Paramagnetic-diamagnetic interplay in quantum dots for non-zero temperatures

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2000-11-28

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0011465v3

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

LaTeX, 28 pages; including three .eps-figures; final version accepted by J. Phys. CM, with minimal changes w.r.to v2

Scientific paper

10.1088/0953-8984/13/19/313

In the usual Fock-and Darwin-formalism with parabolic potential characterized by the confining energy $\eps_o := \hbar\omega_o= 3.37$ meV, but including explicitly also the Zeeman coupling between spin and magnetic field, we study the combined orbital and spin magnetic properties of quantum dots in a two-dimensional electron gas with parameters for GaAs, for N =1 and N >> 1 electrons on the dot. For N=1 the magnetization M(T,B) consists of a paramagnetic spin contribution and a diamagnetic orbital contribution, which dominate in a non-trivial way at low temperature and fields rsp. high temperature and fields. For N >> 1, where orbital and spin effects are intrinsically coupled in a subtle way and cannot be separated, we find in a simplified Hartree approximation that at N=m^2, i.e. at a half-filled last shell, M(T,B,N) is parallel (antiparallel) to the magnetic field, if temperatures and fields are low enough (high enough), whereas for N\ne m^2 the magnetization oscillates with B and N as a T-dependent periodic function of the variable x:=\sqrt{N}eB/(2m^*c\omega_o), with T-independent period \Delta x =1 (where m^* := 0.067 m_o is the small effective mass of GaAs, while m_o is the electron mass). Correspondingly, by an adiabatic demagnetization process, which should only be fast enough with respect to the slow transient time of the magnetic properties of the dot, the temperature of the dot diminishes rsp. increases with decreasing magnetic field, and in some cases we obtain quite pronounced effects.

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