From Coulomb blockade to the Kondo regime in a Rashba dot

Kondo-model for quantum-dots with spin-orbit coupling

Cotunneling through a spin-orbit coupled quantum dot Starting from the Anderson model for a quantum dot, with Rashba type spinorbit (SO) interactions, coupled to two metallic electrodes, we derive an effective low-energy Hamiltonian describing the dynamical spin-fluctuations, i.e. the cotunneling processes, which remain in the Coulomb blockade regime. This projection to the low-energy states of...

Transport in a Mesoscopic Ring with a Quantum Dot: from the Coulomb Blockade Regime to the Kondo Effect

noise for entangled and spin - polarized electrons

We review our recent contributions on shot noise for entangled electrons and spin-polarized currents in novel mesoscopic geometries. We first discuss some of our recent proposals for electron entanglers involving a superconductor coupled to a double dot in the Coulomb blockade regime, a superconductor tunnel-coupled to Luttinger-liquid leads, and a triple-dot setup coupled to Fermi leads. We br...

Interplay of Coulomb interaction and spin-orbit effects in multilevel quantum dots

We study electron transport through amultilevel quantum dot with Rashba spin-orbit interaction in the presence of local Coulomb repulsion. We focus on the parameter regime in which the level spacing is larger than the level broadening. Motivated by recent experiments, we compute the level splitting induced by the spin-orbit interaction at finite Zeeman fields B, which provides a measure of the ...

The effect of Coulomb interactions on thermoelectric properties of quantum dots.

Thermoelectric effects in a quantum dot coupled to the source and drain charge reservoirs are explored using a nonequilibrium Green's functions formalism beyond the Hartree-Fock approximation. Thermal transport is analyzed within a linear response regime. A transition from Coulomb blockade regime to Kondo regime in thermoelectric transport through a single-level quantum dot is traced using unif...