17 research outputs found
Tunable Charge Detectors for Semiconductor Quantum Circuits
Nanostructures defined in high-mobility two-dimensional electron systems
offer a unique way of controlling the microscopic details of the investigated
device. Quantum point contacts play a key role in these investigations, since
they are not only a research topic themselves, but turn out to serve as
convenient and powerful detectors for their electrostatic environment. We
investigate how the sensitivity of charge detectors can be further improved by
reducing screening, increasing the capacitive coupling between charge and
detector and by tuning the quantum point contacts' confinement potential into
the shape of a localized state. We demonstrate the benefits of utilizing a
localized state by performing fast and well-resolved charge detection of a
large quantum dot in the quantum Hall regime
Equilibrium free energy measurement of a confined electron driven out of equilibrium
We study out-of equilibrium properties of a quantum dot in a GaAs/AlGaAs
two-dimensional electron gas. By means of single electron counting experiments,
we measure the distribution of work and dissipated heat of the driven quantum
dot and relate these quantities to the equilibrium free energy change, as it
has been proposed by C. Jarzynski [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf78}, 2690 (1997)]. We
discuss the influence of the degeneracy of the quantized energy state on the
free energy change as well as its relation to the tunnel rates between the dot
and the reservoir.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figure
Imaging signatures of the local density of states in an electronic cavity
We use Scanning Gate Microscopy to study electron transport through an open,
gate-defined resonator in a Ga(Al)As heterostructure. Raster-scanning the
voltage-biased metallic tip above the resonator, we observe distinct
conductance modulations as a function of the tip-position and voltage. Quantum
mechanical simulations reproduce these conductance modulations and reveal their
relation to the partial local density of states in the resonator. Our
measurements illustrate the current frontier between possibilities and
limitations in imaging the local density of states in buried electron systems
using scanning gate microscopy
High-resolution spectroscopy and quantum-defect model for the gerade triplet np and nf Rydberg states of He2
ISSN:0021-9606ISSN:1089-769