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We present magnetotransport measurements in HgTe quantum well with inverted band structure, which expected to be a two-dimensional topological insulator having the bulk gap with helical gapless states at the edge. The negative…

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We present magneto transport experiments of quasi 3D PbTe wide quantum wells. A plateau-like structure in the Hall resistance is observed, which corresponds to the Shubnikov de Haas oscillations in the same manner as known from the quantum…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-30 J. Oswald , G. Span , A. Homer , G. Heigl , P. Ganitzer , D. K. Maude , J. C. Portal

We investigate the persistent currents and magnetization of a mesoscopic system consisting of two clean metallic rings sharing a single contact point in a magnetic field. Many novel features with respect to the single-ring geometry are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Y. Avishai , J. M. Luck

We explore the phase diagram of interacting spin-$1/2$ systems in the presence of anisotropic interactions, spontaneous decay and driving. We find a rich phase diagram featuring a limit cycle phase in which the magnetization oscillates in…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-20 Ching-Kit Chan , Tony E. Lee , Sarang Gopalakrishnan

When a three-dimensional (3D) ferromagnetic topological insulator thin film is magnetized out-of-plane, conduction ideally occurs through dissipationless, one-dimensional (1D) chiral states that are characterized by a quantized, zero-field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-13 A. Kandala , A. Richardella , S. Kempinger , C-X. Liu , N. Samarth

In this work we investigate the spin-dependent transport through a double quantum dot embedded in a ferromagnetic tunnel junction and side attached to a topological superconducting nanowire hosting Majorana zero-energy modes. We focus on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-22 Piotr Majek , Ireneusz Weymann

We report the coexistence of Aharonov-Bohm and Little-Parks oscillations in mesoscopic Fe(Te,Se) rings. The magnetoresistance shows two distinct periodicities: an $h/e$ component from ballistic edge interference and an $h/2e$ component from…

The low-energy effective Hamiltonian of three coupled spin chains with periodic boundary conditions (spin tube) is expressed, in the limit of strong interchain coupling, in terms of XXZ chains coupled by biquadratic exchange interaction. A…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 E. Orignac , R. Citro , N. Andrei

We derive a quantum spin Hamiltonian of the spin-1/2 zigzag chain realized in a rare earth ytterbium-based magnetic insulator, YbCuS2. This material undergoes a transition at 0.95K to an incommensurate magnetic phase with small moments,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-08-02 Hidehiro Saito , Hiroki Nakai , Chisa Hotta

We identify the leading processes of electron transport across finite-length segments of proximitized nanowires and build a quantitative theory of their two-terminal conductance. In the presence of spin-orbit interaction, a nanowire can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-28 B. van Heck , R. M. Lutchyn , L. I. Glazman

We propose a generalization of the linked-cluster expansions to study driven-dissipative quantum lattice models, directly accessing the thermodynamic limit of the system. Our method leads to the evaluation of the desired extensive property…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-01-10 Alberto Biella , Jiasen Jin , Oscar Viyuela , Cristiano Ciuti , Rosario Fazio , Davide Rossini

We study a mesoscopic ring with an in-line quantum dot threaded by an Aharonov-Bohm flux. Zero-point fluctuations of the electromagnetic environment capacitively coupled to the ring, with $\omega^s$ spectral density, can suppress tunneling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Ning-Hua Tong , Matthias Vojta

We investigate a Hamiltonian with radial potential wells and an Aharonov-Bohm vector potential with two poles. Assuming that the potential wells are symmetric, we derive the semi-classical asymptotics of the splitting between the ground and…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2024-07-24 Bernard Helffer , Ayman Kachmar

The phase diagram of Sr3Ru2O7 contains a metamagnetic transition that bifurcates to enclose an anomalous phase with intriguing properties - a large resistivity with anisotropy that breaks the crystal-lattice symmetry. We propose that this…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-04-02 A. M. Berridge , A. G. Green , S. A. Grigera , B. D. Simons

We consider electrical transport through molecules with Heisenberg-coupled spins arranged in a ring structure in the presence of an easy-axis anisotropy. The molecules are coupled to two metallic leads and a gate. In the charged state of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jörg Lehmann , Daniel Loss

We theoretically address spin chain analogs of the Kitaev quantum spin model on the honeycomb lattice. The emergent quantum spin liquid phases or Anderson resonating valence bond (RVB) states can be understood, as an effective model, in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-11-15 Karyn Le Hur , Ariane Soret , Fan Yang

Two-dimensional hole gases (2DHGs) have strong intrinsic spin-orbit coupling and could be used to build spin filters by utilising transverse magnetic focusing (TMF). However, with an increase in the spin degree of freedom, holes demonstrate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-27 Yik K. Lee , Jackson S. Smith , Hong Liu , Dimitrie Culcer , Oleg P. Sushkov , Alexander R. Hamilton , Jared H. Cole

We theoretically examine the transport through an Aharonov-Bohm ring with an embedded quantum dot (QD), the so-called QD interferometer, to address two controversial issues regarding the shape of the Coulomb peaks and measurement of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-04 Mikio Eto , Rui Sakano

The Aharonov-Bohm effect is investigated in two-dimensional, single-terminal quantum rings in magnetic fields by using time-dependent density-functional theory. We find multiple transport loops leading to the oscillation periods of h/(en),…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-06-22 V. Kotimaki , E. Rasanen

We investigate the effect of Rashba spin-orbit coupling and of a tunnel barrier on the zero conduc- tance resonances appearing in a one-dimensional conducting Aharonov-Bohm (AB) ring symmet- rically coupled to two leads. The transmission…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Citro , F. Romeo , M. Marinaro