Oxide heterostructures are versatile platforms with which to research and create novel functional nanostructures. We successfully develop one-dimensional (1D) quantum-wire devices using quantum point contacts on MgZnO/ZnO heterostructures and observe ballistic electron transport with conductance quantised in units of 2e^{2}/h. Using DC-bias and in-plane field measurements, we find that the g-factor is enhanced to around 6.8, more than three times the value in bulk ZnO. We show that the effective mass m^{*} increases as the electron density decreases, resulting from the strong electron-electron interactions. In this strongly interacting 1D system we study features matching the 0.7 conductance anomalies up to the fifth subband. This paper demonstrates that high-mobility oxide heterostructures such as this can provide good alternatives to conventional III-V semiconductors in spintronics and quantum computing as they do not have their unavoidable dephasing from nuclear spins. This paves a way for the development of qubits benefiting from the low defects of an undoped heterostructure together with the long spin lifetimes achievable in silicon.
@article{arxiv.1903.03476,
title = {Quantised conductance of one-dimensional strongly-correlated electrons in an oxide heterostructure},
author = {H. Hou and Y. Kozuka and Jun-Wei Liao and L. W. Smith and D. Kos and J. P. Griffiths and J. Falson and A. Tsukazaki and M. Kawasaki and C. J. B. Ford},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.03476},
year = {2019}
}