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Singlet-Triplet Transition in Quantum Dots Confined by Triangular and Bowl-Like Potentials: the Effect of Electric Fields |
| SUN Lian-Liang;LI Shu-Shen |
| State Key Laboratory for Superlattices and Microstructures, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, PO Box 912, Beijing 100083 |
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SUN Lian-Liang, LI Shu-Shen 2005 Chin. Phys. Lett. 22 2371-2374 |
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Abstract We theoretically investigate the energy spectra of two-electron two-dimensional (2e 2D) quantum dots (QDs) confined by triangular potentials and bowl-like potentials in a magnetic field by exact diagonalization in the framework of effective mass theory. An in-plane electric field is found to contribute to the singlet--triplet transition of the ground state of the 2e 2D QDs confined by triangular or bowl-like potentials in a perpendicular magnetic field. The stronger the in-plane electric field, the smaller the magnetic field for the total spin of the ground states in the dot systems to change from S=0 to S=1. However, the influence of an in-plane electric field on the singlet--triplet transition of the ground state of two electrons in a triangular QD modulated by a perpendicular magnetic field is quite small because the triangular potential just deviates from the harmonic potential well slightly. We find that the strength of the perpendicular magnetic field needed for the spin singlet--triplet transition of the ground state of the QD confined by a bowl-like potential is reduced drastically by applying an in-plane electric field.
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73.21.La
73.22.-f
78.67.Hc
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Published: 01 September 2005
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73.21.La
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(Quantum dots)
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73.22.-f
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(Electronic structure of nanoscale materials and related systems)
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78.67.Hc
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(Quantum dots)
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