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We collect and review works which treat two-dimensional electron gases in quantum wells (mostly GaAs/GaAlAs heterostructures) in the presence of quantizing magnetic fields as open systems in contact with outside reservoirs. If a reservoir…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-16 W. Zawadzki , A. Raymond , M. Kubisa

We find that, under appropriate conditions, electrons can pass a barrier etched across a two dimensional electron gas (2DEG) by field emission from the GaAs/AlGaAs heterojunction into a second, low-density 2DEG formed deep in the substrate.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 D. H. Cobden , G. Pilling , R. Parthasarathy , P. L. McEuen , I. M. Castleton , E. H. Linfield , D. A. Ritchie , G. A. C. Jones

A theory of collective states in a magnetically quantized two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) with half-filled Landau level (quantized Hall ferromagnet) in the presence of magnetic 3d impurities is developed. The spectrum of bound and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Dickmann , V. Fleurov , K. Kikoin

Two-dimensional (2D) ferroelectric (FE) materials are promising compounds for next-generation nonvolatile memories, due to their low energy consumption and high endurance. Among them, {\alpha}-In$_{2}$Se$_{3}$ has drawn particular attention…

We report the observation of a new phenomenon of colossal magnetoresistance in a 40 nm wide GaAs quantum well in the presence of an external magnetic field applied parallel to the high-mobility 2D electron layer. In a strong magnetic field,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-13 Xiaoqing Zhou , B. A. Piot , M. Bonin , L. W. Engel , S. Das Sarma , G. Gervais , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

The electrical Hall effect can be significantly enhanced through the interplay of the conduction electrons with magnetism, which is known as the anomalous Hall effect (AHE). Whereas the mechanism related to band topology has been…

The dynamics of the magnetic field in a superconducting phase is described by an effective massive bosonic field theory. If the superconductor is confined in a domain M with boundary \partial M, the boundary conditions of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-17 M. Asorey , A. P. Balachandran , J. M. Perez-Pardo

We study the suppression of the conductance quantization in quantum spin Hall systems by a combined effect of electronic interactions and edge disorder, that is ubiquitous in exfoliated and CVD grown 2D materials. We show that the interplay…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-16 Leandro R. F. Lima , Caio Lewenkopf

We have measured the magnetization of a dual-subband two-dimensional electron gas, confined in a GaAs/AlGaAs heterojunction. In contrast to two-dimensional electron gases with a single subband, we observe non-1/B-periodic, triangularly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. R. Schaapman , U. Zeitler , P. C. M. Christianen , J. C. Maan , D. Reuter , A. D. Wieck , D. Schuh , M. Bichler

We have considered the conductivity properties of a two dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in two different kinds of inhomogeneous magnetic fields, i.e. a disordered distribution of magnetic flux vortices, and a periodic array of magnetic flux…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Mads Nielsen , Per Hedegaard

We study the Hall conductivity of a two-dimensional electron gas under an inhomogeneous magnetic field $B(x)$. First, we prove using the quantum kinetic theory that an odd magnetic field can lead to a purely nonlinear Hall response. Second,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-28 Botsz Huang , Ali G. Moghaddam , Jorge I. Facio , Ching-Hao Chang

We investigate the coupling between a quantized electromagnetic field in a cavity resonator and a Coulomb interacting electronic system in a nanostructure in an external magnetic field. Effects caused by the geometry of the electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-15 Olafur Jonasson , Chi-Shung Tang , Hsi-Sheng Goan , Andrei Manolescu , Vidar Gudmundsson

The space-charge-limited current in a zero thickness planar thin film depends on the geometry of the electrodes. We present a theory which is to a large extent analytical and applicable to many different lay-outs. We show that a…

Classical Physics · Physics 2016-09-28 Patrick De Visschere

Electric current-induced magnetoresistance oscillations recently discovered in two-dimensional electron systems are analyzed using a microscopic scheme for nonlinear magnetotransport direct controlled by the current. The magnetoresistance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-09-18 X. L. Lei

Theoretical calculations predict the dissipationless circulating current induced by a spin defect in a two-dimensional electron gas with spin-orbit coupling. The shape and spatial extent of these dissipationless circulating currents depend…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-15 Adonai R. da Cruz , Michael E. Flatté

In this paper we report on the observation of very high and narrow magnetoconductance peaks which we attribute to the transition to quantum Hall ferromagnet (QHFM) state occurring at the edges of the sample. We show that the expected…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-29 E. Bobko , D. Płoch , D. Śnieżek , M. Majewicz , M. Fołtyn , T. Wojciechowski , S. Chusnutdinow , T. Wojtowicz , J. Wróbel

We study theoretically the spontaneous edge current in a small chiral superconductor with surface roughness. We obtained self-consistent solutions of the pair potential and the vector potential by solving the quasiclassical Eilenberger…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-10-12 Shu-Ichiro Suzuki , Yasuhiro Asano

We consider free electrons in rectangular quantum dots, with either hard wall boundary conditions or anharmonic confinement. In both cases, due to finite size effects, a homogeneous electric field applied along one of the rectangular axis…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stephane Pleutin

We consider a disordered two-dimensional electron gas with spin-orbit coupling placed in a perpendicular magnetic field and calculate the magnitude and direction of the electric-field-induced spin polarization. We find that in strong…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 M. G. Vavilov

We present a microscopic theory of the chiral one-dimensional electron gas system localized on the sidewalls of magnetically-doped Bi$_2$Se$_3$-family topological insulator nanoribbons in the quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) regime. Our…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-05 A. Pertsova , C. M. Canali , A. H. MacDonald