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We study the quantum nucleation in a thin ferromagnetic film placed in a magnetic field at an arbitrary angle. The dependence of the quantum nucleation and the temperature of the crossover from thermal to quantum regime on the direction and…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 Gwang-Hee Kim

We evaluate quantum corrections to conductivity in an electrically gated thin film of a three-dimensional (3D) topological insulator (TI). We derive approximate analytical expressions for the low-field magnetoresistance as a function of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-25 Ion Garate , Leonid Glazman

We review various aspects of magnetoresistance in (quasi-)twodimensional systems subject to an in-plane magnetic field. Concentrating on single-particle effects, three mechanisms leading to magnetoresistance are discussed: the orbital…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Julia S. Meyer , Vladimir I. Fal'ko , B. L. Altshuler

A study of dynamic and reversible voltage controlled magnetization switching in ferromagnetic Co/Pt thin film with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy at room temperature is presented. The change in the magnetic properties of the system is…

We use frequency-dependent capacitance-voltage spectroscopy to measure the tunneling probability into self-assembled InAs quantum dots. Using an in-plane magnetic field of variable strength and orientation, we are able to obtain information…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Oliver S. Wibbelhoff , Axel Lorke , Dirk Reuter , Andreas D. Wieck

In strongly correlated materials, quasiparticle excitations can carry fractional quantum numbers. An intriguing possibility is the formation of fractionalized, charge-neutral fermions, e.g., spinons and fermionic excitons, that result in…

A surprisingly strong variation of resistance with perpendicular magnetic field, and a peak in the resistance vs. field, R(B) has been found in insulating films of a sequence of homogeneous, quench-condensed films of amorphous Bi undergoing…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-27 Yen-Hsiang Lin , A. M. Goldman

We report transport measurements in HgTe-based quantum wells with well width of 8 nm, corresponding to quantum spin Hall state, subject to in-plane magnetic field. In the absence of the magnetic field the local and nonlocal resistances…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-27 G. M. Gusev , E. B. Olshanetsky , Z. D. Kvon , O. E. Raichev , N. N. Mikhailov , S. A. Dvoretsky

Topological magnon insulators are a new class of magnetic materials that possess topologically nontrivial magnon bands. As a result, magnons in these materials display properties analogous to those of electrons in topological insulators.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-06-22 R. Chisnell , J. S. Helton , D. E. Freedman , D. K. Singh , F. Demmel , C. Stock , D. G. Nocera , Y. S. Lee

We study coherent optics in topological insulator surface states with broken time-reversal symmetry and develop a theory for the dynamical Hall effect driven by intense electromagnetic field. The influence of optical Stark effect enters as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-28 Wang-Kong Tse

Transduction of quantum information between distinct quantum systems is an essential step in various applications, including quantum communications and quantum computing. However, mediating photons of vastly different frequencies and…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-08-19 Haowei Xu , Changhao Li , Guoqing Wang , Hao Tang , Paola Cappellaro , Ju Li

Combining first-principles calculations and tight-binding Hamiltonians, we study the stack-dependent behaviour of electronic and topological properties of layered antiferromagnet MnBi$_2$Te$_4$. Lateral shift of top septuple-layer greatly…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-05 Jiaheng Li , Quansheng Wu , Hongming Weng

Topological properties of quantum materials are intimately related to symmetry. Here, we tune the magnetic order of the axion insulator candidate EuIn$_2$As$_2$ from its broken-helix ground state to the field-polarized phase by applying an…

Topological insulators (TIs) are a promising class of materials for manipulating the magnetization of an adjacent ferromagnet (FM) through the spin-orbit torque (SOT) mechanism. However, current studies combining TIs with conventional FMs…

We experimentally study the energy gap within the incompressible strip at local filling factor $\nu_c=1$ at the quantum Hall edge for samples of very different mobilities. The obtained results indicate strong enhancement of the energy gap…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 E. V. Deviatov , A. Lorke , G. Biasiol , L. Sorba , W. Wegscheider

In band insulators, where the Fermi surface is absent, adiabatic transport is allowed only due to the geometry of the Hilbert space. By driving the system at a small but finite frequency $\omega$, transport is still expected to depend…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-01 Ilia Komissarov , Tobias Holder , Raquel Queiroz

The normalized in-plane magnetoconductivity of the dilute strongly interacting system of electrons in silicon MOSFET's scales with $B/T$ for low densities in the insulating phase. Pronounced deviations occur at higher metallic-like…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Yeekin Tsui , S. A. Vitkalov , M. P. Sarachik , T. M. Klapwijk

A key feature of the topological surface state under a magnetic field is the presence of the zeroth Landau level at the zero energy. Nonetheless, it has been challenging to probe the zeroth Landau level due to large electron-hole puddles…

The interplay between magnetism and strong topological insulator gives rise to distinct new topological phases and various intriguing phenomena, attracting significant attention in recent years. However, magnetic effects in weak topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-05 Rui Chen , Xiao-Xia Yi , Bin Zhou , Dong-Hui Xu

A magnetophotoluminescence study of the carrier transfer with hybrid InAs/GaAs quantum dot(QD)-InGaAs quantum well (QW) structures is carried out where we observe an unsual dependence of the photoluminescence (PL) on the GaAs barrier…