Characterization of quasiparticle tunneling in a quantum dot from temperature dependent transport in the integer and fractional quantum Hall regime

TL;DR

This study investigates how quasiparticle tunneling in a quantum dot varies with temperature and magnetic field, revealing complex edge structures and charge dynamics in the quantum Hall regime through conductance measurements.

Contribution

It provides detailed experimental insights into temperature-dependent transport and edge reconstruction effects in quantum dots within the quantum Hall regime, extending previous understanding.

Findings

Edge reconstruction leads to multiple concentric compressible regions.

Quasiparticle tunneling causes magnetic-field periodic modulations of conductance.

Temperature dependence of conductance resonances varies with magnetic field and filling factor.

Abstract

We report on magnetoconductance measurements through a weakly coupled quantum dot, containing roughly 900 electrons, in a wide magnetic field range from 0 T to 12 T. We find modulations of the conductance resonances in the quantum Hall regime for higher integer filling factors $6> \nu_\mathrm{dot} > 2$, in addition to modulations at $2> \nu_\mathrm{dot} > 1$ and at fractional filling factors $\nu_\mathrm{dot} \gtrsim 2/3$, $1/3$. Depending on the internal filling factor, edge reconstruction inside the quantum dot leads to the formation of multiple concentric compressible regions, which contain discrete charge and are separated by incompressible rings. Quasiparticle tunneling between different compressible regions results in magnetic-field-(pseudo)-periodic modulations of the Coulomb resonances with different periodicities, additional super-periodicity or non-periodic features. The evolution of the period in magnetic field indicates cyclic depopulation of the inner compressible regions close to integer filing factors. We study the temperature dependence of the conductance resonances for different magnetic fields. While at low fields, the resonance amplitude decays inversely with temperature, corresponding to single-level transport, the temperature dependence of the amplitude evolves continuously into a linearly increasing behavior for dot filling factor $2> \nu_\mathrm{dot} > 1$. This coincides with a reduction of the charging energy by approximately a factor of 2 in the same regime. At zero magnetic field, the temperature dependence differs for individual resonances, and is found to depend on the closeness to quantum dot states that couple strongly to the leads. The presented experiments complement and extend previous results on internal rearrangements of quasiparticles for weakly coupled quantum dots in magnetic field.