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We propose a general capacitive model for an antidot, which has two localized edge states with different spins in the quantum Hall regime. The capacitive coupling of localized excess charges, which are generated around the antidot due to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 H. -S. Sim , M. Kataoka , Hangmo Yi , N. Y. Hwang , M. -S. Choi , S. -R. E. Yang

We investigate the effects of electron correlations on the ground state energy and the chemical potential of a droplet confined by a parabolic potential at high magnetic fields. We demonstrate the importance of correlations in estimating…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Kang-Hun Ahn , J. H. Oh , K. J. Chang

We present an experimental and theoretical study of electron tunnelling through quantum dots which focusses the attention on the amplitude of the current peaks as a function of magnetic field. We demonstrate that the amplitudes of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Jouault , J. P. Holder , M. Boero , G. Faini , F. Laruelle , E. Bedel , A. K. Savchenko , J. C. Inkson

We have detected oscillations of the charge around a potential hill (antidot) in a two-dimensional electron gas as a function of a perpendicular magnetic field B. The field confines electrons around the antidot in closed orbits, the areas…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Kataoka , C. J. B. Ford , G. Faini , D. Mailly , M. Y. Simmons , D. R. Mace , C. -T. Liang , D. A. Ritchie

Spin dependent single electron tunneling in ferromagnetic double junctions is analysed theoretically in the limit of sequential tunneling. The influence of discrete energy spectrum of the central electrode (island)on the spin accumulation,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Martinek , J. Barnas , G. Michalek , B. R. Bulka , A. Fert

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

The temperature dependence of Coulomb blockade peak height correlation is used to investigate how adding electrons to a quantum dot alters or "scrambles" its electronic spectrum. Deviations from finite-temperature random matrix theory with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. R. Patel , D. R. Stewart , C. M. Marcus , M. Gokcedag , Y. Alhassid , A. D. Stone , C. I. Duruoz , J. S. Harris

We evaluate the spin density oscillations arising in quantum spin Hall quantum dots created via two localized magnetic barriers. The combined presence of magnetic barriers and spin-momentum locking, the hallmark of topological insulators,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-24 Giacomo Dolcetto , Niccolò Traverso Ziani , Matteo Biggio , Fabio Cavaliere , Maura Sassetti

We analyze changes of the electronic structure of a triangular molecule under the influence of an electric field (i.e., the Stark effect). The effects of the field are shown to be anisotropic and include both a linear and a nonlinear part.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Bogdan R. Bulka , Tomasz Kostyrko , Jakub Luczak

Spin qubits based on interacting spins in double quantum dots have been successfully demonstrated. Readout of the qubit state involves a conversion of spin to charge information, universally achieved by taking advantage of a spin blockade…

We calculate the orbital magnetization of single and double quantum dots coupled both by Coulomb interaction and by electron tunneling. The electronic states of the quantum dots are calculated in a tight-binding model and the magnetization…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Aldea , V. Moldoveanu , M. Nita , A. Manolescu , V. Gudmundsson , B. Tanatar

Spin properties of single electron states in laterally coupled quantum dots in the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field are studied by exact numerical diagonalization. Dresselhaus (linear and cubic) and Bychkov-Rashba spin-orbit…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter Stano , Jaroslav Fabian

This paper investigates origin of the extra stability associated with particular values (magic numbers) of the total angular momentum of electrons in a quantum dot under strong magnetic field. The ground-state energy, distribution functions…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Taku Seki , Yoshio Kuramoto , Tomotoshi Nishino

We develop a theory for spin transport and magnetization dynamics in a quantum-dot spin valve, i.e., two magnetic reservoirs coupled to a quantum dot. Our theory is able to take into account effects of strong correlations. We demonstrate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-09 N. M. Gergs , S. A. Bender , R. A. Duine , D. Schuricht

Spin-orbit coupling effects are studied in quantum dots in InSb, a narrow-gap material. Competition between different Rashba and Dresselhaus terms is shown to produce wholesale changes in the spectrum. The large (and negative) $g$-factor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. F. Destefani , S. E. Ulloa , G. E. Marques

Crossings between spin-singlet and spin-triplet lowest states are analyzed within the model of a two-electron quantum dot in a perpendicular magnetic field. The explicit expressions in terms of the magnetic field, the magnetic quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Dineykhan , R. G. Nazmitdinov

The effective interaction between magnetic impurities in metals that can lead to various magnetic ground states often competes with a tendency for electrons near impurities to screen the local moment (Kondo effect). The simplest system…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 N. J. Craig , J. M. Taylor , E. A. Lester , C. M. Marcus , M. P. Hanson , A. C. Gossard

We demonstrate here that the dipole-allowed optical absorption spectrum of a parabolic quantum dot subjected to an external magnetic field reflects the inter-electron interaction effects when the spin-orbit interaction is also taken into…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Tapash Chakraborty , Pekka Pietiläinen

A complete numerical description of the charge and spin dynamics of a two-electron system confined in narrow nanowire quantum dots under oscillating electric field is presented in the context of recent electric dipole spin resonance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-14 M. P. Nowak , B. Szafran

We show that the low lying spin states of two electrons in a semiconductor quantum dot can be strongly mixed by electron-electron asymmetric exchange. This mixing is generated by the coupling of electron spin to its orbital motion and to…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 S. C. Badescu , T. L. Reinecke