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Spin and charge transport through a quantum dot coupled to external nonmagnetic leads is analyzed theoretically in terms of the non-equilibrium Green function formalism based on the equation of motion method. The dot is assumed to be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 R. Swirkowicz , J. Barnas , M. Wilczynski

Recently, high-order topological insulators (HOTIs), accompanied by topologically nontrivial boundary states with codimension larger than one, have been extensively explored because of unconventional bulk-boundary correspondences. As a…

Topological Insulators are a novel state of matter where spectral bands are characterized by quantized topological invariants. This unique quantized non-local property commonly manifests through exotic bulk phenomena and corresponding…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-15 Mark Kremer , Ioannis Petrides , Eric Meyer , Matthias Heinrich , Oded Zilberberg , Alexander Szameit

Three-dimensional topological insulators of finite thickness can show the quantum Hall effect (QHE) at the filling factor $\nu=0$ under an external magnetic field if there is a finite potential difference between the top and bottom…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-14 Takahiro Morimoto , Akira Furusaki , Naoto Nagaosa

Since the experimental realisation of the integer quantised Hall effect in a two dimensional electron system subject to strong perpendicular magnetic fields in 1980, a central question has been the interrelation between the conductance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-26 E. M. Kendirlik , S. Sirt , S. B. Kalkan , N. Ofek , V. Umansky , A. Siddiki

We consider interacting, charged spins on a torus described by a gapped Hamiltonian with a unique groundstate and conserved local charge. Using quasi-adiabatic evolution of the groundstate around a flux-torus, we prove, without any…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-16 Matthew B. Hastings , Spyridon Michalakis

Using the Green functions method we study transport properties of surface electrons in topological insulators in the presence of a correlated random exchange field. Such an exchange field may be due to random magnetization with correlated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-04 S. Kudła , A. Dyrdał , V. K. Dugaev , J. Berakdar , J. Barnaś

Using THz spectroscopy in external magnetic fields we investigate the low-temperature charge dynamics of strained HgTe, a three dimensional topological insulator. From the Faraday rotation angle and ellipticity a complete characterization…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-03-27 A. M. Shuvaev , G. V. Astakhov , G. Tkachov , C. Brüne , H. Buhmann , L. W. Molenkamp , A. Pimenov

Recent studies indicated that helical organic molecules, such as DNA and $\alpha$-helical protein, can behave as Thouless quantum pumps when a rotating electric field is applied perpendicularly to their helical axes. Here we investigate the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-14 Ai-Min Guo , Pei-Jia Hu , Xiao-Hui Gao , Tie-Feng Fang , Qing-Feng Sun

Higher-order topological insulators (HOTIs) are unique topological materials supporting edge states with the dimensionality at least by two lower than the dimensionality of the underlying structure. HOTIs were observed on lattices with…

Particle-particle interaction provides a new degree of freedom to induce novel topological phenomena. Here, we propose to use spatiotemporal modulation of interaction to realize topological pumping without single-particle counterpart.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-28 Boning Huang , Yongguan Ke , Wenjie Liu , Chaohong Lee

We study the quantum spin pumping of an antiferromagnetic spin-1/2 chain with competing exchange interactions. We show that spatially periodic potential modulated in space and time acts as a quantum spin pump. In our model system, an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 Sujit Sarkar , C. D. Hu

3D topological insulators are characterized by an insulating bulk and extended surface states exhibiting a helical spin texture. In this work, we investigate the hyperfine interaction between the spin-charge coupled transport of electrons…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-19 A. Mert Bozkurt , Sofie Kölling , Alexander Brinkman , İnanç Adagideli

Solid-state topological insulating phases, characterized by spin-momentum locked edge modes, provide a powerful route for spin and charge manipulation in electronic devices. We propose to control charge and spin transport in the helical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-01 Paolo Michetti , Björn Trauzettel

We investigate the parametric pumping of a hybrid structure consisting of a normal quantum dot, a normal lead and a superconducting lead. Using the time dependent scattering matrix theory, we have derived a general expression for the pumped…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Baigeng Wang , Jian Wang

Recently it has been proposed and experimentally demonstrated that a spin-orbit coupled multi-component gas in 1d lattice can be viewed as spinless gas in a synthetic 2d lattice with a magnetic flux. In this letter we consider interaction…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-09-02 Tian-Sheng Zeng , Ce Wang , Hui Zhai

Topological insulators and giant spin-orbit toque switching of nanomagnets are one of the frontier topics for the development of energy-efficient spintronic devices. Spin-circuit representations involving different materials and phenomena…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-29 Kuntal Roy

Controlling the flow of spin and charge currents in topological insulators (TIs) is a crucial requirement for applications in quantum computation and spin electronics. We demonstrate that such control can be established in nanoscopic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 John S. Van Dyke , Dirk K. Morr

We investigate topological transport in a spin-orbit coupled bosonic Mott insulator. We show that interactions can lead to anomalous quasi-particle dynamics even when the spin-orbit coupling is abelian. To illustrate the latter, we consider…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-03-21 C. H. Wong , R. A. Duine

In many contexts, the interaction between particles gives rise to emergent and perhaps unanticipated physical phenomena. An example is the fractional quantum Hall effect, where interaction between electrons gives rise to fractionally…