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Electronic phase diagrams of carriers in self-assembled InAs/GaAs quantum dots: violation of Hund's rule and the Aufbau principle for holes

Lixin He, Gabriel Bester, Alex Zunger

cond-mat.mtrl-sciarXiv:cond-mat/0505330

Abstract

We study the orbital and spin configurations of up to six electrons or holes charged into self-assembled InAs/GaAs quantum dots via single-particle pseudopotential and many-particle configuration interaction method. We find that while the charging of electrons follows both Hund's rule and the Aufbau principle, the charging of holes follows a non-trivial charging pattern which violates both the Aufbau principle and Hund's rule, and is robust against the details of the quantum dot size. The predicted hole charging sequence offers a new interpretation of recent charging experiments.

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