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We experimentally study the phase diagram of the integer quantized Hall effect, as a function of density and magnetic field. We used a two dimensional hole system confined in a Ge/SiGe quantum well, where all energy levels are resolved,…
We report on growth and characterization of individual InAsP/GaInP quantum dots with variable nominal As molar fraction. Magneto-photoluminescence experiments reveal QD emission in a wide range from 1.3 to 1.8 eV confirming incorporation of…
We conduct an experimental study of high-mobility two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in GaAs/AlGaAs quantum wells modulated by strong magnetism at an in-plane magnetic field ($B$). The modulated $B$-fields are performed via the single…
The Hall effect, the anomalous Hall effect and the spin Hall effect are fundamental transport processes in solids arising from the Lorentz force and the spin-orbit coupling respectively. The quantum versions of the Hall effect and the spin…
We study the linear thermoelectric response of a quantum dot embedded in a constriction of a quantum Hall bar with fractional filling factors nu=1/m within Laughlin series. We calculate the figure of merit ZT for the maximum efficiency at a…
We study the magnetotransport of high-mobility electrons in monolayer and bilayer MoSe$_2$, which show Shubnikov-de Haas (SdH) oscillations and quantum Hall states in high magnetic fields. An electron effective mass of 0.8$m_e$ is extracted…
Transport measurements in inverted InAs/GaSb quantum wells reveal a giant spin-orbit splitting of the energy bands close to the hybridization gap. The splitting results from the interplay of electron-hole mixing and spin-orbit coupling, and…
We have proposed and validated an ansatz as effective potential for confining electron/hole within spherical quantum dot in order to understand quantum confinement and its consequences associated with energy states and band gap of Spherical…
The 5/2 fractional quantum Hall effect in the second Landau level of extremely clean two-dimensional electron gases has attracted much attention due to its topological order predicted to host quasiparticles that obey non-Abelian quantum…
Quasi-two dimensional electron systems exhibit peculiar transport effects depending on their density profiles and temperature. A usual two dimensional electron system is assumed to have a $\delta$ like density distribution along the crystal…
We report ultra-low temperature experiments on the obscure fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE) at Landau level filling factor $\nu$=5/2 in a very high mobility specimen of $\mu=1.7 \times 10^7$ cm$^2$/Vs. We achieve an electron…
We report measurements of the spin susceptibility in dilute two-dimensional electrons confined to a 45$\AA$ wide AlAs quantum well. The electrons in this well occupy an out-of-plane conduction-band valley, rendering a system similar to…
The presence of a quantum critical point (QCP) can significantly affect the thermodynamic properties of a material at finite temperatures T. This is reflected, e.g., in the entropy landscape S(T, r) in the vicinity of a QCP, yielding…
We present a general description of low temperature transport through a quantum dot with any number of electrons at filling factor $1<\nu <2$. We provide a general description of a novel Kondo effect which is turned on by application of an…
We study the quantum anomalous thermal Hall effect in a topological superconductor which possesses an integer bulk topological number, and supports Majorana excitations on the surface. To realize the quantum thermal Hall effect, a finite…
We employ density functional theory to investigate the thermoelectric properties of electron and hole doped PtSb$_2$. Our results show that for doping of 0.04 holes per unit cell (1.5$\times10^{20}$ cm$^{-3}$) PtSb$_2$ shows a high Seebeck…
We investigate non-linear magneto-transport in a Hall bar device made from a strained InGaAs/InP quantum well: a material system with attractive spintronic properties. From extensive maps of the longitudinal differential resistance (r_xx)…
We wish to report in this paper a study of the effective mass (m^*) in thin-oxide Si-metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect-transistors, using the temperature dependence of the Shubnikov-de Haas (SdH) effect and following the methodology…
Following the experimental realization of Quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect in thin films of chromium-doped (Bi,Sb)$_2$Te$_3$, enhancing the work temperature of QAH effect has emerged as a significant and challenging task. Here we…
The effects of low temperature illumination and annealing on fractional quantum Hall (FQH) characteristics of a GaAs/AlGaAs quantum well are investigated. Illumination alone, below 1 K, decreases the density of the 2DEG electrons by more…