ELECTRONIC CORRELATION IN QUANTUM DOTS SYSTEMS / CORRELAÇÃO ELETRÔNICA EM SISTEMAS DE PONTOS QUÂNTICOS

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2004

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In this thesis we investigate the effects of the eletron- eletron interaction on the transport properties of nanosystems. In particular, we study systems constituted by two quantum dots conected to leads, in different topologies. Our main interest is to study the effects of the Kondo regime and the electronic phase on the conductance. In the configuration where the two dots are inserted in each arm of a ring threaded by a magnetic flux, denoted by PPL, we calculate the phases of the currents going along each arm of the ring. These phases are determined by the Aharonov-Bohm effect combined with the dots many body charging effects. This system presents the Kondo phenomenon for an even number (two) of electrons in the dots, in agreement with experimental results1. An interesting aspect of PPL configuration is that, even in the absence of magnetic flux there can be a circulating current around the ring, depending on the system parameters. In the two other topologies we consider the two quantum dots coupled through tunneling interaction. In one of them, denoted by PAL, the two dots are aligned with the leads, and in the other, the PPD configuration, one dot is inserted into the leads while the other interacts only with the first. In the weak coupling limit these two configurations present quite different features, not only on the dependence of the conductance on the gate potencials applied to the dots, but also on the dots spin correlation. Both configurations present Kondo resonance for an even number electrons. In the PAL configuration the spins of the charged dots are uncorrelated, while in the PPD configuration they are ferromagnetically correlated. In the strong tunneling coupling limit the transport properties of two interacting dot configurations are very similar. The systems discussed above are represented by an Anderson two- impurity first-neighbor tight-binding Hamiltonian, that is solved by exactly diagonalizing a cluster that is embebed into the rest of the system. In this way we obtain only the properties of the system at T = 0. In order to study temperature dependence phenomena we use the equation of motion method (EOM) in the limit of infinite Coulomb repulsion. We apply it to the dots in the PPD topology. The results for low temperatures are consistent with hose obtained with the cluster method.

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correlated electronic systems quantum dots aharonov-bohm effect efeito kondo pontos quanticos kondo effect efeito aharonov-bohm eletrons correlacionados

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