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Nanowires with helical surface states represent key prerequisites for observing and exploiting phase-coherent topological conductance phenomena, such as spin-momentum locked quantum transport or topological superconductivity. We demonstrate…

We report a theory for analyzing nonlinear DC transport properties of mesoscopic or nanoscopic normal-superconducting (N-S) systems. Special attention was paid such that our theory satisfies gauge invariance. At the linear transport regime…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Jian Wang , Yadong Wei , Hong Guo , Qing-feng Sun , Tsung-han Lin

Topological superconductivity is a state of matter that can host Majorana modes, the building blocks of a topological quantum computer. Many experimental platforms predicted to show such a topological state rely on proximity-induced…

In conductor-insulator composites in which the conducting particles are dispersed in an insulating continuous matrix the electrical connectedness is established by interparticle quantum tunneling. A recent formulation of the transport…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-05-20 B. Nigro , G. Ambrosetti , C. Grimaldi , T. Maeder , P. Ryser

We present the findings of the spin-dependent transport of the 2D holes in the p-type ultra-narrow self-assembled silicon quantum well (Si-QW) confined by the superconductor barriers on the n-type Si (100) surface. The Aharonov-Casher…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 N. T. Bagraev , M. I. Bovt , W. Gehlhoff , O. N. Guimbitskaya , L. E. Klyachkin , A. M. Malyarenko , V. A. Mashkov , V. V. Romanov , S. A. Rykov

MnAs/GaAs superlattices, made by $\delta$-doping GaAs with Mn, are known as digital ferromagnetic heterostructures. Here we present a theoretical density functional study of the electronic, magnetic and transport properties of such…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 Stefano Sanvito , Nicola A. Hill

We report on systematic study of transport properties of a 1000-nm HgTe film. Unlike to thinner and strained HgTe films, which are known as high-quality three-dimensional (3D) topological insulators, the film under study is much thicker…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-19 M. L. Savchenko , D. A. Kozlov , N. N. Mikhailov , S. A. Dvoretsky , Z. D. Kvon

A first-principles investigation of the electronic and quantum transport properties of double-walled carbon nanotubes doped with nitrogen and boron atoms is presented. Concentric nanotube sidewalls separated by the typical graphitic van der…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-03-24 Alejandro Lopez-Bezanilla

Hybrid structures combining ferromagnetic (FM) and semiconductor constituents have great potential for future applications in the field of spintronics. A systematic approach to study spin-dependent transport in the GaMnAs/GaAs/InGaAs…

Indium-doped SnTe has been of interest because the system can exhibit both topological surface states and bulk superconductivity. While the enhancement of the superconducting transition temperature is established, the character of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-08-13 Cheng Zhang , Xu-Gang He , Hang Chi , Ruidan Zhong , Wei Ku , Genda Gu , J. M. Tranquada , Qiang Li

In this communication, we numerically studied disordered quantum transport in a quantum anomalous Hall insulator-superconductor junction based on the effective edge model approach. In particular, we focus on the parameter regime with the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-10-21 Jian-Xiao Zhang , Chao-Xing Liu

Quantum spin Hall insulators (QSHIs), also known as two-dimensional topological insulators, have emerged as an unconventional class of quantum states with insulating bulk and conducting edges originating from nontrivial inverted band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-11 Takafumi Akiho , François Couëdo , Hiroshi Irie , Kyoichi Suzuki , Koji Onomitsu , Koji Muraki

Infinite-layer nickelate superconductors have recently been discovered to share both similarities and differences with cuprate superconductors. Notably, the incorporation of hydrogen (H) through topotactic reduction has been found to play a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-07-25 Chenye Qin , Mi Jiang , Liang Si

The quantum spin Hall (QSH) states discovered in an inverted band of InAs/GaSb and HgTe/CdTe quantum wells categorize them among the very superior candidates for topological insulators. In the presence of a magnetic field, these QSH states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-04 Alestin Mawrie

We consider magnetotransport on a helical edge of a quantum spin Hall insulator, in the presence of bulk midgap states ``side-coupled" to the edge. In the presence of a magnetic field, the midgap levels are spin-split, and hybridization of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-27 Youjian Chen , Wenjin Zhao , Elliott Runburg , David Cobden , D. A. Pesin

The article shows a simple model that computes the magnetoconduction and the integer quantum Hall effect (IQHE) in a two-dimensional electron system (2DES) where the spin is other degree of freedom in the system. The 2DES is confined in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-13 M. A. Hidalgo , R. Cangas

We investigate the effect of the superlattice structure on the single particle transport along the c-axis of high temperature superconductors. In particular, superlattice systems that consists of metals/insulators and d-wave superconductors…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Bor-Luen Huang , Chung-Yu Mou

The coherence of hole spin qubits in germanium planar heterostructures is limited by the hyperfine coupling to the nuclear spin bath due to 29Si and 73Ge isotopes. Thus, removing these nuclear spin-full isotopes is essential to extend the…

Proton transport (PT) in bulk liquid water and within a thin water-filled carbon nanotube has been examined with ab initio pathintegral molecular dynamics (PIMD). Barrierless proton transfer is observed in each case when quantum nuclear…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-04-30 Ji Chen , Xin-Zheng Li , Qianfan Zhang , Angelos Michaelides , Enge Wang

The transport properties of quantum dots with up to N=7 electrons ranging from the weak to the strong interacting regime are investigated via the projected Hartree-Fock technique. As interactions increase radial order develops in the dot,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-10 F. Cavaliere , U. De Giovannini , M. Sassetti , B. Kramer