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Physical Review Letters

Nondestructive Real-Time Measurement of Charge and Spin Dynamics of Photoelectrons in a Double Quantum Dot

T. Fujita, Haruki Kiyama, Kazuhiro Morimoto, S. Teraoka, Giles Allison, Arne Ludwig, Andreas Dirk Wieck, A. Oiwa, Seigo Tarucha

Published Jun 25, 2013• 36 citations
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Abstract

We demonstrate one and two photoelectron trapping and the subsequent dynamics associated with interdot transfer in double quantum dots over a time scale much shorter than the typical spin lifetime. Identification of photoelectron trapping is achieved via resonant interdot tunneling of the photoelectrons in the excited states. The interdot transfer enables detection of single photoelectrons in a nondestructive manner. When two photoelectrons are trapped at almost the same time we observed that the interdot resonant tunneling is strongly affected by the Coulomb interaction between the electrons. Finally the influence of the two-electron singlet-triplet state hybridization has been detected using the interdot tunneling of a photoelectron.

DOI
10.1103/physrevlett.110.266803

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