Charge oscillation and many-body effect in triangular quantum dots

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.