title: Cotunneling spectroscopy in few-electron quantum dots.
abstract: Few-electron quantum dots are investigated in the regime of strong tunneling to the leads. Inelastic cotunneling is used to measure the two-electron singlet-triplet splitting above and below a magnetic field driven singlet-triplet transition. Evidence for a nonequilibrium two-electron singlet-triplet Kondo effect is presented. Cotunneling allows orbital correlations and parameters characterizing entanglement of the two-electron singlet ground state to be extracted from dc transport.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.
authors.forename: D M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Zumbühl
authors.forename: C M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Marcus
authors.forename: M P
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: Hanson
authors.forename: A C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Gossard