Signatures of exchange correlations in the thermopower of quantum dots

Details Signatures of exchange correlations in the thermopower of quantum dots Signatures of exchange correlations in the thermopower of quantum dots

2010-01-13

arxiv.org/abs/1001.2315v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

18 pages, 6 figures Revised figure 6, and changed discussion of figure 6

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We use a many-body rate-equation approach to calculate the thermopower of a quantum dot in the presence of an exchange interaction. At temperatures much smaller than the single-particle level spacing, the known quantum jumps (discontinuities) in the thermopower are split by the exchange interaction. The origin and nature of the splitting are elucidated with a simple physical argument based on the nature of the intermediate excited state in the sequential tunneling approach. We show that this splitting is sensitive to the number parity of electrons in the dot and the dot's ground-state spin. These effects are suppressed when cotunneling dominates the electrical and thermal conductances. We calculate the thermopower in the presence of elastic cotunneling, and show that some signatures of exchange correlations should still be observed with current experimental methods. In particular, we propose a method to determine the strength of the exchange interaction from measurements of the thermopower.

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