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Bipolar spin filter in a quantum dot molecule

F. Mireles, E. Cota, F. Rojas, S. E. Ulloa

cond-mat.mes-hallarXiv:cond-mat/0602403

Abstract

We show that the tunable hybridization between two lateral quantum dots connected to non-magnetic current leads in a `hanging-dot' configuration that can be used to implement a bipolar spin filter. The competition between Zeeman, exchange interaction, and interdot tunneling (molecular hybridization) yields a singlet-triplet transition of the double dot ground state that allows spin filtering in Coulomb blockade experiments. Its generic nature should make it broadly useful as a robust bidirectional spin polarizer.

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