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Direct Measurement of the Spin-Orbit Interaction in a Two-Electron InAs Nanowire Quantum Dot

Fasth, Carina LU ; Fuhrer, Andreas LU ; Samuelson, Lars LU ; Golovach, Vitaly and Loss, Daniel (2007) In Physical Review Letters 98. p.1-266801
Abstract
We demonstrate control of the electron number down to the last electron in tunable few-electron quantum dots defined in catalytically grown InAs nanowires. Using low temperature transport spectroscopy in the Coulomb blockade regime, we propose a method to directly determine the magnitude of the spin-orbit interaction in a two-electron artificial atom with strong spin-orbit coupling. Because of a large effective g factor |g*|=8±1, the transition from a singlet S to a triplet T+ ground state with increasing magnetic field is dominated by the Zeeman energy rather than by orbital effects. We find that the spin-orbit coupling mixes the T+ and S states and thus induces an avoided crossing with magnitude ΔSO=0.25±0.05  meV. This allows us to... (More)
We demonstrate control of the electron number down to the last electron in tunable few-electron quantum dots defined in catalytically grown InAs nanowires. Using low temperature transport spectroscopy in the Coulomb blockade regime, we propose a method to directly determine the magnitude of the spin-orbit interaction in a two-electron artificial atom with strong spin-orbit coupling. Because of a large effective g factor |g*|=8±1, the transition from a singlet S to a triplet T+ ground state with increasing magnetic field is dominated by the Zeeman energy rather than by orbital effects. We find that the spin-orbit coupling mixes the T+ and S states and thus induces an avoided crossing with magnitude ΔSO=0.25±0.05  meV. This allows us to calculate the spin-orbit length λSO≈127  nm in such systems using a simple model. (Less)
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  abstract     = {{We demonstrate control of the electron number down to the last electron in tunable few-electron quantum dots defined in catalytically grown InAs nanowires. Using low temperature transport spectroscopy in the Coulomb blockade regime, we propose a method to directly determine the magnitude of the spin-orbit interaction in a two-electron artificial atom with strong spin-orbit coupling. Because of a large effective g factor |g*|=8±1, the transition from a singlet S to a triplet T+ ground state with increasing magnetic field is dominated by the Zeeman energy rather than by orbital effects. We find that the spin-orbit coupling mixes the T+ and S states and thus induces an avoided crossing with magnitude ΔSO=0.25±0.05  meV. This allows us to calculate the spin-orbit length λSO≈127  nm in such systems using a simple model.}},
  author       = {{Fasth, Carina and Fuhrer, Andreas and Samuelson, Lars and Golovach, Vitaly and Loss, Daniel}},
  issn         = {{1079-7114}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  pages        = {{1--266801}},
  publisher    = {{American Physical Society}},
  series       = {{Physical Review Letters}},
  title        = {{Direct Measurement of the Spin-Orbit Interaction in a Two-Electron InAs Nanowire Quantum Dot}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.266801}},
  doi          = {{10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.266801}},
  volume       = {{98}},
  year         = {{2007}},
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