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We present a theoretical study on the spin-dependent transport through a spin valve consisting of graphene sandwiched between two magnetic leads with an arbitrary orientation of the lead magnetization. No gate voltage is applied. Using…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Kai-He Ding , Zhen-Gang Zhu , Jamal Berakdar

We investigate electron transport through multiterminal networks hosting Majorana bound states (MBS) in the framework of full counting statistics (FCS). In particular, we apply our general results to T-shaped junctions of two Majorana…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-26 Luzie Weithofer , Patrik Recher , Thomas L. Schmidt

The Josephson supercurrent through the hybrid Majorana--quantum dot--Majorana junction is investigated. We particularly analyze the effect of spin-selective coupling between the Majorana and quantum dot states, which emerges only in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-11 Luting Xu , Xin-Qi Li , Qing-Feng Sun

A quantum dot with spin-orbit interaction can work as an efficient spin filter if it is connected to N (> 2) external leads via tunnel barriers. When an unpolarized current is injected to a quantum dot from a lead, polarized currents are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-12-30 Mikio Eto , Tomohiro Yokoyama

We study electron transport in monolayer molybdenum disulfide MoS$_2$ subjected to a magnetic barrier. Our analysis employs a full-band continuum model to capture the relevant physical phenomena. We focus on how electron energy, magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-16 Ahmed Jellal , Nadia Benlakhouy , Pablo Díaz , David Laroze

We explore possible signatures for observing Majorana Fermions in the tunneling spectroscopy of high-Tc cuprate superconductors. We find that as long as the Rashba spin orbit interaction is in presence either through proximity effect due to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-24 Jun-Ting Kao , Shin-Ming Huang , Chung-Yu Mou , C. C. Tsuei

We studied the low-energy states of spin-1/2 quantum dots defined in InAs/InP nanowires and coupled to aluminium superconducting leads. By varying the superconducting gap, \Delta, with a magnetic field, B, we investigated the transition…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-06 Eduardo J. H. Lee , Xiaocheng Jiang , Ramon Aguado , Giorgos Katsaros , Charles M. Lieber , Silvano De Franceschi

We investigate the role of the coupling between a spin-orbit coupled semiconductor nanowire and a conventional $s$-wave superconductor on the emergence of the topological superconducting phase with Majorana bound states in an applied…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-05 Oladunjoye A. Awoga , Jorge Cayao , Annica M. Black-Schaffer

Manipulation of the spin-states of a quantum dot by purely electrical means is a highly desirable property of fundamental importance for the development of spintronic devices such as spin-filters, spin-transistors and single-spin memory as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-10-20 J. R. Hauptmann , J. Paaske , P. E. Lindelof

We theoretically study the transport properties in the T-shaped double-quantum-dot structure, by introducing the Majorana bound state (MBS) to couple to the dot in the main channel. It is found that the side-coupled dot governs the effect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-15 Wei-Jiang Gong , Yu-Hang Xue , Xiao-Qi Wang , Lian-Lian Zhang , Guang-Yu Yi

We investigated the resonant tunneling of a two-spin system through the double quantum dots in Al-N-implanted silicon tunnel FETs (TFETs) by electrical-transport measurements and Landau-Zener-St\"{u}ckelberg-Majorana interferometry with and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-07 Satoshi Moriyama , Takahiro Mori , Keiji Ono

The effective spin Hamiltonian of a triple quantum dot with odd electron occupation weakly connected in series with left ($l$) and right ($r$) metal leads is composed of two-channel exchange and co-tunneling terms. Renormalization group…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Kuzmenko , K. Kikoin , Y. Avishai

We present a theory of single-electron tunneling transport through a ferromagnetic nanoparticle in which particle-hole excitations are coupled to spin collective modes. The model employed to describe the interaction between quasiparticles…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 L. Michalak , C. M. Canali , V. G. Benza

Spin-polarized transport through a quantum dot strongly coupled to ferromagnetic electrodes with non-collinear magnetic moments is analyzed theoretically in terms of the non-equilibrium Green function formalism. Electrons in the dot are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. Swirkowicz , M. Wilczynski , J. Barnas

We present the study of transport properties of a superconducting wire with strong Rashba spin-orbit coupling for different orientations of an external magnetic field. Using the nonequilibrium Green's functions in the tight-binding approach…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-30 V. V. Val'kov , S. V. Aksenov

The zero-temperature magnetic field-dependent conductance of electrons through a one-dimensional non-interacting tight-binding chain with an interacting {\it side} dot is reviewed and analized further. When the number of electrons in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 M. E. Torio , K. Hallberg , C. Proetto

There has been recent interest in superconductor-magnetic insulator hybrid Rashba nanowire setups for potentially hosting Majorana zero modes at smaller external Zeeman fields. Using the non-equilibrium Green's function technique, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-27 Roshni Singh , Bhaskaran Muralidharan

Superconducting wires without time-reversal and spin-rotation symmetries can be driven into a topological phase that supports Majorana bound states. Direct detection of these zero-energy states is complicated by the proliferation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-09 A. R. Akhmerov , J. P. Dahlhaus , F. Hassler , M. Wimmer , C. W. J. Beenakker

The transport properties of a system of two interacting dots, one of them directly connected to the leads constituting a side-coupled configuration (SCD), are studied in the weak and strong tunnel-coupling limits. The conductance behavior…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 V. M. Apel , Maria A. Davidovich , E. V. Anda , G. Chiappe , C. A. Busser

We study transport through a double quantum dot system in which each quantum dot is coupled to a phonon mode. Such a system can be realized, e.g., using a suspended carbon nanotube. We find that the interplay between strong electron-phonon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-26 Stefan Walter , Björn Trauzettel , Thomas L. Schmidt