Fano effect through parallel-coupled double Coulomb islands

Abstract

By means of the nonequilibrium Green function and equation of motion method, the electronic transport is theoretically studied through a parallel-coupled double quantum dot (DQD) in the presence of on-dot Coulomb interaction U. With focus on the quantum interference in the U-dominant parallel-coupled DQD, we find two types of Fano interferences in the conductance spectra. If the one-particle DQD bonding and antibonding bands are well separated from their Coulomb blockade counterparts, the main features of Fano interference in usual DQD systems are recovered with minor revisions. The most interesting is the hybridization between the antibonding state and the Coulomb counterpart of the bonding state, which gives rises to two new channels for Fano resonance. The Fano interference in the Coulomb hybridized systems can be controlled by the electrostatic and magnetic approaches, and exhibits properties quite different from what are reported in the noninteracting Fano-Anderson model. © IOP Publishing Ltd.