Physics – Condensed Matter – Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Scientific paper
2007-12-11
Physics
Condensed Matter
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
16 pages, including 11 figures
Scientific paper
Exchange interaction has been studied for electrons in coupled quantum dots (QD's) by a configuration interaction method using confinement potentials with different profiles. The confinement potential has been parametrized by a two-centre power-exponential function, which allows us to investigate various types of QD's described by either soft or hard potentials of different range. For the soft (Gaussian) confinement potential the exchange energy decreases with increasing interdot distance due to the decreasing interdot tunnelling. For the hard (rectangular-like) confinement potential we have found a non-monotonic behaviour of the exchange interaction as a function of distance between the confinement potential centres. In this case, the exchange interaction energy exhibits a pronounced maximum for the confinement potential profile which corresponds to the nanostructure composed of the small inner QD with a deep potential well embedded in the large outer QD with a shallow potential well. This effect results from the strong localization of electrons in the inner QD, which leads to the large singlet-triplet splitting. Implications of this finding for quantum logic operations have been discussed.
Adamowski Janusz
Kwasniowski Artur
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