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Title
Scheme for coherently quenching resonant current in a three-level quantum dot energy level mixer
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Abstract
We outline a scheme to create a dark state by three-level mixing that is potentially a useful tool for quantum coherent transport. Magnetic-field-induced intra-dot level mixing can lead to rich quantum superposition phenomena between three approaching single-particle states in a quantum dot when probed by the ground state of an adjacent weakly coupled quantum dot in the single-electron resonant tunnelling regime. The mixing relies on non-negligible anharmonicity and anisotropy in confining potentials of realistic quantum dots. Anti-crossing and transfer of strengths between resonances can be understood with a simple coherent level mixing model. Superposition can lead to the formation of a dark state by complete cancellation of an otherwise strong resonance. This is an all-electrical analogue of coherent population trapping seen in three-level-systems from quantum and atom optics.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Physica status solidi: C: conferences and critical reviews. - Berlin
Publication
Berlin : 2009
ISSN
1610-1634 [print]
1610-1642 [online]
DOI
10.1002/PSSC.200880584
Volume/pages
6 :4 (2009) , p. 940-943
ISI
000266597600040
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