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Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 3912–3915 (1999)

Interacting Two-Electron Model of a Coherent Quantum-Dot Single-Electron Turnstile

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P. I. Tamborenea and H. Metiu
Center for Quantized Electronic Structures (QUEST) and Department of Chemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106-9510

Received 8 March 1999; published in the issue dated 8 November 1999

We show how coherent single-electron turnstile action in a picosecond time scale can be achieved with high probability in a triple-well semiconductor structure by means of an applied time-dependent, long-wavelength electric field. We demonstrate the turnstile behavior by studying the exact temporal evolution of two electrons, including their Coulomb interaction, and considering both triplet and singlet states.

© 1999 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.3912
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.3912
PACS:
73.23.Hk, 73.61.-r, 78.47.+p, 78.66.-w