862 research outputs found
Kondo screening suppression by spin-orbit interaction in quantum dots
We study the transport properties of a quantum dot embedded in an
Aharonov-Bohm ring in the presence of spin-orbit interactions. Using a
numerical renormalization group analysis of the system in the Kondo regime, we
find that the competition of Aharonov-Bohm and spin-orbit dynamical phases
induces a strong suppression of the Kondo state singlet, somewhat akin to an
effective intrinsic magnetic field in the system. This effective field breaks
the spin degeneracy of the localized state and produces a finite magnetic
moment in the dot. By introducing an {\em in-plane} Zeeman field we show that
the Kondo resonance can be fully restored, reestablishing the spin singlet and
a desired spin filtering behavior in the Kondo regime, which may result in full
spin polarization of the current through the ring.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
Electron Pair Resonance in the Coulomb Blockade
We study many-body corrections to the cotunneling current via a localized
state with energy at large bias voltages . We show that the
transfer of {\em electron pairs}, enabled by the Coulomb repulsion in the
localized level, results in ionization resonance peaks in the third derivative
of the current with respect to , centered at . Our
results predict the existence of previously unnoticed structure within
Coulomb-blockade diamonds.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figure
Detection of Quantum Noise from an Electrically-Driven Two-Level System
Quantum mechanics can strongly influence the noise properties of mesoscopic
devices. To probe this effect we have measured the current fluctuations at
high-frequency (5-90 GHz) using a superconductor-insulator-superconductor
tunnel junction as an on-chip spectrum analyser. By coupling this
frequency-resolved noise detector to a quantum device we can measure the
high-frequency, non-symmetrized noise as demonstrated for a Josephson junction.
The same scheme is used to detect the current fluctuations arising from
coherent charge oscillations in a two-level system, a superconducting charge
qubit. A narrow band peak is observed in the spectral noise density at the
frequency of the coherent charge oscillations.Comment: 16 pages, 4 figure
Quantum criticality in Kondo quantum dot coupled to helical edge states of interacting 2D topological insulators
We investigate theoretically the quantum phase transition (QPT) between the
one-channel Kondo (1CK) and two-channel Kondo (2CK) fixed points in a quantum
dot coupled to helical edge states of interacting 2D topological insulators
(2DTI) with Luttinger parameter . The model has been studied in Ref. 21,
and was mapped onto an anisotropic two-channel Kondo model via bosonization.
For K<1, the strong coupling 2CK fixed point was argued to be stable for
infinitesimally weak tunnelings between dot and the 2DTI based on a simple
scaling dimensional analysis[21]. We re-examine this model beyond the bare
scaling dimension analysis via a 1-loop renormalization group (RG) approach
combined with bosonization and re-fermionization techniques near weak-coupling
and strong-coupling (2CK) fixed points. We find for K -->1 that the 2CK fixed
point can be unstable towards the 1CK fixed point and the system may undergo a
quantum phase transition between 1CK and 2CK fixed points. The QPT in our model
comes as a result of the combined Kondo and the helical Luttinger physics in
2DTI, and it serves as the first example of the 1CK-2CK QPT that is accessible
by the controlled RG approach. We extract quantum critical and crossover
behaviors from various thermodynamical quantities near the transition. Our
results are robust against particle-hole asymmetry for 1/2<K<1.Comment: 17 pages, 9 figures, more details added, typos corrected, revised
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Tunnelling magnetoresistance anomalies of a Coulomb blockaded quantum dot
We consider quantum transport and tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) through
an interacting quantum dot in the Coulomb blockade regime, attached to
ferromagnetic leads. We show that there exist two kinds of anomalies of TMR,
which have different origin. One type, associated with TMR sign change and
appearing at conductance resonances, is of single particle origin. The second
type, inducing a pronounced increase of TMR value far beyond 100%, is caused by
electron correlations. It is manifested in-between Coulomb blockade conductance
peaks. Both types of anomalies are discussed for zero and finite bias and their
robustness to the temperature increase is also demonstrated. The results are
presented in the context of recent experiments on semiconductor quantum dots in
which similar features of TMR have been observed.Comment: 10 pages, 7 figures, Revtex style, to appaear in Phys. Rev. B
extended discussion added, some typographic errors correcte
Mechanism of half-frequency electric dipole spin resonance in double quantum dots: Effect of nonlinear charge dynamics inside the singlet manifold
Electron dynamics in quantum dots manifests itself in spin-flip spectra
through electric dipole spin resonance (EDSR). Near a neutrality point
separating two different singlet charged states of a double quantum dot, charge
dynamics inside a singlet manifold can be described by a
1/2-pseudospin. In this region, charge dynamics is highly nonlinear and
strongly influenced by flopping its soft pseudospin mode. As a result, the
responses to external driving include first and second harmonics of the driving
frequency and their Raman satellites shifted by the pseudospin frequency. In
EDSR spectra of a spin-orbit couplet doublet dot, they manifest themselves as
charge satellites of spin-flip transitions. The theory describes gross features
of the anomalous half-frequency EDSR in spin blockade spectra [Laird et al.,
Semicond. Sci. Techol. {\bf 24}, 064004 (2009)].Comment: One figure, one equation, comments adde
Single Wall Nanotubes: Atomic Like Behaviour and Microscopic Approach
Recent experiments about the low temperature behaviour of a Single Wall
Carbon Nanotube (SWCNT) showed typical Coulomb Blockade (CB) peaks in the zero
bias conductance and allowed us to investigate the energy levels of interacting
electrons. Other experiments confirmed the theoretical prediction about the
crucial role which the long range nature of the Coulomb interaction plays in
the correlated electronic transport through a SWCNT with two intramolecular
tunneling barriers. In order to investigate the effects on low dimensional
electron systems due to the range of electron electron repulsion, we introduce
a model for the interaction which interpolates well between short and long
range regimes. Our results could be compared with experimental data obtained in
SWCNTs and with those obtained for an ideal vertical Quantum Dot (QD).
For a better understanding of some experimental results we also discuss how
defects and doping can break some symmetries of the bandstructure of a SWCNT.Comment: 8 pages, 4 figure
Tunable few electron quantum dots in InAs nanowires
Quantum dots realized in InAs are versatile systems to study the effect of
spin-orbit interaction on the spin coherence, as well as the possibility to
manipulate single spins using an electric field. We present transport
measurements on quantum dots realized in InAs nanowires. Lithographically
defined top-gates are used to locally deplete the nanowire and to form
tunneling barriers. By using three gates, we can form either single quantum
dots, or two quantum dots in series along the nanowire. Measurements of the
stability diagrams for both cases show that this method is suitable for
producing high quality quantum dots in InAs.Comment: 8 pages, 4 figure
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