Designer quantum materials and devices with spin-like degrees of freedom
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Atomic manipulation in a low-temperature ultra-high vacuum scanning tunneling microscope (STM) enables us to construct and characterize a wide variety of two-dimensional systems. We utilize this technique to create materials and devices with unique electronic behavior that would be difficult or impossible to observe in naturally-occurring systems. This thesis serves as a summary of all such systems that I have studied, with special emphasis placed on the two systems which represent the bulk of my work: quantum switches and molecular graphene. These two systems and the studies performed on them differ significantly, with the most stark contrast being the spatial extent of the systems concerned. However, they are linked by the presence of a 'spin-like' degree of freedom that influences the behavior of the system. After an introduction discussing the physics behind STM and atomic manipulation in general, this thesis will discuss each of these systems in turn, including both the experiments performed on these systems and potential for future work.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2023; ©2023 |
| Publication date | 2023; 2023 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Brubaker, Morgan Zachary |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Manoharan, Hari |
| Thesis advisor | Manoharan, Hari |
| Thesis advisor | Feldman, Ben |
| Thesis advisor | Gratta, Giorgio |
| Degree committee member | Feldman, Ben |
| Degree committee member | Gratta, Giorgio |
| Associated with | Stanford University, School of Humanities and Sciences |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Physics |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Morgan Brubaker. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Physics. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2023. |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/jx610wp6655 |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2023 by Morgan Zachary Brubaker
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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