Magnetically induced reconstruction of the ground state in a few-electron Si quantum dot
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Silicon Metal-oxide-semiconductor Quantum Dots for Single-electron Pumping
Published on: June 3, 2015
L P Rokhinson1, L J Guo, S Y Chou
1Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA.
Abstract:
We report unexpected fluctuations in the positions of Coulomb blockade peaks at high magnetic fields in a small Si quantum dot. The fluctuations have a distinctive sawtooth pattern: as a function of magnetic field, linear shifts of peak positions are compensated by abrupt jumps in the opposite direction. The linear shifts have large slopes, suggesting formation of the ground state with a nonzero angular momentum. The value of the momentum is found to be well defined, despite the absence of the rotational symmetry in the dot.
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