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Correlations between Ground and Excited State Spectra of a Quantum Dot

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2009-10-30 v2

Abstract

We have studied the ground and excited state spectra of a semiconductor quantum dot for successive numbers of electron occupancy using linear and nonlinear magnetoconductance measurements. We present the first observation of direct correlation between the mth excited state of the N electron system and the ground state of the N+m electron system for m up to 4. Results are consistent with a non-spin-degenerate single particle picture of the filling of levels. Electron-electron interaction effects are also observed as a perturbation to this model. Magnetoconductance fluctuations of ground states are shown as anticrossings where wavefunction characteristics are exchanged between adjacent levels.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9709126,
  title  = {Correlations between Ground and Excited State Spectra of a Quantum Dot},
  author = {D. R. Stewart and D. Sprinzak and C. M. Marcus and C. I. Duruoz and J. S. Harris},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9709126},
  year   = {2009}
}

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