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We demonstrate that the optical conductivity of a Fermi liquid (FL) in the absence of umklapp scattering is dramatically affected by the topology of the Fermi surface (FS). Specifically, electron-electron (ee) scattering leads to rapid…

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We have theoretically investigated the time-evolution of electron transport from a two-dimensional electron system (2DES) to a quantum dot (QD). We clearly showed that the coherent electron transport is remarkably modified depending on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-12-12 Masakazu Muraguchi , Yukihiro Takada , Shintaro Nomura , Testuo Endoh , Kenji Shiraishi

We propose a mechanism where the valley splitting is caused by an in-plane electric polarization and the coupling between the two makes it possible for an electric field to control the valley degree of freedom. We demonstrate this by…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-26 Srishti Bhardwaj , T. Maitra

We conduct photoluminescence microscopy that is sensitive to both electron and nuclear spin polarization to investigate the changes that occur in the magnetic ordering in the vicinity of the first integer quantum Hall state in a GaAs 2D…

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Carrier transport in gated 2D graphene monolayers is theoretically considered in the presence of scattering by random charged impurity centers with density $n_i$. Excellent quantitative agreement is obtained (for carrier density $n >…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-10-09 E. H. Hwang , S. Adam , S. Das Sarma

We observe that in a strongly interacting two-dimensional electron system in ultra-clean SiGe/Si/SiGe quantum wells, the resistivity on the metallic side near the metal-insulator transition increases with decreasing temperature, reaches a…

A quantum phase transition that was recently observed in a high-mobility silicon MOSFET is analyzed in terms of a scaling theory. The most striking characteristic of the transition is a divergence of the thermopower, according to an inverse…

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The resistivity (R) of low mobility dilute 2D-electron gas in a n-InGaAs/GaAs double quantum well (DQW) exhibits the monotonic 'insulating-like' temperature dependence (dR/dT < 0) at T = 1.8 -- 70K in zero magnetic field. This temperature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yu. G. Arapov , S. V. Gudina , G. I. Harus , V. N. Neverov , N. G. Shelushinina , M. V. Yakunin , S. M. Podgornyh , E. A. Uskova , B. N. Zvonkov

Twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) aligned with hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) substrate can exhibit an anomalous Hall effect at 3/4 filling due to the spontaneous valley polarization in valley resolved moir\'e bands with opposite Chern number…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-31 Xuzhe Ying , Mengxing Ye , Leon Balents

We discuss the recently discovered two-dimensional metal-insulator transition in zero magnetic field in the light of the scaling theory of localization. We demonstrate that the observed symmetry relating conductivity and resistivity follows…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-30 V. Dobrosavljevic , Elihu Abrahams , E. Miranda , Sudip Chakravarty

This work elucidates the novel behavior found in a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) under a tilted magnetic field in which the field's angle becomes the dominant factor in tuning the spin-splitting rather than the strength of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-01 Rayda Gammag , Cristine Villagonzalo

The electron transport of different conical valleys is investigated in graphene with extended line-defects. Intriguingly, the electron with a definite incident angle can be completely modulated into one conical valley by a resonator which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-02 Yang Liu , Juntao Song , Yuxian Li , Ying Liu , Qing-feng Sun

Recent experiments have observed transitions between superconductivity and correlated magnetism in twisted bilayer WSe$_2$ near van-Hove fillings, driven by the displacement field $D$. Motivated by the experiment, we theoretically propose a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-01 Hyeok-Jun Yang , Yi-Ting Hsu

The results of an experimental study of interaction quantum correction to the conductivity of two-dimensional electron gas in A$_3$B$_5$ semiconductor quantum well heterostructures are presented for a wide range of $T\tau$-parameter…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2008-12-02 G. M. Minkov , A. A. Sherstobitov , A. V. Germanenko , O. E. Rut , V. A. Larionova , A. K. Bakarov , B. N. Zvonkov

We present a theory predicting how the linear magnetotransport of a two-dimensional electron gas is modified by a passive electromagnetic cavity resonator where no real photons are injected nor created. For a cavity photon mode with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-06 Nicola Bartolo , Cristiano Ciuti

Leveraging reciprocal-space proximity effect between superconducting bulk and topological surface states (TSSs) offers a promising way to topological superconductivity. However, elucidating the mutual influence of bulk and TSSs on…

Two-dimensional (2D) mobile carriers are a wellspring of quantum phenomena. Among various 2D-carrier systems, such as field effect transistors and heterostructures, polar materials hold a unique potential; the spontaneous electric…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-07-10 Y. Kohsaka , M. Kanou , H. Takagi , T. Hanaguri , T. Sasagawa

Clean two-dimensional Fermi liquids are now known to exhibit an intermediate \emph{tomographic} regime, between ballistic and Navier--Stokes transport, caused by the anomalously slow relaxation of parity-odd multipolar deformations of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-30 Davis Thuillier , Thomas Scaffidi

In high-quality solid-state systems at low temperatures, the hydrodynamic or the ballistic regimes of heat and charge transport are realized in the electron and the phonon systems. In these regimes, the thermal and the electric conductance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-18 P. S. Alekseev , M. A. Semina

When electrons are confined in two-dimensional (2D) materials, quantum mechanically enhanced transport phenomena, as exemplified by the quantum Hall effects (QHE), can be observed. Graphene, an isolated single atomic layer of graphite, is…

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