Aharonov-Bohm oscillations in the Coulomb blockade regime

1992 ◽  
Vol 69 (13) ◽  
pp. 1989-1992 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. P. Taylor ◽  
A. S. Sachrajda ◽  
P. Zawadzki ◽  
P. T. Coleridge ◽  
J. A. Adams
Author(s):  
Sandip Tiwari

Unique nanoscale phenomena arise in quantum and mesoscale properties and there are additional intriguing twists from effects that are classical in origin. In this chapter, these are brought forth through an exploration of quantum computation with the important notions of superposition, entanglement, non-locality, cryptography and secure communication. The quantum mesoscale and implications of nonlocality of potential are discussed through Aharonov-Bohm effect, the quantum Hall effect in its various forms including spin, and these are unified through a topological discussion. Single electron effect as a classical phenomenon with Coulomb blockade including in multiple dot systems where charge stability diagrams may be drawn as phase diagram is discussed, and is also extended to explore the even-odd and Kondo consequences for quantum-dot transport. This brings up the self-energy discussion important to nanoscale device understanding.


2001 ◽  
Vol 15 (31) ◽  
pp. 4111-4121 ◽  
Author(s):  
JIN-FU FENG ◽  
SHI-JIE XIONG

We study the transport properties of electrons in a quantum wire with side-coupled quantum dots in Coulomb blockade regime by the use of the equivalent single-particle multi-channel network and Landauer formula. At low temperatures the calculated dependence of the conductance on the gate voltage of dots exhibits two dips, indicating the destructive interference of the wave directly transmitted through the wire and the wave reflected from the dots. In a wire with more than one side-coupled dots the suppression of conductance is a simple summation of the effects of scattering of all the dots. The possibility of fabricating tunable switch devices by using such structures is discussed.


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