Spin and Valley States in Gate-Defined Bilayer Graphene Quantum Dots

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作者
Eich, Marius [1 ]
Pisoni, Riccardo [1 ]
Overweg, Hiske [1 ]
Kurzmann, Annika [1 ]
Lee, Yongjin [1 ]
Rickhaus, Peter [1 ]
Ihn, Thomas [1 ]
Ensslin, Klaus [1 ]
Herman, Frantisek [2 ]
Sigrist, Manfred [2 ]
Watanabe, Kenji [3 ]
Taniguchi, Takashi [3 ]
机构
[1] Swiss Fed Inst Technol, Solid State Phys Lab, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland
[2] Swiss Fed Inst Technol, Inst Theoret Phys, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland
[3] NIMS, Adv Mat Lab, 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 3050044, Japan
基金
瑞士国家科学基金会;
关键词
CARBON NANOTUBES; ELECTRONICS; DEVICES;
D O I
10.1103/PhysRevX.8.031023
中图分类号
O4 [物理学];
学科分类号
0702 ;
摘要
In bilayer graphene, electrostatic confinement can be realized by a suitable design of top and back gate electrodes. We measure electronic transport through a bilayer graphene quantum dot, which is laterally confined by gapped regions and connected to the leads via p-n junctions. Single electron and hole occupancy is realized and charge carriers n = 1, 2,...50 can be filled successively into the quantum system with charging energies exceeding 10 meV. For the lowest quantum states, we can clearly observe valley and Zeeman splittings with a spin g-factor of g(s) approximate to 2. In the low-field limit, the valley splitting depends linearly on the perpendicular magnetic field and is in qualitative agreement with calculations.
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