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In a quantum ring connected with two external leads the spin properties of an incoming electron are modified by the spin-orbit interaction resulting in a transformation of the qubit state carried by the spin. The ring acts as a one qubit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Peter Foldi , Balazs Molnar , Mihaly G. Benedict , F. M. Peeters

Spin-dependent transport through a two-level quantum dot in the sequential tunneling regime is analyzed theoretically by means of a real-time diagrammatic technique. It is shown that the current, tunnel magnetoresistance, and shot noise…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 I. Weymann , J. Barnas

We study nonequilibrium quantum transport through a mesoscopic wire coupled via local exchange to a ferromagnetic spin chain. Using the Keldysh formalism in the self-consistent Born approximation, we identify fingerprints of the magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Frank Reininghaus , Thomas Korb , Herbert Schoeller

The purpose of this work is to fabricate ribbon-like InGaAs and InAsP wires embedded in InP ridge structures and investigate their transport properties. The InP ridge structures that contain the wires are selectively grown by chemical beam…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 G. Granger , A. Kam , S. A. Studenikin , A. S. Sachrajda , G. C. Aers , R. L. Williams , P. J. Poole

The prospect of a Dirac half metal, a material which is characterized by a bandstructure with a gap in one spin channel but a Dirac cone in the other, is of both fundamental interest and a natural candidate for use in spin-polarized current…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-11-23 Yuanchang Li , Damien West , Huaqing Huang , Jia Li , S. B. Zhang , Wenhui Duan

We study the band structure and transport property of a zigzag silicene nanoribbon when the electric fields are applied to the edges. It is found that a band bending could be induced and controlled by the antisymmetric edge fields, which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-05 Wei-Tao Lu , Qing-Feng Sun , Hong-Yu Tian , Ben-Hu Zhou , Hong-Mei Liu

The ability to localize and manipulate individual quasiparticles in mesoscopic structures is critical in experimental studies of quantum mechanics and thermodynamics, and in potential quantum information devices, e.g., for topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-25 Scott Mills , Anna Gura , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Matthew Dawber , Dmitri Averin , Xu Du

Peculiar electronic properties of graphene, including the universal dc conductivity and the pseudodiffusive shot noise, are usually attributed to a small vicinity of the charge-neutrality point, away from which electron's effective mass…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-01 Adam Rycerz

A novel spintronic nanodevice is proposed that is capable to manipulate the single heavy hole spin state in a coherent manner. It can act as a single quantum logic gate. The heavy hole spin transformations are realized by transporting the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 P. Szumniak , S. Bednarek , B. Partoens , F. M. Peeters

We discuss the possibility to generate, manipulate, and probe single spins in single-level quantum dots coupled to ferromagnetic leads. The spin-polarized currents flowing between dot and leads lead to a non-equilibrium spin accumulation,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Matthias Braun , Jürgen König , Jan Martinek

We study transport through a double quantum dot system in which each quantum dot is coupled to a phonon mode. Such a system can be realized, e.g., using a suspended carbon nanotube. We find that the interplay between strong electron-phonon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-26 Stefan Walter , Björn Trauzettel , Thomas L. Schmidt

We theoretically propose a one-dimensional electronic nanodevice inspired in recently fabricated semiconductor-superconductor-ferromagnetic insulator (SE-SC-FMI) hybrid heterostructures, and investigate its zero-temperature transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-19 Javier Feijóo , Aníbal Iucci , Alejandro M. Lobos

The success of all-graphene electronics is severely hindered by the challenging realization and subsequent integration of semiconducting channels and metallic contacts. Here, we comprehensively investigate the electronic transport across…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-24 Kristiāns Čerņevičs , Oleg V. Yazyev , Michele Pizzochero

We investigate the effects of a perpendicular electric field applied to multilayer phosphorene nanoribbons with zigzag and armchair edges. Within the context of the tight-binding model, we explore the electronic properties of these systems…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 J. D. S. Forte , D. J. P. de Sousa , J. Milton Pereira

This work investigates the quantum transport in a narrow constriction acted upon by a finite-range transversely polarized time-dependent electric field. A generalized scattering-matrix method is developed that has incorporated a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 C. S. Tang , C. S. Chu

The advent of few-layer graphenes has given rise to a new family of two-dimensional systems with emergent electronic properties governed by relativistic quantum mechanics. The multiple carbon sublattices endow the electronic wavefunctions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-12-12 L. C. Campos , A. F. Young , K. Surakitbovorn , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , P. Jarillo-Herrero

We analyze experimentally and theoretically the transport spectra of a gated lateral GaAs double quantum dot containing two holes. The strong spin-orbit interaction present in the hole subband lifts the Pauli spin blockade and allows to map…

We theoretically propose a scheme for a spin quantum bit based on a double quantum dot contacted to ferromagnetic elements. Interface exchange effects enable an all electric manipulation of the spin and a switchable strong coupling to a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Audrey Cottet , Takis Kontos

We demonstrate a controllable p$-$n junction in a three$-$dimensional Dirac semimetal (DSM) Cd$_3$As$_2$ nanowire with two recessed bottom gates. The device exhibits four different conductance regimes with gate voltages, the unipolar (n$-$n…

We introduce a scheme that exploits laser cooling and phonon-mediated spin-spin interactions in crystals of trapped atomic ions to explore the transport of energy through a quantum magnet. We show how to implement an effective transport…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-01 Alejandro Bermudez , Tobias Schaetz