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We consider spin-polarized transport in a quantum spin Hall antidot system coupled to normal leads. Due to the helical nature of the conducting edge states, the screening potential at the dot region becomes spin dependent without external…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-04 Sun-Yong Hwang , Rosa Lopez , Minchul Lee , David Sanchez

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 propose a realizable device design for an all-electrical robust valley filter that utilizes spin protected topological interface states hosted on monolayer 2D-Xene materials with large intrinsic spin-orbit coupling. In contrast with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-05 Koustav Jana , Bhaskaran Muralidharan

We describe an intrinsic spin-Hall effect in $n$-type bulk zinc-blende semiconductors with topological origin. When electron transport is confined to a waveguide structure, and the applied electric field is such that the spins of electrons…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-25 T. Fujita , M. B. A. Jalil , S. G. Tan

The study of the propagation of electrons with a varying spinor orientability is performed using the coordinate transformation method. Topological Insulators are characterized by an odd number of changes of the orientability in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 D. Schmeltzer

We report a new class of large-gap quantum spin Hall insulators in two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides, namely, MX$_2$ with M=(Mo, W) and X=(S, Se, and Te), whose topological electronic properties are highly tunable by external…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-16 Xiaofeng Qian , Junwei Liu , Liang Fu , Ju Li

We study the influence of step defect on surface states in three-dimensional topological insulators subject to a perpendicular magnetic field. By calculating the energy spectrum of the surface states, we find that Landau levels (LLs) can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-06 Yan-Feng Zhou , Ai-Min Guo , Qing-Feng Sun

A Kramers pair of helical edge states in quantum spin Hall effect (QSHE) is robust against normal dephasing but not robust to spin dephasing. In our work, we provide an effective spin dephasing mechanism in the puddles of two-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-07 Junjie Qi , Haiwen Liu , Hua Jiang , X. C. Xie

We study the edge-channel transport of electrons in a high-mobility Si/SiGe two-dimensional electron system in the quantum Hall regime. By selectively populating the spin-resolved edge channels, we observe suppression of the scattering…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 K. Hamaya , S. Masubuchi , K. Hirakawa , S. Ishida , Y. Arakawa , K. Sawano , Y. Shiraki , T. Machida

The growing library of two-dimensional layered materials is providing researchers with a wealth of opportunity to explore and tune physical phenomena at the nanoscale. Here, we review the experimental and theoretical state-of-art concerning…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-11-23 Bálint Náfrádi , Mohammad Choucair , László Forró

Quantum spin Hall insulators, recently realized in HgTe/(Hg,Cd)Te quantum wells, support topologically protected, linearly dispersing edge states with spin-momentum locking. A local magnetic exchange field can open a gap for the edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Carsten Timm

The existence of chiral edge states, corresponding to the nontrivial bulk-band topology characterized by a non-vanishing topological invariant, and the manipulation of topological transport via chiral edge states promise topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-25 Muhammad Nadeem , Xiaolin Wang

Magnonic topological phases realize chiral edge spin waves that are protected against backscattering, potentially enabling highly efficient spin transport. Here we show that the spin transport through these magnonic chiral edge states can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-21 Pieter M. Gunnink , Rembert A. Duine , Alexander Mook

The spin-Hall effect underpins some of the most active topics in modern physics, including spin torques and the inverse spin-Hall effect, yet it lacks a proper theoretical description. This makes it difficult to differentiate the SHE from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-30 Hongyang Ma , James H. Cullen , Serajum Monir , Rajib Rahman , Dimitrie Culcer

This paper investigates the pseudo-spin based edge states for flexural waves in a honeycomb perforated phononic plate, which behaves an elastic analogue of the quantum spin Hall effect. We utilize finite element method to analyse the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-07-20 Linyun Yang , Kaiping Yu , Ying Wu , Rui Zhao , Shuaishuai Liu

Quantum spin Hall (QSH) insulator materials feature topologically protected edge states that can drastically reduce dissipation and are useful for the next-generation electronics. However, the nonvolatile control of topological edge state…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-12-30 Hua Bai , Xinwei Wang , Weikang Wu , Pimo He , Zhu'an Xu , Shengyuan A. Yang , Yunhao Lu

Topologically secure spin configurations, such as skyrmions and bimerons, offer a compelling alternative to conventional magnetic domains, potentially enabling high-density, low-power spintronic devices. These pseudo-particles,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-14 Martín Latorre , Joaquín Barra , Juan Pablo Vera , Joaquín Martinez , Mario Castro , Sebastián Allende , Alvaro S. Nunez

For a disordered two-dimensional model of a topological insulator (such as a Kane-Mele model with disordered potential) with small coupling of spin invariance breaking term (such as the Rashba coupling), it is proved that the spin edge…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-10-27 Hermann Schulz-Baldes

Quantum spin Hall edge transport in two-dimensional transition-metal dichalcogenides depends on whether their one-dimensional edge channels are preserved under realistic substrates and device boundaries. Here we implement spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-19 Wei Li , Pier Philipsen , Thomas Brumme , Thomas Heine

Topological phononic states, facilitating acoustic unique transports immunizing to defects and disorders, have significantly revolutionized our scientific cognition of acoustic wave systems. Up to now, the theoretical and experimental…