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Tunnelling and capacitance spectroscopies are able to image the wavefunctions of electrons in atom-like solid-state systems as they are shaped by an external magnetic field.

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Figure 1: The wavefunction imaging technique.
Figure 2: Evolution of p-like orbitals of a quantum dot with the perpendicular magnetic field Bz.

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  1. Massimo Rontani is at the Research Center on nanoStructures and bioSystems at Surfaces (S3) of CNR — Istituto Nanoscienze, Via Campi 213a, 41125 Modena, Italy.,

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Rontani, M. Shape the wave. Nature Mater 10, 173–175 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat2970

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