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One of the most fascinating challenges in Physics is the realization of an electron-based counterpart of quantum optics, which requires the capability to generate and control single electron wave packets. The edge states of quantum spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-24 Fabrizio Dolcini , Fausto Rossi

Based on density functional theory and Berry curvature calculations, we predict that p-p band inversion type quantum spin Hall effect (QSHE) can be realized in a series of two dimensional (2D) bilayer honeycomb TlM (M = N, P, As, Sb), which…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-12-30 P. Zhou , L. Xue , L. Z. Sun

The in-plane photoelectric (IPPE) effect is a recently discovered [Sci. Adv. \textbf{8}, eabi8398 (2022)] quantum phenomenon which enables efficient detection of terahertz (THz) radiation in semiconductor structures with a two-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-17 S. A. Mikhailov

In recent years, the spin Hall effect has received great attention because of its potential application in spintronics and quantum information processing and storage. However, this effect is usually studied under the external homogeneous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-02 Anwei Zhang , Jun-Won Rhim

Landau level (LL) engineered photonic spin Hall effect (PSHE) holds great promise for nanoscale manipulation and steering of magneto-optical transport in two-dimensional atomic systems. Herein, we theoretically investigate PSHE modulated by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Qiaoyun Ma , Hui Dou , Yiting Chen , Guangyi Jia , Xinxing Zhou

The realization of a viable semiconductor transistor and information processing devices based on the electron spin has fueled intense basic research of three key elements: injection, detection, and manipulation of spins in the semiconductor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-07 K. Olejnik , J. Wunderlich , A. C. Irvine , R. P. Campion , V. P. Amin , Jairo Sinova , T. Jungwirth

We performed photoinduced inverse spin Hall effect (ISHE) measurements on a Pt/Ge(001) junction at room temperature. The spin-oriented electrons, photogenerated at the direct gap of Ge using circularly polarized light, provide a net spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Federico Bottegoni , Alberto Ferrari , Stefano Cecchi , Marco Finazzi , Franco Ciccacci , Giovanni Isella

Photonic structures offer unique opportunities for controlling light-matter interaction, including the photonic spin Hall effect associated with the transverse spin-dependent displacement of light that propagates in specially designed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-21 A. P. Slobozhanyuk , A. N. Poddubny , I. S. Sinev , A. K. Samusev , Y. F. Yu , A. I. Kuznetsov , A. E. Miroshnichenko , Yu. S. Kivshar

In this work, we report on the emergence of a photonic Hall effect (PHE) system within a narrow filtered background of a one-dimensional defective optical dielectric structure with graphene under the static QHE regime. It is observed that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-15 Dariush Jahani , Azizeh Alidoust Ghatar , Lida Abaspour , Tayebeh Jahani

Recent theory predicted that the Quantum Spin Hall Effect, a fundamentally novel quantum state of matter that exists at zero external magnetic field, may be realized in HgTe/(Hg,Cd)Te quantum wells. We have fabricated such sample structures…

The nonlinear Hall effect has recently garnered significant attention as a powerful probe of Fermi surface quantum geometry in metals. While current studies mainly focus on the nonlinear Hall response driven by quasi-static electric fields…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-16 Wen-Yu He , K. T. Law

We consider an effective model for graphene with interface-induced spin-orbit coupling and calculate the quantum Hall effect in the low-energy limit. We perform a systematic analysis of the contribution of the different terms of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 Tarik P. Cysne , Jose H. Garcia , Alexandre R. Rocha , Tatiana G. Rappoport

The influence of dephasing on the quantum spin Hall effect (QSHE) is studied. In the absence of dephasing, the longitudinal resistance in a QSHE system exhibits the quantum plateaus. We find that these quantum plateaus are robust against…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Hua Jiang , Shuguang Cheng , Qing-feng Sun , X. C. Xie

Recently, the quantum spin Hall effect has been predicted in (111)-oriented thin films of SnSe and SnTe topological crystalline insulators. It was shown that in these films the energy gaps in the two-dimensional band spectrum depend in an…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-07-20 Shiva Safaei , Marta Galicka , Perla Kacman , Ryszard Buczko

The energy and photoluminescence spectra of a two-dimensional electron gas in the fractional quantum Hall regime are studied. The single-particle properties of reversed-spin quasielectrons (QE$_{\rm R}$'s) as well as the pseudopotentials of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Izabela Szlufarska , Arkadiusz Wojs , John J. Quinn

We extend the electrodynamics of two dimensional electron gases to account for the extrinsic spin Hall effect (SHE). The theory is applied to doped graphene decorated with a random distribution of absorbates that induce spin-orbit coupling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-27 Chunli Huang , Yidong Chong , Giovanni Vignale , Miguel A. Cazalilla

Nonlinear Hall effect (NHE) can originate from the quantum metric mechanism in antiferromagnetic topological materials with PT symmetry, which has been experimentally observed in MnBi2Te4. In this work, we propose that breaking PT symmetry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-28 Ruobing Mei , Daniel Kaplan , Binghai Yan , Cui-Zu Chang , Chao-Xing Liu

We show that the Quantum Spin Hall Effect, a state of matter with topological properties distinct from conventional insulators, can be realized in HgTe/CdTe semiconductor quantum wells. By varying the thickness of the quantum well, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 B. Andrei Bernevig , Taylor L. Hughes , Shou-Cheng Zhang

When a two-dimensional electron gas is exposed to a perpendicular magnetic field and an in-plane electric field, its conductance becomes quantized in the transverse in-plane direction: this is known as the quantum Hall (QH) effect. This…

Quantum spin Hall (QSH) effect is promising for achieving dissipationless transport devices due to the robust gapless states inside insulating bulk gap. Here, by using first-principles calculations, we discover group-IV chalcogenide Si2Te2…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-11-18 Run-wu Zhang , Wei-xiao Ji , Chang-wen Zhang , Ping Li , Pei-ji Wang