Real-time diagrammatic approach to transport through interacting quantum dots with normal and superconducting leads

M Governale, MG Pala, J König - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and …, 2008 - APS
We present a real-time diagrammatic theory for transport through interacting quantum dots
tunnel coupled to normal and superconducting leads. Our formulation describes both the …

Super-Poissonian noise, negative differential conductance, and relaxation effects in transport through molecules, quantum dots, and nanotubes

A Thielmann, MH Hettler, J König, G Schön - Physical Review B—Condensed …, 2005 - APS
We consider charge transport through a nanoscopic object, eg, single molecules, short
nanotubes, or quantum dots, that is weakly coupled to metallic electrodes. We account for …

Open quantum systems beyond Fermi's golden rule: Diagrammatic expansion of the steady-state time-convolutionless master equations

MS Ferguson, O Zilberberg, G Blatter - Physical Review Research, 2021 - APS
Steady-state observables, such as occupation numbers and currents, are crucial
experimental signatures in open quantum systems. The time-convolutionless (TCL) master …

Photonics and spectroscopy in nanojunctions: a theoretical insight

M Galperin - Chemical Society Reviews, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
The progress of experimental techniques at the nanoscale in the last decade made optical
measurements in current-carrying nanojunctions a reality, thus indicating the emergence of …

Fermionic superoperators for zero-temperature nonlinear transport: Real-time perturbation theory and renormalization group for Anderson quantum dots

RB Saptsov, MR Wegewijs - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and …, 2012 - APS
We study electron quantum transport through a strongly interacting Anderson quantum dot at
finite bias voltage and magnetic field at zero temperature using the real-time renormalization …

Probing spin and orbital Kondo effects with a mesoscopic interferometer

R López, D Sánchez, M Lee, MS Choi, P Simon… - Physical Review B …, 2005 - APS
We investigate theoretically the transport properties of a closed Aharonov-Bohm
interferometer containing two quantum dots in the strong coupling regime. We find two …

Probing the Kondo density of states in a three-terminal quantum ring

R Leturcq, L Schmid, K Ensslin, Y Meir, DC Driscoll… - Physical review …, 2005 - APS
We have measured the Kondo effect in a quantum ring connected to three terminals. In this
configuration nonlinear transport measurements allow us to check which lead contributes to …

Kondo resonant spectra in coupled quantum dots

T Aono, M Eto - Physical Review B, 2001 - APS
The Kondo effect in coupled quantum dots is investigated from the viewpoint of transmission
spectroscopy using the slave-boson formalism of the Anderson model. The …

Photon-assisted Andreev tunneling through a mesoscopic hybrid system

Q Sun, J Wang, T Lin - Physical Review B, 1999 - APS
The electron tunneling through a mesoscopic hybrid system, a normal-metal–quantum-dot–
superconductor (N− QD− S) system where the intradot Coulomb interaction is neglected, in …

Relaxation dynamics in a Hubbard dimer coupled to fermionic baths: Phenomenological description and its microscopic foundation

E Kleinherbers, N Szpak, J König, R Schützhold - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
We study relaxation dynamics in a strongly interacting two-site Fermi-Hubbard model that is
induced by coupling each site to a local fermionic bath. To derive the proper form of the …