中国物理B ›› 2012, Vol. 21 ›› Issue (11): 117501-117501.doi: 10.1088/1674-1056/21/11/117501

• CONDENSED MATTER: ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE, ELECTRICAL, MAGNETIC, AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES • 上一篇    下一篇

Charge oscillation and many-body effect in triangular quantum dots

熊永臣, 王为忠   

  1. Department of Physics, and Key Laboratory of Artificial Micro- and Nano-structures of Ministry of Education,Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
  • 收稿日期:2012-04-01 修回日期:2012-05-18 出版日期:2012-10-01 发布日期:2012-10-01
  • 基金资助:
    Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11174228 and 10874132).

Charge oscillation and many-body effect in triangular quantum dots

Xiong Yong-Chen (熊永臣), Wang Wei-Zhong (王为忠 )   

  1. Department of Physics, and Key Laboratory of Artificial Micro- and Nano-structures of Ministry of Education,Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
  • Received:2012-04-01 Revised:2012-05-18 Online:2012-10-01 Published:2012-10-01
  • Contact: Wang Wei-Zhong E-mail:wzwang@whu.edu.cn
  • Supported by:
    Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11174228 and 10874132).

摘要: We study the charge oscillation in the triangular quantum dots symmetrically coupled to the leads. A strong charge oscillation is observed even for a very small level difference. We attribute this oscillation behavior to the many-body effect in the strongly correlated system instead of the physical scenarios based on the mean-field approach in the previous works for the two-level dot. The level difference induces the difference of the occupations between different dots, while the symmetry of the many-body states favors the homogeneous distribution of the charge density on the three dots. The interplay of these two factors results in the charge oscillation.

关键词: charge oscillation, many-body effect, triangular quantum dots

Abstract: We study the charge oscillation in the triangular quantum dots symmetrically coupled to the leads. A strong charge oscillation is observed even for a very small level difference. We attribute this oscillation behavior to the many-body effect in the strongly correlated system instead of the physical scenarios based on the mean-field approach in the previous works for the two-level dot. The level difference induces the difference of the occupations between different dots, while the symmetry of the many-body states favors the homogeneous distribution of the charge density on the three dots. The interplay of these two factors results in the charge oscillation.

Key words: charge oscillation, many-body effect, triangular quantum dots

中图分类号:  (Local moment in compounds and alloys; Kondo effect, valence fluctuations, heavy fermions)

  • 75.20.Hr
73.63.-b (Electronic transport in nanoscale materials and structures) 73.23.-b (Electronic transport in mesoscopic systems)