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Valley, as a new degree of freedom for electrons, has drawn considerable attention due to its significant potential for encoding and storing information. Lifting the energy degeneracy to achieve valley polarization is necessary for…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-03-11 Pei Zhaos , Yandong Ma , Hao Wang , Baibiao Huang , Liangzhi Kou , Ying Dai

We investigate the role of long-range Coulomb interactions in $M$-valley moir\'es using the self-consistent Hartree-Fock approximation. This platform was recently proposed [Nature 643, 376 (2025) and arXiv:2411.18828 (2024)] as a new class…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-24 Christophe De Beule , Liangtao Peng , E. J. Mele , Shaffique Adam

In this work, the performance of Tunnel Field-Effect Transistors (TFETs) based on two-dimensional Transition Metal Dichalcogenide (TMD) materials is investigated by atomistic quantum transport simulations. One of the major challenges of…

Effects of the electron-electron interaction on tunneling into a metal in ultra-high magnetic field (ultra-quantum limit) are studied. The range of the interaction is found to have a decisive effect both on the nature of the field-induced…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-10-30 Shan-Wen Tsai , D. L. Maslov , L. I. Glazman

We consider the effect of electron correlations on tunneling from a 2D electron layer in a magnetic field parallel to the layer. A tunneling electron can exchange its momentum with other electrons, which leads to an exponential increase of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. I. Dykman , T. Sharpee , P. M. Platzman

An in-depth analysis of valley physics in 2D materials like transition metal dichalcogenides requires the measurement of many material properties as a function of Fermi level position within the electronic band structure. This is normally…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-31 F. Volmer , M. Ersfeld , L. Rathmann , M. Heithoff , L. Kotewitz , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , C. Stampfer , B. Beschoten

Large efforts in improving thermoelectric energy conversion are devoted to energy filtering by nanometer size potential barriers. In this work we perform an analysis and optimization of such barriers for improved energy filtering. We merge…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-08-01 Neophytos Neophytou , Hans Kosina

It has been shown that tunneling of spin-polarized electrons through a semiconductor barrier is accompanied by generation of an electric current in the plane of the interfaces. The direction of this interface current is determined by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. A. Tarasenko , V. I. Perel' , I. N. Yassievich

The magnetically-induced valley-spin filtering in transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers ($MX_{2}$, where $M$=Mo, W and $X$=S, Se, Te) promises new paradigm in information processing. However, the detailed understanding of this effect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-01 Dominik Szczȩśniak , Sabre Kais

Semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers have emerged as promising candidates for future valleytronics-based quantum information technologies. Two distinct momentum-states of tightly-bound electron-hole pairs in these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-16 Gerd Plechinger , Tobias Korn , John M. Lupton

We investigate how different interface geometries of an Al/Al$_2$O$_3$ junction, a common component of modern tunnel devices, affect electron transport through the tunnel barrier. We study six distinct Al/Al$_2$O$_3$ interfaces which differ…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 M Koberidze , A V Feshchenko , M J Puska , R M Nieminen , J P Pekola

The lowest energy states in transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) monolayers follow valley selection rules, which have attracted vast interest due to the possibility of encoding and processing of quantum information. However, these quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-22 Sergii Morozov , Torgom Yezekyan , Christian Wolff , Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi , N. Asger Mortensen

The valley degeneracy of electron states in graphene stimulates intensive research of valley-related optical and transport phenomena. While many proposals on how to manipulate valley states have been put forward, experimental access to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-17 L. E. Golub , S. A. Tarasenko

Photon impingement is capable of liberating electrons in semiconductors. When the electron transport is primarily governed by temperature gradients, high irreversibilities will result, thus lowering converters' efficiencies. A fundamental…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-09-12 Shanhe Su , Jincan Chen , Tien-Mo Shih

Dissipative quantum tunnelling through an inverted parabolic barrier is considered in the presence of an electric field. A Schr\"odinger-Langevin or Kostin quantum classical transition wave equation is used and applied resulting in a scaled…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-03 S. V. Mousavi , S. Miret-Artés

We investigate the tunneling conductance of Weyl semimetal with tilted energy dispersion by considering electron transmission through a p-n-p junction with one-dimensional electric and magnetic barrier. In the presence of both electric and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-21 Can Yesilyurt , Seng Ghee Tan , Gengchiau Liang , Mansoor B. A. Jalil

In monolayer group-VI transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDC), charge carriers have spin and valley degrees of freedom, both associated with magnetic moments. On the other hand, the layer degree of freedom in multilayers is associated with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-19 Zhirui Gong , Gui-Bin Liu , Hongyi Yu , Di Xiao , Xiaodong Cui , Xiaodong Xu , Wang Yao

The possibility of the appearance of a dielectric electron-hole liquid (EHL) in monolayers of transition metal dichalcogenides and heterostructures based on them is considered. It is shown that the coherent pairing of electrons and holes in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-16 P. V. Ratnikov

Weyl semimetal is a recently discovered state of quantum matter, which generally possesses tilted energy dispersion. Here, we investigate the electron tunneling through a Weyl semimetal p-n-p junction. The angular dependence of electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 Can Yesilyurt , Seng Ghee Tan , Gengchiau Liang , Shengyuan A. Yang , Mansoor B. A. Jalil

Tunneling of a particle through a potential barrier remains one of the most remarkable quantum phenomena. Owing to advances in laser technology, electric fields comparable to those electrons experience in atoms are readily generated and…