Abstract
We present experimental and theoretical results on a new regime in quantum dots in which the filling factor two-singlet state is replaced by new spin polarized phases. We make use of spin blockade spectroscopy to identify the transition to this new regime as a function of the number of electrons. The key experimental observation is a reversal of the phase in the systematic oscillation of the amplitude of Coulomb blockade peaks as the number of electrons is increased above a critical number. It is found theoretically that correlations are crucial to the existence of the new phases.
- Received 21 September 2001
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.256804
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