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We investigate the zero-temperature transport of electrons in a model of quantum dot arrays with a disordered background potential. One effect of the disorder is that conduction through the array is possible only for voltages across the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Shantenu Jha , A. Alan Middleton

The electronic structure of multilayer graphenes depends strongly on the number of layers as well as the stacking order. Here we explore the electronic transport of purely ABA-stacked trilayer graphenes in a dual-gated field-effect device…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-20 E. A. Henriksen , D. Nandi , J. P. Eisenstein

This paper introduces a novel method to account for quantum disorder effects into the classical drift-diffusion model of semiconductor transport through the localization landscape theory. Quantum confinement and quantum tunneling in the…

We theoretically study electron transport in disordered, quantum-well based, semiconductor superlattices with structural short-range correlations. Our system consists of equal width square barriers and quantum wells with two different…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Francisco Dominguez-Adame , Angel Sanchez , Enrique Diez

Tunneling and Coulomb drag are sensitive probes of spontaneous interlayer phase coherence in bilayer two-dimensional electron systems at total Landau level filling factor $\nu_T = 1$. We find that the phase boundary between the interlayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 I. B. Spielman , M. Kellogg , J. P. Eisenstein , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

We study theoretically the relative importance of short-range disorder in determining the low-temperature 2D mobility in GaAs-based structures with respect to Coulomb disorder which is known to be the dominant disorder in semiconductor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-08 S. Das Sarma , E. H. Hwang

Molecular materials have been studied as a potential platform for highly efficient transport such as exciton transport and quantum information spreading. However, one detrimental factor to transport efficiency is the inherent disorder of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-12 Weijun Wu , Ava N. Hejazi , Gregory D. Scholes

An interacting bilayer electron system provides an extended platform to study electron-electron interaction beyond single layers. We report here experiments demonstrating that the layer densities of an asymmetric bilayer electron system…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 H. Deng , Y. Liu , I. Jo , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West , K. W. Baldwin , M. Shayegan

Effect of weak disorder on tunneling through a potential barrier is studied analytically. A diagrammatic approach based on the specific behavior of subbarrier wave functions is developed. The problem is shown to be equivalent to that of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 V. Freilikher , M. Pustilnik , I. Yurkevich

Magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene is a tunable material with remarkably flat energy bands near the Fermi level, leading to fascinating transport properties and correlated states at low temperatures. However, grown pristine samples of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-29 Aleksander Sanjuan Ciepielewski , Jakub Tworzydło , Timo Hyart , Alexander Lau

We present a mechamism why interlayer tunneling conductivity in coherent bilayer quantum Hall states at $\nu=1$ is anomalously large, but finite in the recent experiment. According to the mechanism, pseudoSkyrmions causes the finite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Aiichi Iwazaki

Filling factor $\nu=1$ incompressible states in ideal bilayer quantum Hall systems have spontaneous interlayer phase coherence and can be regarded either as easy-plane pseudospin ferromagnets or as condensates of excitons formed from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Anton A. Burkov , Yogesh N. Joglekar , Enrico Rossi , Allan H. MacDonald

We theoretically investigate quantum transport properties of quantum anomalous Hall bilayers, with arbitrary ratio of lattice constants, i.e., with lattice mismatch. In the simplest case of ratio 1 (but with different model parameters in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-25 Yan Yu , Yan-Yang Zhang , Si-Si Wang , Ji-Huan Guan , Xiaotian Yang , Yang Xia , Shu-Shen Li

We discuss the interplay between transport and intrinsic dissipation in quantum Hall bilayers, within the framework of a simple thought experiment. We compute, for the first time, quantum corrections to the semiclassical dynamics of this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Robert L. Jack , Derek K. K. Lee , Nigel R. Cooper

We discuss the effect of disorder on the band gap measured in bilayer graphene in optical and transport experiments. By calculating the optical conductivity and density of states using a microscopic model in the presence of disorder, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-26 Hongki Min , D. S. L. Abergel , E. H. Hwang , S. Das Sarma

In recent years, disorder has been shown to be crucial for the understanding of diluted magnetic semiconductors. Effects of disorder in these materials are reviewed with the emphasis on theoretical works. The types and spatial distribution…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 C. Timm

Quantitative description of charge transport across tunneling and break-junction devices with novel superconductors encounters some problems not present, or not as severe for traditional superconducting materials. In this work, we explain…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-08-11 E. Zhitlukhina , I. Devyatov , O. Egorov , M. Belogolovskii , P. Seidel

We study the effect of disorder in systems having a non-trivial Euler class. As these recently proposed multi-gap topological phases come about by braiding non-Abelian charged band nodes residing between different bands to induce stable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-08 Wojciech J. Jankowski , Mohammadreza Noormandipour , Adrien Bouhon , Robert-Jan Slager

To harness the true potential of topological insulators as quantum materials for information processing, it is imperative to maximise topological surface state conduction, while simulateneously improving their quantum coherence. However,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-21 Abhishek Banerjee , R. Ganesan , P. S. Anil Kumar

The quantum-mechanical transmission through a disordered tunnel barrier is investigated analytically in the following regime: (correlation range of the random potential) << (penetration length) << (barrier length). The mean and/or the width…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. M. Luck