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The relativistic nature of Dirac electrons and holes in graphene profoundly affects the way they interact with impurities. Signatures of the relativistic behavior have been observed recently in scanning tunneling measurements on individual…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-24 Atikur Rahman , Janice Wynn Guikema , Nina Markovic

We investigate the impurity resonant state induced by non-magnetic impurities in d-wave cuprate superconductors in two different impurity models: (i) in a pure potential scattering model within the T-matrix approach and (ii) in a Bose-Fermi…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 Marijana Kircan

Virtual phonons of a quantum liquid scatter off impurities and mediate a long-range interaction, analogous to the Casimir effect. In one dimension the effect is universal and the induced interaction decays as $1/r^3$, much slower than the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-04-16 Michael Schecter , Alex Kamenev

The turbulent transport of impurity particles in plasma edge turbulence is investigated. The impurities are modeled as a passive fluid advected by the electric and polarization drifts, while the ambient plasma turbulence is modeled using…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Priego , O. E. Garcia , V. Naulin , J. Juul Rasmussen

The paper examines superradiance in impurity crystals in the field of a coherent phonon wave excited by two ultrashort laser pulses via Raman scattering processes at the moment of preparation of the initial state of an ensemble of emitters.…

Optics · Physics 2020-03-12 A. P. Saiko

Nodal-line semimetals are characterized by a kind of topologically nontrivial bulk-band crossing, giving rise to almost flat surface states. Yet, a direct evidence of the surface states is still lacking. Here we study theoretically impurity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-20 Tao Zhou , Wei Chen , Yi Gao , Z. D. Wang

The Spin Hall Effect (SHE) is a promising way for transforming charge currents into spin currents in spintronic devices. Large values of the Spin Hall Angle, the characteristic parameter of the yield of this transformation, have been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Albert Fert , Peter M Levy

The massless Dirac electrons found at topological insulator surfaces are thought to be influenced very little by weak, non-magnetic disorder. However, a resonance effect of strongly perturbing non-magnetic impurities has been theoretically…

We study effects of strong impurities on the heat transfer in a coupled electron-phonon system in disordered graphene. A detailed analysis of the electron-phonon heat exchange assisted by such an impurity through the 'resonant…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 K. S. Tikhonov , I. V. Gornyi , V. Yu. Kachorovskii , A. D. Mirlin

We consider an electron in two dimensions submitted to a magnetic field and to the potential of impurities. We show that when the electron is confined to a half-space by a planar wall described by a smooth increasing potential, the total…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 N. Macris , Ph. A. Martin , J. V. Pule

The frictionless, directional propagation of particles at the boundary of topological materials is one of the most striking phenomena in transport. These chiral edge modes lie at the heart of the integer and fractional quantum Hall effects,…

Understanding disorder in graphene is essential for electronic applications; in contrast to conventional materials, the extraordinarily low electron-phonon scattering1, 2 in graphene implies that disorder3-7 dominates its resistivity even…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-14 Jun Yan , Michael S. Fuhrer

Quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) insulators exhibit chiral dissipationless edge states without an external magnetic field, making them a promising material for quantum metrology and microwave applications. However, the breakdown of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-30 Torsten Röper , Daniel Rosenbach , Achim Rosch , Alexey A. Taskin , Yoichi Ando , Erwann Bocquillon

Metrological investigations of the quantum Hall effect (QHE) completed by transport measurements at low magnetic field are carried out in a-few-$\mu\mathrm{m}$-wide Hall bars made of monolayer (ML) or bilayer (BL) exfoliated graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-26 J. Guignard , D. Leprat , D. C. Glattli , F. Schopfer , W. Poirier

We demonstrate that a quantum spin Hall current, spontaneously generated at the edge of a two-dimensional topological insulator, acts as a source of spin-pumping for a magnetic impurity with uniaxial anisotropy. One can then manipulate the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-10 Aaron Hurley , Awadhesh Narayan , Stefano Sanvito

Topology is a powerful recent concept asserting that quantum states could be globally protected against local perturbations. Dissipationless topologically protected states are thus of major fundamental interest as well as of practical…

We exploit the biased tip of a scanning gate microscope (SGM) to induce a controlled backscattering between counter-propagating edge channels in a wide constriction in the quantum Hall regime. We compare our detailed conductance maps with a…

The effects of impurity scattering on a general Abelian fractional quantum Hall (FQH) edge state are analyzed within the chiral-Luttinger-liquid model of low-energy edge dynamics. We find that some disordered edges can have several…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Joel E. Moore , Xiao-Gang Wen

We investigate an interplay between quantum geometrical effects and surface plasmons through surface plasmonic structures, based on an electron hydrodynamic theory. First we demonstrate that the quantum nonlinear Hall effect can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 Riki Toshio , Norio Kawakami

We theoretically investigate the evolution of the peak height of an energy resolved electronic wave-packets ballistically propagating along integer quantum Hall edge channels at filling factor $\nu=2$. This is ultimately related to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 G. Rebora , D. Ferraro , R. H. Rodriguez , F. D. Parmentier , P. Roche , M. Sassetti