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Spin dynamics of optically excited electrons confined in asymmetric coupled quantum wells are investigated through time resolved Faraday rotation experiments. The inter-well coupling is shown to depend on applied electric field and barrier…
Gate-controllable two dimensional systems with in-plane modulation of properties could serve as highly tunable effective media. Intuitively, such systems may bring novel functionality provided that the period of the lateral modulation is…
The large spin-orbit coupling in the valence band of group IV semiconductors provides an electric field knob for spin-qubit manipulation. This fact can be exploited with acceptor based qubits. Spin manipulation of holes bound to acceptors…
Hole spins in silicon represent a promising yet barely explored direction for solid-state quantum computation, possibly combining long spin coherence, resulting from a reduced hyperfine interaction, and fast electrically driven qubit…
The temperature dependence of resistivity, magnetization and electron-spin resonance of the $\alpha- MnS $ single crystal were measured in temperature range of $5 K < T < 550 K$. Magnetization hysteresis in applied magnetic field up to 0.7…
The selective confinement of light-holes (LHs) is demonstrated by introducing a low-dimensional system consisting of highly tensile-strained Ge quantum well enabling the design of an ultrafast gate-defined spin qubit under the electric…
We have characterized the electronic properties of a high-mobility two-dimensional electron system in modulation doped InAsSb quantum wells and compare them to InSb quantum wells grown in a similar fashion. Using temperature-dependent…
Relativistic effects influence the motion of charged particles in solids by intertwining spin and momentum. The resulting phenomena exhibit rich and intriguing properties that can unveil radically new quantum devices. In this context, the…
The resistivity $\rho$ of high mobility dilute 2D holes in GaAs exhibits a peak at a certain temperature $T^*$ in zero magnetic field($B$=0). In the $T>T^*$ regime where d$\rho$/d$T<$0, we observe for the first time both the $\nu=1$ quantum…
Hole-spin qubits enable fast, all-electrical spin manipulation through electric-dipole spin resonance (EDSR), arising from two microscopic mechanisms rooted in their intrinsically strong spin-orbit interaction. Depending on how the electric…
We propose and analyze a new method for manipulation of a heavy hole spin in a quantum dot. Due to spin-orbit coupling between states with different orbital momenta and opposite spin orientations, an applied rf electric field induces…
We report on a temperature-induced transition from a conventional semiconductor to a two-dimensional topological insulator investigated by means of magnetotransport experiments on HgTe/CdTe quantum well structures. At low temperatures, we…
The quantum lifetime of two-dimensional holes in a GaAs/AlGaAs double quantum well is determined via tunneling spectroscopy. At low temperatures the lifetime is limited by impurity scattering but at higher temperatures hole-hole Coulomb…
A heavy hole confined to an InGaAs quantum dot promises the union of a stable spin and optical coherence to form a near perfect, high-bandwidth spin-photon interface. Despite theoretical predictions and encouraging preliminary measurements,…
The zero-field temperature-dependence of the resistivity of two-dimensional holes are observed to exhibit two qualitatively different characteristics for a fixed carrier density for which only the metallic behavior of the so-called…
We study the dynamical dielectric function of a two-dimensional hole gas, exemplified on [001]-GaAs and InAs quantum wells, within the Luttinger model extended to the two lowest subbands including bulk and structure inversion asymmetric…
We study spin-dependent heat transport in quantum gases, focusing on transport phenomena related to pure spin currents and spin-dependent temperatures. Using the Boltzmann equation, we compute the coupled spin and heat transport…
We employ the dynamical mean field approximation to perform a systematic study of magnetism in Ga_{1-x}Mn_xAs. Our model incorporates the effects of the strong spin-orbit coupling on the J=3/2 GaAs valence bands and of the exchange…
The charge and spin Hall conductance of the two-dimensional hole gas within the Luttinger model with and without inversion symmetry breaking terms in a perpendicular magnetic field are studied, and two key phenomena are predicted. The sign…
The coherent spin dynamics of holes are investigated for CsPbBr$_3$ and CsPb(Cl,Br)$_3$ perovskite nanocrystals in a glass matrix using the time-resolved Faraday rotation/ellipticity techniques. In an external magnetic field, pronounced…