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We examine a graphene quantum dot formed by combining an electric and a uniform magnetic field. The electric field creates a smooth quantum well potential while the magnetic field induces an exponential tail to the dot states. The states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 G. Giavaras , Franco Nori

Single-layer quantum dot gate potential causes type-II band alignment, i.e. electrostatically confines holes and repels electrons, or vice versa. Hence, the confinement of excitons in gated type II quantum dots involves a delicate balance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-25 Daniel Miravet , Ludmiła Szulakowska , Maciej Bieniek , Marek Korkusiński , Paweł Hawrylak

We investigate the characteristics of purely electrostatic interactions with external gates in constructing full single qubit manipulations. The quantum bit is naturally encoded in the spatial wave function of the electron system.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Weichselbaum , S. E. Ulloa

We study quantum states of electrons in magnetically doped quantum dots as a function of exchange coupling between electron and impurity spins, the strength of Coulomb interaction, confining potential, and the number of electrons. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ramin M. Abolfath , Pawel Hawrylak , Igor Zutic

Generalized electrostatic quantum swap gate implemented in the chain of 2 double coupled quantum dots using single electron in semiconductor is presented in tight-binding simplistic model specifying both analytic and numerical results. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-29 Krzysztof Pomorski

A single electron shared between two levels threaded by a magnetic flux is an irreducibly simple quantum system in which interference is predicted to occur. We demonstrate tuning of the tunnel coupling between two such electronic levels…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-12 Christian G. Prosko , Ivan Kulesh , Michael Chan , Lin Han , Di Xiao , Candice Thomas , Michael J. Manfra , Srijit Goswami , Filip K. Malinowski

Due to Klein tunneling in graphene only quasi-bound states are realized in graphene quantum dots by electrostatic gating. Particles in the quasi-bound states are trapped inside the dot for a finite time and they keep bouncing back and forth…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-29 Abdelhadi Belouad , Youness Zahidi , Ahmed Jellal , Hocine Bahlouli

Quantum control of the wave function of two interacting electrons confined in quasi-one-dimensional double-well semiconductor structures is demonstrated. The control strategies are based on the knowledge of the energy spectrum as a function…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. E. Murgida , D. A. Wisniacki , P. I. Tamborenea

We study the impact of off-resonant tunneling and coherences on the electron pumping through quantum dots. Thereby, we focus on two electron-pump setups where lowest-order tunneling processes are suppressed and the pump is exclusively…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-27 Lukas Litzba , Gernot Schaller , Jürgen König , Nikodem Szpak

The discovery of quantum spin Hall materials with huge bulk gaps in experiment, such as bismuthene, provides a versatile platform for topological devices. We propose a topological quantum dot (QD) device in bismuthene ribbon in which two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 Jiaojiao Zhou , Tong Zhou , Shu-guang Cheng , Hua Jiang , Zhongqin Yang

We have investigated few-body states in vertically stacked quantum dots. Due to small inter-dot tunneling rate, the coupling in our system is in a previously unexplored regime where electron-hole exchange is the dominant spin interaction.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Stefan Falt , Mete Atature , Hakan E. Tureci , Yong Zhao , Antonio Badolato , Atac Imamoglu

We study the Coulomb blockade of tunneling through a double quantum dot. The temperature dependence of the linear conductance is strongly affected by the inter-dot tunneling. As the tunneling grows, a crossover from temperature-independent…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 K. A. Matveev , L. I. Glazman , H. U. Baranger

We theoretically investigate transport signatures of quantum interference in highly symmetric double quantum dots in a parallel geometry and demonstrate that extremely weak symmetry-breaking effects can have a dramatic influence on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-06 Zeng-Zhao Li , Martin Leijnse

Using the coupled-mode theory in guided-wave optics and electronics, we explore a directional coupling structure composed of two parallel waveguides electrostatically induced by the split-gate technique in bulk graphene. Our results show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-03-29 L. Zhao , Wenhui Duan

We have observed thermal gating, i.e. electrostatic gating induced by hot electrons. The effect occurs in a device consisting of two capacitively coupled quantum dots. The double dot system is coupled to a hot electron reservoir on one side…

We study a system of two symmetrical capacitively coupled quantum dots, each coupled to its own metallic lead, focusing on its evolution as a function of the gate voltage applied to each dot. Using the numerical renormalization group and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrew K. Mitchell , Martin R. Galpin , David E. Logan

We present a generalized electrostatic SWAP gate realized in a chain of two double quantum dots operated in the single-electron regime. Using a minimalist tight-binding model, we derive analytical results and corroborate them with numerical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-08 Krzysztof Pomorski , Eryk Halubek

We show that two electrons confined in a square semiconductor quantum dot have two isolated low-lying energy eigenstates, which have the potential to form the basis of scalable computing elements (qubits). Initialisation, one-qubit and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. H. Jefferson , M. Fearn , D. L. J. Tipton , T. P. Spiller

A quantum dot with spin-orbit interaction can work as an efficient spin filter if it is connected to N (> 2) external leads via tunnel barriers. When an unpolarized current is injected to a quantum dot from a lead, polarized currents are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-12-30 Mikio Eto , Tomohiro Yokoyama

Employing the Anderson impurity model, we study tunneling properties through an ideal quantum dot near the conductance minima. Considering the Coulomb blockade and the quantum confinement on an equal footing, we have obtained current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Kicheon Kang , B. I. Min