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Large oscillating non-local voltage in multi-terminal single wall carbon nanotube devices

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2009-11-13 v2

Abstract

We report on the observation of a non-local voltage in a ballistic one-dimensional conductor, realized by a single-wall carbon nanotube with four contacts. The contacts divide the tube into three quantum dots which we control by the back-gate voltage VgV_g. We measure a large \emph{oscillating} non-local voltage VnlV_{nl} as a function of VgV_g with zero mean. Though a classical resistor model can account for a non-local voltage including change of sign, it fails to describe the magnitude properly. The large amplitude of VnlV_{nl} is due to quantum interference effects and can be understood within the scattering-approach of electron transport.

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@article{arxiv.0710.0365,
  title  = {Large oscillating non-local voltage in multi-terminal single wall carbon nanotube devices},
  author = {G. Gunnarsson and J. Trbovic and C. Schonenberger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0710.0365},
  year   = {2009}
}