The magnetic-field evolution of Coulomb blockade peaks in lateral InGaAs/InAlAs quantum dots in the few-electron regime is reported. Quantum dots are defined by gates evaporated onto a 60 nm-thick hydrogen silsesquioxane insulating film. A gyromagnetic factor of 4.4 is measured via zero-bias spin spectroscopy and a transition from singlet to triplet spin configuration is found at an in-plane magnetic field B = 0.7 T. This observation opens the way to the manipulation of singlet and triplet states at moderate fields and its relevance for quantum information applications will be discussed.
@article{arxiv.1002.3736,
title = {Singlet-triplet transition in a few-electron lateral InGaAs-InAlAs quantum dot},
author = {F. Deon and V. Pellegrini and F. Carillo and F. Giazotto and L. Sorba and G. Biasiol and F. Beltram},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1002.3736},
year = {2010}
}