Vaz, EduardoKyriakidis, Jordan2013-06-192013-06-192008Reproduced from Vaz, Eduardo, and Jordan Kyriakidis. 2008. "Dark channels in resonant tunneling transport through artificial atoms." Journal of Chemical Physics 129(2), with the permission of AIP Publishing00219606http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2949510http://hdl.handle.net/10222/24290We investigate sequential tunneling through a multilevel quantum dot confining multiple electrons in the regime where several channels are available for transport within the bias window. By analyzing solutions to the master equations of the reduced density matrix, we give general conditions on when the presence of a second transport channel in the bias window quenches transport through the quantum dot. These conditions are in terms of distinct tunneling anisotropies which may aid in explaining the occurrence of negative differential conductance in quantum dots in the nonlinear regime. 2008 American Institute of Physics.Quantum chemistryAtomsCrystallographyExcavationOptical waveguidesQuantum electronicsSemiconductor quantum dotsTunneling (excavation)Windowsarticle1292