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- Potts, Heidi, et al.
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Symmetry-controlled singlet-triplet transition in a double-barrier quantum ring
- 2021
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In: Physical Review B. - 2469-9950. ; 104:8
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- We engineer a system of two strongly confined quantum dots to gain reproducible electrostatic control of the even-electron spin at zero magnetic field. Coupling the dots in a tight ring-shaped potential with two tunnel barriers, we demonstrate that an electric field can switch the electron ground state between a singlet and a triplet configuration. Comparing our experimental cotunneling spectroscopy data to a full many-body treatment of interacting electrons in a double-barrier quantum ring, we find excellent agreement in the evolution of many-body states with electric and magnetic fields. The calculations show that the singlet-triplet energy crossover, not found in conventionally coupled quantum dots, is made possible by the ring-shaped geometry of the confining potential.
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