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Time-resolved detection of individual electrons in a quantum dot

2004; American Institute of Physics; Volume: 85; Issue: 11 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1063/1.1784875

ISSN

1520-8842

Autores

R. Schleser, E. Ruh, Thomas Ihn, K. Ensslin, D. C. Driscoll, A. C. Gossard,

Tópico(s)

Surface and Thin Film Phenomena

Resumo

We present measurements on a quantum dot and a nearby, capacitively coupled, quantum point contact used as a charge detector. With the dot being weakly coupled to only a single reservoir, the transfer of individual electrons onto and off the dot can be observed in real time in the current signal from the quantum point contact. From these time-dependent traces, the quantum mechanical coupling between dot and reservoir can be extracted quantitatively. A similar analysis allows the determination of the occupation probability of the dot states.

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