Stub model for dephasing in a quantum dot

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/38/49/011zbMATH Open1161.82344arXivcond-mat/0503347OpenAlexW3102831324WikidataQ56989222 ScholiaQ56989222MaRDI QIDQ5717845FDOQ5717845

Authors: Carlo Beenakker, Bernd Michaelis 

Publication date: 13 January 2006

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: As an alternative to Buttiker's dephasing lead model, we examine a dephasing stub. Both models are phenomenological ways to introduce decoherence in chaotic scattering by a quantum dot. The difference is that the dephasing lead opens up the quantum dot by connecting it to an electron reservoir, while the dephasing stub is closed at one end. Voltage fluctuations in the stub take over the dephasing role from the reservoir. Because the quantum dot with dephasing lead is an open system, only expectation values of the current can be forced to vanish at low frequencies, while the outcome of an individual measurement is not so constrained. The quantum dot with dephasing stub, in contrast, remains a closed system with a vanishing low-frequency current at each and every measurement. This difference is a crucial one in the context of quantum algorithms, which are based on the outcome of individual measurements rather than on expectation values. We demonstrate that the dephasing stub model has a parameter range in which the voltage fluctuations are sufficiently strong to suppress quantum interference effects, while still being sufficiently weak that classical current fluctuations can be neglected relative to the nonequilibrium shot noise.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0503347

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical mechanics of solids (82D20) Transport processes in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C70)

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