Mesoscopic phase behavior in a quantum dot around crossover between single-level and multilevel transport regimes

Abstract

The transmission phase across a quantum dot (QD) is expected to show mesoscopic behavior, where the appearance of a phase lapse between Coulomb peaks (CPs) as a function of the gate voltage depends on the orbital parity relation between the corresponding CPs. On the other hand, such mesoscopic behavior has been observed only in a limited QD configuration (a few-electron and single-level transport regime) and universal phase lapses by $\pi$ between consecutive CPs have been reported for all the other configurations. Here, we report on the measurement of a transmission phase across a QD around the crossover between single-level and multilevel transport regimes employing an original two-path quantum interferometer. We find mesoscopic behavior for the studied QD. Our results show that the universal phase lapse, a longstanding puzzle of the phase shift, is absent for a standard QD, where several tens of successive well-separated CPs are observed.

5 pages, 4 figures

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