Magnetoconductance switching in an array of oval quantum dots

Details Magnetoconductance switching in an array of oval quantum dots Magnetoconductance switching in an array of oval quantum dots

2009-04-24

arxiv.org/abs/0904.3924v1

Phys. Rev. B 80, 035301 (2009)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

11 pages, 8 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.80.035301

Employing oval shaped quantum billiards connected by quantum wires as the building blocks of a linear quantum dot array, we calculate the ballistic magnetoconductance in the linear response regime. Optimizing the geometry of the billiards, we aim at a maximal finite- over zero-field ratio of the magnetoconductance. This switching effect arises from a relative phase change of scattering states in the oval quantum dot through the applied magnetic field, which lifts a suppression of the transmission characteristic for a certain range of geometry parameters. It is shown that a sustainable switching ratio is reached for a very low field strength, which is multiplied by connecting only a second dot to the single one. The impact of disorder is addressed in the form of remote impurity scattering, which poses a temperature dependent lower bound for the switching ratio, showing that this effect should be readily observable in experiments.

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