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Gate-tunable artificial nucleus in graphene

Materials Science 2021-11-18 v1

Abstract

We report an atomically-precise integration of individual nitrogen (N) dopant as an in-plane artificial nucleus in a graphene device by atomic implantation to probe its gate-tunable quantum states and correlation effects. The N dopant creates the characteristic resonance state in the conduction band, revealing a giant carrier-dependent energetic renormalization up to 350 meV with respect to the Dirac point, accompanied by the observation of long-range screening effects. Joint density functional theory and tight-binding calculations with modified perturbation potential corroborate experimental findings and highlight the short-range character of N-induced perturbation.

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@article{arxiv.2111.09149,
  title  = {Gate-tunable artificial nucleus in graphene},
  author = {Mykola Telychko and Keian Noori and Hillol Biswas and Dikshant Dulal and Pin Lyu and Jing Li and Hsin-Zon Tsai and Hanyan Fang and Zhizhan Qiu and Zhun Wai Yap and Kenji Watanabe and Takashi Taniguchi and Michael F. Crommie and Aleksandr Rodin and Jiong Lu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.09149},
  year   = {2021}
}
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