Rabi oscillations and photocurrent in quantum-dot tunnelling junctions

Details Rabi oscillations and photocurrent in quantum-dot tunnelling junctions Rabi oscillations and photocurrent in quantum-dot tunnelling junctions

2008-08-12

arxiv.org/abs/0808.1759v2

Phys. Status Solidi A 206, No.5, pp.948-951 (2009)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

4 pages, two figures. Physica Status Solidi, in press

Scientific paper

10.1002/pssa.200881287

Motivated by the experiments by Zrenner et al. [Nature 418, 612 (2002)], we study the influence of relaxation processes on converting Rabi oscillations in a strongly biased single-quantum-dot photodiode into deterministic photocurrents. We show that the behavior of a quantum dot with different tunnel rates for electron and holes is qualitatively different from that with the equal tunnel rates: in the latter case the current shows attenuating oscillations with the Rabi frequency. In contrast, for different electrons and holes tunnelling rates, the frequency of these oscillations diminishes, and they disappear beyond a definite asymmetry threshold. We give an analytical solution of the problem and a numerical example showing a different behaviour of the transferred charge in the small attenuation limit for equal and different tunnel rates for electrons and holes.

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