P-Band Engineering in Artificial Electronic Lattices

M. R. Slot, S. N. Kempkes, E. J. Knol, W. M.J. Van Weerdenburg, J. J. Van Den Broeke, D. Wegner, D. Vanmaekelbergh, A. A. Khajetoorians, C. Morais Smith, I. Swart

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Abstract

Artificial electronic lattices, created atom by atom in a scanning tunneling microscope, have emerged as a highly tunable platform to realize and characterize the lowest-energy bands of novel lattice geometries. Here, we show that artificial electronic lattices can be tailored to exhibit higher-energy bands. We study p-like bands in fourfold and threefold rotationally symmetric lattices. In addition, we show how an anisotropic design can be used to lift the degeneracy between p x-and p y-like bands. The experimental measurements are corroborated by muffin-tin and tight-binding calculations. The approach to engineer higher-energy electronic bands in artificial quantum systems introduced here enables the realization of complex band structures from the bottom up.
Original languageEnglish
Article number011009
JournalPhysical Review X
Volume9
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 16 Jan 2019

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