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We have investigated a new feature of impurity cyclotron resonances common to various localized potentials of graphene. A localized potential can interact with a magnetic field in an unexpected way in graphene. It can lead to formation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-25 S. C. Kim , S. -R. Eric Yang , A. H. MacDonald

One of the most distinctive features of graphene is its huge inter-Landau-level splitting in experimentally attainable magnetic fields which results in the room-temperature quantum Hall effect. In this paper we calculate the longitudinal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-07 A. M. Alexeev , R. R. Hartmann , M. E. Portnoi

The coherence properties of mechanical resonators are often limited by multiple unavoidable forms of loss -- including phonon-phonon and phonon-defect scattering -- which result in the scattering of sound into other resonant modes and into…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-30 Xunnong Xu , Seunghwi Kim , Gaurav Bahl , Jacob M. Taylor

We measure the conductance of a quantum point contact (QPC) while the biased tip of a scanning probe microscope induces a depleted region in the electron gas underneath. At finite magnetic field we find plateaus in the real-space maps of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-17 Nikola Pascher , Clemens Rössler , Thomas Ihn , Klaus Ensslin , Christian Reichl , Werner Wegscheider

We study the quasiparticle interference (QPI) patterns caused by scattering off nonmagnetic, magnetic point impurities, and edge impurities, separately, in a two dimensional helical liquid, which describes the surface states of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Xiaoting Zhou , Chen Fang , Wei-Feng Tsai , Jiangping Hu

We show that the extrinsic spin Hall effect can be engineered in monolayer graphene by decoration with small doses of adatoms, molecules, or nanoparticles originating local spin-orbit perturbations. The analysis of the single impurity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-18 A. Ferreira , T. G. Rappoport , M. A. Cazalilla , A. H. Castro Neto

An electronic Mach Zehnder interferometer is used in the integer quantum hall regime at filling factor 2, to study the dephasing of the interferences. This is found to be induced by the electrical noise existing in the edge states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Roulleau , F. Portier , P. Roche , A. Cavanna , G. Faini , U. Gennser , D. Mailly

In conventional superconductors, magnetic impurities form an impurity band due to quantum interference of the impurity bound states, leading to suppression of the superconducting transition temperature. Such quantum interference effects can…

The pointlike impurity scattering is studied for a superconductor with different pairing symmetries based on a minimal two band model proposed by S. Raghu $et$ $al.$ [Phys. Rev. B {\bf 77}, R220503 (2008)], and the self-consistent…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 Tao Zhou , Xiang Hu , Jian-Xin Zhu , C. S. Ting

A quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) insulator breaks reciprocity by combining magnetic polarization and spin-orbit coupling to generate a unidirectional transmission of signals in the absence of an external magnetic field. Such behavior makes…

Two dimensional electron systems exhibiting the fractional quantum Hall effects are characterized by a quantized Hall conductance and a dissipationless bulk. The transport in these systems occurs only at the edges where gapless excitations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yogesh N. Joglekar , Hoang K. Nguyen , Ganpathy Murthy

We present a theory for quantum impurity relaxometry of magnons in thin films, exhibiting quantitative agreement with recent experiments without needing arbitrary scale factors used in theoretical models thus far. Our theory reveals that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 Avinash Rustagi , Iacopo Bertelli , Toeno van der Sar , Pramey Upadhyaya

We show evidence of the backscattering of quantum Hall edge channels in a narrow graphene Hall bar, induced by the gating effect of the conducting tip of a Scanning Gate Microscope, which we can position with nanometer precision. We show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-17 Lennart Bours , Stefano Guiducci , Alina Mreńca-Kolasińska , Bartłomiej Szafran , Jan C Maan , Stefan Heun

The thermal Hall effect, which arises when heat flows transverse to an applied thermal gradient, has become an important observable in the study of quantum materials. Recent experiments found a large thermal Hall conductivity $\kappa_{xy}$…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-02-06 Liuke Lyu , William Witczak-Krempa

We study various geometrical aspects of the propagation of particles obeying fractional statistics in the physical setting of the quantum Hall system. We find a discrete set of zeros for the two-particle kernel in the lowest Landau level;…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Diptiman Sen , Michael Stone , Smitha Vishveshwara

Quantum Hall edge states have some characteristic features that can prove useful to measure and control solid state qubits. For example, their high voltage to current ratio and their dissipationless nature can be exploited to manufacture…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-17 Stefano Bosco , David P. DiVincenzo

We obtain an empirical relation between the zero temperature, zero frequency quantum noise ${\small{(}}S{\small{(}}\omega=0{\small{)}}{\small{)}}$ and the related power dissipation ${\small{(}}D{\small{)}}$ for chiral circuitry. We consider…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-28 Disha Wadhawan , Sourin Das

Motivated by recent experiments on the phonon contribution to the thermal Hall effect in the cuprates, we present an analysis of chiral phonon transport. We assume the chiral behavior arises from a non-zero phonon Hall vicosity, which is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-05-12 Haoyu Guo , Subir Sachdev

We develop a new approach to carrier transport between the edge states via resonant scattering on impurities, which is applicable both for short and long range impurities. A detailed analysis of resonant scattering on a single impurity is…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 S. A. Gurvitz

It is well known that while forward scattering has no effect on the conductance of one-dimensional systems, backscattering off a static impurity suppresses the current. We study the effect of a time-dependent point impurity on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. E. Feldman , Yuval Gefen