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We discuss the physics of a of a spin-1 quantum dot, coupled to two metallic leads and develop a simple model for the temperature dependence of its conductance. Such quantum dots are described by a two-channel Kondo model with asymmetric…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-08-15 Anna Posazhennikova , Babak Bayani , P. Coleman

We examine the transport properties of a double quantum dot system coupled to a topological superconducting nanowire hosting Majorana quasiparticles at its ends, with the central quantum dot attached to the left and right leads. We focus on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-21 Piotr Majek , Ireneusz Weymann

In this article, we study the quantum transport through a single-level quantum-dot in Kondo regime, coupled to current leads and embedded between two one-dimensional topological superconductors, each hosting Majorana zero modes at their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-24 G. A. Lara , J. P. Ramos-Andrade , D. Zambrano , P. A. Orellana

We review the peculiarities of transport through a quantum dot caused by the spin transition in its ground state. Such transitions can be induced by a magnetic field. Tunneling of electrons between the dot and leads mixes the states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Pustilnik , L. I. Glazman , D. H. Cobden , L. P. Kouwenhoven

We investigate the nonequilibrium transport properties of a double quantum dot system connected in parallel to two leads, including intradot electron-electron interaction. In the absence of interactions the system supports a bound state in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-04 Miguel A. Sierra , M. Saiz-Bretin , F. Dominguez-Adame , David Sanchez

We analyze cotunneling transport through two quantum dots in series weakly coupled to external ferromagnetic leads. In the Coulomb blockade regime the electric current flows due to third-order tunneling, while the second-order…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 I. Weymann

Quantum spin transport is studied in an interacting quantum dot. It is found that a conductance "plateau" emerges in the non-linear charge conductance by a spin bias in the Kondo regime. The conductance plateau, as a complementary to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-07-24 Yun-Juan Bao , Ning-Hua Tong , Qing-Feng Sun , Shun-Qing Shen

System of two quantum dots attached to external electrodes is considered theoretically in orbital Kondo regime. In general, the double dot system is coupled via both Coulomb interaction and direct hoping. Moreover, the indirect hopping…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-25 Piotr Trocha

We analyze universal transport properties of a strongly interacting quantum dot in the Kondo regime when the quantum dot is placed in an external magnetic field. The quantum dot is described by the asymmetric Anderson model with the spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-30 Sergey Smirnov , Milena Grifoni

Electron tunneling through a double quantum dot molecule, in the Kondo regime, under the effect of a magnetic field and an applied voltage, is studied. This system possesses a complex response to the applied fields characterized by a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Gustavo. A. Lara , Pedro A. Orellana , Enrique V. Anda

We study the full counting statistics of electronic transport through a single-level quantum dot weakly coupled to two leads, with either one or both of them being ferromagnetic. The interplay of Coulomb interaction and finite spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-06-05 Stephan Lindebaum , Daniel Urban , Jürgen König

Electron tunneling through a system formed by two coupled quantum dots in a parallel geometry is considered within a generalized Anderson model. The dots are assumed to have nearly equal radii but different (and tunable) gate voltages. In…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 Yshai Avishai , Konstantin Kikoin

We theoretically compare transport properties of Fano-Kondo effect with those of Fano effect. We focus on shot noise characteristics of a triple quantum dot (QD) system in the Fano-Kondo region at zero temperature, and discuss the effect of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 Tetsufumi Tanamoto , Yoshifumi Nishi , Shinobu Fujita

We study the charge and heat transport through the correlated quantum dot with a finite value of the charging energy U \neq \infty . The Kondo resonance appearing at temperatures below T_K is responsible for several qualitative changes of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Donabidowicz , T. Domanski , K. I. Wysokinski

The transport properties of nanostructured systems are deeply affected by the geometry of the effective connections to metallic leads. In this work we derive a conductance expression for interacting systems whose connectivity geometries do…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-15 Luis G. G. V. Dias da Silva , Caio H. Lewenkopf , Edson Vernek , Gerson J. Ferreira , Sergio E. Ulloa

We study the Kondo effect and related transport properties in orbitally degenerate vertical quantum dot systems with plural electrons. Applying the non-crossing approximation to the three-orbital Anderson impurity model with the finite…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-09-10 Tomoko Kita , Rui Sakano , Takuma Ohashi , Sei-ichiro Suga

The non-Fermi-liquid properties of an ultrasmall quantum dot coupled to a lead and to a quantum box are investigated. Tuning the ratio of the tunneling amplitudes to the lead and box, we find a line of two-channel Kondo fixed points for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Frithjof B. Anders , Eran Lebanon , Avraham Schiller

In this paper we study the thermopower of a quantum dot connected to two leads in the presence of Kondo correlation by employing a modified second-order perturbation scheme at nonequilibrium. A simple scheme, Ng's ansatz [Phys. Rev. Lett.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Bing Dong , X. L. Lei

Electron transport through parallel double quantum dot system with interdot tunneling and strong on-site Coulomb interaction is studied in the Kondo regime by using the finite-$U$ slave boson technique. For a system of quantum dots with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Guo-Hui Ding , C. K. Kim , K. Nahm

We develop a theory of electron transport through quantum dots that are weakly coupled to ferromagnetic leads. The theory covers both the linear and nonlinear transport regime, takes non-collinear magnetization of the leads into account,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Matthias Braun , Jürgen König , Jan Martinek