Cotunneling spectroscopy in few-electron quantum dots

Phys Rev Lett. 2004 Dec 17;93(25):256801. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.256801. Epub 2004 Dec 13.

Abstract

Few-electron quantum dots are investigated in the regime of strong tunneling to the leads. Inelastic cotunneling is used to measure the two-electron singlet-triplet splitting above and below a magnetic field driven singlet-triplet transition. Evidence for a nonequilibrium two-electron singlet-triplet Kondo effect is presented. Cotunneling allows orbital correlations and parameters characterizing entanglement of the two-electron singlet ground state to be extracted from dc transport.