2005 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
External field control of a few-particle-bound states in double quantum dots
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16540282
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Condensed matter physics I
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| Research Institution | The University of Electro-Communications |
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Principal Investigator |
NATORI Akiko The University of Electro-Communications, Electronic Engineering, Professor, 電気通信学部, 教授 (50143368)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2004 – 2005
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| Keywords | double quantum dots / spin coupling / electron correlation / quantum Monte Carlo method / Hubbard model / spin correlation / magnetic field |
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| Research Abstract |
We study both spin and charge correlations between two electrons in vertically coupled quantum dots with a finite well width using a diffusion quantum Monte Carlo method, and clarify mechanism of their dependences on both a barrier thickness and a magnetic field on the basis of analysis in the Hubbard model.
When the barrier thickness increases, two-electron occupation probability in the same dot is suppressed drastically by enhanced charge correlation relative to electron transfer effect and the magnitude of the anti-ferromagnetic spin coupling decreases in two stages.
By applying magnetic field, both the anti-ferromagnetic spin coupling and the two-electron occupation probability in the same dot are suppressed, being caused by enhanced intra-dot charge correlation.
In the case of weak lateral confinement in dots, serial switching of the ground states can also be induced by increasing magnetic field and alternation of spin coupling between anti-ferromagnetic coupling and ferromagnetic coupling occurs.
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