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We study the energy spectrum and persistent current of charge carriers confined in a graphene quantum ring geometry of radius $R$ and width $w$ subjected to a magnetic flux. We consider the case where the crystal symmetry is locally…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-14 Abdelhadi Belouad , Ahmed Jellal , Hocine Bahlouli

Weak ergodicity breaking in interacting quantum systems may occur due to the existence of a subspace dynamically decoupled from the rest of the Hilbert space. In two-orbital spinful lattice systems, we construct such subspaces that are in…

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This work presents the electronic and transport properties of bilayer borophene nanoribbons. In the first part, a four-orbital tight-binding model is derived by fitting the \emph{ab initio} band structure. The transport properties of…

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We theoretically investigate the spin-orbit interaction of electrons confined in the outer regions of square core-shell nanowires. The polygonal cross section leads to the accumulation of low-energy electrons in the corners and the…

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We theoretically investigate the deflection-induced coupling of an electron spin to vibrational motion due to spin-orbit coupling in suspended carbon nanotube quantum dots. Our estimates indicate that, with current capabilities, a quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-05 András Pályi , P. R. Struck , Mark Rudner , Karsten Flensberg , Guido Burkard

We address the problem of persistent charge and spin currents on a Corbino disk built from a graphene sheet. We consistently derive the Hamiltonian including kinetic, intrinsic (ISO) and Rashba spin-orbit interactions in cylindrical…

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Graphene super-structures have been widely studied but the original structure of the SU(2) Hamiltonian was never modified. We study SU(2)xSU(2) super-structures arising from spatial modulation of spin-orbit interactions and derive an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-19 Lucia Lenz , Dario Bercioux

A persistent current qubit has two quantum states with opposite currents flowing in a superconducting loop. Their magnetic field couple to nuclear spins. The qubit state is not only perturbed by the spins but it also gets entangled with the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Jacek Dziarmaga

We identify the leading processes of electron transport across finite-length segments of proximitized nanowires and build a quantitative theory of their two-terminal conductance. In the presence of spin-orbit interaction, a nanowire can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-28 B. van Heck , R. M. Lutchyn , L. I. Glazman

We present analysis of a single channel interacting quantum wire problem in the presence of spin-orbit interaction. The spin-orbit coupling breaks the spin-rotational symmetry from SU(2) to U(1) and breaks inversion symmetry. The low-energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-28 Nikolaos Kainaris , Sam T. Carr

We study theoretically electron spins in nanowire quantum dots placed inside a transmission line resonator. Because of the spin-orbit interaction, the spins couple to the electric component of the resonator electromagnetic field and enable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Mircea Trif , Vitaly N. Golovach , Daniel Loss

We investigate static charge and spin density modulation patterns along a ferromagnet/semiconductor single junction quantum wire in the presence of spin-orbit coupling. Coherent scattering theory is used to calculate the charge and spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Minchul Lee , Christoph Bruder

Theoretical description of electron spin orientation and detection by short optical pulses is proposed for the ensembles of the singly charged semiconductor nanocrystals. The complex structure of the valence band in spherical nanocrystals…

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Semiconductor-superconductor hybrid systems are promising candidates for the realization Majorana fermions and topological order, i.e. topologically protected degeneracies, in solid state devices. We show that the topological order is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-13 Björn Zocher , Mats Horsdal , Bernd Rosenow

Fractionalization remains one of the most fascinating manifestations of strong interactions in quantum many-body systems. In quantum magnetism, the existence of spinons -- collective magnetic excitations that behave as quasiparticles with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-31 N. E. Shaik , E. Fogh , B. Dalla Piazza , B. Normand , D. Ivanov , H. M. Rønnow

We provide a full characterization of the spectral properties of spiral spin density wave (SSDW) states which emerge in one-dimensional electron systems coupled to localized magnetic moments or quantum wires with spin-orbit interactions. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-01-14 Dirk Schuricht

Multiple spin density waves and related vortex-type magnetic structures in the itinerant electron system with inversion symmetry have been investigated on the basis of the Hubbard model and the generalized Hartree-Fock approximation…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-02-19 Yoshiro Kakehashi

We develop a strong coupling approach towards quantum magnetism in Mott insulators for Wannier obstructed bands. Despite the lack of Wannier orbitals, electrons can still singly occupy a set of exponentially-localized but nonorthogonal…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-03 Xiao-Yang Huang , Taige Wang , Shang Liu , Hong-Ye Hu , Yi-Zhuang You

Engineering a Hamiltonian system with tunable interactions provides opportunities to optimize performance for quantum sensing and explore emerging phenomena of many-body systems. An optical lattice clock based on partially delocalized…

The charge and spin diffusion equations taking into account spin-flip and spin-transfer torque were numerically solved using a finite element method in complex non-collinear geometry with strongly inhomogeneous current flow. As an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-14 N. Strelkov , A. Vedyayev , N. Ryzhanova , D. Gusakova , L. D. Buda-Prejbeanu , M. Chshiev , S. Amara , N. de Mestier , C. Baraduc , B. Dieny