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Quantum tunneling is the phenomenon that makes superconducting circuits "quantum". Recently, there has been a renewed interest in using quantum tunneling in phase space of a Kerr parametric oscillator as a resource for quantum information…

Andreev reflection at a superconductor and Klein tunneling through an n-p junction in graphene are two processes that couple electrons to holes -- the former through the superconducting pair potential Delta and the latter through the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-09 C. W. J. Beenakker , A. R. Akhmerov , P. Recher , J. Tworzydlo

Strong interaction between electrons in two-dimensional systems in the presence of a high magnetic field gives rise to fractional quantum Hall states that host quasiparticles with fractional charge and fractional exchange statistics. Here,…

Today the availability of high mobility graphene up to room temperature makes ballistic transport in nanodevices achievable. In particular, p-n-p transistor in the ballistic regime gives access to the Klein tunneling physics and allows the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-23 Quentin Wilmart , Salim Berada , David Torrin , V. Hung Nguyen , Gwendal Fève , Jean-Marc Berroir , Philippe Dollfus , Bernard Plaçais

We investigate quantum tunneling of charge carriers through a periodic superlattice in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) with rectangular potential barriers, including the presence of a defect, using a low-energy continuum model. Transmission…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-08 Ayoub Bahlaoui , Youness Zahidi , Ahmed Naddami

Graphene quantum dots (GQDs) can exhibit a range of spectacular phenomena such as the Klein-tunneling-induced quasibound states1-6 and Berry-phase-tuned energy spectra7-15. According to previous studies, all these interesting quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-08 Hui-Ying Ren , Ya-Ning Ren , Qi Zheng , Jia-Qi He , Lin He

We study the conductance oscillation of an antiferromagnetic layer tunnel junction composed of antiferromagnetic topological insulators (MTIs) such as MnBi$_{2}$Te$_{4}$. In presence of an in-plane magnetic field, we find that the two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-05 Sang-Jun Choi , Hai-Peng Sun , Björn Trauzettel

Due to effect of Klein tunneling two-dimensional graphene quantum dots do not possess genuine bound states but quasi-bound (resonant tunneling) states only. We discuss in detail the attempt to describe these states within the framework of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-24 H. V. Grushevskaya , G. G. Krylov

We study quantum tunneling through a potential barrier whose height fluctuates in time and is modeled by Gaussian white noise. We map the stochastic dynamics onto an equivalent time-independent Lindblad equation for the density matrix,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Kamal Azaidaoui , Ahmed Jellal , Hocine Bahlouli , A. Al Luhaibi , Michael Vogl

Mesoscopic conductance fluctuations are a ubiquitous signature of phase-coherent transport in small conductors, exhibiting universal character independent of system details. In this work, however, we demonstrate a pronounced breakdown of…

The tunneling current between two crossed graphene ribbons is described invoking the empirical pseudopotential approximation and the Bardeen transfer Hamiltonian method. Results indicate that the density of states is the most important…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-01 Maarten L. Van de Put , William G. Vandenberghe , Bart Sorée , Wim Magnus , Massimo Fischetti

We report on the observation of quantum transport and interference in a graphene device that is attached with a pair of split gates to form an electrostatically-defined quantum point contact (QPC). In the low magnetic field regime, the…

In the last decade, graphene has become an exciting platform for electron optical experiments, in many aspects superior to conventional two-dimensional electron gases (2DEGs). A major advantage, besides the ultra-large mobilities, is the…

We report the experimental observation of Fabry-P\'erot (FP) interference in the conductance of a gate-defined cavity in a dual-gated bilayer graphene (BLG) device. The high quality of the BLG flake, combined with the device's electrical…

We present a technique to fabricate tunnel junctions between graphene and Al and Cu, with a Si back gate, as well as a simple theory of tunneling between a metal and graphene. We map the differential conductance of our junctions versus…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-03-22 C. E. Malec , D. Davidovic

Double-gated graphene devices provide an important platform for understanding electrical and optical properties of graphene. Here we present transport measurements of single layer, bilayer and trilayer graphene devices with suspended top…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 J. Velasco , Y. Lee , L. Jing , G. Liu , W. Bao , C. N. Lau

The possibility of quantum oscillations of the tunnel conductance and magnetoresistance induced by spin-wave excitations in a ferromagnet-ferromagnet-ferromagnet double barrier tunnel junction, when the magnetizations of the two side…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-01-23 Xi Chen , Qing-Rong Zheng , Gang Su

Manipulating electron quantum 1D channels is an important element in the field of quantum information due to their ballistic and phase coherence properties. In GaAs and graphene based two dimensional gas systems, these edge channels have…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Won Beom Choi , Myungjin Jeon , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , Joonho Jang

Superconductivity can be induced in a normal material via the leakage of superconducting pairs of charge carriers from an adjacent superconductor. This so-called proximity effect is markedly influenced by graphene unique electronic…

Confinement of electrons in graphene to make devices has proven to be a challenging task. Electrostatic methods fail because of Klein tunneling, while etching into nanoribbons requires extreme control of edge terminations, and bottom-up…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-03 Y. Wu , D. Zhai , C. Pan , B. Cheng , T. Taniguchi , K. Watanabe , N. Sandler , M. Bockrath