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We introduce a theoretical formalism describing a wide class of ‘Which Path’ experiments in mesoscopic/nanoscopic transport. The physical system involves a mesoscopic interferometer (e.g. an Aharonov-Bohm ring with embedded dots or a side-coupled quantum dot) which is electrostatically coupled to a nearby quantum point constriction. Due to the charge sensing effect the latter acts as a charge detector. Therefore the interference pattern can be monitored indirectly by looking at the current characteristics of the detector as shown in the experimental work of Buks et al. [E. Buks, R. Schuster, M. Heiblum, D. Mahalu, V. Umansky, Nature (London) 391 (1998) 871]. We use the non-equilibrium Green-Keldysh formalism and a second order perturbative treatment of the Coulomb interaction in order to compute the relevant transport properties. It is shown that in the presence of the Coulomb interaction the current through the detector exhibits oscillations as a function of the magnetic field applied on a single-dot AB interferometer. We also discuss the dependence of the visibility of the Aharonov-Bohm oscillations on the gate potential applied to the dot. 相似文献
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We investigate the spin accumulation in a double quantum dot Aharonov-Bohm (AB) interferometer in which both the Rashba spin-orbit (RSO) interaction and intradot Coulomb interaction are taken into account. Due to the existence of the RSO interaction, the electron, flowing through different arms of the AB ring, will acquire a spin-dependent phase factor in the tunnel-coupling strengths. This phase factor will induce various interesting interference phenomena. It is found that the electrons of the different spin directions can accumulate in the two dots by properly adjusting the bias and the intradot level with a fixed RSO interaction strength. Moreover, both the magnitude and direction of the spin accumulation in each dot can be conveniently controlled and tuned by the gate voltage acting on the dot or the bias on the lead. 相似文献
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We report on the thermopower of an Aharonov-Bohm (AB) interferometer with a quantum dot in the Kondo regime. The thermopower is anomalously enhanced due to the Kondo effect as in heavy fermion systems. In contrast to bulk systems, the sign of the thermopower can be changed by adjusting the energy level scheme or the particle-hole asymmetry of a dot with the gate voltage. Further the magnitude and even the sign of the thermopower in the AB ring can be changed at will with varying either magnetic fields or the gate voltages. 相似文献
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Transmission of electron through an Aharonov-Bohm interferometer with a quantum dot in Coulomb blockade regime
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We calculate conductance of an Aharonov-Bohm (AB) interferometer for which a single-level quantum dot in the Coulomb blockade regime is embedded in one of its arms. Using the Schr?dinger equations and taking into account the Coulomb interaction on the dot, we calculate conductance G as a function of flux φ threaded through the ring and as a function of gate voltage V applied to the dot. It is found that the AB oscillations of G(φ) depend on the particle occupation on the dot, controlled by V. If the system is closed, there is no loss of particles, G(φ) is periodic and G(φ)=G(-φ), satisfying the Onsager relation. In this case G(φ) can reach its maximum value, 2e^2/h, at the resonance. When the system is open, one has G(φ)≠G(-φ), G(φ) yields a phase shift which depends on the loss rate of electrons in this open system. 相似文献
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We have calculated the transport properties of electron through an
artificial quantum dot by using the numerical renormalization group
technique in this paper. We obtain the conductance for the system of
a quantum dot which is embedded in a one-dimensional chain in zero
and finite temperature cases. The external magnetic field gives rise
to a negative magnetoconductance in the zero temperature case. It
increases as the external magnetic field increases. We obtain the
relation between the coupling coefficient and conductance. If the
interaction is big enough to prevent conduction electrons from
tunnelling through the dot, the dispersion effect is dominant in this
case. In the Kondo temperature regime, we obtain the conductivity of
a quantum dot system with Kondo correlation. 相似文献
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D. Quirion J. Weis Klaus v. Klitzing 《The European Physical Journal B - Condensed Matter and Complex Systems》2006,51(3):413-419
The transport properties of a single quantum dot were
measured at low temperature in a regime of strong asymmetric
tunnel coupling to leads. By tuning this asymmetry, the two
parameters of the Kondo effect in a quantum dot, the Kondo
temperature and the zero-bias zero-temperature conductance, were
independently controlled. A careful analysis of the Coulomb
energies and of the tunnel couplings was performed. It allowed an
estimate of the Kondo temperature independently of its value
obtained via the temperature dependence of the conductance. Both
are in good agreement. We finally compared our experimental data
with an exact solution of the Kondo problem which provides the
dependence of the differential conductance on temperature and
source-drain voltage. Theoretical expectations fit quite well our
experimental data in the equilibrium and out-of-equilibrium
regimes. 相似文献
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R. Taranko P. Parafiniuk 《The European Physical Journal B - Condensed Matter and Complex Systems》2011,84(1):89-97
