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Twisted heterostructures of two-dimensional crystals offer almost unlimited scope for the design of novel metamaterials. Here we demonstrate a room-temperature ferroelectric semiconductor that is assembled using mono- or few- layer MoS2.…

The conductance of domain wall structures consisting of either stripes or cylindrical domains in multi-axial ferroelectric-semiconductors is analyzed. The effects of the domain size, wall tilt and curvature, on charge accumulation, are…

Use of a spin polarized current for the manipulation of magnetic domain walls in ferromagnetic nanowires has been the subject of intensive research for many years. Recently, due to technological advancements, creating nano-contacts with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-10 Hamidreza Kazemi , Sebastian Eggert , Nicholas Sedlmayr

The electric conductivity behavior in the single and double tunnel-coupled quantum wells (QW) with different doping profile caused by impact of short pulses of the strong longitudinal (in the quantum wells plane) electric field has been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-07 P. A. Belevskii , M. N. Vinoslavskii , V. V. Vainberg , O. S. Pylypchuk , V. N. Poroshin

We theoretically investigate magnon heat transport in an antiferromagnetic (AFM) insulator containing a domain wall (DW) in the presence of a magnetic field applied along the easy axis. We show that the intrinsic spin of the DW couples to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-30 Ehsan Faridi , Se Kwon Kim , Giovanni Vignale

We show that burying of the Dirac point in semiconductor-based quantum-spin-Hall systems can generate unexpected robustness of edge states to magnetic fields. A detailed ${\bf k\cdot p}$ band-structure analysis reveals that InAs/GaSb and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-21 Rafal Skolasinski , Dmitry I. Pikulin , Jason Alicea , Michael Wimmer

Conductive ferroelectric domain walls--ultra-narrow and configurable conduction paths, have been considered as essential building blocks for future programmable domain wall electronics. For applications in high density devices, it is…

We develop a theory to compute the domain-wall magnetoresistance (DWMR) in antiferromagnetic (AFM) metals with different spin structures. In the diffusive transport regime, the DWMR can be either {\it negative} or positive depending on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-16 Jun-Hui Zheng , Arne Brataas , Mathias Kläui , Alireza Qaiumzadeh

Two-dimensional electron systems (2DESs) confined to the surface of narrowband semiconductors have attracted great interest since they can easily integrate with superconductivity (or ferromagnetism) enabling new possibilities in hybrid…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-10 Kaushini Wickramasinghe , William Mayer , Joseph Yuan , Tri Nguyen , Lucy Jiao , Vladimir Manucharyan , Javad Shabani

We theoretically study the magnetoelectric coupling in a quantum anomalous Hall insulator state induced by interfacing a dynamic magnetization texture to a topological insulator. In particular, we propose that the quantum anomalous Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-03 Pramey Upadhyaya , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

A study of transverse tail-to-tail magnetic domain walls (DW) in novel current perpendicular to the plane (CPP) spin valves (SV) of various dimensions is presented. For films with dimensions larger than the DW width, we find that DW motion…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Rebei O. Mryasov

The development of valleytronics demands long-range electronic transport with preserved valley index, a degree of freedom similar to electron spin. A promising structure for this end is a topological one-dimensional (1D) channel formed in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-25 E. Mania , A. R. Cadore , T. Taniguchi , K. Watanabe , L. C. Campos

The highly nonlinear coupling of transport and magnetic properties in a multiwell heterostructure, which comprises ferromagnetic quantum wells made of diluted magnetic semiconductors, is theoretically investigated. The interplay of resonant…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Christian Ertler , Walter Pötz , Jaroslav Fabian

We predict a fast domain wall (DW) motion induced by a thermal gradient across a nanoscopic ferromagnetic stripe of MnBi. The driving mechanism is an exchange torque fueled by magnon accumulation at the DWs. Depending on the thickness of…

We report electron transport studies in an encapsulated few-layer WTe$_2$ at low temperatures and high magnetic fields. The magnetoconductance reveals a temperature-induced crossover between weak antilocalization (WAL) and weak localization…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-10-07 Xurui Zhang , John M. Woods , Judy J. Cha , Xiaoyan Shi

A fundamentally intriguing yet not well understood topic in the field of ferroelectrics is the collective excitation of domain walls (DWs), with potential applications to DW-based nanoelectronic and optoelectronic devices. Here we use…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-25 Xiangwei Guo , Jiaxuan Wu , Yujie Zhu , Aiden Ross , Bo Wang , Paul G. Evans , Long-Qing Chen , Jia-Mian Hu

We describe magnetotransport experiments performed on Hall crosses made from quantum wires at LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interfaces. Shubnikov-de Haas oscillations measured in a 14-nm wide structure exhibit modulations that are consistent with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-03-17 Cheng Cen , Daniela F. Bogorin , Vanita Srinivasa , Jeremy Levy

I analyze the nonlinear Hamiltonian equations of motion for a one-dimensional chain of transverse magnetic nano-islands, seeking solutions for different types of static domain-walls (DWs) connecting uniform static states. The system of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-23 G. M. Wysin

We have fabricated high-mobility, two-dimensional electron gases in a GaAs quantum well on cylindrical surfaces, which allows to investigate the magnetotransport behavior under varying magnetic fields along the current path. A strong…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-29 K. -J. Friedland , R. Hey , H. Kostial , U. Jahn , E. Wiebicke , K. H. Ploog , A. Vorob'ev , Ju. Yukecheva , V. Prinz

Domain walls (DWs) in perpendicularly magnetized nanotracks (PMNTs) with interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) have become the primary objects of theoretical and experimental interest due to their technological suitability in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-11-22 Yue Zhang , Mao-Kang Shen , Zai-Dong Li , Xiao-Fei Yang , Long You