Coherent level mixing in dot energy spectra measured by magnetoresonant tunneling spectroscopy of vertical quantum dot molecules

Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics

Volumn 81, Issue 24, 2010, Pages

  Payette, C ^a,b   Amaha, S ^c   Yu, G ^a   Gupta, J A ^a   Austing, D G ^a,b   Nair, S V ^d   Partoens, B ^e   Tarucha, S ^c,f  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

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EID: 77956298083     PISSN: 10980121     EISSN: 1550235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.81.245310     Document Type: Article

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