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The ability to manipulate individual atoms and molecules using a scanning tunnelling microscope (STM) has been crucial for the development of a vast array of atomic scale devices and structures ranging from nanoscale motors and switches to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-02-03 Léonard Desvignes , Vasily S. Stolyarov , Marco Aprili , Freek Massee

We propose a new scalable platform for quantum computing (QC) -- an array of optically trapped symmetric-top molecules (STMs) of the alkaline earth monomethoxide (MOCH$_3$) family. Individual STMs form qubits, and the system is readily…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-10-01 Phelan Yu , Lawrence W. Cheuk , Ivan Kozyryev , John M. Doyle

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

We present a fast and efficient tight-binding (TB) method for simulating scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) imaging of adsorbate molecules on ultrathin insulating films. Due to the electronic decoupling of the molecule from the metal…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 Antti Korventausta , Sami Paavilainen , Eeva Niemi , Jouko Nieminen

Machine learning (ML) methods are extraordinarily successful at denoising photographic images. The application of such denoising methods to scientific images is, however, often complicated by the difficulty in experimentally obtaining a…

Neutral helium atom microscopy, also referred to as scanning helium microscopy and commonly abbreviated SHeM or NAM (neutral atom microscopy), is a novel imaging technique that uses a beam of neutral helium atoms as an imaging probe. The…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2022-07-29 Adrià Salvador Palau , Sabrina Daniela Eder , Gianangelo Bracco , Bodil Holst

Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond are among the most promising solid-state qubit candidates, owing to their exceptionally long spin coherence times, efficient spin-photon coupling, room-temperature operation, and steadily advancing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-21 Arjun Raghavan , Seokjin Bae , Nazar Delegan , F. Joseph Heremans , Vidya Madhavan

We present an advanced scanning probe microscopy system enhanced with artificial intelligence (AI-SPM) designed for self-driving atomic-scale measurements. This system expertly identifies and manipulates atomic positions with high…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-04-18 Zhuo Diao , Keiichi Ueda , Linfeng Hou , Fengxuan Li , Hayato Yamashita , Masayuki Abe

In the past 40 years, single-molecule techniques have been rapidly developed and widely applied in numerous fields of biology researches, offering new insights that conventional biochemical assays cannot discover. In this review, to help…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-07-18 Huang Tang , Shuting Liu , Chenyue Kang , Xiang Wang , Xi Zhang , Kun Li , Gege Duan , Zheng Li , Boyang Hua

The search for topological phases of matter is evolving towards strongly interacting systems, including magnets and superconductors, where exotic effects emerge from the quantum-level interplay between geometry, correlation and topology.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-12 Jia-Xin Yin , Shuheng H. Pan , M Zahid Hasan

A home made DSP-controlled scanning probe microscope (SPM) system has been developed and its utilization as a tool for lithography on nanometer scale is reported. User-friendly graphic interface allows to directly perform nanolithography…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Pasqualantonio Pingue , Paolo Baschieri , Cesare Ascoli , Michel Dayez

The atom sets an ultimate scaling limit to Moores law in the electronics industry. And while electronics research already explores atomic scales devices, photonics research still deals with devices at the micrometer scale. Here we…

Scanning Probe Microscopy (SPM) techniques have shown great potential in fabricating nanoscale structures endowed with exotic quantum properties achieved through various manipulations of atoms and molecules. However, precise control…

The atomic structure of well-ordered single steps on the Si(111)-\sqrt{3}\times\sqrt{3}-Sn surface and the dynamics of Sn adatoms in the vicinity of these steps was studied. The work was performed using low-temperature scanning tunneling…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-09-29 R. A. Zhachuk , D. I. Rogilo , A. S. Petrov , D. V. Sheglov , A. V. Latyshev , S. Colonna , F. Ronci

A scanning tunneling microscope (STM) has been equipped with a nanoscale force sensor and signal transducer composed of a single D2 molecule that is confined in the STM junction. The uncalibrated sensor is used to obtain ultra-high…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-30 C. Weiss , C. Wagner , C. Kleimann , M. Rohlfing , F. S. Tautz , R. Temirov

We explore theoretically the electroluminescence of single molecules. We adopt a local-electrode framework that is appropriate for scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) experiments where electroluminescence originates from individual…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 John Buker , George Kirczenow

The inelastic portion of the tunnel current through an individual magnetic atom grants unique access to read out and change the atom's spin state, but it also provides a path for spontaneous relaxation and decoherence. Controlled closure of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-05 B. Bryant , R. Toskovic , A. Ferrón , J. L. Lado , A. Spinelli , J. Fernández-Rossier , A. F. Otte

We report scanning tunneling microscopy studies of individual adatoms deposited on an InSb(110) surface. The adatoms can be reproducibly dropped off from the STM tip by voltage pulses, and impact tunneling into the surface by up to ~100x.…

Reading and manipulating the spin status of single magnetic molecules is of paramount importance both for applicative and fundamental purposes. The possibility to combine Electron Spin Resonance (ESR) and Scanning Tunnelling Microscopy…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-11-15 Paolo Messina , Paolo Sigalotti , Lorenzo Lenci , Matteo Mannini , Stefano Prato , Paolo Pittana , Dante Gatteschi

In this work we study theoretically the coupling of single molecule magnets (SMMs) to a variety of quantum circuits, including microwave resonators with and without constrictions and flux qubits. The main results of this study is that it is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-27 M. D. Jenkins , T. Hümmer , M. J. Martínez-Pérez , J. García-Ripoll , D. Zueco , F. Luis