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Nature Physics 4, 443 - 444 (2008)
doi:10.1038/nphys991
Subject Categories: Quantum physics | Atomic and molecular physics | Electronics, photonics and device physics | Nanotechnology
Surface physics: Electron wrangling in quantum corrals
Eric J. Heller1
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Eric J. Heller is in the Department of Physics and Department of Chemistry, Harvard University, 17 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.
e-mail: heller@physics.harvard.edu
Abstract
Unprecedented control over the superposition of electronic states in a 'quantum corral', exerted by changing the position of a single atom within it, provides a powerful tool for studying the quantum behaviour of matter.
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