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We revisit the description of ferromagnetic domain wall dynamics through an extended one-dimensional model by allowing flexural distortions of the wall during its motion. This is taken into account by allowing the domain wall center and…

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The nonlocal response of chiral electron fluid in a semi-infinite Weyl semimetal slab with the electric current source and drain attached to its surface is studied by using the consistent hydrodynamic framework. It is found that the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-07-24 E. V. Gorbar , V. A. Miransky , I. A. Shovkovy , P. O. Sukhachov

In 2D semiconductors and insulators, the Chern number of the valence band Bloch state is an important quantity that has been linked to various material properties, such as the topological order. We elaborate that the opacity of 2D materials…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-10-25 Paolo Molignini , Bastien Lapierre , R. Chitra , Wei Chen

A striking example of frustration in physics is Hofstadter's butterfly, a fractal structure that emerges from the competition between a crystal's lattice periodicity and the magnetic length of an applied field. Current methods for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-04 Catalin D. Spataru , Wei Pan , Alexander Cerjan

The Monte Carlo technique is used to calculate electrical as well as thermoelectric transport properties across thin film heterostructures. We study a thin InGaAsP barrier layer sandwiched between two InGaAs contact layers, when the barrier…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Mona Zebarjadi , Ali Shakouri , Keivan Esfarjani

Ideal Chern insulating phases arise in two-dimensional systems with broken time-reversal symmetry. They are characterized by having nearly-flat bands, and a uniform quantum geometry -- which combines the Berry curvature and quantum metric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-18 Christian Northe , Giandomenico Palumbo , Jonathan Sturm , Christian Tutschku , Ewelina M. Hankiewicz

The domain wall response under constant external magnetic fields reveals a complex behavior where sample disorder plays a key role. Furthermore, the response to alternating magnetic fields has only been explored in limited cases and…

We study theoretically the influence of the underlying domain microstructure on the electromechanical properties of ferroelectrics. Our calculations are based on a continuum approach that incorporates the long-range elastic and…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Rajeev Ahluwalia , Turab Lookman , Avadh Saxena , Wenwu Cao

Semiconducting ferroelectric materials with low energy polarisation switching offer a platform for next-generation electronics such as ferroelectric field-effect transistors. Ferroelectric domains at symmetry-broken interfaces of transition…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-07 Laurent Molino , Leena Aggarwal , Vladimir Enaldiev , Ryan Plumadore , Vladimir Falko , Adina Luican-Mayer

Measurements of low temperature transport and thermodynamic properties have been used to characterize the non-Fermi liquid state of the itinerant ferromagnet ZrZn$_2$. We observe a $T^{5/3}$ temperature dependence of the electrical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-01-31 Mike Sutherland , R. P. Smith , N. Marcano , Y. Zou , F. M. Grosche , N. Kimura , S. M. Hayden , S. Takashima , M. Nohara , H. Takagi

In low-dimensional systems, the combination of reduced dimensionality, strong interactions, and topology has led to a growing number of many-body quantum phenomena. Thermal transport, which is sensitive to all energy-carrying degrees of…

The material termed three-dimensional (3D) Dirac semimetal has attracted great interests recently, since it is an electronic analogue to two-dimensional graphene. Starting from this novel phase, various topologically distinct phases may be…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-12-17 L. P. He , X. C. Hong , J. K. Dong , J. Pan , Z. Zhang , J. Zhang , S. Y. Li

Recently, a moir\'e material has been proposed in which multiple domains of different topological phases appear in the moir\'e unit cell due to a large moir\'e modulation. Topological properties of such moir\'e materials may differ from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-12 Ikuma Tateishi , Motoaki Hirayama

We investigate the correlation functions of mesoscopic electronic transport in open chaotic quantum dots with finite tunnel barriers in the crossover between Wigner-Dyson ensembles. Using an analytical stub formalism, we show the emergence…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 A. L. R. Barbosa , M. S. Hussein , J. G. G. S. Ramos

We review recent developments in nonlinear quantum transport through nanostructures and mesoscopic systems driven by thermal gradients or in combination with voltage biases. Low-dimensional conductors are excellent platforms to analyze both…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-14 David Sanchez , Rosa Lopez

The topology of two-dimensional materials traditionally manifests itself through the quantization of the Hall conductance, which is revealed in transport measurements. Recently, it was predicted that topology can also give rise to a…

Ferromagnetic substrates can significantly influence the electromagnetic response of a coated conductor to an external magnetic field and transport current. This study analyzes this response theoretically using the thin shell…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-04-22 Vladimir Sokolovsky , Leonid Prigozhin

We analyze the electromagnetic response of a system of charged bosons coupled to a Chern-Simons gauge field. Path integral techniques are used to obtain an effective action for the particle density of the system dressed with quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 D. G. Barci , E. V. Correa Silva , J. F. Medeiros Neto

Nonlinear magnetotransport of a microwave-irradiated high mobility two-dimensional electron system under a finite direct current excitation is analyzed using a dc-controlled scheme with photon-assisted transition mechanism. The predicted…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-08-27 X. L. Lei , S. Y. Liu

The weak field average magnetic susceptibility of square shaped mesoscopic conductors is studied within a semiclassical framework. Long semiclassical trajectories are strongly affected by static disorder and differ sharply from those of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Yuval Gefen , Daniel Braun , Gilles Montambaux