{
  "id": "0908.3591",
  "version": "v3",
  "published": "2009-08-25T13:33:42.000Z",
  "updated": "2011-01-19T16:52:10.000Z",
  "title": "Population switching and charge sensing in quantum dots: A case for a quantum phase transition",
  "authors": [
    "Moshe Goldstein",
    "Richard Berkovits",
    "Yuval Gefen"
  ],
  "comment": "4.2 pages, 4 figures; v3: published version",
  "journal": "Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 226805 (2010)",
  "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.226805",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.mes-hall",
    "cond-mat.str-el"
  ],
  "abstract": "A broad and a narrow level of a quantum dot connected to two external leads may swap their respective occupancies as a function of an external gate voltage. By mapping this problem onto a multi-flavored Coulomb-gas we show that such population switching is not abrupt. However, trying to measure it by adding a third electrostatically coupled lead may render this switching an abrupt first order quantum phase transition. This is related to the interplay of the Mahan mechanism versus the Anderson orthogonality catastrophe, in similitude to the Fermi edge singularity. A concrete setup for experimental observation of this effect is also suggested.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v3",
      "updated": "2011-01-19T16:52:10.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "subjects": [
      "73.21.La",
      "72.10.Fk",
      "71.27.+a"
    ],
    "keywords": [
      "quantum dot",
      "population switching",
      "charge sensing",
      "first order quantum phase transition",
      "abrupt first order quantum phase"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "APS",
      "journal": "Physical Review Letters",
      "year": 2010,
      "month": "Jun",
      "volume": 104,
      "number": 22,
      "pages": 226805
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 2,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2010PhRvL.104v6805G"
    }
  }
}