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We report the measurements and analysis of weak antilocalization (WAL) in Pb1-xSnxSe topological quantum wells in a new regime where the elastic scattering length is larger than the magnetic length. We achieve this regime through the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-26 Jiashu Wang , X. Liu , C. Bunker , L. Riney , B. Qing , S. K. Bac , M. Zhukovskyi , T. Orlova , S. Rouvimov , M. Dobrowolska , J. K. Furdyna , B. A. Assaf

Doped Iron Chalcogenide (FeCh) superconductors are extensively studied in the context of topological superconductivity. However, the evidence of topological surface states in electrical transport measurements of the doped FeCh system is yet…

Superconductivity · Physics 2024-07-11 N. K. Karn , M. M. Sharma , V. P. S. Awana

The recently discovered material PtSn$_4$ is known to exhibit extremely large magnetoresistance (XMR) that also manifests Dirac arc nodes on the surface. PdSn$_4$ is isostructure to PtSn$_4$ with same electron count. We report on the…

Strongly correlated Kondo insulator SmB6 is known for its peculiar low temperature residual conduction, which has recently been demonstrated to arise from a robust metallic surface state, as predicted by the theory of topological Kondo…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-11-15 S. Thomas , D. J. Kim , S. B. Chung , T. Grant , Z. Fisk , Jing Xia

Milling of 2D flakes is a simple method to fabricate nanomaterial of any desired shape and size. Inherently milling process can introduce the impurity or disorder which might show exotic quantum transport phenomenon when studied at the low…

We report the synthesis, structural characterization, and investigation of electrical transport, magnetic and specific heat properties of bulk semiconducting layered material Ta$_2$Ni$_3$Te$_5$. Ta$_2$Ni$_3$Te$_5$ crystallizes in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-06-13 Prabuddha Kant Mishra , Soumen Ash , Ashok Kumar Ganguli

We report on the single crystal growth and transport properties of a topological semimetal CaAgBi which crystallises in the hexagonal $ABC-$type structure with the non-centrosymmetric space group $\mathit{P6_3mc}$ (No. 186). The transverse…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-06-29 Souvik Sasmal , Rajib Mondal , Ruta Kulkarni , Bahadur Singh , A. Thamizhavel

One-dimensional (1D) topological superconductivity is a state of matter that is not found in nature. However, it can be realised, for example, by inducing superconductivity into the quantum spin Hall edge state of a two-dimensional…

Magnetic topological semimetals (TSMs) allow for an effective control of the topological electronic states by tuning the spin configuration, and therefore are promising materials for next-generation electronic and spintronic applications.…

Topological crystalline superconductivity in the locally non-centrosymmetric multilayer superconductors (SCs) is proposed. We study the odd-parity pair-density wave (PDW) state induced by the spin-singlet pairing interaction through the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-07-24 Tomohiro Yoshida , Manfred Sigrist , Youichi Yanase

Weak antilocalization (WAL), an increase in the electrical conductivity at low temperatures associated with the suppression of electron localization due to quantum interference effects, is often observed in topological materials. In this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-14 Longfei Sun , Yue Sun , Qiang Hou , R. Sankar , R. Kalaivanan , Xiaofeng Xu , Zhixiang Shi , Tsuyoshi Tamegai

We report on a theoretical study of the spin Hall Effect (SHE) and weak antilocal-ization (WAL) in graphene/transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) heterostructures, computed through efficient real-space quantum transport methods, and using…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-08 Jose H. Garcia , Aron W. Cummings , Stephan Roche

Either in bulk form, or when exfoliated into atomically thin crystals, layered transition metal dichalcogenides are continuously leading to the discovery of new phenomena. The latest example is provided by 1T'-WTe$_2$, a semimetal recently…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 Lin Wang , Ignacio Gutiérrez-Lezama , Céline Barreteau , Nicolas Ubrig , Enrico Giannini , A. F. Morpurgo

We use a van-der-Waals pickup technique to fabricate different heterostructures containing WSe$_2$(WS$_2$) and graphene. The heterostructures were structured by plasma etching, contacted by one-dimensional edge contacts and a topgate was…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-14 Tobias Völkl , Tobias Rockinger , Martin Drienovsky , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Dieter Weiss , Jonathan Eroms

We report on the magnetoconductivity of quasi two-dimensional electron systems in inversion layers on p-type InAs single crystals. In low magnetic fields pronounced features of weak localization and antilocalization are observed. They are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Christopher Schierholz , Toru Matsuyama , Ulrich Merkt , Guido Meier

For the first time, magnetoresistive properties of the single crystal of HgSe with a low electron concentration were studied in wide range of temperature and magnetic field. Some fundamental parameters of spectrum and scattering of…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-02-27 A. T. Lonchakov , S. B. Bobin , V. V. Deryushkin , V. I. Okulov , T. E. Govorkova , V. N. Neverov

New materials such as nodal-line semimetals offer a unique setting for novel transport phenomena. Here, we calculate the quantum correction to conductivity in a disordered nodal-line semimetal. The torus-shaped Fermi surface and encircled…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-21 Wei Chen , Hai-Zhou Lu , Oded Zilberberg

Topological materials host fascinating low dimensional gapless states at the boundary. As a prominent example, helical topological edge states (TESs) of two-dimensional topological insulators (2DTIs) and their stacked three-dimensional (3D)…

Topological insulators (TIs) are new insulating materials with exotic surface states, where the motion of charge carriers is described by the Dirac equations and their spins are locked in a perpendicular direction to their momentum. Recent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-01 Fei-Xiang Xiang , Xiao-Lin Wang , Shi-Xue Dou

Proximity coupling of bilayer graphene (BLG) to transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) offers a promising route to engineer gate-tunable spin-orbit coupling (SOC) while preserving BLG's exceptional electronic properties. This tunability…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-13 E. Icking , F. Wörtche , A. W. Cummings , A. Wörtche , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , C. Volk , B. Beschoten , C. Stampfer