English
Related papers

Related papers: Ballistic-to-diffusive transition in engineered co…

200 papers

We analyze thermal transport in the fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE), employing a Luttinger liquid model of edge states. Impurity mediated inter-channel scattering events are incorporated in a hydrodynamic description of heat and…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 C. L. Kane , Matthew P. A. Fisher

The quantum Hall effect is studied numerically in modulated two-dimensional electron systems in the presence of disorder. Based on the scaling property of the Hall conductivity as well as the localization length, the critical energies where…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Mikito Koshino , Tsuneya Ando

Topological insulators doped with transition metals have recently been found to host a strong ferromagnetic state with perpendicular to plane anisotropy as well as support a quantum Hall state with edge channel transport, even in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-09 S. Grauer , S. Schreyeck , M. Winnerlein , K. Brunner , C. Gould , L. W. Molenkamp

Doping a topological insulator (TI) film with transition metal ions can break its time-reversal symmetry and lead to the realization of the quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect. Prior studies have shown that the longitudinal resistance of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-30 Shu-Wei Wang , Di Xiao , Ziwei Dou , Moda Cao , Yi-Fan Zhao , Nitin Samarth , Cui-Zu Chang , Malcolm R. Connolly , Charles G. Smith

We study the transport property of diffusion in a finite translationally invariant quantum subsystem described by a tight-binding Hamiltonian with a single energy band and interacting with its environment by a coupling in terms of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-03-01 Massimiliano Esposito , Pierre Gaspard

We present a gating scheme to separate even strong parallel conductance from the magneto-transport signatures and properties of a two-dimensional electron system. By varying the electron density in the parallel conducting layer, we can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-27 Sebastian Peters , Lars Tiemann , Christian Reichl , Stefan Fält , Werner Dietsche , Werner Wegscheider

The transport properties of disordered systems are known to depend critically on dimensionality. We study the diffusion coefficient of a quantum particle confined to a lattice on the surface of a tube, where it scales between the 1D and 2D…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-18 Chern Chuang , Chee Kong Lee , Jeremy M. Moix , Jasper Knoester , Jianshu Cao

Edge reconstruction of gate-tunable compressible quantum Hall fluids in the filling fraction range 1/3 to 2/3 is studied by measuring transmitted conductance of two individually excited fractional $e^2/3h$ edge modes of bulk 2/3 fractional…

The nonlinear Hall effect has attracted considerable attention and undergone extensive investigation in recent years. However, theoretical studies addressing size-dependent effects remain largely unexplored. In this work, we establish a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-12 Xinyu Liu , Haozhi Liao , Guangyun Qi , Hao Geng , Li Sheng , Dingyu Xing

The Quantum Spin Hall insulator is characterized by the presence of gapless helical edge states where the spin of the charge carriers is locked to their direction of motion. In order to probe the properties of the edge modes, we propose a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-01-14 Roni Ilan , Jérôme Cayssol , Jens H. Bardarson , Joel E. Moore

Quantum transport simulations are rapidly evolving and now encompass well-controlled tensor network techniques for many-body limits. One powerful approach combines matrix product states with extended reservoirs. In this method, continuous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-22 Gabriela Wojtowicz , Justin E. Elenewski , Marek M. Rams , Michael Zwolak

The presence of strong disorder in graphene nanoribbons yields low-mobility diffusive transport at high charge densities, whereas a transport gap occurs at low densities. Here, we investigate the longitudinal and transverse…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-03 Fabian Duerr , Jeroen B. Oostinga , Charles Gould , Laurens W. Molenkamp

We report on theoretical and experimental investigations of the integer quantized Hall effect in narrow channels at various mobilities. The Hall bars are defined electrostatically in two-dimensional electron systems by biasing metal gates…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Horas , A. Siddiki , J. Moser , W. Wegscheider , S. Ludwig

We study the dynamics of a single-particle wave packet on a one-dimensional lattice subject to periodic random phase kicks with finite spatial correlation length. This stroboscopic setting provides a controllable model of dephasing in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-11 Pei Wang

The quantum spin Hall (QSH) state, observed in a zero magnetic field in HgTe quantum wells, respects the time-reversal symmetry and is distinct from quantum Hall (QH) states. We show that the QSH state persists in strong quantizing fields…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-23 G. Tkachov , E. M. Hankiewicz

We investigate the statistical distribution of transmission eigenvalues in phase-coherent transport through quantum dots. In two-dimensional ab-initio simulations for both clean and disordered two-dimensional cavities, we find markedly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stefan Rotter , Florian Aigner , Joachim Burgdörfer

We report on recent experimental results from transport measurements with large Hall bars made of high mobility GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructures. Thermally activated conductivities and hopping transport were investigated in the integer quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 M. Furlan

We calculate the tunneling current through long line junctions of a $\nu=5/2$ quantum Hall liquid and i) another $\nu=5/2$ liquid, ii) an integer quantum Hall liquid and iii) a quantum wire. Momentum resolved tunneling provides information…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-02-01 Chenjie Wang , D. E. Feldman

We present direct experimental evidence for nonlocal transport in HgTe quantum wells in the quantum spin Hall regime, in the absence of any external magnetic field. The data conclusively show that the non-dissipative quantum transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-08-17 Andreas Roth , Christoph Bruene , Hartmut Buhmann , Laurens W. Molenkamp , Joseph Maciejko , Xiao-Liang Qi , Shou-Cheng Zhang

We examine energy transport in an ensemble of closed quantum systems driven by stochastic perturbations. One can show that the probability and energy fluxes can be described in terms of quantum advection modes (QAM) associated with the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 G. A. Levin , W. A. Jones , K. Walczak , K. L. Yerkes