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Electrically tunable g-factors in quantum dots are highly desirable for applications in quantum computing and spintronics. We report giant modulation of the hole g-factor in a SiGe nanocrystal when an electric field is applied to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-11 N. Ares , V. N. Golovach , G. Katsaros , M. Stoffel , F. Fournel , L. I. Glazman , O. G. Schmidt , S. De Franceschi

We report a large g-factor tunability of a single hole spin in an InGaAs quantum dot via an electric field. The magnetic field lies in the in-plane direction x, the direction required for a coherent hole spin. The electrical field lies…

The topological charge of the spin texture in a quantum dot with spin-orbit couplings is shown analytically here to be stable against the ellipticity of the dot. It is directly tunable by a single magnetic field and is related to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 Wenchen Luo , Tapash Chakraborty

Among recent proposals for next-generation, non-charge-based logic is the notion that a single electron can be trapped and its spin can be manipulated through the application of gate potentials. In this paper, we present numerical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Sanjay Prabhakar , James E. Raynolds

The determination and control of the electron $g$-factor in semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) are fundamental prerequisites in modern concepts of spintronics and spin-based quantum computation. We study the dependence of the $g$-factor on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-07 Samuel d'Hollosy , Gábor Fábián , Andreas Baumgartner , Jesper Nygård , Christian Schönenberger

Dipolariton is a voltage controlled mixture of direct and indirect excitons in asymmetric double quantum wells coupled by resonant carrier tunneling, and a microcavity photon. We calculate the voltage dependence of the spin-singlet and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 A. V. Nalitov , D. D. Solnyshkov , N. A. Gippius , G. Malpuech

Topological defects are ubiquitous from solid state physics to cosmology, where they drive phase transitions by proliferating as domain walls, monopoles or vortices. As quantum excitations, they often display fractional charge and anyonic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-27 R. Koushik , Matthias Baenninger , Vijay Narayan , Subroto Mukerjee , Michael Pepper , Ian Farrer , David A. Ritchie , Arindam Ghosh

The ability to tune material properties using gate electric field is at the heart of modern electronic technology. It is also a driving force behind recent advances in two-dimensional systems, such as gate-electric-field induced…

Spin qubits in germanium gate-defined quantum dots have made considerable progress within the last few years, partially due to their strong spin-orbit coupling and site-dependent $g$-tensors. While this characteristic of the $g$-factors…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-20 John Rooney , Zhentao Luo , Lucas E. A. Stehouwer , Giordano Scappucci , Menno Veldhorst , Hong-Wen Jiang

Combining magnetometry with optical spectroscopy has uncovered novel quantum phenomena and is emerging as a platform for quantum information science. Yet, the theory of magnetic response of excitons, correlated electron-hole pairs in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-23 Gurjyot Sethi , Jiawei Ruan , Fang Zhang , Weichen Tang , Chen Hu , Mit Naik , Steven G. Louie

We demonstrate charge tuning in strain free GaAs/AlGaAs quantum dots (QDs) grown by droplet epitaxy on a GaAs(111)A substrate. Application of a bias voltage allows the controlled charging of the QDs from $-3|e|$ to $+2|e|$. The resulting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-29 L. Bouet , M. Vidal , T. Mano , N. Ha , T. Kuroda , M. V. Durnev , M. M. Glazov , E. L. Ivchenko , X. Marie , T. Amand , K. Sakoda , G. Wang , B. Urbaszek

The knowledge of electron and hole g-factors, their control and engineering are key for the usage of the spin degree of freedom for information processing in solid state systems. The electronic g-factor will be materials dependent, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Medeiros-Ribeiro , E. Ribeiro , H. Westfahl

We investigate the wave functions, spectrum, and g-factor anisotropy of low-energy electrons confined to self-assembled, pyramidal InAs quantum dots (QDs) subject to external magnetic and electric fields. We present the construction of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-02 Robert Zielke , Franziska Maier , Daniel Loss

We demonstrate that the Higgs mechanism in three-dimensional topological superconductors exhibits unique features with experimentally observable consequences. The Higgs model we discuss has two superconducting components and an axion-like…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-12-15 Flavio S. Nogueira , Asle Sudbo , Ilya Eremin

The properties of an exciton in a type II quantum dot are studied under the influence of a perpendicular applied magnetic field. The dot is modelled by a quantum disk with radius $R$, thickness $d$ and the electron is confined in the disk,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 K. L. Janssens , B. Partoens , F. M. Peeters

We derive analytically the change of exciton fine structure splitting (FSS) under the external stresses in the self-assembled InAs/GaAs quantum dots using the Bir-Pikus model. We find that the FSS change is mainly due to the strain induced…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-18 Jianping Wang , Guang-Can Guo , Lixin He

We consider electronic transport through laterally parallel double open quantum dots embedded in a quantum wire in a perpendicular magnetic field. The coupling modes of the dots are tunable by adjusting the strength of a central barrier and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Chi-Shung Tang , Wing Wa Yu , Vidar Gudmundsson

Spin-dependent transport through a two-level quantum dot in the sequential tunneling regime is analyzed theoretically by means of a real-time diagrammatic technique. It is shown that the current, tunnel magnetoresistance, and shot noise…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 I. Weymann , J. Barnas

We investigate electron interferometry of edge states in Topological Insulators. We show that, when inter-boundary coupling is induced at two quantum point contacts of a four terminal setup, both Fabry-P\'erot-like and Aharonov-Bohm-like…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-16 Fabrizio Dolcini

Since the seminal ideas of Berezinskii, Kosterlitz and Thouless, topological excitations are at the heart of our understanding of a whole novel class of phase transitions. In most of the cases, those transitions are controlled by a single…