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We report a numerical study of transport properties of a quantum dot with superconducting leads. We introduce a general phenomenological model of quantum dot transport, in which electron tunnel rates are computed within the Fermi's Golden…
Thermal conductivity measurements can provide key and experimentally verifiable insight into the electronic transport of unconventional superconductors. In this work, electronic thermal transport of two-dimensional tight-binding metallic…
The low-temperature transport coefficients of the degenerate periodic SU(N) Anderson model are calculated in the limit of infinite correlation between {\it f} electrons, within the framework of dynamical mean-field theory. We establish the…
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