We consider the electron transport through one-level quantum dot, out of the Kondo
regime, under the influence of the external microwave fields. The influence of the
intra-dot Coulomb electron-electron interaction is studied using the equation of motion
method for appropriate correlation functions. The formula for the current and the closed
set of the integro-differential equations for the expectation values of the quantum dot
charge states are given. The most characteristic feature of these time-averaged
expectation values is an appearance of the additional structure (sidebands) on the curves
of the derivatives of the expectation values with respect to the gate voltage. The
sidebands structure formed on both sides of the ‘ionization’ and ‘affinity’ quantum dot
levels are also found on the current and differential conductance curves. 相似文献
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By applying the slave boson technique, we have studied the electron transport
through double-dot Aharonov-Bohm interferometer in the Kondo regime. For the system with symmetric
quantum dots, the linear conductance is shown to be enhanced by Kondo effect, but it is
suppressed in the deep dot level regime in the presence of
nonzero magnetic flux. The Aharonov-Bohm
oscillations of the conductance are also investigated. 相似文献
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V. A. Tkachenko A. A. Bykov D. G. Baksheev O. A. Tkachenko L. V. Litvin A. V. Latyshev T. A. Gavrilova A. L. Aseev O. Estibals J. C. Portal 《Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics》2003,97(2):317-330
Small-size semiconductor ring interferometers operating in the Coulomb blockade regime have been experimentally and theoretically studied. The conductance as a function of the gate voltage exhibits narrow quasiperiodic peaks, which are further split into doublets. Based on the experimental structural data, a three-dimensional electrostatic potential, the energy spectrum, and the single-electron transport in the interferometer were modeled. The electron system can be divided into two triangular quantum dots connected by single-mode microcontacts to each other and to the reservoirs. A model of quantum dot charging in this system is proposed that explains the appearance of doublets in the conductance-gate voltage characteristics. 相似文献
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Quantum Phase Transition and Ferromagnetic Spin Correlation in Parallel Double Quantum Dots
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We investigate electronic transport through a parallel double quantum dot (DQD) system with strong on-site Coulomb interaction, as well as the interdot tunnelling. By applying numerical renormalization group method, the ground state of the system and the transmission probability at zero temperature are obtained. For a system of quantum dots with degenerate energy levels and small interdot tunnel coupling, the spin correlations between the DQDs is ferromagnetic, and the ground state of the system is a spin-1 triplet state. The linear conductance will reach the unitary limit (2e^2/h) due to the Kondo effect at low temperature. As the interdot tunnel coupling increases, there is a quantum phase transition from ferromagnetic to anti-ferromagnetic spin correlation in DQDs and the linear conductance is strongly suppressed. 相似文献
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《中国科学:物理学 力学 天文学(英文版)》2020,(9)
We theoretically studied the thermoelectric transport properties of a strongly correlated quantum dot system in the presence of the Kondo effect based on accurate numerical evaluations using the hierarchical equations of motion approach. The thermocurrent versus gate voltage shows a distinct sawtooth line-shape at high temperatures. In particular, the current changes from positive(hole charge) to negative(particle charge) in the electron number N = 1 region due to the Coulomb blockade effect. However,at low temperatures, where the Kondo effect occurs, the thermocurrent's charge polarity reverses, along with a significantly enhanced magnitude. As anticipated, the current sign can be analyzed by the occupation difference between particle and hole.Moreover, the characteristic turnover temperature can be further defined at which the influences of the Coulomb blockade and Kondo resonance are in an effective balance. Remarkably, the identified characteristic turnover temperature, as a function of the Coulomb interaction and dot-lead coupling, possessed a much higher value than the Kondo temperature. When a magnetic field is applied, a spin-polarized thermocurrent can be obtained, which could be tested in future experiments. 相似文献
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We report on the phase measurements on a quantum dot containing a single electron in the Kondo regime. Transport takes place through a single orbital state. Although the conductance is far from the unitary limit, we measure directly, for the first time, a transmission phase as theoretically predicted of pi/2. As the dot's coupling to the leads is decreased, with the dot entering the Coulomb blockade regime, the phase reaches a value of pi. Temperature shows little effect on the phase behavior in the range 30-600 mK, even though both the two-terminal conductance and amplitude of the Aharonov-Bohm oscillations are strongly affected. These results also suggest that previous phase measurements involved transport through more than a single level. 相似文献
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Kondo and Coulomb Interaction Effects in Spin-Polarized Transport through Double Quantum Dots 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
