Correlation effects in wave function mapping of molecular beam epitaxy grown quantum dots

Nano Lett. 2007 Sep;7(9):2701-6. doi: 10.1021/nl071133m. Epub 2007 Jul 31.

Abstract

We investigate correlation effects in the regime of a few electrons in uncapped InAs quantum dots by tunneling spectroscopy and wave function (WF) mapping at high tunneling currents where electron-electron interactions become relevant. Four clearly resolved states are found, whose approximate symmetries are roughly s and p, in order of increasing energy. Because the major axes of the p-like states coincide, the WF sequence is inconsistent with the imaging of independent-electron orbitals. The results are explained in terms of many-body tunneling theory, by comparing measured maps with those calculated by taking correlation effects into account.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Computer Simulation
  • Crystallization / methods*
  • Electric Conductivity
  • Electron Transport
  • Materials Testing
  • Models, Theoretical*
  • Molecular Conformation
  • Nanotechnology / methods
  • Particle Size
  • Quantum Dots*
  • Statistics as Topic