Coulomb interaction and valley-orbit coupling in Si quantum dots
Abstract
The valley-orbit coupling in a few-electron Si quantum dot is expected to be a function of its occupation number N. We study the spectrum of multivalley Si quantum dots for 2 <= N <= 4, showing that, counterintuitively, electron-electron interaction effects on the valley-orbit coupling are negligible. For N=2 they are suppressed by valley interference, for N=3 they vanish due to spinor overlaps, and for N = 4 they cancel between different pairs of electrons. To corroborate our theoretical findings, we examine the experimental energy spectrum of a few-electron metal-oxide-semiconductor quantum dot. The measured spin-valley state filling sequence in a magnetic field reveals that the valley-orbit coupling is definitively unaffected by the occupation number.
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@article{arxiv.1308.2728,
title = {Coulomb interaction and valley-orbit coupling in Si quantum dots},
author = {Luyao Jiang and C. H. Yang and Zhaodi Pan and Alessandro Rossi and Andrew S. Dzurak and Dimitrie Culcer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1308.2728},
year = {2013}
}