Images of a single-electron quantum dot were obtained in the Coulomb blockade regime at liquid He temperatures using a cooled scanning probe microscope (SPM). The charged SPM tip shifts the lowest energy level in the dot and creates a ring in the image corresponding to a peak in the Coulomb-blockade conductance. Fits to the lineshape of the ring determine the tip-induced shift of the electron energy state in the dot. SPM manipulation of electrons in quantum dots promises to be useful in understanding, building and manipulating circuits for quantum information processing.
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0501150,
title = {Imaging a Single-Electron Quantum Dot},
author = {Parisa Fallahi and Ania C. Bleszynski and Robert M. Westervelt and Jian Huang and Jamie D. Walls and Eric J. Heller and Micah Hanson and Arthur C. Gossard},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0501150},
year = {2015}
}