Disentangling the effects

 of spin-orbit and hyperfine interactions on spin blockade is another long title. This is an experimental work where Jeroen Danon and me have been involved. It analyses spin blockade in double quantum dots made in a semiconducting nanowire. This is the first submission of Stevan Nadj-Perge. For quite a time, he entertained us with colorful pictures showing current throught the dots versus magnetic field and detuning. He has seen distinct and unusual patterns in these pictures that he named "aircraft", "Mickey Mouse", "deep peak", etc.  We have finally sorted out the interplay of competing factors producing the patterns, that is, "disentagled" these factors.

I am not very happy with the title since that may sound as a challenge to quantum information community: they want to entangle things rather than disentangle them. Yet the only alternative was "Measurements…" and that sounded dull.

The paper is available on cond-mat, http://arxiv.org/abs/1002.2120

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