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We propose a model ferromagnet based on the Dirac Hamiltonian in three spatial dimensions, and study its transport properties which include anisotropic magnetoresistance (AMR) and anomalous Hall (AH) effect. This relativistic extension…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-19 Junji Fujimoto , Hiroshi Kohno

Two-dimensional (2D) materials, especially their most prominent member, graphene, have greatly influenced many scientific areas. Moreover, they have become a base for investigating the relativistic properties of condensed matter within the…

It has been recently established that transport measurements in the nonlinear regime can give direct access to the quantum metric (QM): the real part of the quantum geometric tensor characterizing the geometry of the electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-01 Maria Teresa Mercaldo , Mario Cuoco , Carmine Ortix

Transport through semiconductor nanostructures is a quantum-coherent process. This paper focuses on systems in which the electron's dynamics is ballistic and the transport is dominated by the scattering from structure boundaries. Opposite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. R. Racec , P. N. Racec , U. Wulf

Topological insulators have an insulating bulk but a metallic surface. In the simplest case, the surface electronic structure of a 3D topological insulator is described by a single 2D Dirac cone. A single 2D Dirac fermion cannot be realized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-08 Jens H. Bardarson , Joel E. Moore

Nanoscale channels realized at the conducting interface between LaAlO$_{3}$ and SrTiO$_{3}$ provide a perfect playground to explore the effect of dimensionality on the electronic properties of complex oxides. Here we compare the electric…

Nanoscale electronic transport is of intense technological interest, with applications ranging from semiconducting devices and molecular junctions to charge migration in biological systems. Most explicit theoretical approaches treat…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-08 Justin E. Elenewski , Hanning Chen

Dirac semimetals and Weyl semimetals are 3D analogs of graphene in which crystalline symmetry protects the nodes against gap formation [1-3]. Na$_3$Bi and Cd$_3$As$_2$ were predicted to be Dirac semimetals [4,5], and recently confirmed to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-06-19 Tian Liang , Quinn Gibson , Mazhar N. Ali , Minhao Liu , R. J. Cava , N. P. Ong

Superconductivity of the second kind was observed in many 3D Weyl and Dirac semi-metals. However in PdT e2, superconductivity is clearly of the first kind. This is very rare in Dirac semi - metals, but is expected in clean conventional…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-08-15 B. Ya. Shapiro , I. Shapiro , Dingping Li , Baruch Rosenstein

We extensively investigate the electronic and transport properties of a twisted bilayer graphene when subjected to both an external perpendicular electric field and a magnetic field. Using a basic tight-binding model, we show the flat…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-13 Priyanka Sinha , Ayan Mondal , Simão Meneses João , Bheema Lingam Chittari

We study three-dimensional Dirac fermions with weak finite-range scalar potential disorder. In the clean system, the density of states vanishes quadratically at the Dirac point. Disorder is known to be perturbatively irrelevant, and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-06-12 Rahul Nandkishore , David A. Huse , S. L. Sondhi

We measure a triple quantum dot in the regime where three addition lines, corresponding to the addition of an electron to each of three dots, pass through each other. In particular, we probe the interplay between transport and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-08-24 G. Granger , L. Gaudreau , A. Kam , M. Pioro-Ladrière , S. A. Studenikin , Z. R. Wasilewski , P. Zawadzki , A. S. Sachrajda

We report the quantum transport properties of the $\alpha$-Sn films grown on CdTe (001) substrates by molecular beam epitaxy. The $\alpha$-Sn films are doped with phosphorus to tune the Fermi level and access the bulk state. Clear…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-08-07 Yuanfeng Ding , Bingxin Li , Chen Li , Yan-Bin Chen , Hong Lu , Yan-Feng Chen

The quantum transport via a donor (D)-bridge (B)-acceptor (A) single molecule is studied using density functional theory in conjunction with the Landauer-B\"{u}ttiker formalism. Asymmetric electrical response for opposite biases is observed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-09-22 Haiying He , Ravindra Pandey , Govind Mallick , Shashi P. Karna

We develop a general hydrodynamic framework for computing direct current thermal and electric transport in a strongly interacting finite temperature quantum system near a Lorentz-invariant quantum critical point. Our framework is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-02-24 Andrew Lucas , Jesse Crossno , Kin Chung Fong , Philip Kim , Subir Sachdev

Electronic transport in nanodevices is commonly studied theoretically and numerically within the Landauer-B\"uttiker formalism: a device is characterized by its scattering properties to and from reservoirs connected by perfect semi-infinite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-11 George Datseris , Ragnar Fleischmann

Here we comprehensively investigate Landau levels, Hofstadter butterfly and transport properties of a semi-Dirac nanoribbon in a perpendicular magnetic field using a recently developed real-space implementation of the Kubo formula based on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-19 Priyanka Sinha , Shuichi Murakami , Saurabh Basu

Three dimensional (3D) Dirac semimetals are 3D analogue of graphene, which display Dirac points with linear dispersion in k-space, stabilized by crystal symmetry. Cd3As2 and Na3Bi were predicted to be 3D Dirac semimetals and were…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-08-28 Zhi-Gang Chen , Cheng Zhang , Yichao Zou , Enze Zhang , Lei Yang , Faxian Xiu , Jin Zou

We examine an effect of acoustic phonon scattering on an electric conductivity of single-component molecular conductor [Pd(dddt)$_2$] (dddt = 5,6-dihydro-1,4-dithiin-2,3-dithiolate) with a half-filled band by applying the previous…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-09-30 Yoshikazu Suzumura , Reizo Kato , Masao Ogata

Quantitative differences of Lagrange multipliers between standard Fermi-Dirac statistics (FDS) and Ionization energy ($E_I$) based FDS (iFDS) are analyzed in detail to obtain reasonably accurate interpretations without violating the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrew Das Arulsamy