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Suppression of Shot Noise in Quantum Point Contacts in the "0.7" Regime
Experimental investigations of current shot noise in quantum point contacts
show a reduction of the noise near the 0.7 anomaly. It is demonstrated that
such a reduction naturally arises in a model proposed recently to explain the
characteristics of the 0.7 anomaly in quantum point contacts in terms of a
quasi-bound state, due to the emergence of two conducting channels. We
calculate the shot noise as a function of temperature, applied voltage and
magnetic field, and demonstrate an excellent agreement with experiments. It is
predicted that with decreasing temperature, voltage and magnetic field, the dip
in the shot noise is suppressed due to the Kondo effect.Comment: 4 pages, 1 figur
Kondo effect and anti-ferromagnetic correlation in transport through tunneling-coupled double quantum dots
We propose to study the transport through tunneling-coupled double quantum
dots (DQDs) connected in series to leads, using the finite- slave-boson mean
field approach developed initially by Kotliar and Ruckenstein [Phys. Rev. Lett.
{\bf 57}, 1362 (1986)]. This approach treats the dot-lead coupling and the
inter-dot tunnelling nonperturbatively at arbitrary Coulomb correlation
, thus allows the anti-ferromagnetic exchange coupling parameter
to appear naturally. We find that, with increasing the inter-dot hopping, the
DQDs manifest three distinct physical scenarios: the Kondo singlet state of
each dot with its adjacent lead, the spin singlet state consisting of local
spins on each dot and the doubly occupied bonding orbital of the coupled dots.
The three states exhibit remarkably distinct behavior in transmission spectrum,
linear and differential conductance and their magnetic-field dependence.
Theoretical predictions agree with numerical renormalization group and Lanczos
calculations, and some of them have been observed in recent experiments.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figures. Physics Review B (Rapid Communication) (in press
Fabrication of nanoscale gaps using a combination of self-assembled molecular and electron beam lithographic techniques
Copyright 2006 American Institute of Physics. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Institute of Physics. The following article appeared in Applied Physics Letters, 88(22), 223111, 2006 and may be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.220920
Kondo effect in coupled quantum dots under magnetic fields
The Kondo effect in coupled quantum dots is investigated theoretically under
magnetic fields. We show that the magnetoconductance (MC) illustrates peak
structures of the Kondo resonant spectra. When the dot-dot tunneling coupling
is smaller than the dot-lead coupling (level broadening), the
Kondo resonant levels appear at the Fermi level (). The Zeeman splitting
of the levels weakens the Kondo effect, which results in a negative MC. When
is larger than , the Kondo resonances form bonding and
anti-bonding levels, located below and above , respectively. We observe a
positive MC since the Zeeman splitting increases the overlap between the levels
at . In the presence of the antiferromagnetic spin coupling between the
dots, the sign of MC can change as a function of the gate voltage.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figure
I-V characteristics of single electron tunneling from symmetric and asymmetric double-barrier tunneling junctions
Copyright 2007 American Institute of Physics. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Institute of Physics. The following article appeared in Applied Physics Letters, 90(22), 223112, 2007 and may be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.274525
Effect of the Kondo correlation on thermopower in a Quantum Dot
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. {\bf 76}, 487 (1996)], is adopted to calculate nonequilibrium
distribution Green's function and its validity is further checked with regard
to the Onsager relation. Numerical results demonstrate that the sign of the
thermopower can be changed by tuning the energy level of the quantum dot,
leading to a oscillatory behavior with a suppressed magnitude due to the Kondo
effect. We also calculate the thermal conductance of the system, and find that
the Wiedemann-Franz law is obeyed at low temperature but violated with
increasing temperature, corresponding to emerging and quenching of the Kondo
effect.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figures; accepted for publication in J Phys.: Condensed
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Electron Transport through T-Shaped Double-Dots System
Correlation effects on electron transport through a system of T-shaped
double-dots are investigated, for which only one of the dots is directly
connected to the leads. We evaluate the local density of states and the
conductance by means of the non-crossing approximation at finite temperatures
as well as the slave-boson mean field approximation at zero temperature. It is
found that the dot which is not directly connected to the leads considerably
influences the conductance, making its behavior quite different from the case
of a single-dot system. In particular, we find a novel phenomenon in the Kondo
regime with a small inter-dot coupling, i.e.
Fano-like suppression of the Kondo-mediated conductance, when two dot levels
coincide with each other energetically.Comment: 6 pages,7 figure
Phase diagrams of period-4 spin chains consisting of three kinds of spins
We study a period-4 antiferromagnetic mixed quantum spin chain consisting of
three kinds of spins. When the ground state is singlet, the spin magnitudes in
a unit cell are arrayed as (s-t, s, s+t, s) with integer or half-odd integer s
and t (0 <= t < s). The spin Hamiltonian is mapped onto a nonlinear sigma model
(NLSM) in a previously developed method. The resultant NLSM includes only two
independent parameters originating from four exchange constants for fixed s and
t. The topological angle in the NLSM determines the gapless phase boundaries
between disordered phases in the parameter space. The phase diagrams for
various s and t shows rich structures. We systematically explain the phases in
the singlet-cluster-solid picture.Comment: 8 pages (16 figures included
Spin-Polarized Transprot through Double Quantum Dots
We investigate spin-polarized transport phenomena through double quantum dots
coupled to ferromagnetic leads in series. By means of the slave-boson
mean-field approximation, we calculate the conductance in the Kondo regime for
two different configurations of the leads: spin-polarization of two
ferromagnetic leads is parallel or anti-parallel. It is found that transport
shows some remarkable properties depending on the tunneling strength between
two dots. These properties are explained in terms of the Kondo resonances in
the local density of states.Comment: 8 pages, 11 figure
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