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We study coherence of electron transport through interacting quantum dots and discuss the relation of the coherent part to the flux-sensitive conductance for three different types of Aharonov-Bohm interferometers. Contributions to transport…

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The spin-orbit interaction is a key tool for manipulating and functionalizing spin-dependent electron transport. However, the precise value of the spin-orbit coupling constant is hard to determine and control. Here we propose a measurement…

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Quantum interference and spin-orbit interaction in a one-dimensional mesoscopic semiconductor ring with one input and two output leads can act as a spin beam splitter. Different polarization can be achieved in the two output channels from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter Foldi , Orsolya Kalman , Mihaly G. Benedict , F. M. Peeters

We study the coherent transport of heavy holes through a one-dimensional ring in the presence of spin-orbit coupling. Spin-orbit interaction of holes, cubic in the in-plane components of momentum, gives rise to an angular momentum dependent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Dimitrije Stepanenko , Minchul Lee , Guido Burkard , Daniel Loss

We present analytical and numerical results for the effect of Rashba spin-orbit coupling on band structure, transport, and interaction effects in quantum wires when the spin precession length is comparable to the wire width. In contrast to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Governale , U. Zuelicke

In this work, the classical and the quantum capacitances are calculated for a Fabry-P\'{e}rot interferometer operating in the integer quantized Hall regime. We first consider a rotationally symmetric electrostatic confinement potential and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 O. Kilicoglu , D. Eksi , A. Siddiki

We generalize a Landauer-type formula, using a real$\otimes$spin-space Green function technique, to treat spin-dependent transport in quantum-coherent conductors attached to two ferromagnetic contacts. The formalism is employed to study the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Branislav K. Nikolic , J. K. Freericks

Quantum point contacts (QPCs) and quantum dots (QDs), two elementary building blocks of semiconducting nanodevices, both exhibit famously anomalous conductance features: the 0.7-anomaly in the former case, the Kondo effect in the latter.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-11-11 Jan Heyder , Florian Bauer , Enrico Schubert , David Borowsky , Dieter Schuh , Werner Wegscheider , Jan von Delft , Stefan Ludwig

Silicon quantum dot spin qubits provide a promising platform for large-scale quantum computation because of their compatibility with conventional CMOS manufacturing and the long coherence times accessible using $^{28}$Si enriched material.…

The ability to control the quantum state of a single electron spin in a quantum dot is at the heart of recent developments towards a scalable spin-based quantum computer. In combination with the recently demonstrated exchange gate between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. H. L. Koppens , C. Buizert , K. J. Tielrooij , I. T. Vink , K. C. Nowack , T. Meunier , L. P. Kouwenhoven , L. M. K. Vandersypen

AB oscillation in weak magnetic field (B<1.5kG) is observed in QPC due to interference between electrons propagating along different QPC channels. We also investigate photo-induced magnetoresistance oscillation in open-regime split-gate QPC…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-13 Xinghao Wang , Wenfeng Zhang , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. Baldwin , K. W. West

Spin-phonon interactions have a dual role in emerging spin-based quantum technologies. While they can be a limitation to device performance through decoherence, they also serve as a critical resource for coherent spin control, detection,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-30 Q. Greffe , A. Hugot , S. Zhang , J. Jarreau , L. Del-Rey , E. Bonet , F. Balestro , T. Chanelière , J. J. Viennot

We propose a scheme to implement the one-dimensional coined quantum walk with electrons transported through a two-dimensional network of spintronic semiconductor quantum rings. The coin degree of freedom is represented by the spin of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-30 Orsolya Kálmán , Tamás Kiss , Péter Földi

We investigate ballistic transport and quantum interference in a nanoscale quantum wire loop fab-ricated as a GaAs/AlGaAs field-effect heterostructure. Four-terminal measurements of current and voltage characteristics as a function of top…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-08 S. S. Buchholz , S. F. Fischer , U. Kunze , D. Reuter , A. D. Wieck

We study the quantum interference effects induced by the Aharonov-Casher phase in a ring structure in a two-dimensional heavy hole (HH) system with spin-orbit interaction realizable in narrow asymmetric quantum wells. The influence of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 Alexey A. Kovalev , Mario F. Borunda , T. Jungwirth , L. W. Molenkamp , Jairo Sinova

We study the quantum phase transition in a spin chain with variable Ising interaction and position-dependent coupling to a resonator field. Such a complicated model, usually not present in natural physical systems, can be simulated by an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Yu-Na Zhang , Xi-Wang Luo , Guang-Can Guo , Zheng-Wei Zhou , Xingxiang Zhou

Motion of electrons can influence their spins through a fundamental effect called spin-orbit interaction. This interaction provides a way to electrically control spins and as such lies at the foundation of spintronics. Even at the level of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 S. Nadj-Perge , S. M. Frolov , E. P. A. M. Bakkers , L. P. Kouwenhoven

Interfacing photonic and solid-state qubits within a hybrid quantum architecture offers a promising route towards large scale distributed quantum computing. Ideal candidates for coherent qubit interconversion are optically active spins…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-17 S. Probst , H. Rotzinger , S. Wünsch , P. Jung , M. Jerger , M. Siegel , A. V. Ustinov , P. A. Bushev

We investigate the transport properties of a quantum dot coupled to leads interacting with a multi-spin system using the generalized master equation within the Coulomb blockade regime. We find that if two states for each scattering region…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-30 Eric D. Switzer , Xiao-Guang Zhang , Volodymyr Turkowski , Talat S. Rahman

Coherent control of two-level quantum systems is typically achieved using resonant driving fields, forming the basis for qubit operations. Here, we report a mechanism for inducing complete Rabi oscillations in monochromatically driven…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-13 Baksa Kolok , András Pályi