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cond-mat.mes-hall2011★ 42 cited

Statistics of radiation at Josephson parametric resonance

Ciprian Padurariu, Fabian Hassler, Yuli V. Nazarov

Motivated by recent experiments, we study theoretically the full counting statistics of radiation emitted below the threshold of parametric resonance in a Josephson junction circui…

cond-mat.mes-hall2011★ 341 cited

Coulomb-assisted braiding of Majorana fermions in a Josephson junction array

B. van Heck, A. R. Akhmerov, F. Hassler +2

We show how to exchange (braid) Majorana fermions in a network of superconducting nanowires by control over Coulomb interactions rather than tunneling. Even though Majorana fermion…

cond-mat.mes-hall2011★ 6 cited

Selection rules for Raman-active electronic excitations in carbon nanotubes

Oleksiy Kashuba, Vladimir I. Fal'ko

Raman measurements in carbon allotropes are generally associated with the exploration of the vibrational modes. Here, we present a theory of the non-resonant inelastic light scatte…

cond-mat.mes-hall2011★ 63 cited

Time scales in the dynamics of an interacting quantum dot

L. Debora Contreras-Pulido, Janine Splettstoesser, Michele Governale +2

We analyze the dynamics of a single-level quantum dot with Coulomb interaction, weakly tunnel coupled to an electronic reservoir, after it has been brought out of equilibrium, e.g.…

cond-mat.mes-hall2011★ 31 cited

Charge detection in a bilayer graphene quantum dot

Stefan Fringes, Christian Volk, Caroline Norda +5

We show measurements on a bilayer graphene quantum dot with an integrated charge detector. The focus lies on enabling charge detection with a 30 nm wide bilayer graphene nanoribbon…

cond-mat.mes-hall2011★ 11 cited

Tunable capacitive inter-dot coupling in a bilayer graphene double quantum dot

Stefan Fringes, Christian Volk, Bernat Terrés +4

We report on a double quantum dot which is formed in a width-modulated etched bilayer graphene nanoribbon. A number of lateral graphene gates enable us to tune the quantum dot ener…

cond-mat.mes-hall2011★ 37 cited

Readout of carbon nanotube vibrations based on spin-phonon coupling

Christoph Ohm, Christoph Stampfer, Janine Splettstoesser +1

We propose a scheme for spin-based detection of the bending motion in suspended carbon-nanotubes, using the curvature-induced spin-orbit interaction. We show that the resulting eff…

cond-mat.mes-hall2011★ 23 cited

Single-particle interference versus two-particle collisions

Stefan Juergens, Janine Splettstoesser, Michael Moskalets

We consider a mesoscopic circuit in the quantum Hall effect regime comprising two synchronized single-particle sources emitting particles into a Mach-Zehnder interferometer. While…

cond-mat.mes-hall2011★ 26 cited

Nonlinear adiabatic response of interacting quantum dots

Oleksiy Kashuba, Herbert Schoeller, Janine Splettstoesser

We develop a generic method in Liouville space to describe the dissipative dynamics of coherent interacting quantum dots with adiabatic time dependence beyond linear response. We s…

cond-mat.mes-hall2011★ 49 cited

Enhancing single-parameter quantum charge pumping in carbon-based devices

L. E. F. Foa Torres, H. L. Calvo, C. G. Rocha +1

We present a theoretical study of quantum charge pumping with a single ac gate applied to graphene nanoribbons and carbon nanotubes operating with low resistance contacts. By combi…

cond-mat.mes-hall2011★ 33 cited

Adiabatic pumping in a double-dot Cooper-pair beam splitter

Bastian Hiltscher, Michele Governale, Janine Splettstoesser +1

We study adiabatic pumping through a double quantum dot coupled to normal and superconducting leads. For this purpose a perturbation expansion in the tunnel coupling between the do…

cond-mat.mes-hall2011★ 117 cited

Conversion of self-assembled monolayers into nanocrystalline graphene: Structure and electric transport

Andrey Turchanin, Dirk Weber, Matthias Buenfeld +7

Graphene-based materials have been suggested for applications ranging from nanoelectronics to nanobiotechnology. However, the realization of graphene-based technologies will requir…

cond-mat.mes-hall2011★ 219 cited

One nanometer thin carbon nanosheets with tunable conductivity and stiffness

Andrey Turchanin, Andre Beyer, Christoph Nottbohm +7

We present a new route for the fabrication of ultrathin (~1 nm) carbon films and membranes, whose electrical behavior can be tuned from insulating to conducting. Self-assembled mon…

cond-mat.mes-hall2011★ 266 cited

Tuning laser-induced bandgaps in graphene

Hernan L. Calvo, Horacio M. Pastawski, Stephan Roche +1

Could a laser field lead to the much sought-after tunable bandgaps in graphene? By using Floquet theory combined with Green's functions techniques, we predict that a laser field in…

cond-mat.mes-hall2011★ 65 cited

Raman spectroscopy on etched graphene nanoribbons

Dominik Bischoff, Johannes Güttinger, Susanne Dröscher +3

We investigate etched single-layer graphene nanoribbons with different widths ranging from 30 to 130 nm by confocal Raman spectroscopy. We show that the D-line intensity only depen…

cond-mat.mes-hall2011★ 48 cited

Nonequilibrium phonon backaction on the current noise in atomic-sized junctions

Tomas Novotny, Federica Haupt, Wolfgang Belzig

We study backaction effects of phonon heating due to tunneling electrons on the current noise in atomic-sized junctions. Deriving a generalized kinetic approximation within the ext…

cond-mat.mes-hall2011★ 41 cited

Electronic Excited States in Bilayer Graphene Double Quantum Dots

Christian Volk, Stefan Fringes, Bernat Terrés +4

We report tunneling spectroscopy experiments on a bilayer graphene double quantum dot device that can be tuned by all-graphene lateral gates. The diameter of the two quantum dots a…

cond-mat.mes-hall2011★ 228 cited

Towards wafer scale fabrication of graphene based spin valve devices

Ahmet Avsar, Tsung-Yeh Yang, Su-Kang Bae +9

We demonstrate injection, transport and detection of spins in spin valve arrays patterned in both copper based chemical vapor deposition (Cu-CVD) synthesized wafer scale single lay…

cond-mat.mes-hall2011★ 123 cited

Wave function mapping in graphene quantum dots with soft confinement

D. Subramaniam, F. Libisch, Y. Li +11

Using low-temperature scanning tunneling spectroscopy, we map the local density of states (LDOS) of graphene quantum dots supported on Ir(111). Due to a band gap in the projected I…

cond-mat.mes-hall2011★ 88 cited

Coherence of Single Electron Sources from Mach-Zehnder Interferometry

Géraldine Haack, Michael Moskalets, Janine Splettstoesser +1

A new type of electron sources has emerged which permits to inject particles in a controllable manner, one at a time, into an electronic circuit. Such single electron sources make…

cond-mat.mes-hall2011★ 69 cited

Mechanism for large thermoelectric power in negative-U molecular quantum dots

S. Andergassen, T. A. Costi, V. Zlatic

We investigate with the aid of numerical renormalization group techniques the thermoelectric properties of a molecular quantum dot described by the negative-U Anderson model. We sh…

cond-mat.mes-hall2011★ 132 cited

Dynamical Signatures of Edge-State Magnetism on Graphene Nanoribbons

Hélène Feldner, Zi Yang Meng, Thomas C. Lang +3

We investigate the edge-state magnetism of graphene nanoribbons using projective quantum Monte Carlo simulations and a self-consistent mean-field approximation of the Hubbard model…