Carbon nanotubes bridge the molecular and crystalline quantum worlds, and their extraordinary electronic, mechanical and optical properties have attracted enormous attention from a broad scientific community. We review the basic principles of fabricating spin-electronic devices based on individual, electrically-gated carbon nanotubes, and present experimental efforts to understand their electronic and nuclear spin degrees of freedom, which in the future may enable quantum applications.
@article{arxiv.0912.2745,
title = {Carbon nanotubes for coherent spintronic devices},
author = {F. Kuemmeth and H. O. H. Churchill and P. K. Herring and C. M. Marcus},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0912.2745},
year = {2010}
}