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Nature Physics 4, 536–539 (1 July 2008) | doi:10.1038/nphys987

Singlet|[ndash]|triplet physics and shell filling in carbon nanotube double quantum dots

H. Ingerslev J|[oslash]|rgensen , K. Grove-Rasmussen , K.-Y. Wang , A. M. Blackburn , K. Flensberg , P. E. Lindelof & D. A. Williams

An artificial two-atomic molecule, also called a double quantum dot (DQD), is an ideal system for exploring few-electron physics. Interactions between just two electrons have been explored in such systems using the singlet and triplet states as the two states in a quantum two-level system.