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arXiv:1110.4148 · Japanese Journal of Applied Physics

Detection of a Charged Two-Level System by Using the Kondo and the Fano–Kondo Effects in Quantum Dots

Tetsufumi Tanamoto, Yu-xi Liu, Xuedong Hu, Franco Nori

Published Feb 20, 2013• 0 citations
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Abstract

The Kondo effect and the Fano–Kondo effect are important phenomena that have been observed in quantum dots (QDs). We theoretically investigate the transport properties of a coupled QD system in order to study the possibility of detecting a qubit state from the modulation of the conductance peak in the Kondo effect and the dip in the Fano–Kondo effect. We show that the peak and dip of the conductance are both shifted depending on the qubit state. In particular, we find that we can estimate the optimal point and tunneling coupling between the |0> and |1> states of the qubit by measuring the shift of the positions of the conductance peak and dip, as functions of the applied gate voltage on the qubit and the distance between the qubit and the detector.

DOI
10.7567/jjap.52.04cj03

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The out-of-equilibrium transport properties of a double quantum dot system in the Kondo regime are studied theoretically by means of a two-impurity Anderson Hamiltonian with interimpurity hopping. The Hamiltonian is solved by means of a nonequilibrium generalization of the slave-boson mean-field theory. It is demonstrated that measurements of the differential conductance dI/dV, for appropriate values of voltages and tunneling couplings, can give a direct observation of the coherent superposition between the many-body Kondo states of each dot. For large voltages and arbitrarily large interdot tunneling, there is a critical voltage above which the physical behavior of the system again resembles that of two decoupled quantum dots.
Semiconductor double‐quantum dots represent an ideal system for studying the novel spin physics of localized spins. On each quantum dot when the number of electrons is odd and the net spin is 1/2, a strong coupling of this localized spin to conducting electrons in the leads gives rise to Kondo correlation. On the other hand, in the coupled double‐quantum‐dot if the inter‐dot antiferromagnetic interaction is strong, the two spins can form a correlated spin‐singlet state, quenching the Kondo effect. This competition between Kondo and antiferromagnetic correlation is studied in a controlled manner by tuning the inter‐dot tunnel coupling. Increasing the inter‐dot tunneling, we observe a continuous transition from a single‐peaked to a double‐peaked Kondo resonance in the differential conductance. On the double‐peaked side, the differential conductance becomes suppressed at zero source‐drain bias. The observed strong suppression of the differential conductance at zero bias provides direct evidence signaling the formation of an entangled spin‐singlet state. This evidence for entanglement and the tunability of our devices bode well for quantum computation applications.