Energy spectra of quantum rings

Details Energy spectra of quantum rings Energy spectra of quantum rings

2001-09-06

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0109113v1

Nature 413, 822 (2001)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

10 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1038/35101552

Ring geometries have fascinated experimental and theoretical physicists over many years. Open rings connected to leads allow the observation of the Aharonov-Bohm effect, a paradigm of quantum mechanical phase coherence. The phase coherence of transport through a quantum dot embedded in one arm of an open ring has been demonstrated. The energy spectrum of closed rings has only recently been analysed by optical experiments and is the basis for the prediction of persistent currents and related experiments. Here we report magnetotransport experiments on a ring-shaped semiconductor quantum dot in the Coulomb blockade regime. The measurements allow us to extract the discrete energy levels of a realistic ring, which are found to agree well with theoretical expectations. Such an agreement, so far only found for few-electron quantum dots, is here extended to a many-electron system. In a semiclassical language our results indicate that electron motion is governed by regular rather than chaotic motion, an unexplored regime in many-electron quantum dots.

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