Photoemission From A Two Electron Quantum Dot

Abstract

We consider photoemission from a two-electron quantum dot and find analytic expression for the cross-section. We show that the emission cross-section from the ground state as a function of magnetic field has sharp discontinuities corresponding to the singlet-triplet transitions for low magnetic fields and the transitions between magic numbers (2J+1) for high magnetic field. We also find the corrections to the photoemission cross-section from a more realistic quantum dot having a finite thickness due to nonvanishing extent of electron wave function in the direction perpendicular to the plane in which 2-D dot electrons are usually confined.