Friday, March 9, 2012

1112.3420 (Yunshan Cao et al.)

Non-Markovian Transmission through Two Quantum Dots Connected by a
Continuum
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Yunshan Cao, Luting Xu, Jianyu Meng, Xin-Qi Li
We consider a transport setup containing a double-dot connected by a continuum. Via an exact solution of the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation, we demonstrate a highly non-Markovian quantum-coherence-mediated transport through this dot-continuum-dot (DCD) system, which is in contrast with the common premise since in typical case a quantum particle does not reenter the system of interest once it irreversibly decayed into a continuum (such as the spontaneous emission of a photon). We also find that this DCD system supports an unusual steady state with unequal source and drain currents, owing to electrons irreversibly entering the continuum and floating there.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1112.3420

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