Two- and three-electron pauli spin blockade in series-coupled triple quantum dots

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Amaha, S ^a,b   Izumida, W ^c   Hatano, T ^b   Teraoka, S ^b,d   Tarucha, S ^a,b,d   Gupta, J A ^e   Austing, D G ^e  

^a RIKEN   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEQUENTIAL TUNNELING; SPIN BLOCKADE; TRIPLE QUANTUM; TRIPLET STATE;

ELECTRONS; MAGNETIC MOMENTS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SPIN DYNAMICS;

ELECTROSPINNING;

EID: 84871744573     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.016803     Document Type: Article

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