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We report experimental evidence that chaotic and non-chaotic scattering through ballistic cavities display distinct signatures in quantum transport. In the case of non-chaotic cavities, we observe a linear decrease in the average resistance…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 A. M. Chang , H. U. Baranger , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

Starting with general semiclassical equations of motion for electrons in the presence of electric and magnetic fields, we extend the Chambers formula to include in addition to a magnetic field, time-dependent electric fields and bands with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-18 Emmanouil K. Kokkinis , Garry Goldstein , Dmitry Efremov , Joseph J. Betouras

We study the local and topological features of Berry phases associated with the adiabatic transport of vortices in a d-wave superconductor of lattice fermions. At half filling, where the local Berry curvature must vanish due to symmetries,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-10-03 Zhenyu Zhou , Oskar Vafek , Alexander Seidel

The recent discovery of the quantum nonlinear Hall effect has revived the field of nonlinear transport. Here, we predict magnetic field-induced nonlinear Hall effect in time-reversal symmetric Weyl semimetal. We show that the interplay of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-13 Debottam Mandal , Kamal Das , Amit Agarwal

The Berry connection plays a central role in our description of the geometric phase and topological phenomena. In condensed matter, it describes the parallel transport of Bloch states and acts as an effective "electromagnetic" vector…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-31 Giandomenico Palumbo , Nathan Goldman

The semiclassical motion of electrons in phase space, x=(R, k), is influenced by Berry phases described by a 6-component vector potential, A=(A^R, A^k). In chiral magnets Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM) interactions induce slowly varying…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-12-16 Frank Freimuth , Robert Bamler , Yuriy Mokrousov , Achim Rosch

We have shown that the study of topological aspects of the underlying geometry in a ferromagnetic spin system gives rise to an intrinsic Berry phase. This real space Berry phase arises due to the spin rotations of conducting electrons which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Basu , P. Bandyopadhyay

We study the quantum interference effects induced by the Aharonov-Casher phase in asymmetrically confined two-dimensional electron and heavy-hole ring structures systems taking into account the electrically tunable spin-orbit (SO)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-17 M. F. Borunda , Xin Liu , Alexey A. Kovalev , Xiong-Jun Liu , T. Jungwirth , Jairo Sinova

Thermoelectric transport coefficients up to linear order in the applied magnetic field are microscopically studied using Kubo-Luttinger linear response theory and thermal Green's functions. We derive exact formulas for the thermoelectric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-11 Viktor Könye , Masao Ogata

A Brownian motion model is devised on the manifold of S-matrices, and applied to the calculation of conductance-conductance correlations and of the weak localization peak. The model predicts that (i) the correlation function in $B$ has the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-04-30 Jochen Rau

We report a detailed magneto-transport study in single crystals of NbP. High quality crystals were grown by vapour transport method. An exceptionally large magnetoresistance is confirmed at low temperature which is non-saturating and is…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-24 Sudesh , P. Kumar , P. Neha , T. Das , A. K. Rastogi , S. Patnaik

The temperature and magnetic field dependences of the anomalous Hall effect (AHE) are studied in Mn delta-doped semiconductor heterostructures with a two-dimensional hole gas in a quantum well interacting with the Mn layer. The analysis of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-11 L. N. Oveshnikov , V. A. Kulbachinskii , A. B. Davydov , B. A. Aronzon , I. V. Rozhansky , N. S. Avkeriev , K. I. Kugel , V. Tripathi

In this paper, we study the Berry curvature induced linear and nonlinear magnon transport in bilayer van der Waals antiferromagnets, where we deduce forms for the spin and energy currents within the semiclassical Boltzmann formalism under…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-10 Rohit Mukherjee , Sonu Verma , Arijit Kundu

In this work - the second of a pair of articles - we consider transport through spatially symmetric quantum dots with leads whose widths or positions do not obey the spatial symmetry. We use the semiclassical theory of transport to find the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-26 Robert S. Whitney , Henning Schomerus , Marten Kopp

Manipulating valley-dependent Berry phase effects provides remarkable opportunities for both fundamental research and practical applications. Here, by referring to effective model analysis, we propose a general scheme for realizing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-06 Xiaodong Zhou , Run-Wu Zhang , Zeying Zhang , Wanxiang Feng , Yuriy Mokrousov , Yugui Yao

We report a magneto-transport study of a two-dimensional hole gas confined to a strained Ge quantum well grown on a relaxed Si0.2Ge0.8 virtual substrate. The conductivity of the hole gas measured as a function of a perpendicular magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 R. Mizokuchi , P. Torresani , R. Maurand , M. Myronov , S. De Franceschi

Traditional theories of electron transport in crystals are based on the Boltzmann equation and do not capture physics arising from quantum coherence. We introduce a transport formalism based on ''orbital Wigner functions'', which accurately…

The topological phases of matter are characterized using the Berry phase, a geometrical phase, associated with the energy-momentum band structure. The quantization of the Berry phase, and the associated wavefunction polarization, manifest…

We evaluate the phase-coherent transport of electrons along linear structures of varying length, which are made from two types of potential wells set in either a periodic or a Fibonacci quasi-periodic sequence. The array is described by a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. R. Bakhtiari , P. Vignolo , M. P. Tosi

Many conductors, including recently studied Dirac materials, show saturation of coherence length on decreasing temperature. This surprising phenomenon is assigned to external noise, residual magnetic impurities or two-level systems specific…