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The exploration of topological phases remains a cutting-edge research frontier, driven by their promising potential for next-generation electronic and quantum technologies. In this work, we employ first-principles calculations and…

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Topological insulators are promising for spintronics and related technologies due to their spin-momentum-locked edge states, which are protected by time-reversal symmetry. In addition to the unique fundamental physics that arises in these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-12 Antonio Russo , Edwin Barnes , Sophia E. Economou

We propose a minimal effective two-dimensional Hamiltonian for HgTe/CdHgTe quantum wells (QWs) describing the side maxima of the first valence subband. By using the Hamiltonian, we explore the picture of helical edge states in tensile and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-11 S. S. Krishtopenko , F. Teppe

Electrons in a two-dimensional semiconducting heterostructure interact with nuclear spins via the hyperfine interaction. Using a a Kondo lattice formulation of the electron-nuclear spin interaction, we show that the nuclear spin system…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-25 Pascal Simon , Daniel Loss

The interplay between topology and interactions on the edge of a two dimensional topological insulator with time reversal symmetry is studied. We consider a simple non-interacting system of three helical channels with an inherent…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-02-19 Raul A. Santos , D. B. Gutman , Sam T. Carr

Hyperfine interactions between electron and nuclear spins have been widely used in material science, organic chemistry, and structural biology as a sensitive probe to the local chemical environment through spatial identification of nuclear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-28 Jinkyung Kim , Kyungju Noh , Yi Chen , Fabio Donati , Andreas J. Heinrich , Christoph Wolf , Yujeong Bae

Quantum wells formed by layers of HgTe between Hg$_{1-x}$Cd$_x$Te barriers lead to two-dimensional (2D) topological insulators, as predicted by the BHZ model. Here, we theoretically and experimentally investigate the characteristics of…

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The search for topologically non-trivial states of matter has become an important goal for condensed matter physics. Recently, a new class of topological insulators has been proposed. These topological insulators have an insulating gap in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Markus Koenig , Hartmut Buhmann , Laurens W. Molenkamp , Taylor L. Hughes , Chao-Xing Liu , Xiao-Liang Qi , Shou-Cheng Zhang

Inverted HgTe/CdTe quantum wells have been used as a platform for the realization of 2D topological insulators, bulk insulator materials with spin-helical metallic edges states protected by time-reversal symmetry. This work investigates the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-11 Dimy Nanclares , Leandro R. F. Lima , Caio H. Lewenkopf , Luis G. G. V. Dias da Silva

The study of highly charged electronic and muonic hydrogen-like ions, provides an intriguing way to probe the internal structure of their atomic nuclei. In this work, we use nuclear structure calculations to accurately calculate the…

We study interaction-driven edge reconstruction in a quantum spin Hall insulator described by the Bernevig-Hughes-Zhang model with Kanamori-Hubbard interactions using the real-space density matrix renormalization group method in both the…

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We derived analytical results for the gapless edge states of two-dimensional topological insulators in the presence of electron-surface optical (SO) phonon interaction due to substrates. We followed an analytical algorithm, called…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-18 B. S. Kandemir , S. Atag

Precise characterization of a hyperfine interaction is a prerequisite for high fidelity manipulations of electron and nuclear spins belonging to a hybrid qubit register in diamond. Here, we demonstrate a novel scheme for determining a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-09-11 J. H. Shim , B. Nowak , I. Niemeyer , J. Zhang , F. D. Brandao , D. Suter

We investigate the behavior of spin polarized currents in two-dimensional topological insulators (TI). Stationary solutions inside a HgTe/CdTe quantum well (QW) were obtained by Bernevig-Hughes-Zhang (BHZ) model modified by a electric and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-01 Davidson R. Viana , Thiago M. Melo , Jakson M. Fonseca , Daniel S. Souza , Winder A. Moura-Melo , Afranio R. Pereira

The concept of optically addressable spin states of deep level defects in wide band gap materials is successfully applied for the development of quantum technologies. Recently discovered negatively charged boron vacancy defects (VB) in…

Time-reversal symmetric topological insulator is a novel state of matter that a bulk-insulating state carries dissipationless spin transport along the surfaces, embedded by the $Z_2$ topological invariant. In the noninteracting limit, this…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-12 Hsin-Hua Lai , Hsiang-Hsuan Hung

We have theoretically analyzed coherent nuclear-spin dynamics induced by electron transport through a quantum-dot spin valve. The hyperfine interaction between electron and nuclear spins in a quantum dot allows for the transfer of angular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Stefano Chesi , W. A. Coish

We report on the numerical study of the relaxation rates of nuclear spins coupled through the hyperfine interaction to a two dimensional electron gas (2DEG) at magnetic fields corresponding to both fractional and integral Landau level (LL)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Izabela Szlufarska , Arkadiusz Wojs , John J. Quinn

Molecular spin qubits with long spin coherence time as well as non-invasive operation methods on such qubits are in high demand. It was shown that both molecular electronic and nuclear spin levels can be used as qubits. In solid state…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-10-28 Robert L. Smith , Aleksander L. Wysocki , Kyungwha Park