Spin-Valley Resolved Photon-Assisted Tunneling In Carbon Nanotube Double Quantum Dots

We consider photon-assisted tunneling (PAT) and the Landau-Zener-Stueckelberg (LZS) interference for double quantum dots induced electrostatically along a semiconducting carbon nanotube. An atomistic tightbinding approach and the time-dependent configuration-interaction method are employed to describe systems of a few confined electrons and holes. We reproduce the patterns of the LZS interference recently observed for quantum double dots describing transport across hole-localized states. Moreover, we indicate that for charge configurations for which the ground state is Pauli-blocked, PAT can be used for resolution of the transitions that involve spin-flip or intervalley transitions without the spin-valley conserving background signal.