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We study the intra-planar tunneling between quantum Hall samples separated by a quasi one-dimensional barrier, induced through the interaction of edge degrees of freedom with the charge density waves of a Hall crystal defined in a parallel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 L. Moriconi

Interlayer tunneling measurements in the strongly correlated bilayer quantized Hall phase at $\nu_T=1$ are reported. The maximum, or critical current for tunneling at $\nu_T=1$, is shown to be a well-defined global property of the coherent…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-10-22 D. Nandi , T. Khaire , A. D. K. Finck , J. P. Eisenstein , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

We analyze tunneling of non-Abelian quasiparticles between the edges of a quantum Hall droplet at Landau level filling fraction nu=5/2, assuming that the electrons in the first excited Landau level organize themselves in the non-Abelian…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Paul Fendley , Matthew P. A. Fisher , Chetan Nayak

We combine the ideas of intensity interferometry, polarization optics and Bell's measurement into an experimental proposal which is hosted in a $\nu\,$=$\,2$ quantum Hall (QH) edge state. Our interferometer comprises of a single gate, that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-02 Krishanu Roychowdhury , Disha Wadhawan , Poonam Mehta , Biswajit Karmakar , Sourin Das

Sharp localization transitions of chiral edge states in disordered quantum wires, subject to strong magnetic field, are shown to be driven by crossovers from two- to one-dimensional localization of bulk states. As a result, the two-terminal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Kettemann , B. Kramer , T. Ohtsuki

We propose a four-terminal device designed to manipulate by all electrical means the spin of a magnetic adatom positioned at the edge of a quantum spin Hall insulator. We show that an electrical gate, able to tune the interface resistance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-02 Awadhesh Narayan , Aaron Hurley , Stefano Sanvito

Quantum spin Hall (QSH) insulators are materials with nontrivial topological properties, characterized by helical edge currents. In 2D strips, the application of a bias voltage along the edge generates a magnetization that can be measured…

We investigate cross-correlations in the tunneling currents through two parallel quantum dots coupled to independent electrodes and gates and interacting via an inter-dot Coulomb interaction. The correlations reveal additional information,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-02-26 Sebastian Haupt , Jasmin Aghassi , Matthias H. Hettler , Gerd Sch"on

We study ballistic transport through semiconductor quantum point contact systems under different confinement geometries and applied fields. In particular, we investigate how the {\em lateral} spin-orbit coupling, introduced by asymmetric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Anh T. Ngo , P. Debray , Sergio Ulloa

We consider the conductance of a one-dimensional wire interrupted by a double-barrier structure allowing for a resonant level. Using the electron-electron interaction strength as a small parameter, we are able to build a non-perturbative…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Yu. V. Nazarov , L. I. Glazman

On the surface of 2D Topological insulators occur 1D quantum spin Hall(QSH) edge modes with Dirac like dispersion. Unlike quantum Hall(QH) edge modes which occur at high magnetic fields in 2DEGs, the occurrence of QSH edge modes is because…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-15 Arjun Mani , Colin Benjamin

We propose a scenario to understand the puzzling features of the recent experiment by Kang and coworkers on tunneling between laterally coupled quantum Hall liquids by modeling the system as a pair of coupled chiral Luttinger liquid with a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Eun-Ah Kim , Eduardo Fradkin

A single electron shared between two levels threaded by a magnetic flux is an irreducibly simple quantum system in which interference is predicted to occur. We demonstrate tuning of the tunnel coupling between two such electronic levels…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-12 Christian G. Prosko , Ivan Kulesh , Michael Chan , Lin Han , Di Xiao , Candice Thomas , Michael J. Manfra , Srijit Goswami , Filip K. Malinowski

A quantum spin hall insulator(QSHI) is manifested by its conducting edge channels that originate from the nontrivial topology of the insulating bulk states. Monolayer 1T'-WTe2 exhibits this quantized edge conductance in transport…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-09-25 Chenxiao Zhao , Mengli Hu , Jin Qin , Bing Xia , Canhua Liu , Shiyong Wang , Dandan Guan , Yaoyi Li , Hao Zheng , Junwei Liu , Jinfeng Jia

We study the edge spin current and spin polarization in a two-dimensional electron gas with spin-orbit coupling in the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field. The edge effect removes the degeneracy of Landau levels due to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yun-Juan Bao , Huai-Bing Zhuang , Shun-Qing Shen , Fu-Chun Zhang

Using scanning tunneling spectroscopy in ultra-high vacuum at low temperature (T = 0.3 K) and high magnetic fields (B < 12 T), we directly probe electronic wave functions across an integer quantum Hall transition. In accordance with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-12-17 K. Hashimoto , C. Sohrmann , J. Wiebe , T. Inaoka , F. Meier , Y. Hirayama , R. A. Roemer , R. Wiesendanger , M. Morgenstern

Spin-polarized conducting edge currents counterpropagate in quantum spin Hall (QSH) insulators and are protected against disorder-driven localizations by the time-reversal symmetry. Using these spin-currents for device applications require…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-27 Rajibul Islam , Ghulam Hussain , Rahul Verma , Mohammad Sadegh Talezadehlari , Zahir Muhammad , Bahadur Singh , Carmine Autieri

The coherent conductance and current is calculated through two quantum dots using the Hubbard model for a single level per spin. The occurrence of negative differential conductance is demonstrated. The Ohmic conductance is calculated for…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 P. Pals , A. MacKinnon

We calculate the tunnelling current through a Fabry-P\'{e}rot interferometer in the fractional quantum Hall regime. Within linear response theory (weak tunnelling but arbitrary source-drain voltage) we find a general expression for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-29 Olaf Smits , Steven H. Simon , J. K. Slingerland

We demonstrate that electrostatic interactions between helical electrons at the edge of a quantum spin Hall insulator and a dynamical impurity can induce quasi-elastic backscattering. Modelling the impurity as a two-level system, we show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-07 Max McGinley , Nigel R. Cooper