Double quantum dots in suspended carbon nanotubes

Double Quantum Dots in Carbon Nanotubes

Quantum dots in suspended single-wall carbon nanotubes

We present a simple technique which uses a self-aligned oxide etch to suspend individual single-wall carbon nanotubes between metallic electrodes. This enables one to compare the properties of a particular nanotube before and after suspension, as well as to study transport in suspended tubes. As an example of the utility of the technique, we study quantum dots in suspended tubes, finding that t...

Quantum dots in carbon nanotubes

In this overview paper, we present low-temperature electronic transport measurements of carbon nanotube quantum dots with a back gate. In a semiconducting tube, charge carriers could be completely depleted. The addition energy and the excitation spectrum have been studied as a function of the number of charges (electrons or holes), one by one. We observe electron–hole symmetry, which is a direc...

Multiwall carbon nanotubes as quantum dots.

We have measured the differential conductance of individual multiwall carbon nanotubes. Coulomb blockade and energy level quantization are observed. The electron levels are nearly fourfold degenerate (including spin) and their evolution in magnetic field (Zeeman splitting) agrees with a g factor of 2. In zero magnetic field the sequential filling of states evolves with spin S according to S = 0...

Asymmetric Franck-Condon factors in suspended carbon nanotube quantum dots

Fabio Cavaliere,1 Eros Mariani,2,3 Renaud Leturcq,4,5 Christoph Stampfer,4,6 and Maura Sassetti1 1CNR-SPIN and Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, Via Dodecaneso 33, 16146 Genova, Italy 2Institut für Theoretische Physik, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 14, 14195 Berlin, Germany 3School of Physics, University of Exeter, Stocker Road, Exeter EX4 4QL, United Kingdom 4Laboratory for ...