Continuous-time Monte Carlo methods for quantum impurity models

E Gull, AJ Millis, AI Lichtenstein, AN Rubtsov… - Reviews of Modern …, 2011 - APS
Quantum impurity models describe an atom or molecule embedded in a host material with
which it can exchange electrons. They are basic to nanoscience as representations of …

Molecular transport junctions: vibrational effects

M Galperin, MA Ratner, A Nitzan - Journal of Physics: Condensed …, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
Transport of electrons in a single molecule junction is the simplest problem in the general
subject area of molecular electronics. In the past few years, this area has been extended to …

Anomalous zero-bias conductance peak in a Nb–InSb nanowire–Nb hybrid device

MT Deng, CL Yu, GY Huang, M Larsson, P Caroff… - Nano …, 2012 - ACS Publications
Semiconductor InSb nanowires are expected to provide an excellent material platform for
the study of Majorana fermions in solid state systems. Here, we report on the realization of a …

Kondo effect in a single-electron transistor

D Goldhaber-Gordon, H Shtrikman, D Mahalu… - Nature, 1998 - nature.com
How localized electrons interact with delocalized electrons is a central question to many
problems in sold-state physics,,. The simplest manifestation of this situation is the Kondo …

Coulomb blockade and the Kondo effect in single-atom transistors

J Park, AN Pasupathy, JI Goldsmith, C Chang, Y Yaish… - Nature, 2002 - nature.com
Using molecules as electronic components is a powerful new direction in the science and
technology of nanometre-scale systems. Experiments to date have examined a multitude of …

A tunable Kondo effect in quantum dots

SM Cronenwett, TH Oosterkamp, LP Kouwenhoven - Science, 1998 - science.org
A tunable Kondo effect has been realized in small quantum dots. A dot can be switched from
a Kondo system to a non-Kondo system as the number of electrons on the dot is changed …

Kondo resonance in a single-molecule transistor

W Liang, MP Shores, M Bockrath, JR Long, H Park - Nature, 2002 - nature.com
When an individual molecule, nanocrystal,,, nanotube, or lithographically defined quantum
dot is attached to metallic electrodes via tunnel barriers, electron transport is dominated by …

From the Kondo regime to the mixed-valence regime in a single-electron transistor

D Goldhaber-Gordon, J Göres, MA Kastner… - Physical Review Letters, 1998 - APS
We demonstrate that the conductance through a single-electron transistor at low
temperature is in quantitative agreement with predictions of the equilibrium Anderson model …

Photon-assisted transport in semiconductor nanostructures

G Platero, R Aguado - Physics Reports, 2004 - Elsevier
In this review we focus on electronic transport through semiconductor nanostructures which
are driven by ac fields. Along the review we describe the available experimental information …

The Kondo effect in the unitary limit

WG Van der Wiel, SD Franceschi, T Fujisawa… - science, 2000 - science.org
We observe a strong Kondo effect in a semiconductor quantum dot when a small magnetic
field is applied. The Coulomb blockade for electron tunneling is overcome completely by the …