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We experimentally demonstrate optical Mach-Zehnder interferometer utilizing displaced Sagnac configuration to enhance its phase stability. The interferometer with footprint of 27x40 cm offers individually accessible paths and shows phase…

Spin and orbital freedoms of electrons traveling on spin-resolved quantum Hall edge states (quantum Hall ferromagnets) are maximally entangled. The unitary operations on these two freedoms are hence equivalent, which means one can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 Takase Shimizu , Taketomo Nakamura , Yoshiaki Hashimoto , Akira Endo , Shingo Katsumoto

An interesting property of zigzag graphene nanoribbons is the presence of edge states which are extended along its borders but localized in the transverse direction. We show that because of this property, electron transport through an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-02 Gonzalo Usaj

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

The Landau Zener model has recently been used to measure very small tunnel splittings in molecular clusters of Fe8, which at low temperature behaves like a nanomagnet with a spin ground state of S = 10. The observed oscillations of the…

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The quantum Hall (QH) effect represents a unique playground where quantum coherence of electrons can be exploited for various applications, from metrology to quantum computation. In the fractional regime it also hosts anyons, emergent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-30 Matteo Carrega , Luca Chirolli , Stefan Heun , Lucia Sorba

We describe the dynamics of an antiferromagnetic nano-oscillator in an external magnetic field of any given time distribution. The oscillator is powered by a spin current originating from spin-orbit effects in a neighboring heavy metal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-06 Jakub Chęciński , Marek Frankowski , Tomasz Stobiecki

A nanometer-sized superconducting quantum interference device (nanoSQUID) is fabricated on the apex of a sharp quartz tip and integrated into a scanning SQUID microscope. A simple self-aligned fabrication method results in nanoSQUIDs with…

We propose a scheme to measure the quantum state of a nanomechanical oscillator cooled near its ground state of vibrational motion. This is an extension of the nonlinear atomic homodyning technique scheme first developed to measure the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-08-12 Swati Singh , Pierre Meystre

Energy-efficient classical information processing and storage based on topological defects in magnetic systems have been studied over past decade. In this work, we introduce a class of macroscopic quantum devices in which a quantum state is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 So Takei , Masoud Mohseni

Electronic interferometers in the quantum Hall regime are one of the best tools to study the statistical properties of localized quasiparticles in the topologically protected bulk. However, since their behavior is probed via chiral edge…

Interference of fractionally charged quasi-particles is expected to lead to Aharonov-Bohm oscillations with periods larger than the flux quantum. However, according to the Byers-Yang theorem, observables of an electronic system are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Ivan P. Levkivskyi , Juerg Froehlich , Eugene V. Sukhorukov

We propose a device that can operate as a magneto-resistive switch or oscillator. The device is based on a spin-thermo-electronic control of the exchange coupling of two strong ferromagnets through a weakly ferromagnetic spacer. We show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-29 A. M. Kadigrobov , R. I. Shekhter , M. Jonson , V. Korenivski

We show how a new quantum property, a geometric phase, associated with scattering states can be exhibited in nanoscale electronic devices. We propose an experiment to use interference to directly measure the effect of the new geometric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Huan-Qiang Zhou , Urban Lundin , Sam Young Cho , Ross H. McKenzie

Temperature estimation, known as thermometry, is a critical sensing task for physical systems operating in the quantum regime. Indeed, thermal fluctuations can significantly degrade quantum coherence. Therefore, accurately determining the…

Nanomechanical oscillators are at the heart of ultrasensitive detectors of force, mass and motion. As these detectors progress to even better sensitivity, they will encounter measurement limits imposed by the laws of quantum mechanics. For…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 J. D. Teufel , T. Donner , M. A. Castellanos-Beltran , J. W. Harlow , K. W. Lehnert

Low-temperature magnetotransport measurements are performed on GaAs/InSb core-shell nanowires. The nanowires were self-catalyzed grown by molecular beam epitaxy. The conductance measurements as a function of back-gate voltage show an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-03 P. Zellekens , N. Demarina , J. Janßen , T. Rieger , M. I. Lepsa , P. Perla , G. Panaitov , H. Lüth , D. Grützmacher , T. Schäpers

The spin-phase interference effects are studied analytically in resonant quantum tunneling of the N\'{e}el vector between degenerate excited levels in nanometer-scale single-domain antiferromagnets in the absence of an external magnetic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 Rong Lu , Jia-Lin Zhu , Yi Zhou , Bing-Lin Gu

Combining the recent progress in semiconductor nanostructures along with the versatility of photonic crystals in confining and manipulating light, quantum networks allow for the prospect of an integrated and low power quantum technology.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-02 H. P. Seigneur , Michael N. Leuenberger , W. V. Schoenfeld

This paper reviews the state of the art in spin-torque and spin Hall effect driven nano-oscillators. After a brief introduction to the underlying physics, the authors discuss different implementations of these oscillators, their functional…