Electrical control of inter-dot electron tunneling in a quantum dot   molecule
  We employ ultrafast pump-probe spectroscopy to directly monitor electron tunneling between discrete orbital states in a pair of spatially separated quantum dots. Immediately after excitation, several peaks are observed in the pump-probe spectrum due to Coulomb interactions between the photo-generated charge carriers. By tuning the relative energy of the orbital states in the two dots and monitoring the temporal evolution of the pump-probe spectra the electron and hole tunneling times are separately measured and resonant tunneling between the two dots is shown to be mediated both by elastic and inelastic processes. Ultrafast (< 5 ps) inter-dot tunneling is shown to occur over a surprisingly wide bandwidth, up to ~8 meV, reflecting the spectrum of exciton-acoustic phonon coupling in the system. 
K. M\"uller, A. Bechtold, C. Ruppert, M. Zecherle, G. Reithmaier, M.   Bichler, H.J. Krenner, G. Abstreiter, A. W. Holleitne...
cond-mat.mes-hall