Spin-Blockade in Single and Double Quantum Dots in Magnetic Fields: a Correlation Effect

Abstract

The total spin of correlated electrons in a quantum dot changes with magnetic field and this effect is generally linked to the change in the total angular momentum from one magic number to another, which can be understood in terms of an `electron molecule' picture for strong fields. Here we propose to exploit this fact to realize a spin blockade, i.e., electrons are prohibited to tunnel at specific values of the magnetic field. The spin-blockade regions have been obtained by calculating both the ground and excited states. In double dots the spin-blockade condition is found to be less stringent than in single dots.

4pages, to be published in Phys. Rev. B (Rapid Communication)

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