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A thin, narrow-bandgap semiconductor Bi$_2$O$_2$Te nanosheet is obtained via mechanical exfoliation and a Hall-bar device is fabricated from it on a heavily doped Si/SiO$_2$ substrate and studied at low temperatures. Gate transfer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-22 Xiaobo Li , Haitian Su , H. Q. Xu

Atomically thin MoSe2 is a promising platform for investigating quantum phenomena due to its large effective mass, high crystal quality, and strong spin-orbit coupling. In this work, we demonstrate a triple-gate device design with bismuth…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-05 Chang Liu , Tongtong Jia , Zheng Sun , Yu Gu , Fan Xu , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Jinfeng Jia , Shiyong Wang , Xiaoxue Liu , Tingxin Li

Spin-based metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFET) with a high-mobility III-V channel are studied using self-consistent quantum corrected ensemble Monte Carlo device simulations of charge and spin transport. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-15 B Thorpe , K Kalna , S Schirmer

Using an exact diagonalization approach we show that one- and two-electron InAs quantum dots exhibit avoided crossing in the energy spectra that are induced by the spin-orbit coupling in the presence of an in-plane external magnetic field.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-01 M. P. Nowak , B. Szafran , F. M. Peeters , B. Partoens , W. Pasek

Hysteretic switching in the magnetoresistance of short-channel, ferromagnetically contacted individual single wall carbon nanotubes is observed, providing strong evidence for nanotube spin transport. By varying the voltage on a capacitively…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Bhaskar Nagabhirava , Tanesh Bansal , Gamini Sumanasekera , Lei Liu , Bruce W. Alphenaar

Most proof-of-principle experiments for spin qubits have been performed using GaAs-based quantum dots because of the excellent control they offer over tunneling barriers and the orbital and spin degrees of freedom. Here, we present the…

Two-dimensional electron systems (2DESs) confined to the surface of narrowband semiconductors have attracted great interest since they can easily integrate with superconductivity (or ferromagnetism) enabling new possibilities in hybrid…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-10 Kaushini Wickramasinghe , William Mayer , Joseph Yuan , Tri Nguyen , Lucy Jiao , Vladimir Manucharyan , Javad Shabani

Utilizing a SU(2) gauge symmetry technique in the quasiclassical diffusive regime, we theoretically study finite-sized two-dimensional intrinsic spin-orbit coupled superconductor/normal-metal/superconductor (S/N/S) hybrid structures with a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-07-13 Mohammad Alidoust , Klaus Halterman

The spin-orbit (SO) interaction couples electron spin and momentum via a relativistic, effective magnetic field. While conveniently facilitating coherent spin manipulation in semiconductors, the SO interaction also inherently causes spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-17 F. Dettwiler , J. Fu , S. Mack , P. J. Weigele , J. C. Egues , D. D. Awschalom , D. M. Zumbühl

Spin-dependent electron transport in a periodically stubbed quantum wire in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit interaction (SOI) is studied via the nonequilibrium Green's function method combined with the Landauer-Buttiker formalism. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-20 Xianbo Xiao , Zhaoxia Chen , Zhiming Rao , Wenjie Nie , Guanghui Zhou

The experimental assessment of the strength ($\alpha_R$) of the Rashba spin-orbit coupling is rather indirect and involves the measurement of the spin relaxation length from magnetotransport, together with a model of weak antilocalization.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-09 Jun-Wei Luo , Shu-Shen Li , Alex Zunger

Quantum dots realized in InAs are versatile systems to study the effect of spin-orbit interaction on the spin coherence, as well as the possibility to manipulate single spins using an electric field. We present transport measurements on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 I. Shorubalko , A. Pfund , R. Leturcq , M. T. Borgström , F. Gramm , E. Müller , E. Gini , K. Ensslin

We use the $\mathbf{k} \cdot \mathbf{p}$ theory and the envelope function approach to evaluate the Rashba spin-orbit coupling induced in a semiconductor nanowire by a magnetic field at different orientations, taking explicitely into account…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-03 P. Wójcik , A. Bertoni , G. Goldoni

We study electron transport through waveguides (WGs) in which the strengths of the Rashba ($\alpha$) and Dresselhaus ($\beta$) terms of the spin-orbit interaction (SOI) vary in space. Subband mixing, due to lateral confinement, is taken…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 P. M. Krstajic , E. Rezasoltani , P. Vasilopoulos

We study the implications of spin-orbit interaction (SOI) for two-qubit gates (TQGs) in semiconductor spin qubit platforms. SOI renders the exchange interaction governing qubit pairs anisotropic, posing a serious challenge for conventional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-11 Jiaan Qi , Zhi-Hai Liu , H. Q. Xu

This study introduces a method to measure strength of spin-orbit interaction (SO) in a nanomagnet, investigating fundamental phenomena governing magnetic anisotropy. The method explores the fundamental property of SO in its linear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-11 Vadym Zayets

We derive the effective dimensionally reduced Schr\"odinger equation with spin-orbit interaction in low-dimensional electronic strain driven nanostructures. A method of adiabatic separation among fast normal quantum degrees of freedom and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-29 Paola Gentile , Mario Cuoco , Carmine Ortix

We investigate the low-temperature magneto-transport properties of individual Ge/Si core/shell nanowires. Negative magneto-conductance was observed, which is a signature of one-dimensional weak antilocalization of holes in the presence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-08-12 Xiao-Jie Hao , Tao Tu , Gang Cao , Cheng Zhou , Hai-Ou Li , Guang-Can Guo , Wayne Y. Fung , Zhongqing Ji , Guo-Ping Guo , Wei Lu

On the efforts of enhancing the spin orbit interaction (SOI) of graphene for seeking the dissipationless quantum spin Hall devices, unique Kane-Mele type SOI and high mobility samples are desired. However, common external decoration often…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-01 Zhanbin Bai , Rui Wang , Yazhou Zhou , Tianru Wu , Jianlei Ge , Jing Li , Yuyuan Qin , Fucong Fei , Lu Cao , Xuefeng Wang , Xinran Wang , Shuai Zhang , Liling Sun , You Song , Fengqi Song

The cross-over from quasi-two- to quasi-one-dimensional electron transport subject to transverse electric fields and perpendicular magnetic fields are studied in the diffusive to quasiballistic and zero-field to quantum Hall regime.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-06 Olivio Chiatti , Johannes Boy , Christian Heyn , Wolfgang Hansen , Saskia F. Fischer