Monday, September 24, 2012

1209.4726 (J. Verduijn et al.)

Non-local coupling of two donor-bound electrons in silicon    [PDF]

J. Verduijn, R. R. Agundez, M. Blaauboer, S. Rogge
We report the results of an experiment investigating coherence and correlation effects in a system of coupled donors. Two donors are strongly coupled to two leads in a parallel configuration within a nano-wire field effect transistor. By applying a magnetic field we observe interference between two donor-induced Kondo channels, which depends on the Aharonov-Bohm phase picked up by electrons traversing the structure. This results in a non-monotonic conductance as a function of magnetic field and clearly demonstrates that donors can be coupled through a many-body state in a coherent manner. We present a model which shows good qualitative agreement with our data. The presented results add to the general understanding of interference effects in a donor-based correlated system which may allow to create artificial lattices that exhibit exotic many-body excitations.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.4726

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