Spin-dependent current through a quantum dot from spin-polarized non-equilibrium quantum Hall edge channels

TL;DR

This study demonstrates selective injection of spin-up and spin-down electrons into a quantum dot from spin-polarized quantum Hall edge channels, improving spin filtering efficiency through numerical correction and magnetic field manipulation.

Contribution

It introduces a method to enhance spin filtering efficiency in quantum dots using non-equilibrium quantum Hall edge channels and numerical correction techniques.

Findings

Spin-up injection efficiency reaches 0.5, higher than previous methods.

Spin-down injection efficiency reaches 0.4.

Spin-filtering efficiency increases with magnetic field.

Abstract

We report selective injection of both spin-up and spin-down single electrons into a quantum dot (QD) from spin-polarized non-equilibrium quantum Hall edge channels (ECs) generated by selective transmission of spin-resolved ECs using a surface gate placed at a distance from the QD. We change the spin polarization of non-equilibrium ECs by changing the bias voltages applied to different source Ohmic contacts. The efficiency of spin-up electron injection reaches 0.5, which is approximately 0.2 higher than that induced by spin-dependent tunnel coupling between QD and ECs. On the other hand, the efficiency of spin-down electron injection reaches 0.4. In addition, we rectify the underestimation of the efficiency of spin filtering for equilibrium ECs by numerically subtracting the contribution of the excited states in the QD. The obtained spin-filtering efficiency is higher than that evaluated from the raw experimental data and increases with magnetic field as expected with the increase in the spatial separation between ECs.