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The quantized vortex state appearing in the recently discovered new states in hcp 4He since their discovery is discussed. Special attention is given to evidence for the vortex state as the vortex fluid (VF) state and its transition into the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-04 Minoru Kubota

We propose a minimal effective two-dimensional Hamiltonian for HgTe/CdHgTe quantum wells (QWs) describing the side maxima of the first valence subband. By using the Hamiltonian, we explore the picture of helical edge states in tensile and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-11 S. S. Krishtopenko , F. Teppe

We investigate optimal metrological protocols for phase estimation in the presence of correlated dephasing noise, including spin-squeezed states sensing strategies as well as parallel and adaptive protocols optimized using tensor-network…

We study the \nu=5/2 even-denominator fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) over a wide range of magnetic (B) field in a heterojunction insulated gate field-effect transistor (HIGFET). The electron density can be tuned from n=0 to 7.6…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 W. Pan , H. L. Stormer , D. C. Tsui , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. Baldwin , K. W. West

We calculate the rates of phonon-assisted hyperfine spin flips during electron and hole tunneling between quantum dots in a self-assembled quantum dot molecule. We show that the hyperfine process dominates over the spin-orbit-induced spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-28 Paweł Karwat , Krzysztof Gawarecki , Paweł Machnikowski

The spectrum of a segment of InAs nanowire, confined between two superconducting leads, was measured as function of gate voltage and superconducting phase difference using a third normal-metal tunnel probe. Sub-gap resonances for odd…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-14 W. Chang , V. E. Manucharyan , T. S. Jespersen , J. Nygard , C. M. Marcus

We report the experimental observation of the spin-Hall effect in a two-dimensional (2D) hole system with Rashba spin-orbit coupling. The 2D hole layer is a part of a p-n junction light-emitting diode with a specially designed co-planar…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Joerg Wunderlich , Bernd Kaestner , Jairo Sinova , Tomas Jungwirth

This thesis presents three studies in quantum-enhanced sensing and target detection. The first study explores covert target detection using optical or microwave probes, establishing quantum-mechanical limits on the error probabilities of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-16 Guo Yao Tham

We propose a three terminal spin polarized stm setup for probing the helical nature of the Luttinger liquid edge state that appears in the quantum spin Hall system. We show that the three-terminal tunneling conductance strongly depends on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-09 Sourin Das , Sumathi Rao

Inverted-gap GaSb/InAs quantum wells have long been predicted to show quantum spin Hall insulator (QSHI) behavior. The experimental characterization of the QSHI phase in these systems has relied on the presence of quantized edge transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-30 Marcos H. L. de Medeiros , Raphael L. R. C. Teixeira , Guilherme M. Sipahi , Luis G. G. V. Dias da Silva

The coalescence of binary black holes (BBHs) provides a unique arena to test general relativity (GR) in the dynamical, strong-field regime. To this end, we present pSEOBNRv5PHM, a parametrized, multipolar, spin-precessing waveform model for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-24 Lorenzo Pompili , Elisa Maggio , Hector O. Silva , Alessandra Buonanno

We perform momentum-conserving tunneling spectroscopy using a GaAs cleaved-edge overgrowth quantum wire to investigate adjacent quantum Hall edge states. We use the lowest five wire modes with their distinct wave functions to probe each…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 T. Patlatiuk , C. P. Scheller , D. Hill , Y. Tserkovnyak , J. C. Egues , G. Barak , A. Yacoby , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West , D. M. Zumbühl

In the steady-state contingency analysis, the traditional Newton-Raphson method suffers from non-convergence issues when solving post-outage power flow problems, which hinders the integrity and accuracy of security assessment. In this…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Rui Yao , Feng Qiu , Kai Sun

Several experimental and theoretical studies report instances of concerted or correlated multiple proton tunneling in solid phases of water. Here, we construct a pseudo-spin model for the quantum motion of protons in a hexameric H$_2$O ring…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-23 Onur Pusuluk , Tristan Farrow , Cemsinan Deliduman , Vlatko Vedral

In this study, sub-angstrom spatial resolution is achieved in mapping and spectroscopy of atoms and bonds within polygonal grain boundaries (GBs) of graphite using Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM). Robust van Hove singularities (VHS) are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-29 Nirjhar Sarkar , Prabhakar R. Bandaru , Robert C. Dynes

We focus on the HR of massive vector (spin-1) particles tunneling from Schwarzschild BH expressed in the Kruskal-Szekeres (KS) and dynamic Lemaitre (DL) coordinates. Using the Proca equation (PE) together with the Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-11-26 I. Sakalli , A. Övgün

We investigated SrFe$\mathrm{_2}$(As$\mathrm{_{1-x}}$P$\mathrm{_x}$)$\mathrm{_2}$ single crystals with four different phosphorus concentrations x in the superconducting phase (x = 0.35, 0.46) and in the magnetic phase (x = 0, 0.2). The…

It has been demonstrated that topological quantum spin Hall (QSH) state exist in twisted bilayers of transition metal dichalcogenides. However, a comprehensive theoretical characterization of the topological edge states remains a topic of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-08 Hao He , Zhao Gong , Shuai Li , Jian-Jun Liu , Hui-Ying Mu , Xing-Tao An

We study quasiparticle tunneling between the edges of a non-Abelian topological state. The simplest examples are a p+ip superconductor and the Moore-Read Pfaffian non-Abelian fractional quantum Hall state; the latter state may have been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Paul Fendley , Matthew P. A. Fisher , Chetan Nayak

We have found the precise stability region of the half quantum vortex (HQV) for superfluid $^3$He A phase confined in parallel plates with a narrow gap under rotation. Standard Ginzburg-Landau free energy, which is well established, is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 T. Kawakami , Y. Tsutsumi , K. Machida