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Multi-terminal transport through a quantum dot in the Coulomb blockade regime

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2009-11-10 v1

Abstract

Three terminal tunnelling experiments on quantum dots in the Coulomb blockade regime allow a quantitative determination of the coupling strength of individual quantum states to the leads. Exploiting this insight we have observed independent fluctuations of the coupling strengths as a function of electron number and magnetic field due to changes in the shape of the wave function in the dot. Such a detailed understanding and control of the dot-lead coupling can be extended to more complex systems such as coupled dots, and is essential for building functional quantum electronic systems.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0406046,
  title  = {Multi-terminal transport through a quantum dot in the Coulomb blockade regime},
  author = {R. Leturcq and D. Graf and T. Ihn and K. Ensslin and D. D. Driscoll and A. C. Gossard},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0406046},
  year   = {2009}
}

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7 pages, 4 figures