137 research outputs found
Crossing of two Coulomb-Blockade Resonances
We investigate theoretically the transport of non--interacting electrons
through an Aharanov--Bohm (AB) interferometer with two quantum dots (QD)
embedded into its arms. In the Coulomb-blockade regime, transport through each
QD proceeds via a single resonance. The resonances are coupled through the arms
of the AB device but may also be coupled directly. In the framework of the
Landauer--Buttiker approach, we present expressions for the scattering matrix
which depend explicitly on the energies of the two resonances and on the AB
phase. We pay particular attention to the crossing of the two resonances.Comment: 15 pages, 1 figur
Phase rigidity breaking in open Aharonov-Bohm ring coupled to a cantilever
The conductance and the transmittance phase shifts of a two-terminal
Aharonov-Bohm (AB) ring are analyzed in the presence of mechanical
displacements due to coupling to an external can- tilever. We show that phase
rigidity is broken, even in the linear response regime, by means of inelastic
scattering due to phonons. Our device provides a way of observing continuous
variation of the transmission phase through a two-terminal
nano-electro-mechanical system (NEMS). We also propose measurements of phase
shifts as a way to determine the strength of the electron-phonon coupling in
NEMS.Comment: 7 pages, 8 figure
Photocount statistics of chaotic lasers
We derive the photocount statistics of the radiation emitted from a chaotic laser resonator in the regime of single-mode lasing. Random spatial variations of the resonator eigenfunctions lead to strong mode-to-mode fluctuations of the laser emission. The distribution of the mean photocount over an ensemble of modes changes qualitatively at the lasing transition, and displays up to three peaks above the lasing threshold
Friedel phases and phases of transmission amplitudes in quantum scattering systems
We illustrate the relation between the scattering phase appearing in the
Friedel sum rule and the phase of the transmission amplitude for quantum
scatterers connected to two one-dimensional leads. Transmission zero points
cause abrupt phase changes of the phase of the transmission amplitude.
In contrast the Friedel phase is a continuous function of energy. We
investigate these scattering phases for simple scattering problems and
illustrate the behavior of these models by following the path of the
transmission amplitude in the complex plane as a function of energy. We verify
the Friedel sum rule for these models by direct calculation of the scattering
phases and by direct calculation of the density of states.Comment: 12 pages, 12 figure
A Mesoscopic Quantum Eraser
Motivated by a recent experiment by Buks et al. [Nature 391, 871 (1998)] we
consider electron transport through an Aharonov-Bohm interferometer with a
quantum dot in one of its arms. The quantum dot is coupled to a quantum system
with a finite number of states acting as a which-path detector. The
Aharonov-Bohm interference is calculated using a two-particle scattering
approach for the joint transitions in detector and quantum dot. Tracing over
the detector yields dephasing and a reduction of the interference amplitude. We
show that the interference can be restored by a suitable measurement on the
detector and propose a mesoscopic quantum eraser based on this principle.Comment: 7 pages, 2 figures, to appear in Europhys. Lett., uses EuroPhys.sty
and EuroMacro.tex (included
Scattering phases in quantum dots: an analysis based on lattice models
The properties of scattering phases in quantum dots are analyzed with the
help of lattice models. We first derive the expressions relating the different
scattering phases and the dot Green functions. We analyze in detail the Friedel
sum rule and discuss the deviation of the phase of the transmission amplitude
from the Friedel phase at the zeroes of the transmission. The occurrence of
such zeroes is related to the parity of the isolated dot levels. A statistical
analysis of the isolated dot wave-functions reveals the absence of significant
correlations in the parity for large disorder and the appearance, for weak
disorder, of certain dot states which are strongly coupled to the leads. It is
shown that large differences in the coupling to the leads give rise to an
anomalous charging of the dot levels. A mechanism for the phase lapse observed
experimentally based on this property is discussed and illustrated with model
calculations.Comment: 18 pages, 9 figures. to appear in Physical Review
Coherent Transport through a Quantum Dot Embedded in an Aharonov-Bohm Ring
We study the coherent transport in multi-terminal mesoscopic Aharonov-Bohm
ring with a quantum dot embedded in an arm. Employing the Friedel sum rule for
the effective single-particle levels in the quantum dot, we explain some
anomalous features which have been observed in the experiment. We attribute
these anomalies to the result of nontrivial quantum interference of the quantum
dot with the attached ring. Further, we propose a new feature of conductance
oscillations which can be a test for the validity of our model.Comment: 4 pages Revtex, 4 Postscript figures, accepted for publication in
Phys. Rev.
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