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Adiabatic Control of the Electron Phase in a Quantum Dot

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2009-11-07 v3

Abstract

A Berry phase can be added to the wavefunction of an isolated quantum dot by adiabatically modulating a nonuniform electric field along a time-cycle. The dot is tuned close to a three-level degeneracy, which provides a wide range of possibilities of control. We propose to detect the accumulated phase by capacitively coupling the dot to a double-path inteferometer. The effective Hamiltonian for the phase-sensitive coupling is discussed in detail.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0206273,
  title  = {Adiabatic Control of the Electron Phase in a Quantum Dot},
  author = {D. Giuliano and P. Sodano and A. Tagliacozzo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0206273},
  year   = {2009}
}

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14 pages, 2 .eps figures