Fano resonance via bonding and antibonding states in nonadiabatically-pumped double-quantum-well systems

Abstract

In this work, transport properties of the nonadiabatically pumped double-quantum-well (DQW) structure are studied. Different from a single quantum well, band mixing in the DQW generates bonding and antibonding states, whose wave functions have different spatial symmetry. By applying a time-dependent electric potential to the two well regions simultaneously, Floquet sidebands are formed, which constitutes additional quantum tunneling paths. When one of the Floquet sidebands coincides with the bonding or antibonding quasibound states within the DQW structure, sharp Fano resonances are found in the transmission coefficients as well as in the differential shot noise spectra. While such Fano resonances originate from quantum interference, their shapes are strikingly different for transport via the bonding state and via the antibonding state. The Fano resonance via the even-parity bonding state shows a perfect transmission followed by a total reflection and the Fano resonance via the odd-parity antibonding state has a reversed symmetry and shows a total reflection before a perfect transmission