights are deformed adiabatically. We derive a simple formula for the pumped charge $Q$ in terms of the total reflection and transmission amplitudes and phases. The pumped…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Argha Banerjee , Sourin Das , Sumathi Rao

In this paper, we study the effect of both the electric and the magnetic fields on the rate of complexity growth. Our system is a charged quantum oscillator and over a period of time, we study the maximum dynamic evolution of quantum states…

General Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 Reza Pirmoradian , Mohammad Reza Tanhayi

Recently it has been shown that ac-driven double quantum dots can act as spin pumps and spin filters. By calculating the current through the system for each spin polarization, by means of the time evolution of the reduced density matrix in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Rafael Sánchez , Ernesto Cota , Ramón Aguado , Gloria Platero

We propose a device acting as a spin valve which is based on a double quantum dot structure with parallel topology. Using the exact analytical solution for the noninteracting case we argue that, at a certain constellation of system…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-03-18 J. P. Dahlhaus , S. Maier , A. Komnik

Non-adiabatic pumping of discrete charges, realized by a dynamical quantum dot in an AlGaAs/GaAs heterostructure, is studied under influence of a perpendicular magnetic field. Application of an oscillating voltage in the GHz-range to one of…