Electronic transport through a double-quantum-dot Aharonov-Bohm interference device with impurities

Details Electronic transport through a double-quantum-dot Aharonov-Bohm interference device with impurities Electronic transport through a double-quantum-dot Aharonov-Bohm interference device with impurities

2009-12-23

arxiv.org/abs/0912.4559v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

17 pages, 13 figures

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The impurity-related electron transport through a double quantum dot (QD) Aharonov-Bohm (AB) interferometer is theoretically studied, by considering impurities coupled to the QDs in the interferometer arms. When investigating the linear conductance spectra \emph{vs} the impurity levels, we show that the impurities influence the electron transport in a nontrivial way, since their suppressing or enhancing the electron tunneling. A presented single-level impurity leads to the appearance of Fano lineshapes in the conductance spectra in the absence of magnetic flux, with the positions of Fano antiresonances determined by both the impurity-QD couplings and the QD levels separated from the Fermi level, whereas when a magnetic flux is introduced with the the phase factor $\phi=\pi$ the impurity-driven Breit-Wigner lineshapes appear in the conductance curves. Besides, the nonlocal impurities alter the period of conductance change \emph{vs} the magnetic flux. The multi-level impurities indeed complicate the electron transport, but for the cases of two identical local impurities coupled to the respective QDs with uniform couplings or a nonlocal impurity coupled to both QDs uniformly, the antiresonances are only relevant to the impurity levels. When many-body effect is managed within the second-order approximation, we also find the important role of the Coulomb interaction in modifying the electron transport.

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