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We theoretically study the magnetoelectric coupling in a quantum anomalous Hall insulator state induced by interfacing a dynamic magnetization texture to a topological insulator. In particular, we propose that the quantum anomalous Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-03 Pramey Upadhyaya , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

Surface-bound electric charge on polymer materials can strongly influence droplet behaviour and solid-liquid charge transfer, but the mechanisms and the means to control these effects remain unclear. In this work, we systematically…

This paper investigates a scheme for quantized charge pumping based on single-parameter modulation. The device was realized in an AlGaAs-GaAs gated nanowire. We find a remarkable robustness of the quantized regime against variations in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-05-15 B. Kaestner , V. Kashcheyevs , G. Hein , K. Pierz , U. Siegner , H. W. Schumacher

Semiconducting nanowires (NWs) are a versatile, highly tunable material platform at the heart of many new developments in nanoscale and quantum physics. Here, we demonstrate charge pumping, i.e., the controlled transport of individual…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-07 S. d'Hollosy , M. Jung , A. Baumgartner , V. A. Guzenko , M. H. Madsen , J. Nygård , C. Schönenberger

In this paper, we have worked out a pseudo two dimensional (2D) analytical model for surface potential and drain current of a long channel p-type Dual Material Gate (DMG) Gate All-Around (GAA) nanowire Tunneling Field Effect Transistor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-06-23 Rajat Vishnoi , M. Jagadesh Kumar

Solid-state qubits integrated on semiconductor substrates currently require at least one wire from every qubit to the control electronics, leading to a so-called wiring bottleneck for scaling. Demultiplexing via on-chip circuitry offers an…

Terahertz time domain spectroscopy employing free-space radiation has frequently been used to probe the elementary excitations of low-dimensional systems. The diffraction limit blocks its use for the in-plane study of individual laterally…

Thermoelectric devices at the nanoscale offer promising routes for on-chip refrigeration and waste-heat recovery, yet most semiconductor-based implementations suffer from limited tunability and narrow operational ranges. We introduce a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-29 Phillip Mercebach , Sun-Yong Hwang , Bo Lu , Björn Sothmann , Yukio Tanaka , Pablo Burset

When two periodic potentials compete in materials, one may adopt the other, which straightforwardly generates topological defects. Of particular interest are domain walls in charge-, dipole-, and spin-ordered systems, which govern…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-10-09 Jae Whan Park , Gil Young Cho , Jinwon Lee , Han Woong Yeom

Independent control of numerous electrodes in quantum charge-coupled device architectures presents a significant challenge for wiring and hardware scalability. To address this issue, we demonstrate a voltage control method based on…

We introduce a hybrid qubit based on a semiconductor nanowire with an epitaxially grown superconductor layer. Josephson energy of the transmon-like device ("gatemon") is controlled by an electrostatic gate that depletes carriers in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-22 T. W. Larsen , K. D. Petersson , F. Kuemmeth , T. S. Jespersen , P. Krogstrup , J. Nygard , C. M. Marcus

Identifying realistic platforms capable of controlled operations with Majorana bound states is a key challenge in the study of topological superconductivity. Among the most promising proposals are magnet-superconductor hybrid devices, which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-29 Daniel Hauck , Stefan Rex , Markus Garst

Electronic devices that work in the quantum regime often employ hybrid nanostructures to bring about a nonlinear behaviour. The nonlinearity that these can provide has proven to be useful, in particular, for applications in quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-16 Joachim Lauwens , Lars Kerkhofs , Arnau Sala , Bart Sorée

Domain walls, arising from the spontaneous breaking of a discrete symmetry, can be coupled to charge carriers. In much the same way as the Witten model for superconducting cosmic string, an investigation is made here in the case of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-25 Patrick Peter

Probabilistic bits (p-bits) are stochastic hardware elements whose output probability can be tuned by an input bias, offering a route to energy-efficient architectures that exploit, rather than suppress, fluctuations. Here we report p-bit…

We consider electronic structure and superconductivity aspects in field-doped polyacenes (PA) and C60. Within a modified Thomas-Fermi approach for typical experimental values of the surface charge density the injected charge is confined to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 S. -L. Drechsler , H. Rosner , G. Paasch , J. Malek , S. V. Shulga , H. Eschrig

The aim of presented research is to design a nanodevice, based on a MoS$_2$ monolayer, performing operations on a well-defined valley qubit. We show how to confine an electron in a gate induced quantum dot within the monolayer, and to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-24 J. Pawłowski , D. Żebrowski , S. Bednarek

Cylindrical magnetic nanowires have been proposed as a means of storing and processing information in a 3D medium, based on the motion of domain walls~(DWs). Introducing short chemical modulations in such wires would allow for reliable…

Several experiments suggest that the charge carriers in the normal state of certain cuprate superconductors reside on domain walls. In an earlier paper, we suggested that several aspects of the anomalous dynamical behavior of these…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Chetan Nayak , Frank Wilczek

This review systematically analyzes patent disclosures regarding plasmonic structures, devices, and integrated applications, highlighting the technology's capability to confine and manipulate electromagnetic energy at the nanoscale. Core…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-21 Mahdi Javidnasab , Sajjad Hosseinzade