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By means of the slave-boson mean-field approximation, we theoretically investigate the Kondo and Coulomb interaction effects in spin-polarized transport through two coupled quantum dots coupled to two ferromagnetic leads by the Anderson Hamiltonian. The density of states is calculated in the Kondo regime for the effect of the interdot Coulomb repulsion with both parallel and antiparallel lead-polarization alignments. Our results reveal that the interdot Coulomb interaction between quantum dots greatly influence the density of states of the dots. 相似文献
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We study the effects of Kondo correlations on the transmission phase shift of a quantum dot in an Aharonov-Bohm ring. We predict in detail how the development of a Kondo resonance should affect the dependence of the phase shift on transport voltage, gate voltage, and temperature. This system should allow the first direct observation of the well-known scattering phase shift of pi/2 expected (but not directly measurable in bulk systems) at zero temperature for an electron scattering off a spin- 1 / 2 impurity that is screened into a singlet. 相似文献
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《Physics letters. A》2020,384(21):126424
We investigate the Kondo-assistant Aharonov-Bohm (AB) transport in a Quantum dot (QD) coupled with a topological Majorana wire. We noted that the conductance exhibits sensitive dependence on the phase factor of AB ring when the wire-QD coupling strength changes. The DOS resonance split when the coupling strength changes from small to large. The current is determined by the Kondo transport characteristics presented by the quantum dots (QDs). Also, the transport results show different p-dependence properties under parallel and anti-parallel leads alignment. We believe that these results can be helpful for understanding the Majorana-QD coupling properties as well as the detection of the Majorana bound states. 相似文献
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Yi-Jie Wang 《中国物理 B》2022,31(9):97305-097305
A systematic study is performed on time-dependent dynamic transport characteristics of a side-coupled double-quantum-impurity system based on the hierarchical equations of motion. It is found that the transport current behaves like a single quantum dot when the coupling strength is low during tunneling or Coulomb coupling. For the case of only tunneling transition, the dynamic current oscillates due to the temporal coherence of the electron tunneling device. The oscillation frequency of the transport current is related to the step voltage applied by the lead, while temperature $T$, electron--electron interaction $U$ and the bandwidth $W$ have little influence. The amplitude of the current oscillation exists in positive correlation with $W$ and negative correlation with $U$. With the increase in coupling $t_{12}$ between impurities, the ground state of the system changes from a Kondo singlet of one impurity to a spin singlet of two impurities. Moreover, lowering the temperature could promote the Kondo effect to intensify the oscillation of the dynamic current. When only the Coulomb transition is coupled, it is found that the two split-off Hubbard peaks move upward and have different interference effects on the Kondo peak at the Fermi surface with the increase in $U_{12}$, from the dynamics point of view. 相似文献
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We theoretically investigate the effect of the interdot Coulomb repulsion on Kondo resonances in the series-coupled double quantum dot coupled to two ferromagnetic leads. The Hamiltonian of our system is solved by means of the slave-boson mean-field approximation, and the variation of the density of states, the transmission probability, the occupation number, and the Kondo temperature with the interdot Coulomb repulsion are discussed in the Kondo regime. The density of states is calculated for various interdot Coulomb repulsions with both parallel and antiparallel lead-polarization alignments. Our results reveal that the interdot Coulomb repulsion greatly influences the physical property of this system, and relevant underlying physics of this system is discussed. 相似文献
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We study the spin-polarized transport and Fano resonance in an Aharonov-Bohm (AB) interferometer with an embedded quantum dot, where the dot is irradiated by continuous circularly polarized light. Compared with the conventional Fano form, the resonance line shape is found to be deformed by the interplay between the external irradiation and the Coulomb repulsion. The Fano resonance peaks are split due to the shift of the effective energy level in the dot by Rabi oscillation of electron-heavy hole pairs. The direction and magnitude of spin current polarization can be modulated by the device parameters. Furthermore, the direct tunneling between two leads can induce a sharp sign reversal of spin polarization, the system thus operates as a rectifier for spin current polarization. 相似文献
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We theoretically investigate the Kondo effect of a quantum dot embedded in a mesoscopic Aharonov-Bohm (AB) ring in the presence of the spin flip processes by means of the one-impurity Anderson Hamiltonian. Based on the slave-boson mean-field theory, we find that in this system the persistent current (PC) sensitively depends on the parity and size of the AB ring and can be tuned by the spin-flip scattering (R). In the small AB ring, the PC issuppressed due to the enhancing R weakening the Kondo resonance.On the contrary, in the large AB ring, with R increasing, the peakof PC firstly moves up to max-peak and then down. Especially, the PCphase shift of ø appears suddenly with the proper value of R, implying the existence of the anomalous Kondo effect in this system. Thus this system may be a candidate for quantum switch. 相似文献