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Scanning Gate Microscopy of a Nanostructure inside which electrons interact

Scanning Gate Microscopy of a Nanostructure inside which electrons interact . Axel Freyn, Ioannis Kleftogiannis and Jean-Louis Pichard CEA / IRAMIS Service de Physique de l’Etat Condensé Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 226802 (2008). Outline.

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Scanning Gate Microscopy of a Nanostructure inside which electrons interact

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  1. Scanning Gate Microscopy of a Nanostructure inside which electrons interact Axel Freyn, Ioannis Kleftogiannis and Jean-Louis Pichard CEA / IRAMIS Service de Physique de l’Etat Condensé Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 226802 (2008)

  2. Outline • Part I :The quantum transmission of a nanosystem inside which the electrons interact becomesnon local. • Part II : Method for probing electron-electron interactionsinside a nanostructureusing a scanning gate microscope.

  3. The simplest spinless lattice model with a single nearest neighbor interactionInteracting nanosystem with six parameters • 3 Hopping integrals: ( td , tc, th =1) • Nearest neighbor repulsion: U n1no • Gate potential: VG • Filling factor (Fermi energy: EF)

  4. Interacting nanosystem in series with a one body scatterer(attached ring pierced by an Aharonov-Bohm flux) A. Freyn and JLP, Phys.Rev. Lett. 98, 186401 (2007)

  5. Effective nanosystem transmission |ts|2 (Hartree-Fock approximation) Large effect of the AB-flux upon the effective transmission |ts|2 This effect occurs only if the electrons interact inside the nanosystem

  6. The effect of the AB-flux upon the nanosystem effective transmission falls off with the distance LC Decay expected for Friedel oscillations

  7. 2 nanosystems in seriesY.Asada, A. Freyn and JLP; Eur. Phys. J. B 53, 109 (2006)

  8. The results can be simplified at half-filling (particle-hole symmetry) Hartree corrections are compensated. 1/Lc correction with even-odd oscillations at half filling. Renormalization of the internal hopping term td because of exchange Friedel Oscillations; RKKY interaction

  9. Role of the temperature • The effect disappears when

  10. Origin of the non local transmission(Hartree-Fock theory) • The external scatterer induces Friedel oscillations of the electron density inside the interacting nanosystem • This modifies the Hartree potentials and the Fock corrections inside the nanosystem. • The nanosystem effective transmission can be partly controlled by external scatterers when the electrons interact inside the nanosystem

  11. To neglect electron-electron interactions outside the nanosystem is not realistic when 1d wires are attached to it. • This assumption becomes more realistic if one attaches 2d strips of large enough electron density Scanning gate microscopy

  12. Scanning gate microscope Topinka,LeRoy,Westervelt,Shaw,Fleishmann,Heller,Maranowski,GossardLetters to Nature, 410,183 (2001) Conductance without the tip 2DEG , QPC AFM cantilever The charged tip creates a depletion region inside the 2deg which can be scanned around the nanostructure (qpc)

  13. Dg falls off with distance r from the QPC, exhibiting fringes spaced bylF/2 SGM images Conductance of the QPC as a function of the tip position g(without tip)=2e²/h

  14. The electron-electron interactions inside the QPC can be probed by SGM images • By lateral gates (or additional top gate), one reduces the electron density inside the QPC. This makes the interactions non negligible inside the QPC, [0.7 (2 e2 /h) anomaly]. The density remains important and the interactions negligible outside the QPC. • The Friedel oscillations created by the charged tip can modify the effective QPC transmission, if the electrons interact inside the QPC

  15. A lattice 2d model for SGM

  16. HF study of the nanosystemLandauer-Buttiker conductance of the system (nanosystem + tip)

  17. Hartree-Fock theory for the interacting nanosystem coupled to 2d non interacting strips This self-energy has to be calculated using a recursive method for different positions of the tip and energies E<EF

  18. Self-consistent solution of coupled integral equations

  19. Conductance of the combined system(nanosystem + tip)

  20. Nanosystem conductance without tip(g0<1)

  21. Effect of the tip upon the nanosystem HF self-energies

  22. The effect of the tip upon the Fock self-energy falls off with rT as the Friedel oscillations causing it.

  23. (Relative) Effect of the tip upon the conductanceSGM images

  24. Without interaction, the effect of the tip upon g falls off as 1/rT

  25. With interaction, there is an additional 1/rT2 decay(U=1.7)

  26. Strength of the interaction effect upon the SGM images as a function of the nanosystem parameters

  27. Summary • The effective transmission can be modified by external scatterers when the electrons interact inside the nanosystem. • This non local effect can be probed using a scanning gate microscope (enhanced fringes near the nanostructure + phase shift of the fringes). • In the HF approximation, the effect is induced by the Friedel (Hartree) or related (exchange) oscillations created by the external scatterers inside the nanosystem. • One can make the effect very large by a suitable choice of the nanosystem parameters. Reducing td enhances the effect. But an orbital Kondo effect (yielded by inversion symmetry) occurs when td goes to 0. • Comparison between HF, DMRG, NRG results…

  28. References • R. Molina, D. Weinmann and JLP, Eur. Phys. J. B 48, 243, (2005). • Y. Asada, A. Freyn and JLP, Eur. Phys. J. B 53, 109 (2006). • A. Freyn and JLP, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 186401 (2007). • A. Freyn and JLP, Eur. Phys. J. B 58, 279 (2007). • A. Freyn, I. Kleftogiannis and JLP, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 226802 (2008). • D. Weinmann, R. Jalabert, A. Freyn, G.-L. Ingold and JLP, arXiv: 0803.2780 (2008).

  29. Role of the internal hopping td Equivalent setup (orthogonal transformation)

  30. Hartree-Fock Equations 1. Original basis 2. Transformed basis (vAS = 0 because of inversion symmetry)

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