A Generic Model for Current Collapse in Spin Blockaded Transport
arXiv:cond-mat/0702161 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.76.035432
Abstract
A decrease in current with increasing voltage, often referred to as negative differential resistance (NDR), has been observed in many electronic devices and can usually be understood within a one-electron picture. However, NDR has recently been reported in nanoscale devices with large single-electron charging energies which require a many-electron picture in Fock space. This paper presents a generic model in this transport regime leading to a simple criterion for the conditions required to observe NDR and shows that this model describes the recent observation of multiple NDR's in Spin Blockaded transport through weakly coupled-double quantum dots quite well. This model shows clearly how a delicate interplay of orbital energy offset, delocalization and Coulomb interaction lead to the observed NDR under the right conditions, and also aids in obtaining a good match with experimentally observed features. We believe the basic model could be useful in understanding other experiments in this transport regime as well.
10 pages, 10 figures. to appear in Phys Rev B
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