On the cotunneling regime of interacting quantum dots

Details On the cotunneling regime of interacting quantum dots On the cotunneling regime of interacting quantum dots

2011-04-28

arxiv.org/abs/1104.5412v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

To appear in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical

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Consider a bunch of interacting electrons confined in a quantum dot. The later is suddenly coupled to semi-infinite biased leads at an initial instant $t=0$. We identify the dominant contribution to the ergodic current in the off-resonant transport regime, in which the discrete spectrum of the quantum dot is well separated from the absolutely continuous spectrum of the leads. Our approach allows for arbitrary strength of the electron-electron interaction while the current is expanded in even powers of the (weak) lead-dot hopping constant $\tau$. We provide explicit calculations for sequential tunneling and cotunneling contributions to the current. In the interacting case it turns out that the cotunneling current depends on the initial many-body configuration of the sample, while in the non-interacting case it does not, and coincides with the first term in the expansion of the Landauer formula w.r.t $\tau$.

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