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A Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM) is one of the most important scanning probe tools available to study and manipulate matter at the nanoscale. In a STM, a tip is scanned on top of a surface with a separation of a few \AA. Often, the…

A double-quantum-dot coupled to electrodes with spin-dependent splitting of chemical potentials (spin bias) is investigated theoretically by means of the Green's functions formalism. By applying a large spin bias, the quantum spin in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-06-16 Hai-Zhou Lu , Shun-Qing Shen

Millisecond focal plane telemetry is now becoming practical due to a new generation of near-IR detector arrays with sub-electron noise that are capable of kHz readout rates. Combining these data with those simultaneously available from the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-23 Richard A. Frazin

We present a detailed modeling and characterization of our scalable microwave nanoprobe, which is a micro-fabricated cantilever-based scanning microwave probe with separated excitation and sensing electrodes. Using finite-element analysis,…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-09-24 K. Lai , W. Kundhikanjana , M. Kelly , Z. X. Shen

We use the effective-mass approximation and the density-functional theory with the local-density approximation for modeling two-dimensional nano-structures connected phase-coherently to two infinite leads. Using the non-equilibrium Green's…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Paula Havu , Ville Havu , Martti Puska , Risto Nieminen

In the recent paper [J.\ Phys.\ A 44 (2011) 065203], we have arrived at the closed-form expression for the Green's function for the partial differential operator describing propagation of a scalar wave in an $N$-dimensional ($N\geqslant2$)…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-07-12 Radosław Szmytkowski

Using the tip of a scanning probe microscope as a local electrostatic gate gives access to real space information on electrostatics as well as charge transport at the nanoscale, provided that the tip-induced electrostatic potential is well…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-13 A. Iordanescu , S. Toussaint , G. Bachelier , S. Fallahi , C. G. Gardner , M. J. Manfra , B. Hackens , B. Brun

Electronic transport in semiconducting single-wall carbon nanotubes is studied by combined scanning gate microscopy and scanning impedance microscopy (SIM). Depending on the probe potential, SIM can be performed in both invasive and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Sergei V. Kalinin , Dawn A. Bonnell , Marcus Freitag , A. T. Johnson

A scanning tunneling microscope (STM) with a magnetic tip that has a sufficiently strong spin-polarization can be used to map the sample's spin structure down to the atomic scale but usually lacks the possibility to absolutely determine the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-04-26 Lucas Schneider , Philip Beck , Jens Wiebe , Roland Wiesendanger

A method based on separated integration to estimate anharmonic corrections to energy and vibration of molecules in a second-order diagrammatic vibrational many-body Green's function formalism has already been presented. A severe bottleneck…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-09-17 Prashant Rai , Khachik Sargsyan , Habib Najm , So Hirata

We describe the design, construction, and performance of an ultra-low temperature, high-field scanning tunneling microscope (STM) with two independent tips. The STM is mounted on a dilution refrigerator and operates at a base temperature of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 A. Roychowdhury , M. A. Gubrud , R. Dana , J. R. Anderson , C. J. Lobb , F. C. Wellstood , M. Dreyer

Conventional quantum transport methods can provide quantitative information on spin, orbital, and valley states in quantum dots, but often lack spatial resolution. Scanning tunneling microscopy, on the other hand, provides exquisite spatial…

Crystallographic image processing (CIP) techniques may be utilized in scanning probe microscopy (SPM) to glean information that has been obscured by signals from multiple probe tips. This may be of particular importance for scanning…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-07-07 Jack C. Straton , Peter Moeck , Bill Moon , Taylor T. Bilyeu

In the earlier works, the electronic structure of the graphitic nanocone for the long distance from the tip was investigated. Here, we investigate the behaviour of the given nanostructure near the tip where in our approach hybridizations of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-10 R. Pincak , J. Smotlacha , M. Pudlak

Superconducting scanning tunneling microscope tips have been fabricated with a high degree of reproducibility. The fabrication process relies on sequential deposition of superconducting Pb and a proximity-coupled Ag capping layer onto a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-10-31 O. Naaman , W. Teizer , R. C. Dynes

In this article we derive the lattice Green Functions (GFs) of graphene using a Tight Binding Hamiltonian incorporating both first and second nearest neighbour hoppings and allowing for a non-orthogonal electron wavefunction overlap. It is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 James A. Lawlor , Mauro S. Ferreira

Spin-polarized scanning tunneling microscopy (SP-STM) experiments on ultrathin films with non-collinear spin textures demonstrate that resonant tunneling allows for atomic-scale spin-sensitive imaging in real space at tip-sample distances…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-03-30 Anika Schlenhoff , Stepan Kovarik , Stefan Krause , Roland Wiesendanger

In this study, we present a novel platform based on scanning microwave microscopy for manipulating and detecting tiny vibrations of nanoelectromechanical resonators using a single metallic tip. The tip is placed on the top of a grounded…

Superconducting properties change in confined geometries. Here we study the effects of strong confinement in nanosized Pb-islands on Si(111) 7x7. Small hexagonal islands with diameters less than 50 nm and a uniform height of 7 atomic layers…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-02-14 Steffen Rolf-Pissarczyk , Jacob A. J. Burgess , Shichao Yan , Sebastian Loth

Recent work proposed a variant on Ramsey interferometry for coupled spin-$1/2$ systems that directly measures the retarded spin-spin Green's function. We expand on that work by investigating nonequilibrium retarded spin-spin Green's…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-25 Bryce T. Yoshimura , J. K. Freericks