Localization of two interacting electrons in quantum dot arrays driven by an ac field

dc.contributor.authorCreffield, Charles
dc.contributor.authorPlatero, G.
dc.date.accessioned2023-06-20T11:00:26Z
dc.date.available2023-06-20T11:00:26Z
dc.date.issued2004-04
dc.description©2004 The American Physical Society. C.E.C. acknowledges support from the physics department of the Università di Roma ‘‘La Sapienza.’’ G.P. was supported by the Spanish DGES Grant No. MAT2002-22465 and by the EU Human Potential Program under Contract No. HPRN-CT-2000-00144.
dc.description.abstractWe investigate the dynamics of two interacting electrons moving in a one-dimensional array of quantum dots under the influence of an ac field. We show that the system exhibits two distinct regimes of behavior, depending on the ratio of the strength of the driving field to the interelectron Coulomb repulsion. When the ac-field dominates, an effect termed coherent estruction of tunneling occurs at certain frequencies, in which transport along the array is suppressed. In the other, weak-driving, regime we find the surprising result that the two electrons can bind into a single composite particle—despite the strong Coulomb repulsion between them— which can then be controlled by the ac field in an analogous way. We show how calculation of the Floquet quasienergies of the system explains these results, and thus how ac fields can be used to control the localization of interacting electron systems.
dc.description.departmentDepto. de Física de Materiales
dc.description.facultyFac. de Ciencias Físicas
dc.description.refereedTRUE
dc.description.sponsorshipDGES
dc.description.sponsorshipEU Human Potential Program
dc.description.sponsorshipUniversità di Roma ‘‘La Sapienza. Physics department
dc.description.statuspub
dc.eprint.idhttps://eprints.ucm.es/id/eprint/33584
dc.identifier.doi10.1103/PhysRevB.69.165312
dc.identifier.issn1098-0121
dc.identifier.officialurlhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.69.165312
dc.identifier.relatedurlhttp://journals.aps.org
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/51587
dc.issue.number16
dc.journal.titlePhysical review B
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherAmerican Physical Society
dc.relation.projectIDMAT2002-22465
dc.relation.projectIDHPRN-CT-2000-00144.
dc.rights.accessRightsopen access
dc.subject.cdu538.9
dc.subject.keywordDynamics
dc.subject.ucmFísica de materiales
dc.subject.ucmFísica del estado sólido
dc.subject.unesco2211 Física del Estado Sólido
dc.titleLocalization of two interacting electrons in quantum dot arrays driven by an ac field
dc.typejournal article
dc.volume.number69
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