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The resistance of dual-gated bilayer graphene is measured as a function of temperature and gating electric fields in the Corbino geometry which precludes edge transport. The temperature-dependent resistance is quantitatively described by a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-07 Jun Yan , Michael S. Fuhrer

We combine the ideas of intensity interferometry, polarization optics and Bell's measurement into an experimental proposal which is hosted in a $\nu\,$=$\,2$ quantum Hall (QH) edge state. Our interferometer comprises of a single gate, that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-02 Krishanu Roychowdhury , Disha Wadhawan , Poonam Mehta , Biswajit Karmakar , Sourin Das

The recent excitement about Dirac and Weyl fermion systems has renewed interest in magnetotransport properties of multi-carrier systems. However, the complexity of their analysis, even in the simplest two-carrier case, has hampered a good…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-24 G. Eguchi , S. Paschen

We study quantum point contacts in two-dimensional topological insulators by means of quantum transport simulations for InAs/GaSb heterostructures and HgTe/(Hg,Cd)Te quantum wells. In InAs/GaSb, the density of edge states shows an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-17 Michał Papaj , Łukasz Cywiński , Jerzy Wróbel , Tomasz Dietl

We report on a class of quantum spin Hall insulators (QSHIs) in strained-layer InAs/GaInSb quantum wells, in which the bulk gaps are enhanced by up to five folds as compared to the binary InAs/GaSb QSHI. Remarkably, with consequently…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-09 Lingjie Du , Tingxin Li , Wenkai Lou , Xingjun Wu , Xiaoxue Liu , Zhongdong Han , Chi Zhang , Gerard Sullivan , Amal Ikhlassi , Kai Chang , Rui-Rui Du

We analyze electron transport through a quantum shuttle for the applied voltage below the instability threshold. We obtain current-voltage characteristics of this system and show that at low temperature they exhibit pronounced steps. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Anatoly Yu. Smirnov , Lev G. Mourokh

Achieving metrological precision of quantum anomalous Hall resistance quantization at zero magnetic field so far remains limited to temperatures of the order of 20 mK, while the Curie temperature in the involved material is as high as 20 K.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-23 Kajetan M. Fijalkowski , Nan Liu , Pankaj Mandal , Steffen Schreyeck , Karl Brunner , Charles Gould , Laurens W. Molenkamp

Non-abelian quantum Hall states are characterized by the simultaneous appearance of charge and neutral gapless edge modes, with the structure of the latter being intricately related to the existence of bulk quasi-particle excitations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Eytan Grosfeld , Sourin Das

The nature of a metal-insulator transition tuned by external gates in quantum Hall (QH) systems with point constrictions, as reported in recent experiments of Roddaro et al [1], is examined. We attribute this phenomenon to a splitting of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 Emiliano Papa , Tilo Stroh

Magnetotransport measurements of charge carriers at the interface of a LaAlO3/SrTiO3 heterostructure with 26 unit cells of LaAlO3 show Hall resistance and magnetoresistance which at low and high temperatures is described by a single channel…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-03-31 V. K. Guduru , A. McCollam , A. Jost , S. Wenderich , H. Hilgenkamp , J. C. Maan , A. Brinkman , U. Zeitler

Instability of quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect has been studied as function of electric current and temperature in ferromagnetic topological insulator thin films. We find that a characteristic current for the breakdown of the QAH effect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 Minoru Kawamura , Ryutaro Yoshimi , Atsushi Tsukazaki , Kei S. Takahashi , Masashi Kawasaki , Yoshinori Tokura

We examine the effects of electron-electron interactions on transport between edge states in a multilayer integer quantum Hall system. The edge states of such a system, coupled by interlayer tunneling, form a two-dimensional, chiral metal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. W. Tomlinson , J. -S. Caux , J. T. Chalker

We consider a model for an edge state of electronic systems in the quantum Hall regime with filling $\nu=1$ and in the quantum spin Hall regime. In both cases the system is in contact with two reservoirs by tunneling at point contacts. Both…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Liliana Arrachea , Eduardo Fradkin

It was proposed that a dilute semimetal is unstable against the formation of an exciton insulator, however experimental confirmations have remained elusive. We investigate the origin of bulk energy gap in inverted InAs/GaSb quantum wells…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-14 Lingjie Du , Wenkai Lou , Kai Chang , Gerard Sullivan , Rui-Rui Du

The realization of quantum spin Hall (QSH) effect in HgTe quantum wells (QWs) is considered a milestone in the discovery of topological insulators. The QSH edge states are predicted to allow current to flow at the edges of an insulating…

We present temperature-dependent magneto-transport experiments around the charge neutrality point in graphene and determine the amplitude of potential fluctuations $s$ responsible for the formation of electron-hole puddles. The experimental…

This paper presents a method for determining the conductance matrix of multi terminal semiconductor structures with edge channels. This method appears to be applied within frameworks of the ordinary Landauer - uttiker formalism for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 E. Yu. Danilovskii , N. T. Bagraev

Transport properties of bilayer quantum Hall systems at $\nu=1/q$, where $q$ is an odd integer, are investigated. The edge theory is used for the investigation, since tunneling between the two layers is assumed to occur on the edge of the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Kentaro Nomura , Daijiro Yoshioka

Hole-conjugate states of the fractional quantum Hall effect host counter-propagating edge channels which are thought to exchange charge and energy. These exchanges have been the subject of extensive theoretical and experimental works; in…

Ideally, quantum anomalous Hall systems should display zero longitudinal resistance. Yet in experimental quantum anomalous Hall systems elevated temperature can make the longitudinal resistance finite, indicating dissipative flow of…