Influences of a Side-Coupled Triple Quantum Dot on Kondo Transport Through a Quantum Dot

Abstract

Kondo transport properties through a Kondo-type quantum dot (QD) with a side-coupled triple-QD structure are systematically investigated by using the non-equilibrium Green's function method. We firstly derive the formulae of the current, the linear conductance, the transmission coefficient, and the local density of states. Then we carry out the analytical and numerical studies and some universal conductance properties are obtained. It is shown that the number of the conductance valleys is intrinsically determined by the side-coupled QDs and at most equal to the number of the QDs included in the side-coupled structure in the asymmetric limit. In the process of forming the conductance valleys, the side-coupled QD system plays the dominant role while the couplings between the Kondo-type QD and the side-coupled structure play the subsidiary and indispensable roles. To testify the validity of the universal conductance properties, another different kinds of side-coupled triple-QD structures are considered. It should be emphasized that these universal properties are applicable in understanding this kind of systems with arbitrary many-QD side structures.

The influence of intradot Coulomb interactions on the conductance for a parallel-coupled triple quantum dot system

“…The physics of quantum dots shows many analogues with the behavior of naturally occurring quantum systems in atomic, nuclear and condensed-matter physics. A quantum dot is an ideal man-made mesoscopic structure that enables one to investigate various important transport phenomena, such as Coulomb blockade [1][2][3][4][5][6], quantum interference [7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16] and Kondo effects [17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28] for its tunable parameters.…”