Advances and challenges in single-molecule electron transport

F Evers, R Korytár, S Tewari, JM Van Ruitenbeek - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2020‏ - APS
Electronic transport properties of single-molecule junctions have been widely measured by
several techniques, including mechanically controllable break junctions, electromigration …

Carbon-based nanostructures as a versatile platform for tunable π-magnetism

DG de Oteyza, T Frederiksen - Journal of Physics: Condensed …, 2022‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Emergence of π-magnetism in open-shell nanographenes has been theoretically predicted
decades ago but their experimental characterization was elusive due to the strong chemical …

Silicon quantum electronics

FA Zwanenburg, AS Dzurak, A Morello… - Reviews of modern …, 2013‏ - APS
This review describes recent groundbreaking results in Si, Si/SiGe, and dopant-based
quantum dots, and it highlights the remarkable advances in Si-based quantum physics that …

Anomalous modulation of a zero-bias peak in a hybrid nanowire-superconductor device

ADK Finck, DJ Van Harlingen, PK Mohseni, K Jung… - Physical review …, 2013‏ - APS
We report on transport measurements of an InAs nanowire coupled to niobium nitride leads
at high magnetic fields. We observe a zero-bias anomaly (ZBA) in the differential …

Fano resonances in nanoscale structures

AE Miroshnichenko, S Flach, YS Kivshar - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2010‏ - APS
Modern nanotechnology allows one to scale down various important devices (sensors,
chips, fibers, etc.) and thus opens up new horizons for their applications. The efficiency of …

Quantum transport in carbon nanotubes

EA Laird, F Kuemmeth, GA Steele… - Reviews of Modern …, 2015‏ - APS
Carbon nanotubes are a versatile material in which many aspects of condensed matter
physics come together. Recent discoveries have uncovered new phenomena that …

Superconductor–semiconductor hybrid-circuit quantum electrodynamics

G Burkard, MJ Gullans, X Mi, JR Petta - Nature Reviews Physics, 2020‏ - nature.com
Light–matter interactions at the single-particle level have generally been explored in the
context of atomic, molecular and optical physics. Recent advances motivated by quantum …

Numerical renormalization group method for quantum impurity systems

R Bulla, TA Costi, T Pruschke - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2008‏ - APS
In the early 1970s, Wilson developed the concept of a fully nonperturbative renormalization
group transformation. When applied to the Kondo problem, this numerical renormalization …

GOLLUM: a next-generation simulation tool for electron, thermal and spin transport

J Ferrer, CJ Lambert, VM García-Suárez… - New Journal of …, 2014‏ - iopscience.iop.org
We have developed an efficient simulation tool'GOLLUM'for the computation of electrical,
spin and thermal transport characteristics of complex nanostructures. The new multi-scale …

Uncovering the triplet ground state of triangular graphene nanoflakes engineered with atomic precision on a metal surface

J Li, S Sanz, J Castro-Esteban, M Vilas-Varela… - Physical Review Letters, 2020‏ - APS
Graphene can develop large magnetic moments in custom-crafted open-shell
nanostructures such as triangulene, a triangular piece of graphene with zigzag edges …