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Electron transport properties in a parallel double-quantum-dot structure with three-terminals are theoretically studied. By introducing a local Rashba spin-orbit coupling, we find that an incident electron from one terminal can select a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Weijiang Gong , Yisong Zheng

We establish a unified, symmetry-driven framework that combines the alternating spin splitting of altermagnets with valley topology to realize and electrically interconvert helical and chiral topological phases within a single material…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-09 Xianzhang Chen , Jiayong Zhang , Bowen Hao , Jiahui Qian , Ziye Zhu , Igor Zutic , Zhenyu Zhang , Tong Zhou

Electronic structure and transport characteristics of coupled CdS and ZnSe quantum dots are studied using density functional theory and non equilibrium Greens function method respectively. Our investigations show that in these novel coupled…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-03 Simon Liebing , Torsten Hahn , Jens Kortus , Bidisa Das , Arup Chakraborty , Indra Dasgupta

We study DC charge and spin transport through a weakly coupled quantum dot, driven by a non-adiabatic periodic change of system parameters. We generalize the model of Tien and Gordon to simultaneously oscillating voltages and tunnel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Matthias Braun , Guido Burkard

The interplay of various localizing mechanisms is a central topic of modern condensed matter physics. In this work we experimentally explore the interplay between quasiperiodic disorder and periodic driving, each of which in isolation is…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-05-12 Peter Dotti , Yifei Bai , Toshihiko Shimasaki , Anna R. Dardia , David M. Weld

We have considered the conductivity properties of a two dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in two different kinds of inhomogeneous magnetic fields, i.e. a disordered distribution of magnetic flux vortices, and a periodic array of magnetic flux…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Mads Nielsen , Per Hedegaard

Engineering dissipative dynamics in open quantum systems is under active focus, especially in topological settings where resilient edge modes are expected to exhibit decay rates distinct from the bulk. In this letter, we propose an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Koustav Roy , Shahroze Shahab , Saurabh Basu

We study adiabatic pumping of electrons through quantum dots attached to ferromagnetic leads. Hereby we make use of a real-time diagrammatic technique in the adiabatic limit that takes into account strong Coulomb interaction in the dot. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Janine Splettstoesser , Michele Governale , Jürgen König

Mobility edge, a critical energy separating localized and extended excitations, is a key concept for understanding quantum localization. Aubry-Andr\'{e} (AA) model, a paradigm for exploring quantum localization, does not naturally allow…

Electronic transport through a two-path triple-quantum-dot system with two source leads and one drain is studied. By separating the conductance of the two double dot paths, we are able to observe double dot and triple dot physics in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-03 M. Kotzian , F. Gallego-Marcos , G. Platero , R. J. Haug

In two dimensions, interacting Floquet topological phases may arise even in the absence of any protecting symmetry, exhibiting chiral edge transport that is robust to local perturbations. We explore a similar class of Floquet topological…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-07-25 Dominic Reiss , Fenner Harper , Rahul Roy

We study dephasing in electron transport through a large quantum dot (a Fabry-Perot interferometer) in the fractional quantum Hall regime with filling factor $2/3$. In the regime of sequential tunneling, dephasing occurs due to electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-15 Jinhong Park , Yuval Gefen , H. -S. Sim

We introduce a Floquet quasicrystal that simulates the motion of Bloch electrons in a homogeneous magnetic field in discrete time steps. We admit the hopping to be non-reciprocal which, via a generalized Aubry duality, leads us to push the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-09 Christopher Cedzich , Jake Fillman

Spin properties of two interacting electrons in a quantum dot (QD) embedded in a nanowire with controlled aspect ratio and longitudinal magnetic fields are investigated by using a configuration interaction (CI) method and exact…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Yan-Ting Chen , Shun-Jen Cheng , Chi-Shung Tang

Theory of electronic transport through a triangular triple quantum dot subject to a perpendicular magnetic field is developed using a tight binding model. We show that magnetic field allows to engineer degeneracies in the triple quantum dot…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-03-11 F. Delgado , P. Hawrylak

We study the role of periodically driven time-dependent Rashba spin-orbit coupling (RSOC) on a monolayer graphene sample. After recasting the originally $4\times 4$ system of dynamical equations as two time-reversal related two-level…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-29 A. López , Z. Z. Sun , J. Schliemann

Floquet engineering with high-frequency light offers dynamic control over topological phases in quantum materials. While in 3D Dirac systems circularly polarized light is known to induce topological phase transitions via gap opening,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-17 Mohammad Shafiei , Farhad Fazileh , Milorad V. Milošević

Two-mode quantized electromagnetic fields can be entangled and admit a large number of coherent states. In this paper, we consider a two-mode system that consists of a two-level atom interacting with a two-mode quantized electromagnetic…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Rui-Hua Xie , Qin Rao

Periodic driving fields can induce topological phase transitions, resulting in Floquet topological phases with intriguing properties such as very large Chern numbers and unusual edge states. Whether such Floquet topological phases could…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-08 Han Hoe Yap , Longwen Zhou , Jian-Sheng Wang , Jiangbin Gong

In semiconductor-superconductor hybrid structures a topological phase transition is expected as a function of chemical potential or magnetic field strength. We show that signatures of this transition can be observed in nonlinear Coulomb…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-12-05 Björn Zocher , Mats Horsdal , Bernd Rosenow