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arXiv:1209.1959 · Journal of Physics B Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics

Impurity effects in two-electron coupled quantum dots: entanglement modulation

Diego S Acosta Coden, Rodolfo H Romero, Alejandro Ferrón, Sergio S Gomez

Published Mar 7, 2013• 22 citations
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Abstract

We present a detailed analysis of the electronic and optical properties of two-electron quantum dots with a two-dimensional Gaussian confinement potential. We study the effects of Coulomb impurities and the possibility of manipulating the entanglement of the electrons by controlling the confinement potential parameters. The degree of entanglement becomes highly modulated by both the location and charge screening of the impurity atom, resulting in two regimes: one of low entanglement and the other of high entanglement, with both of them mainly determined by the magnitude of the charge. It is shown that the magnitude of the oscillator strength of the system could provide an indication of the presence and characteristics of impurities and, therefore, the degree of entanglement.

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10.1088/0953-4075/46/6/065501

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We present a detailed analysis of the electronic and optical properties of two-electron quantum dots with a two-dimensional Gaussian confinement potential. We study the effects of Coulomb impurities and the possibility of manipulating the entanglement of the electrons by controlling the confinement potential parameters. The degree of entanglement becomes highly modulated by both the location and charge screening of the impurity atom, resulting in two regimes: one of low entanglement and the other of high entanglement, with both of them mainly determined by the magnitude of the charge. It is shown that the magnitude of the oscillator strength of the system could provide an indication of the presence and characteristics of impurities and, therefore, the degree of entanglement.
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The properties of an electron pair confined in a coupled quantum dot (QD) system are currently being intensively investigated both experimentally and theoretically. Indeed the manipulation of the two-electron spin states is paramount for the realization of controllable entanglement so as to produce the fundamental quantum gate operations in a solid state quantum computer. The works usually concentrate on the properties of a two-electron system without going into detailed analysis of the contributions from various single-particle states or the effects produced by the constituent single QDs. Zeeman splitting is neglected as it affects only the magnitude of the exchange energy but not the single-particle state mixing. In summary, after numerically diagonalizing the two-electron Schrodinger equation in the model confinement potential of both single and laterally coupled double quantum dots, we computed the contributions from the various single-particle states to the final two-particle wave function.
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