Spatially resolved manipulation of single electrons in quantum dots using a scanned probe

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Pioda, A [1 ]
Kicin, S
Ihn, T
Sigrist, M
Fuhrer, A
Ensslin, K
Weichselbaum, A
Ulloa, SE
Reinwald, M
Wegscheider, W
机构
[1] ETH, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland
[2] Ohio Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, Athens, OH 45701 USA
[3] Univ Regensburg, Inst Expt & Angew Phys, D-8400 Regensburg, Germany
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.216801
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O4 [物理学];
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The scanning metallic tip of a scanning force microscope was coupled capacitively to electrons confined in a lithographically defined gate-tunable quantum dot at a temperature of 300 mK. Single electrons were made to hop on or off the dot by moving the tip or by changing the tip bias voltage owing to the Coulomb-blockade effect. Spatial images of conductance resonances map the interaction potential between the tip and individual electronic quantum dot states. Under certain conditions this interaction is found to contain a tip-voltage induced and a tip-voltage-independent contribution.
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