QUANTUM-DOT GROUND-STATES IN A MAGNETIC-FIELD STUDIED BY SINGLE-ELECTRON TUNNELING SPECTROSCOPY ON DOUBLE-BARRIER HETEROSTRUCTURES

被引:103
作者
SCHMIDT, T
TEWORDT, M
BLICK, RH
HAUG, RJ
PFANNKUCHE, D
VONKLITZING, K
FORSTER, A
LUTH, H
机构
[1] MAX PLANCK INST FESTKORPERFORSCH, D-70569 STUTTGART, GERMANY
[2] FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JULICH, FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM, INST SCHICHT & IONENTECH, D-52425 JULICH, GERMANY
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW B | 1995年 / 51卷 / 08期
关键词
D O I
10.1103/PhysRevB.51.5570
中图分类号
T [工业技术];
学科分类号
08 ;
摘要
The few-electron ground states of a strongly asymmetric nanometer-scale AlxGa1-xAs-GaAs double-barrier quantum dot are probed by single-electron tunneling spectroscopy. Magnetotunneling measurements reveal transitions of spin and orbital angular momentum of the two- and three-electron quantum-dot ground states, respectively. The experimental data are compared with exact calculations of the few-electron ground-state energies. Magnetic-field-induced modulations of the tunneling rate in the many-electron regime indicate correlations in the involved states. © 1995 The American Physical Society.
引用
收藏
页码:5570 / 5573
页数:4
相关论文
共 14 条
[1]   N-ELECTRON GROUND-STATE ENERGIES OF A QUANTUM-DOT IN MAGNETIC-FIELD [J].
ASHOORI, RC ;
STORMER, HL ;
WEINER, JS ;
PFEIFFER, LN ;
BALDWIN, KW ;
WEST, KW .
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 1993, 71 (04) :613-616
[2]   MONTE-CARLO CALCULATION OF FEW-ELECTRON SYSTEMS IN QUANTUM DOTS [J].
BOLTON, F .
SOLID-STATE ELECTRONICS, 1994, 37 (4-6) :1159-1162
[3]   RESONANT TUNNELING THROUGH THE BOUND-STATES OF A SINGLE DONOR ATOM IN A QUANTUM-WELL [J].
DELLOW, MW ;
BETON, PH ;
LANGERAK, CJGM ;
FOSTER, TJ ;
MAIN, PC ;
EAVES, L ;
HENINI, M ;
BEAUMONT, SP ;
WILKINSON, CDW .
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 1992, 68 (11) :1754-1757
[4]   Note to the Quantification of the harmonic Oscillator in a Magnetic Field [J].
Fock, V. .
ZEITSCHRIFT FUR PHYSIK, 1928, 47 (5-6) :446-448
[5]   RESONANT-TUNNELING THROUGH DONOR MOLECULES [J].
GEIM, AK ;
FOSTER, TJ ;
NOGARET, A ;
MORI, N ;
MCDONNELL, PJ ;
LASCALA, N ;
MAIN, PC ;
EAVES, L .
PHYSICAL REVIEW B, 1994, 50 (11) :8074-8077
[6]  
GRABERT H, 1992, NATO ADV STUDY I S B, V294
[7]  
Grambow P., 1990, Microelectronic Engineering, V11, P47, DOI 10.1016/0167-9317(90)90071-Z
[8]   SINGLE-ELECTRON CAPACITANCE SPECTROSCOPY OF FEW-ELECTRON ARTIFICIAL ATOMS IN A MAGNETIC-FIELD - THEORY AND EXPERIMENT [J].
HAWRYLAK, P .
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 1993, 71 (20) :3347-3350
[9]   CAPACITANCE SPECTROSCOPY IN QUANTUM DOTS - ADDITION SPECTRA AND DECREASE OF TUNNELING RATES [J].
PALACIOS, JJ ;
MARTINMORENO, L ;
CHIAPPE, G ;
LOUIS, E ;
TEJEDOR, C .
PHYSICAL REVIEW B, 1994, 50 (08) :5760-5763
[10]   OBSERVATION OF DISCRETE ELECTRONIC STATES IN A ZERO-DIMENSIONAL SEMICONDUCTOR NANOSTRUCTURE [J].
REED, MA ;
RANDALL, JN ;
AGGARWAL, RJ ;
MATYI, RJ ;
MOORE, TM ;
WETSEL, AE .
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 1988, 60 (06) :535-537