Spin textures in few electron quantum dots

Abstract In this paper, we comment on the detection of spin textures by Coulomb and spin blockade in few electron lateral dots. These correlated states occur as brief spin depolarization interludes during the spin polarization of a quantum dot with a magnetic field. These states are found to possess unusual characteristics in both current stripes and Coulomb diamonds. The same features are found both in the complicated regime of the last spin flip and for the simple case of the second spin flip.