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We study electron transport through a semiconductor superlattice subject to an electric field parallel to and a magnetic field perpendicular to the growth axis. Using a single miniband, semiclassical balance equation model with both elastic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Ethan H. Cannon , Feodor V. Kusmartsev , Kirill N. Alekseev , David K. Campbell

We study the transport through a resonant level coupled to two leads with the latter being described by Wigner's random matrices. By taking appropriate thermodynamic limit before taking the long time limit, we obtain the stationary current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-08 Xinxin Yang , Pei Wang

We investigate the linear ac-conductance for tunneling through an arbitrary interacting quantum dot in the presence of a finite dc-bias. In analogy to the well-known Meir-Wingreen formula for the dc case, we are able to derive a general…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Björn Kubala , Florian Marquardt

We investigate the origin of asymmetry in the measured current-voltage (I-V) characteristics of molecules with no inherent spatial asymmetry. We establish that such molecules can exhibit asymmetric I-V characteristics due to unequal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Avik W. Ghosh , Ferdows Zahid , Prashant S. Damle , Supriyo Datta

A quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) insulator is characterized by quantized Hall and vanishing longitudinal resistances at zero magnetic field that are protected against local perturbations and independent of sample details. This insensitivity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-28 G. M. Ferguson , Run Xiao , Anthony R. Richardella , David Low , Nitin Samarth , Katja C. Nowack

We address the problem of non-linear transport through discrete electronic levels in a small quantum dot coupled to superconducting electrodes. In our approach the low temperature I-V characteristics can be calculated including all multiple…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-28 A. Levy Yeyati , J. C. Cuevas , A. Lopez-Davalos , A. Martin-Rodero

We investigate the dynamics of interacting electrons confined to two types of quantum dot system, when driven by an external AC field. We first consider a system of two electrons confined to a pair of coupled quantum dots by using an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-21 C. E. Creffield , G. Platero

We have recently calculated exact non-equilibrium quantum transport properties through a point contact in a Luttinger liquid. Using a particular quasiparticle basis of the Hilbert space dictated by integrability, we here compute explicitly…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 P. Fendley , A. W. W. Ludwig , H. Saleur

We investigate the quantum dynamics of three different configurations of nonlinear cavity systems. To begin, we carry out a quantum analysis of a dc superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) mechanical displacement detector…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-09-17 Paul D. Nation

The semi-classical study of the integer Quantum Hall conductivity is investigated for electrons in a bi-periodic potential $V(x,y)$. The Hall conductivity is due to the tunnelling effect and we concentrate our study to potentials having…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Frederic Faure , Bernard Parisse

We present magneto-transport study in an InAs/GaSb double quantum well structure in the weak localization regime. As the charge carriers are depleted using a top gate electrode, we observe a crossover from weak anti-localization (WAL) to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-15 Vahid Sazgari , Gerard Sullivan , Ismet I. Kaya

We derive a Floquet-like formalism to calculate the stationary average current through an AC driven double quantum dot in presence of dissipation. The method allows us to take into account arbitrary coupling strengths both of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 T. Brandes , R. Aguado , G. Platero

Single-electron tunneling through a zero-dimensional state in an asymmetric double-barrier resonant-tunneling structure is studied. The broadening of steps in the $I$--$V$ characteristics is found to strongly depend on the polarity of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-25 J. Könemann , B. Kubala , J. König , R. J. Haug

We study subgap transport from a superconductor through a double quantum dot with large on-site Coulomb repulsion to two normal leads. Non-local superconducting correlations in the double dot are induced by the proximity to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-08 James Eldridge , Marco G. Pala , Michele Governale , Jürgen König

We study the nonequilibrium transport through a quantum dot coupled to normal and superconducting leads. We use the modified second-order perturbation theory to calculate the differential conductance and the local density of states at the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-03-26 Yasuhiro Yamada , Yoichi Tanaka , Norio Kawakami

We have studied the phenomenon of weak localization in multi-quantum-well (MQW) structures in the regime of weak tunneling, when superlattice minibands are not formed. We have calculated the effect of weak localization on conductivity,…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 F. G. Pikus , G. E. Pikus

Spin current of two-dimensional holes occupying the ground-state subband in an asymmetric quantum well and interacting with static disorder potential is calculated in the presence of a weak magnetic field H perpendicular to the well plane.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-06-19 O. E. Raichev

We study the electronic current through a quantum dot coupled to two superconducting leads which is driven by either a voltage $V$ or temperature $\Delta T$ bias. Finite biases beyond the linear response regime are considered. The local…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-06-12 Jan F. Rentrop , Severin G. Jakobs , Volker Meden

We analyze the zero temperature conductance of a parallel T-shaped double quantum dot system. We present an analytical expression for the conductance of the system in terms of the total number of electrons in both quantum dots. Our results…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Crisan , I. Grosu , I. Tifrea

We study the real time dynamics of electron coherence in a double quantum dot two-terminal Aharonov-Bohm geometry, taking into account repulsion effects between the dots' electrons. The system is simulated by extending a numerically exact…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Salil Bedkihal , Dvira Segal