Correlated electrons in optically-tunable quantum dots: Building an electron dimer molecule

Abstract

We observe the low-lying excitations of a molecular dimer formed by two electrons in a GaAs semiconductor quantum dot in which the number of confined electrons is tuned by optical illumination. By employing inelastic light scattering we identify the inter-shell excitations in the one-electron regime and the distinct spin and charge modes in the interacting few-body configuration. In the case of two electrons a comparison with configuration-interaction calculations allows us to link the observed excitations with the breathing mode of the molecular dimer and to determine the singlet-triplet energy splitting.

RevTeX 4.0, 6 pages, 6 color PDF figures. Revised version including Supplementary Discussion of Wigner localisation (2 new figures + new version of Fig. 2). To appear in Physical Review Letters

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