Spin bottleneck in resonant tunneling through double quantum dots with different Zeeman splittings

Phys Rev Lett. 2010 Apr 2;104(13):136801. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.136801. Epub 2010 Apr 1.

Abstract

We investigated the electron transport property of the InGaAs/GaAs double quantum dots, the electron g factors of which are different from each other. We found that in a magnetic field, the resonant tunneling is suppressed even if one of the Zeeman sublevels is aligned. This is because the other misaligned Zeeman sublevels limit the total current. A finite broadening of the misaligned sublevel partially relieves this bottleneck effect, and the maximum current is reached when interdot detuning is half the Zeeman energy difference.