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An empirical $s_cp^3_a$ tight-binding (TB) model is applied to the investigation of electronic states in semiconductor quantum dots. A basis set of three $p$-orbitals at the anions and one $s$-orbital at the cations is chosen. Matrix…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Stefan Schulz , Gerd Czycholl

The electronic structure and chemical bonding of wurtzite-GaN investigated by N 1s soft x-ray absorption spectroscopy and N K, Ga M1, and Ga M2,3 emission spectroscopy is compared to that of pure Ga. The measurements are interpreted by…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-12-30 Martin Magnuson , Maurizio Mattesini , Carina Höglund , Jens Birch , Lars Hultman

We construct a minimal four-band model for the two-dimensional (2D) topological insulators and quantum anomalous Hall insulators based on the $p_x$- and $p_y$-orbital bands in the honeycomb lattice. The multiorbital structure allows the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-12 Gu-Feng Zhang , Yi Li , Congjun Wu

Quantum wells in InAs/GaSb heterostructures can be tuned to a topological regime associated with the quantum spin Hall effect, which arises due to an inverted band gap and hybridized electron and hole states. Here, we investigate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-30 Florinda Viñas Boström , Athanasios Tsintzis , Michael Hell , Martin Leijnse

In this paper we study the effects of hybridization in the superconducting properties of a two-band system. We consider the cases that these bands are formed by electronic orbitals with angular momentum, such that, the hybridization…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-10-03 Heron Caldas , F. S. Batista , Mucio A. Continentino , Fernanda Deus , David Nozadze

Recent investigations of the magnetic properties and the discovery of superconductivity in quasi-one-dimensional triangular lattice organic charge-transfer solids have indicated the severe limitations of the effective 1/2-filled band…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-10-01 R. T. Clay , N. Gomes , S. Mazumdar

We present a systematic analysis on the basis of ab initio calculations and many-body perturbation theory for clarifying the dominant fluctuation in complex charge-spin-orbital coupled systems. For a tight-binding multiband model obtained…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-23 Amane Uehara , Hiroshi Shinaoka , Yukitoshi Motome

We formulate the multi-band kp theory of hyperfine interactions for semiconductor nanostructures in the envelope function approximation. We apply this theoretical description to the fluctuations of the longitudinal and transverse Overhauser…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-28 Paweł Machnikowski , Krzysztof Gawarecki , Łukasz Cywiński

Using $\vec{k}$$\cdot$$\vec{p}$ theory, we derive an effective four band model describing the physics of the typical two-dimensional topological insulator (HgTe/CdTe quantum well) in the presence of out-of-plane in z-direction inversion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 D. G. Rothe , R. W. Reinthaler , C. -X. Liu , L. W. Molenkamp , S. -C. Zhang , E. M. Hankiewicz

Multiple spin density waves and related vortex-type magnetic structures in the itinerant electron system with inversion symmetry have been investigated on the basis of the Hubbard model and the generalized Hartree-Fock approximation…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-02-19 Yoshiro Kakehashi

In the band theory, first-principles calculations, the tight-binding method and the effective $k\cdot p$ model are usually employed to investigate the electronic structure of condensed matters. The effective $k\cdot p$ model has a compact…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-06-25 Guohui Zhan , Minji Shi , Zhilong Yang , Haijun Zhang

Using group theory and Kane-like $\mathbf{k\cdot p}$ model together with the L\"owdining partition method, we derive the expressions of spin-orbit coupling of electrons and holes, including the linear-$k$ Rashba term due to the intrinsic…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-11-13 J. Y. Fu , M. W. Wu

Mainstream among topological insulators, GaSb/InAs quantum wells present a broken gap alignment for the energy bands which supports the quantum spin Hall insulator phase and forms an important building block in the search of exotic states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-11 T. Campos , M. A. T. Sandoval , L. Diago-Cisneros , G. M. Sipahi

Quantum spin Hall insulators (QSHIs), also known as two-dimensional topological insulators, have emerged as an unconventional class of quantum states with insulating bulk and conducting edges originating from nontrivial inverted band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-11 Takafumi Akiho , François Couëdo , Hiroshi Irie , Kyoichi Suzuki , Koji Onomitsu , Koji Muraki

Most superconducting mechanisms pair electrons within the same band, forming spin singlets. However, the discovery of multi-band superconductivity has opened new scenarios for pairing, particularly in systems with strong spin-orbit…

The influence of hydride exposure on previously unreported self-assembled InP(As) nanostructures is investigated, showing an unexpected morphological variability with growth parameters, and producing a large family of InP(As) nanostructures…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-22 E. E. Mura , A. Gocalinska , G. Juska , S. T. Moroni , A. Pescaglini , E. Pelucchi

We present an investigation in the device parameter space of band-to-band tunneling in nanowires with a diamond cubic or zincblende crystalline structure. Results are obtained from quantum transport simulations based on Non-Equilibrium…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-26 Pino D'Amico , Paolo Marconcini , Gianluca Fiori , Giuseppe Iannaccone

The addition of dilute concentrations of bismuth (Bi) into GaAs to form GaBiAs alloys results in a large reduction of the band gap energy Eg accompanied by a significant increase of the spin-orbit-splitting energy (delta_SO), leading to an…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-11 Muhammad Usman , Christopher A Broderick , Eoin P. O'Reilly

Ground state properties of SiC, AlN, GaN and InN in the zinc-blende and wurtzite structures are determined using an ab initio scheme. For the self-consistent field part of the calculations, the Hartree-Fock program Crystal has been used.…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-30 Beate Paulus , Fa-Jian Shi , Hermann Stoll

We report electrical characterization of quantum dots formed by introducing pairs of thin wurtzite (WZ) segments in zinc blende (ZB) InAs nanowires. Regular Coulomb oscillations are observed over a wide gate voltage span, indicating that WZ…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-25 Malin Nilsson , Luna Namazi , Sebastian Lehmann , Martin Leijnse , Kimberly A. Dick , Claes Thelander