Physics – Condensed Matter – Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Scientific paper
2006-04-04
Phys. Rev. B 75, 045309 (2007)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
24 pages, 8 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.75.045309
We study the Fano effect and the visibility of the Aharonov-Bohm oscillations for a mesoscopic interferometer with an embedded quantum dot in the presence of a nearby second dot. When the electron-electron interaction between the two dots is considered the nearby dot acts as a charge detector. We compute the currents through the interferometer and detector within the Keldysh formalism and the self-energy of the non-equilibrium Green functions is found up to the second order in the interaction strength. The current formula contains a correction to the Landauer-B\"{uttiker} formula. Its contribution to transport and dephasing is discussed. As the bias applied on the detector is increased, the amplitude of both the Fano resonance and Aharonov-Bohm oscillations are considerably reduced due to controlled dephasing. This result is explained by analyzing the behavior of the imaginary part of the self-energy as a function of energy and bias. We investigate as well the role of the ring-dot coupling. Our theoretical results are consistent to the experimental observation of Buks {\it et al.} [Nature {\bf 391}, 871 (1998)].
Moldoveanu Valeriu
Tanatar Tolea. M. B.
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