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Helical conductors with spin-momentum locking are promising platforms for Majorana fermions. Here we report observation of two topologically distinct phases supporting helical edge states in charge neutral Bernal-stacked tetralayer graphene…

Dynamics of topological solitons describing open states in the DNA double helix are studied in the frameworks of the model which takes into account asymmetry of the helix. It is shown that three types of topological solitons can occur in…

Biological Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 L. V. Yakushevich , A. V. Savin , L. I. Manevitch

Recent progress in understanding the topological properties of condensed matter has led to the discovery of time-reversal invariant topological insulators. Because of limitations imposed by nature, topologically non-trivial electronic order…

We develop a theory of edge state transport in separately contacted double-layer quantum Hall systems which are tuned close to the resonance condition for tunneling between the layers. When applied to the case where contact is made to only…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 D. Yoshioka , A. H. MacDonald

Quantum Hall edge states in proximity to a superconductor (SC) usually acquire a non-quantized electron-to-hole conversion probability in transport, due to non-universal SC couplings and disorders. With counter-propagating modes, we show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-26 Pok Man Tam , Hao Chen , Biao Lian

Topological phases are characterised by a topological invariant that remains unchanged by deformations in the Hamiltonian. Materials exhibiting topological phases include topological insulators, superconductors exhibiting strong spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-08 Dimitrie Culcer , Attila Geresdi

The holographic duality allows to construct and study models of strongly coupled quantum matter via dual gravitational theories. In general such models are characterized by the absence of quasiparticles, hydrodynamic behavior and Planckian…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-11-20 Karl Landsteiner , Yan Liu , Ya-Wen Sun

We use time-resolved charge detection techniques to probe virtual tunneling processes in a double quantum dot. The process involves an energetically forbidden state separated by an energy $\delta$ from the Fermi energy in the leads. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Gustavsson , M. Studer , R. Leturcq , T. Ihn , K. Ensslin , D. C. Driscoll , A. C. Gossard

We present an all-dielectric photonic crystal structure that supports two-dimensionally confined helical topological edge states. The topological properties of the system are controlled by the crystal parameters. An interface between two…

Using a first principles approach, we study the electron transport properties of a new class of molecular wires containing fluorenone units, whose features open up new possibilities for controlling transport through a single molecule. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. J. Lambert , I. M. Grace , T. Papadopoulos

Motivated by the transmission of topological surface states through atomic scale steps, we study the transport of gapless Dirac fermions on hyperbolic surfaces. We confirm that, independent of the curvature of the hyperbolae and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-09 Udit Khanna , Saurabh Pradhan , Sumathi Rao

We present a quaternion-inspired formalism specifically developed to evaluate the electric current that traverses a single molecule subjected to an externally applied voltage. The molecule of interest is covalently connected to two small…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-06 Augusto C. L. Moreira , Celso P. de Melo

We establish the concept of topological pumping in one-dimensional systems with long-range couplings and apply it to the transport of a photon in quantum optical systems. In our theoretical investigation, we introduce an extended version of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-02 Mathias B. M. Svendsen , Marcel Cech , Max Schemmer , Beatriz Olmos

We demonstrate evidences of electronic transport via topological Dirac surface states in a thin film of strained HgTe. At high perpendicular magnetic fields, we show that the electron transport reaches the quantum Hall regime with vanishing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-27 C. Thomas , O. Crauste , B. Haas , P. H. Jouneau , C. Bäuerle , L. P. Lévy , E. Orignac , D. Carpentier , P. Ballet , T. Meunier

Nodal-line semimetals are topological phases where the conduction and the valence bands cross each other along one-dimensional lines in the Brillouin zone, which are symmetry protected by either spatial symmetries or time-reversal symmetry.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-01 R. Flores-Calderón , Leonardo Medel , A. Martín-Ruiz

We explore theoretically how the coupling to cavity vacuum fields affects the electron transport in quantum conductors due to the counter-rotating-wave terms of light-matter interaction. We determine the quantum conductance in terms of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-31 Geva Arwas , Cristiano Ciuti

A theoretical study is presented to quantitatively analyze the transport experiment through individual DNA molecules reported recently by Porath {\it et al.} [Nature {\bf 403}, 635 (2000)]. A variety of valuable quantities are identified by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Xin-Qi Li , YiJing Yan

The robustness of topological properties, such as quantized currents, generally depends on the existence of gaps surrounding the relevant energy levels or on symmetry-forbidden transitions. Here, we observe quantized currents that survive…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-21 Emmanuel Gottlob , Dan S. Borgnia , Robert-Jan Slager , Ulrich Schneider

We consider electrical transport through molecules with Heisenberg-coupled spins arranged in a ring structure in the presence of an easy-axis anisotropy. The molecules are coupled to two metallic leads and a gate. In the charged state of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jörg Lehmann , Daniel Loss

Thouless charge pumps are quantum mechanical devices whose operation relies on topology. They provide the means for transporting quantum matter in space lattices with a single quantum precision. Contrasting space crystals that spontaneously…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-12 Tapio Simula , Niels Kjærgaard , Tilman Pfau