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NATURE NANOTECHNOLOGY
卷 8, 期 8, 页码 569-574出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/NNANO.2013.143
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资金
- ISF Legacy Heritage foundation [2005/08-80.0]
- Bi-National Science Foundation (BSF) [710647-03]
- Minerva Foundation [780054]
- ERC Starters [258753]
- Marie Curie People [239322]
- Alon Fellowship
The ability to tune local parameters of quantum Hamiltonians has been demonstrated in experimental systems including ultracold atoms(1), trapped ions(2), superconducting circuits(3) and photonic crystals(4). Such systems possess negligible disorder, enabling local tunability. Conversely, in condensed-matter systems, electrons are subject to disorder, which often destroys delicate correlated phases and precludes local tunability. The realization of a disorder-free and locally-tunable condensed-matter system thus remains an outstanding challenge. Here, we demonstrate a new technique for deterministic creation of locally-tunable, ultralow-disorder electron systems in carbon nanotubes suspended over complex electronic circuits. Using transport experiments we show that electrons can be localized at any position along the nanotube and that the confinement potential can be smoothly moved from location to location. The high mirror symmetry of transport characteristics about the nanotube centre establishes the negligible effects of electronic disorder, thus allowing experiments in precision-engineered one-dimensional potentials. We further demonstrate the ability to position multiple nanotubes at chosen separations, generalizing these devices to coupled one-dimensional systems. These capabilities could enable many novel experiments on electronics, mechanics and spins in one dimension.
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