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Topological insulators are a broad class of unconventional materials that are insulating in the interior but conduct along the edges. This edge transport is topologically protected and dissipationless. Until recently, all existing…

We present electronic transport measurements of a single wall carbon nanotube quantum dot coupled to Nb superconducting contacts. For temperatures comparable to the superconducting gap peculiar transport features are observed inside the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-06-17 M. Gaass , S. Pfaller , T. Geiger , A. Donarini , M. Grifoni , A. K. Hüttel , C. Strunk

As an exotic quantum condensed matter, the topological insulator (TI) is a bulk-insulating material with a Dirac-type conducting surface state. Such dissipationless transport of topological surface states (TSSs) is protected by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-24 Shuai Zhang , Zhaoguo Li , Fengqi Song

Angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy is used to observe changes in the electronic structure of bulk-doped topological insulator Cu$_x$Bi$_2$Se$_3$ as additional copper atoms are deposited onto the cleaved crystal surface. Carrier…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-16 L. A. Wray , S. Xu , M. Neupane , A. V. Fedorov , Y. S. Hor , R. J. Cava , M. Z. Hasan

Coherent electron transport through a quantum channel in the presence of a general extended scattering potential is investigated using a T-matrix Lippmann-Schwinger approach. The formalism is applied to a quantum wire with Gaussian type…

We consider electronic transport through a single-molecule junction where the molecule has a degenerate spectrum. Unlike previous transport models, and theories a rate-equations description is no longer possible, and the quantum coherences…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Maximilian G. Schultz

Efficient transport of cold atoms is essential for continuous operation, enabling applications ranging from atomic lasers to continuously operated qubits. However, deep potentials required to overcome vibrations, axial trap nonuniformity…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-02-17 Yanqing Tao , Yufei Wang , Ligeng Yu , Bo Song

The transport and thermal properties of HgTe colloidal quantum dot films with cut-off wavelengths in the mid-IR are investigated. The cut-off wavelength of this material can be tuned over the 3-5 \mu m range, which makes it a promising…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-13 Emmanuel Lhuillier , Sean Keuleyan , Philippe Guyot-Sionnest

An important challenge in the field of topological materials is to carefully disentangle the electronic transport contribution of the topological surface states from that of the bulk. For Bi$_2$Te$_3$ topological insulator samples, bulk…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-05-02 Prosper Ngabonziza , Yi Wang , Alexander Brinkman

Persistent currents in annular geometries have played an important role in disclosing the quantum phase coherence of superconductors and mesoscopic electronic systems. Ultracold atomic gases in multiply connected traps also exhibit…

A three-dimensional (3D) topological insulator (TI) is a quantum state of matter with a gapped insulating bulk yet a conducting surface hosting topologically-protected gapless surface states. One of the most distinct electronic transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-06 Yang Xu , Ireneusz Miotkowski , Chang Liu , Jifa Tian , Hyoungdo Nam , Nasser Alidoust , Jiuning Hu , Chih-Kang Shih , M. Zahid Hasan , Yong P. Chen

According to the Green-Kubo theory of linear response, the conductivity of an electronically gapped liquid can be expressed in terms of the time correlations of the adiabatic charge flux, which is determined by the atomic velocities and…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-07-23 Federico Grasselli , Stefano Baroni

Topological insulator materials have been extensively studied in the field of condensed matter physics because nontrivial topology in the electronic state gives rise to a novel spin-polarized Dirac dispersion on the surface. To describe the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-03-31 Yoshito Onishi , Zhi Ren , Mario Novak , Kouji Segawa , Yoichi Ando , Koichiro Tanaka

Motivated by the transmission of topological surface states through atomic scale steps, we study the transport of gapless Dirac fermions on hyperbolic surfaces. We confirm that, independent of the curvature of the hyperbolae and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-09 Udit Khanna , Saurabh Pradhan , Sumathi Rao

Physics based numerical simulation has been carried out to probe the sub-gap density of states (DOS) and underlying electron transport properties of amorphous oxide based thin film transistors (TFTs). The DOS model of TFTs consists of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-02-15 D. Saha , Sachin Kulkarni

Topological insulators are a novel class of quantum matter with a gapped insulating bulk yet gapless spin helical Dirac fermion conducting surface states. Here, we report local and non-local electrical and magneto transport measurements in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-11 Yang Xu , Ireneusz Miotkowski , Yong P. Chen

This paper discusses the topological and transport properties of binary heterostructures of different topological materials. The creation of multilayer devices is an alternative to building synthetic topological materials. By adjusting the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-16 R. Pineda , W. Herrera

There are several ways to turn a superconductor into a normal conductor: increase the temperature, apply a high magnetic field, or run a large current. High-T$_c$ cuprate superconductors are unusual in the sense that experiments suggest…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-07-12 M. Naamneh , J. C. Campuzano , A. Kanigel

Twisted bilayer graphene gives rise to large moir\'{e} patterns that form a triangular network upon mechanical relaxation. If gating is included, each triangular region has gapped electronic Dirac points that behave as bulk topological…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-05-26 Guillaume Bal , Paul Cazeaux , Daniel Massatt , Solomon Quinn

Superdiffusion is an anomalous transport behavior. Recently, a new mechanism, termed the ``nodal mechanism," has been proposed to induce superdiffusion in quantum models. However, existing realizations of the nodal mechanism have so far…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-14 Shaofeng Huang , Yu-Peng Wang , Jie Ren , Chen Fang