Single-electron tunnelling in two vertically coupled quantum dots

Journal of Physics Condensed Matter

Volumn 11, Issue 31, 1999, Pages 6023-6034

  Tokura, Y ^a   Austing, D G ^a   Tarucha, S ^b  

^a NTT Basic Research Laboratories   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON TUNNELING; GROUND STATE; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS;

EXACT-DIAGONALIZATION METHOD;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 0032595718     PISSN: 09538984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/11/31/310     Document Type: Article

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