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Science 30 January 2004:
Vol. 303. no. 5658, pp. 655 - 658
DOI: 10.1126/science.1093605

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Local Gate Control of a Carbon Nanotube Double Quantum Dot

N. Mason,*{dagger} M. J. Biercuk,* C. M. Marcus{dagger}

We have measured carbon nanotube quantum dots with multiple electrostatic gates and used the resulting enhanced control to investigate a nanotube double quantum dot. Transport measurements reveal honeycomb charge stability diagrams as a function of two nearly independent gate voltages. The device can be tuned from weak to strong interdot tunnel-coupling regimes, and the transparency of the leads can be controlled independently. We extract values of energy-level spacings, capacitances, and interaction energies for this system. This ability to control electron interactions in the quantum regime in a molecular conductor is important for applications such as quantum computation.

Department of Physics, Harvard University Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.


* These authors contributed equally to this work.

{dagger} To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: marcus{at}harvard.edu (C.M.M.); nmason{at}fas.harvard.edu (N.M.)

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