Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
9789595 Physica E: Low-dimensional Systems and Nanostructures 2005 5 Pages PDF
Abstract
We propose a new method of analyzing the quantum interference effect of the resonant transport in ballistic open systems. The new method is to obtain the resonant eigenvalues by computing the norm of the retarded and advanced Green's functions. Using the method, we illustrate for a fullerene and an AB-ring the relation between each resonant state and each asymmetric conductance peak, namely the Fano peak. We show that the combination of resonant states determines the symmetry of a conductance peak and that the Fano peak is caused by the asymmetry of the numerator of the conductance around a resonance. The Fano peak appears not only due to the quantum interference effect as often claimed, but more generally due to the resonant transport.
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