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We demonstrate a novel method for measuring the discrete energy spectrum of a quantum dot connected very weakly to a single lead. A train of voltage pulses applied to a metal gate induces tunneling of electrons between the quantum dot and a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. M. Elzerman , R. Hanson , L. H. Willems van Beveren , L. M. K. Vandersypen , L. P. Kouwenhoven

We study ground states and excited states in semiconductor quantum dots containing 1 to 12 electrons. For the first time, it is possible to identify the quantum numbers of the states in the excitation spectra and make a direct comparison to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 L. P. Kouwenhoven , T. H. Oosterkamp , M. W. S. Danoesastro , M. Eto , D. G. Austing , T. Honda , S. Tarucha

We calculate spin relaxation rates in lateral quantum dot systems due to electron exchange between dots and leads. Using rate equations, we develop a theoretical description of the experimentally observed electric current in the spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-12-08 A. B. Vorontsov , M. G. Vavilov

We investigate the singlet-triplet relaxation process of a two electron silicon quantum dot. In the absence of a perpendicular magnetic field, we find that spin-orbit coupling is not the main source of singlet-triplet relaxation. Relaxation…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Prada , R. H. Blick , R. Joynt

We have theoretically studied phonon-mediated spin-flip processes of electrons in a GaAs double quantum dot (DQD) holding two spins, under a phonon temperature gradient over the DQD. Transition rates of inter-dot phonon-assisted tunnel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-22 Kazuyuki Kuroyama , Sadashige Matsuo , Seigo Tarucha , Yasuhiro Tokura

We consider the full driven quantum dynamics of a qubit realized as spin of electron in a one-dimensional double quantum dot with spin-orbit coupling. The driving perturbation is taken in the form of a single half-period pulse of electric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-28 D. V. Khomitsky , E. Ya. Sherman

Hyperfine interaction of electron spins with nuclear spins, in coupled double quantum dots is studied. Results of successive electron spin measurements exhibit bunching due to correlations induced via the nuclear spins. Further nuclear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Ozgur Cakir , Toshihide Takagahara

Inherent asymmetry in the tunneling barriers of few-electron quantum dots induces intrinsically different tunneling currents for forward and reverse source-drain biases in the non-linear transport regime. Here we show that in addition to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. V. Melnikov , T. Fujisawa , D. G. Austing , S. Tarucha , J. -P. Leburton

The $s_z=0$ spin configuration of two electrons confined at a double quantum dot (DQD) encodes the singlet-triplet qubit (STQ). We introduce the inverted STQ (ISTQ) that emerges from the setup of two quantum dots (QDs) differing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-27 Sebastian Mehl , David P. DiVincenzo

We study two-electron states confined in two coupled quantum dots formed by a short-range potential in a two-dimensional topological insulator. It is shown that there is a fairly wide range of the system parameters, where the ground state…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-17 Vladimir A. Sablikov , Aleksei A. Sukhanov

We present experimental data and associated theory for correlations in a series of experiments involving repeated Landau-Zener sweeps through the crossing point of a singlet state and a spin aligned triplet state in a GaAs double quantum…

We study the spin dynamics in charged quantum dots in the situation where the resident electron is coupled to only about 200 nuclear spins and where the electron spin splitting induced by the Overhauser field does not exceed markedly the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. H. Feng , I. A. Akimov , F. Henneberger

We observe a low-lying sharp spin mode of three interacting electrons in an array of nanofabricated AlGaAs/GaAs quantum dots by means of resonant inelastic light scattering. The finding is enabled by a suppression of the inhomogeneous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-02 Andrea Gamucci , Vittorio Pellegrini , Achintya Singha , Aron Pinczuk , Loren N. Pfeiffer , Kenneth W. West , Massimo Rontani

We investigate the spin relaxation induced by acoustic phonons in the presence of spin-orbit interactions in single electron Si/SiGe lateral coupled quantum dots. The relaxation rates are computed numerically in single and double quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Martin Raith , Peter Stano , Jaroslav Fabian

We investigate quantum dynamics in the electron-nuclei coupled spin system in quantum dots and clarify the fundamental features of quantum correlation induced via successive electron spin measurements. This quantum correlation leads to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ozgur Cakir , Toshihide Takagahara

We investigate quantum dynamics of the excited electronic states in the double-exchange model at half-filling by solving coupled equations for the quantum evolution of electrons and Landau-Lifshits-Gilbert equation for classical spins. The…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-05-05 W. Koshibae , N. Furukawa , N. Nagaosa

Recent work has demonstrated a new route to discrete time crystal physics in quantum spin chains by periodically driving nearest-neighbor exchange interactions in gate-defined quantum dot arrays [arXiv:2006.10913]. Here, we present a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-09 John S. Van Dyke , Yadav P. Kandel , Haifeng Qiao , John M. Nichol , Sophia E. Economou , Edwin Barnes

The temperature-dependent electron spin relaxation of positively charged excitons in a single InAs quantum dot (QD) was measured by time-resolved photoluminescence spectroscopy at zero applied magnetic fields. The experimental results show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 X. M. Dou , B. Q. Sun , D. S. Jiang , H. Q. Ni , Z. C. Niu

The charge transport of a serially coupled quantum dots (SCQD) connected to the metallic electrodes is theoretically investigated in the Coulomb blockade regime. A closed-form expression for the tunneling current of SCQD in the {\color{red}…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 David M. -T. Kuo , Shiue-Yuan , Yia-chung Chang

Quantum computers have the potential to solve certain interesting problems significantly faster than classical computers. To exploit the power of a quantum computation it is necessary to perform inter-qubit operations and generate entangled…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-09 Michael D. Shulman , Oliver E. Dial , Shannon P. Harvey , Hendrik Bluhm , Vladimir Umansky , Amir Yacoby