Electron-correlation driven capture and release in double quantum dots

ANNIKA BANDE; LORENZ S. CEDERBAUM; FEDERICO M. PONT

Bariloche

Congreso; Driven Quantum Systems 2016; 2016

Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics

We recently predicted that the interatomic Coulombic electron capture (ICEC) process, a long-range electron correlation driven capture process, is achievable in gated double quantum dots (DQDs). In ICEC an incoming electron is captured by one quantum dot (QD) and the excess energy is used to remove an electron from the neighboring QD. In this work wepresent systematic full three-dimensional electron dynamics calculations in quasi-one dimensional model potentials that allow for a detailed understanding of the connection between the DQD geometry and thereaction probability for the ICEC process. We derive an effective one-dimensional approach and show that its results compare very well with those obtained using the full three-dimensional calculations. This approach substantially reduces the computation times. The investigation of the electronic structure for various DQD geometries for which the ICEC process can take place clarify the origin of its remarkably high probability in the presence of two-electron resonances.