Tuesday, May 1, 2012

1204.6718 (K. Grove-Rasmussen et al.)

Magnetic-Field Dependence of Tunnel Couplings in Carbon Nanotube Quantum
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K. Grove-Rasmussen, S. Grap, J. Paaske, K. Flensberg, S. Andergassen, V. Meden, H. I. Jørgensen, K. Muraki, T. Fujisawa
By means of sequential and cotunneling spectroscopy, we study the tunnel couplings between metallic leads and individual levels in a carbon nanotube quantum dot. The levels are ordered in shells consisting of two doublets with strong- and weak-tunnel couplings, leading to gate-dependent level renormalization. By comparison to a one- and two-shell model, this is shown to be a consequence of disorder-induced valley mixing in the nanotube. Moreover, a parallel magnetic field is shown to reduce this mixing and thus suppress the effects of tunnel renormalization.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1204.6718

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