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The presence of low-energy valley excitations in Si/SiGe heterostructures often causes spin qubits to fail. It is therefore important to develop robust protocols for characterizing the valley coupling. Here, we show that realistically sized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Benjamin D. Woods , Merritt P. Losert , Nasir R. Elston , M. A. Eriksson , S. N. Coppersmith , Robert Joynt , Mark Friesen

Conveyor-mode shuttling in gated Si/SiGe devices enables adiabatic transfer of single electrons, electron patterns and spin qubits confined in quantum dots across several microns with a scalable number of signal lines. To realize their full…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-08 Max Beer , Ran Xue , Lennart Deda , Stefan Trellenkamp , Jhih-Sian Tu , Paul Surrey , Inga Seidler , Hendrik Bluhm , Lars R. Schreiber

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…

We present microwave frequency measurements of the dynamic admittance of a quantum dot tunnel coupled to a two-dimensional electron gas. The measurements are made via a high-quality 6.75 GHz on-chip resonator capacitively coupled to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-04 T. Frey , P. J. Leek , M. Beck , J. Faist , A. Wallraff , K. Ensslin , T. Ihn , M. Büttiker

Extremely long coherence times, excellent single-qubit gate fidelities and two-qubit logic have been demonstrated with silicon metal-oxide-semiconductor spin qubits, making it one of the leading platforms for quantum information processing.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-14 H. G. J. Eenink , L. Petit , W. I. L. Lawrie , J. S. Clarke , L. M. K. Vandersypen , M. Veldhorst

The development of new experimental techniques for direct measurement of many-body correlations is crucial for unraveling the mysteries of strongly correlated electron systems. In this work, we propose a coincidence double-tip scanning…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-24 Yuehua Su , Guoya Zhang , Dezhong Cao , Chao Zhang

We measure the energy distribution of electrons passing through a two-dimensional electron gas using a scanning probe microscope. We present direct spatial images of coherent electron wave flow from a quantum point contact formed in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 B. J. LeRoy , A. C. Bleszynski , M. A. Topinka , R. M. Westervelt , S. E. J. Shaw , E. J. Heller , K. D. Maranowski , A. C. Gossard

We report a new technique of scanning capacitance microscopy at microwave frequencies. A near field scanning microwave microscope probe is kept at a constant height of about 1nm above the samplewith the help of Scanning Tunneling Microscope…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Atif Imtiaz , Steven M. Anlage

We present a very efficient and accurate method to simulate scanning tunneling microscopy images and spectra from first-principles density functional calculations. The wave-functions of the tip and sample are calculated separately on the…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-16 Óscar Paz , Iván Brihuega , José M. Gómez-Rodríguez , José M. Soler

We calculate the differential conductance (dI/dV) corresponding to scanning tunneling spectroscopy (STS) measurements for two magnetic atoms adsorbed on a metal surface with the aid of the numerical renormalization group (NRG) technique. We…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-14 Emi Minamitani , Hiroshi Nakanishi , Wilson Agerico Dino , Hideaki Kasai

Quantum sensing techniques have been successful in pushing the sensitivity limits in numerous fields, and hold great promise for scanning probes that study nano-scale devices and novel materials. However, forming a nano-scale qubit that is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-23 Ilya Khivrich , Shahal Ilani

We present a probe-type scanning tunneling microscope (STM) with atomic resolution that is designed to be directly inserted and work in a harsh vibrational cryogen-free superconducting magnet system. When a commercial variable temperature…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-06-01 Wenjie Meng , Jihao Wang , Yubin Hou , Mengqiao Sui , Junting Wang , Gang Wu , Junyun Li , Qingyou Lu

Semiconductor devices continue to press into the nanoscale regime, and new applications have emerged for which the quantum properties of dopant atoms act as the functional part of the device, underscoring the necessity to probe the quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 I. Kuljanishvili , C. Kayis , J. F. Harrison , C. Piermarocchi , T. A. Kaplan , S. H. Tessmer , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

Transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) moir\'e heterostructures provide an ideal platform to explore the extended Hubbard model1 where long-range Coulomb interactions play a critical role in determining strongly correlated electron states.…

Scanning superconducting quantum interference device microscopy (SSM) is a scanning probe technique that images local magnetic flux, which allows for mapping of magnetic fields with high field and spatial accuracy. Many studies involving…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-01-17 P. Reith , X. Renshaw Wang , H. Hilgenkamp

Current imaging scanning tunneling microscopy is used to observe the electronic wavefunctions in InAs/ZnSe core/shell nanocrystals. Images taken at a bias corresponding to the s conduction band state show that it is localized in the central…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Oded Millo , David Katz , YunWei Cao , Uri Banin

Transport measurements are powerful tools to probe electronic properties of solid-state materials. To access properties of local electronic states in nanostructures, such as local density of states, electronic distribution and so on,…

In the last decade, detecting spin dynamics at the atomic scale has been enabled by combining techniques like electron spin resonance (ESR) or pump-probe spectroscopy with scanning tunneling microscopy (STM). Here, we demonstrate an…

We present time-resolved measurements of spin-flip photon-assisted tunneling and spin-flip relaxation in a doubly occupied double quantum dot. The photon-assisted excitation rate as a function of magnetic field indicates that spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-18 F. R. Braakman , J. Danon , L. R. Schreiber , W. Wegscheider , L. M. K. Vandersypen

Scanning tunneling spectroscopy measures how a single electron with definite energy propagates between a sample surface and the tip of a scanning tunneling microscope. In the simplest description, the differential conductance measured is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-07 Mikko M. Ervasti , Fabian Schulz , Peter Liljeroth , Ari Harju