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Dirac fermions have been studied intensively in condensed matter physics in recent years. Many theoretical predictions critically depend on the number of valleys where the Dirac fermions are realized. In this work, we report the discovery…

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We review our recent works on the quantum transport, mainly in topological semimetals and also in topological insulators, organized according to the strength of the magnetic field. At weak magnetic fields, we explain the negative…

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The experiments in quantum spin Hall insulator candidate materials, such as HgTe/CdTe and InAs/GaSb heterostructures, indicate that in addition to the topologically protected helical edge modes these multilayer heterostructures may also…

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Topological insulators can be seen as band-insulators with a conducting surface. The surface carriers are Dirac particles with an energy which increases linearly with momentum. This confers extraordinary transport properties characteristic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-12 Clément Bouvier , Tristan Meunier , Philippe Ballet , Xavier Baudry , Roman Bernd Günter Kramer , Laurent Lévy

The quantum spin Hall (QSH) states discovered in an inverted band of InAs/GaSb and HgTe/CdTe quantum wells categorize them among the very superior candidates for topological insulators. In the presence of a magnetic field, these QSH states…

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The density-dependent mobility of n-type HgTe quantum wells with inverted band ordering has been studied both experimentally and theoretically. While semiconductor heterostructures with a parabolic dispersion exhibit an increase in mobility…

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The ability to localize and manipulate individual quasiparticles in mesoscopic structures is critical in experimental studies of quantum mechanics and thermodynamics, and in potential quantum information devices, e.g., for topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-25 Scott Mills , Anna Gura , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Matthew Dawber , Dmitri Averin , Xu Du

Topological insulators are a novel class of quantum matter with a gapped insulating bulk yet gapless spin helical Dirac fermion conducting surface states. Here, we report local and non-local electrical and magneto transport measurements in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-11 Yang Xu , Ireneusz Miotkowski , Yong P. Chen

We present direct experimental evidence for nonlocal transport in HgTe quantum wells in the quantum spin Hall regime, in the absence of any external magnetic field. The data conclusively show that the non-dissipative quantum transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-08-17 Andreas Roth , Christoph Bruene , Hartmut Buhmann , Laurens W. Molenkamp , Joseph Maciejko , Xiao-Liang Qi , Shou-Cheng Zhang

We consider quantum rings realized in materials where the dynamics of charge carriers mimics that of two-dimensional (2D) Dirac electrons. A general theoretical description of the ring-subband structure is developed that applies to a range…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-17 L. Gioia , U. Zülicke , M. Governale , R. Winkler

While the helical character of the edge channels responsible for charge transport in the quantum spin Hall regime of a two-dimensional topological insulator is by now well established, an experimental confirmation that the transport in the…

We present an experimental study of low temperature electronic transport in the hybridization gap of inverted InAs/GaSb composite quantum wells. Electrostatic gate is used to push the Fermi level into the gap regime, where the conductance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Ivan Knez , Rui-Rui Du , Gerard Sullivan

We discuss the surface magnetotransport in the quantum Hall (QH) ferromagnetic state expected in the organic Dirac fermion system \alpha-(BEDT-TTF)_2I_3. The QH ferromagnetic state is one of the possible \nu=0 QH states in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-23 Toshihito Osada

We experimentally confirm the \nu = 0 quantum Hall ferromagnetic (QHF) state, accompanied by helical edge states, in the layered organic Dirac-fermion system \alpha-(ET)2I3 by demonstrating helical edge transport in multilayers. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-19 Toshihito Osada , Mitsuyuki Sato , Takako Konoike , Woun Kang

We present a comprehensive theoretical study of the static spin response in HgTe quantum wells, revealing distinctive behavior for the topologically nontrivial inverted structure. Most strikingly, the q=0 (long-wave-length) spin…

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We address the problem of magnetic-field-induced corner states in quantum spin Hall insulators (QSHIs) beyond the particle-hole-symmetric limit. Starting from a realistic low-energy model for zinc-blende semiconductor quantum wells (QWs),…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-27 Sergey S. Krishtopenko , Frédéric Teppe

The magnetotransport properties of epitaxial films of Cd3As2, a paradigm three-dimensional Dirac semimetal, are investigated. We show that an energy gap opens in the bulk electronic states of sufficiently thin films and, at low…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-08 Timo Schumann , Luca Galletti , David A. Kealhofer , Honggyu Kim , Manik Goyal , Susanne Stemmer

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

We study spin-resolved resonant tunneling in a system of two quantum dots sandwiched between doped quantum wells. In the coherent (Dicke) regime, i.e., when quantum dot separation is smaller than the Fermi wavelength in a two-dimensional…

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