The Quantum Twisting Microscope

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Speaker
John Birkbeck
Date
27/10/2022 - 13:30 - 12:30Add to Calendar 2022-10-27 12:30:00 2022-10-27 13:30:00 The Quantum Twisting Microscope In this talk, I will present a fundamentally new type of scanning probe microscope, the Quantum Twisting Microscope (QTM), capable of performing local quantum interference measurements at a twistable interface between two quantum materials. Its working principle is based on a unique tip made of an atomically-thin two-dimensional material. This tip allows electrons to coherently tunnel into a sample at many locations at once, with quantum interference between these tunneling events, making it a scanning electronic interferometer. With an extra twist degree of freedom, our microscope becomes a momentum-resolving local probe, providing powerful new ways to study the energy dispersions of interacting electrons. I will present various experiments performed with this microscope, demonstrating quantum interference at room temperature, probing the conductance of in-situ twisting interfaces, and imaging local energy dispersions of graphene and twisted bilayer graphene. Conference room on the 0th floor of Resnick building המחלקה לפיזיקה physics.dept@mail.biu.ac.il Asia/Jerusalem public
Place
Conference room on the 0th floor of Resnick building
Abstract

In this talk, I will present a fundamentally new type of scanning probe microscope, the Quantum Twisting Microscope (QTM), capable of performing local quantum interference measurements at a twistable interface between two quantum materials. Its working principle is based on a unique tip made of an atomically-thin two-dimensional material. This tip allows electrons to coherently tunnel into a sample at many locations at once, with quantum interference between these tunneling events, making it a scanning electronic interferometer. With an extra twist degree of freedom, our microscope becomes a momentum-resolving local probe, providing powerful new ways to study the energy dispersions of interacting electrons. I will present various experiments performed with this microscope, demonstrating quantum interference at room temperature, probing the conductance of in-situ twisting interfaces, and imaging local energy dispersions of graphene and twisted bilayer graphene.

תאריך עדכון אחרון : 26/10/2022