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1Institute of Physics, M Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland. tomasz.kwapinski@umcs.lublin.pl
Abstract:
Electron transport through a quantum wire (or coupled quantum dots) with time-dependent couplings between the nearest-neighbor and next-neighbor sites is studied by means of the evolution operator method and tight-binding Hamiltonian. Two geometries of a wire (linear and zigzag shaped) are considered in our calculations. Charge waves inside the wire and the conductance oscillation effect, i.e. the conductance as a function of the wire length, are analyzed. For a zigzag shaped wire with time-dependent couplings the conductance is characterized by a Fano-like resonance with many sideband peaks.
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