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Dark states in a carbon nanotube quantum dot

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 نشر من قبل Michael Niklas
 تاريخ النشر 2018
  مجال البحث فيزياء
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Illumination of atoms by resonant lasers can pump electrons into a coherent superposition of hyperfine levels which can no longer absorb the light. Such superposition is known as dark state, because fluorescent light emission is then suppressed. Here we report an all-electric analogue of this destructive interference effect in a carbon nanotube quantum dot. The dark states are a coherent superposition of valley (angular momentum) states which are decoupled from either the drain or the source leads. Their emergence is visible in asymmetric current-voltage characteristics, with missing current steps and current suppression which depend on the polarity of the applied source-drain bias. Our results demonstrate for the first time coherent-population trapping by all-electric means in an artificial atom.



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