人工和原子的允许和禁止过渡
Toshimasa Fujisawa1, David Guy Austing, Yasuhiro Tokura
1NTT Basic Research Laboratories, NTT Corporation, 3-1 Morinosato-Wakamiya, Atsugi, 243-0198, Japan. fujisawa@will.brl.ntt.co.jp
Nature
|September 20, 2002
概括
旋转翻转使量子点中的禁止过渡成为可能,揭示了长时间的放松时间. 这表明量子点对于基于自旋的量子信息存储具有前景.
科学领域:
- 量子物理学的量子物理学
- 凝聚物质物理学 凝聚物质物理学
- 纳米技术 纳米技术
背景情况:
- 原子选择规则是基于电子轨道占据的辐射过渡的规则.
- 半导体量子点表现出类似于原子的电子占用,但具有异构电位和声子合.
- 了解量子点中的过渡对于它们在量子技术中的应用至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 为了调查允许和"禁止"的能量水平转换在声子发射下的量子点.
- 探讨旋转翻转在实现更高阶转换中的作用.
- 为了确定不同过渡类型的放松时间,并评估旋转轨道分离.
主要方法:
- 电气和探头实验是在一个或两个电子的量子点上进行的.
- 在声子发射条件下,分析了允许和禁止的过渡.
- 测量了允许和禁止过渡的放松时间.
主要成果:
- 观察到"禁止"的转换,并发现由更高阶的旋转转过程允许.
- 禁止过渡的放松时间大约为200微秒,比允许过渡要长 (4-5个数量级).
- 结果表明,自旋和轨道自由度之间存在很大的分离.
结论:
- 量子点中的总旋转作为一个优秀的量子数.
- 量子点中观察到的旋转轨道分离对于它们在基于旋转的量子信息存储中的使用非常令人鼓舞.
- 量子点显示了未来量子计算应用的基本单位的潜力.
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