Lecture 1: Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Single Atom Manipulation
This lecture will introduce scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) starting from a brief prehistory of related physics and apparatus. Achievement of stable vacuum tunneling and the design of the STM will be overviewed. Next we will discuss the ability of the STM to manipulate matter down to the level of single atoms. Controlled atomic and molecular manipulation also allows coherent control of electrons via quantum corrals.
Lecture 2: Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy and Single Quanta
This lecture will focus on scanning tunneling spectroscopy (STS) and its ability to interrogate and manipulate single quanta. Different applications and variants of STS will be covered. These include inelastic tunneling and quantum point contact spectroscopy, nucleonic imaging, probing many-body ground states and energy scales, STM as a momentum-space probe, and applications to nanoassembled molecular switches and automata.
Lecture 3: Visualizing and Manipulating Quantum Phase
In this final lecture I will go over some state-of-the-art experiments in which quantum mechanical phase can be imaged and manipulated using a combination of atomic manipulation and spectral mapping. Examples of quantum phases which can be accessed include the superposition phase between two quantum states, the internal phase of a single wavefunction, and Berry's phase (a geometric phase). These phases can be embedded in nanostructures or appear naturally in materials such as graphene.
