Physics – Condensed Matter – Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Scientific paper
2010-05-16
Phys. Rev. B 82, 155424 (2010)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
15 pages, 6 figures, 2 tables; v2: published version
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.82.155424
We present a theoretical study of the Pauli or spin-valley blockade for double quantum dots in semiconducting carbon nanotubes. In our model we take into account the following characteristic features of carbon nanotubes: (i) fourfold (spin and valley) degeneracy of the quantum dot levels, (ii) the intrinsic spin-orbit interaction which is enhanced by the tube curvature, and (iii) valley-mixing due to short-range disorder, i.e., substitutional atoms, adatoms, etc. We find that the spin-valley blockade can be lifted in the presence of short-range disorder, which induces two independent random (in magnitude and direction) valley-Zeeman-fields in the two dots, and hence acts similarly to hyperfine interaction in conventional semiconductor quantum dots. In the case of strong spin-orbit interaction, we identify a parameter regime where the current as the function of an applied axial magnetic field shows a zero-field dip with a width controlled by the interdot tunneling amplitude, in agreement with recent experiments.
Burkard Guido
Pályi András
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