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We study quantum transport in HgTe/HgCdTe quantum wells under the condition that the chemical potential is located outside of the bandgap. We first analyze symmetry properties of the effective Bernevig-Hughes-Zhang Hamiltonian and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-05 I. V. Gornyi , V. Yu. Kachorovskii , A. D. Mirlin , P. M. Ostrovsky

Interplay between the topological surface states and bulk states gives rise to diverse exotic transport phenomena in topological materials. The recently proposed Weyl orbit in topological semimetals in the presence of magnetic field is a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-21 Xurui Zhang , Yeonghun Lee , Vivek Kakani , Kun Yang , Kyeongjae Cho , Xiaoyan Shi

We show that transport through a superconducting quantum point contact biased at subgap voltages is strongly affected by a microwave field. The subgap current is increased by several orders of magnitude. Quantum interference among resonant…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 N. I. Lundin , L. Y. Gorelik , R. I. Shekhter , V. S. Shumeiko , M. Jonson

In quantum dot (QD) electron transport experiments additional features can appear in the differential conductance $dI/dV$ that do not originate from discrete states in the QD, but rather from a modulation of the density-of-states (DOS) in…

Quantum spin Hall insulators, recently realized in HgTe/(Hg,Cd)Te quantum wells, support topologically protected, linearly dispersing edge states with spin-momentum locking. A local magnetic exchange field can open a gap for the edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Carsten Timm

The two-dimensional topological insulator state in InAs/GaSb quantum wells manifests itself by topologically protected helical edge channel transport relying on an insulating bulk. This work investigates a way of suppressing bulk…

We report on a general theory for analyzing quantum transport through devices in the Metal-QD-Metal configuration where QD is a quantum dot or the device scattering region which contains Rashba spin-orbital and electron-electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Qing-feng Sun , Jian Wang , Hong Guo

We study the magnetotransport in small hybrid junctions formed by high-mobility GaInAs/InP heterostructures coupled to superconducting (S) and normal metal (N) terminals. Highly transmissive superconducting contacts to a two-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 I. E. Batov , Th. Schapers , N. M. Chtchelkatchev , H. Hardtdegen , A. V. Ustinov

Non-equilibrium transport in hybrid semiconductor-superconductor nanowires is crucial for many quantum phenomena such as generating entangled states via cross Andreev reflection (CAR) processes, detecting topological superconductivity,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-11 Paweł Szumniak , Daniel Loss , Jelena Klinovaja

We study experimentally the transport properties of "inverted" semiconductor HgTe-based quantum well, which is related to the two-dimensional topological insulator, in diffusive transport regime. We perform nonlocal electrical measurements…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 G. M. Gusev , Z. D. Kvon , O. A. Shegai , N. N. Mikhailov , S. A. Dvoretsky , J. C. Portal

Nonlinear electron transport in normally pinched-off quantum wires was studied. The wires were fabricated from AlGaAs/GaAs heterostructures with high-mobility two-dimensional electron gas by electron beam lithography and following wet…

High-quality C-doped p-type AlGaAs heterostructures with mobilities exceeding 150 000 cm$^2$/Vs are investigated by low-temperature magnetotransport experiments. We find features of the fractional quantum Hall effect as well as a highly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 B. Grbic , C. Ellenberger , T. Ihn , K. Ensslin , D. Reuter , A. D. Wieck

In order to provide the best possible performance, modern infrared photodetector designs necessitate extremely precise modeling of the superlattice absorber region. We advance the Rode's method for the Boltzmann transport equation in…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-07-05 Rohit Kumar , Anup Kumar Mandia , Anuja Singh , Bhaskaran Muralidharan

We investigate spin transport of heavy holes in III-V semiconductor quantum wells in the presence of spin-orbit coupling of the Rashba type due to structure-inversion asymmetry. Similarly to the case of electrons, the longitudinal spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 John Schliemann , Daniel Loss

Quantitative description of charge transport across tunneling and break-junction devices with novel superconductors encounters some problems not present, or not as severe for traditional superconducting materials. In this work, we explain…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-08-11 E. Zhitlukhina , I. Devyatov , O. Egorov , M. Belogolovskii , P. Seidel

A general density-matrix formulation of quantum-transport phenomena in semiconductor nanostructures is presented. More specifically, contrary to the conventional single-particle correlation expansion, we shall investigate separately the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Rita Claudia Iotti , Emanuele Ciancio , Fausto Rossi

We present an atomistic self-consistent study of the electronic and transport properties of semiconducting carbon nanotube in contact with metal electrodes of different work functions, which shows simultaneous electron and hole doping…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Yongqiang Xue , Mark A. Ratner

We study contact effects on electron transport across a molecular wire sandwiched between two semi-infinite (carbon) nanotube leads as a model for nanoelectrodes. Employing the Landauer scattering matrix approach we find that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 G. Fagas , G. Cuniberti , K. Richter

We report a backgated InAs/GaSb double quantum well device grown on GaSb substrate. The use of the native substrate allows for high materials quality with electron mobility in excess of 500,000 cm2/Vs at sheet charge density of 8x1011 cm-2…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-27 Binh-Minh Nguyen , Wei Yi , Ramsey Noah , Jacob Thorp , Marko Sokolich

We study numerically the edge magnetoconductance of a quantum spin Hall insulator in the presence of quenched nonmagnetic disorder. For a finite magnetic field B and disorder strength W on the order of the bulk gap E_g, the conductance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-08 Joseph Maciejko , Xiao-Liang Qi , Shou-Cheng Zhang