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In a two-dimensional electron system, microwave radiation may induce giant resistance oscillations. Their origin has been debated controversially and numerous mechanisms based on very different physical phenomena have been invoked. However…
We study the influence of an in-plane magnetic field and Coulomb interactions on the physics of quantum spin Hall insulators, like those in InAs/GaSb and HgTe/CdTe quantum wells. Using a Hartree-Fock mean-field theory approximation, we…
We study theoretically the effect of spin-orbit coupling on quantum well excitons in a strong magnetic field. We show that, in the presence of an in-plane field component, the excitonic absorption spectrum develops a double-peak structure…
Magnetoresistance and Hall coefficient of a graphene layer are investigated in the presence of a tilted magnetic field. We consider the graphene layer is assembled by either another graphene layer or a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG)…
We present a theoretical study on the effect of radiation on the mangetoresistance of two-dimensional electron systems with strong Rashba spint-orbit coupling. We want to study the interplay between two well-known effects in these electron…
Magnetoresistance is a powerful probe for characterizing the intrinsic physics embedded in materials. Among its various manifestations, linear magnetoresistance has a long history and continues attracting research interest. In contemporary…
We consider a planar system of fermions, at finite temperature and density, under a static magnetic field parallel to the two-dimensional plane. This magnetic field generates a Zeeman effect and, then, a spin polarization of the system. The…
Bilayer two-dimensional electron systems formed by a thin barrier in the GaAs buffer of a standard heterostructure were investigated by magnetotransport measurements. In magnetic fields oriented parallel to the electron layers, the…
Statistics of closed paths in two-dimensional (2D) systems, which just determines the interference quantum correction to conductivity and anomalous magnetoconductance, has been studied by computer simulation of a particle motion over the…
Recently, negative longitudinal and positive in-plane transverse magnetoresistance have been observed in most topological Dirac/Weyl semimetals, and some other topological materials. Here we present a quantum theory of intrinsic…
We present a theory of organic magnetoresistance (OMR) based on the quenching of the quantum correlation between the carrier's spin and its local environment when the incoherent hopping takes place. We prove that this process contributes a…
We use both classical magnetotransport and quantum oscillation measurements to study the thickness evolution of the extremely large magnetoresistance (XMR) material and type-II Weyl semimetal candidate, $\gamma$-MoTe$_2$, protected from…
We have investigated experimentally the magnetoresistance of strongly asymmetric double-wells. The structures were prepared by inserting a thin Al$_{0.3}$Ga$_{0.7}$As barrier into the GaAs buffer layer of a standard modulation-doped…
The effect of in-plane electric field on Landau level spacing, spin splitting energy, average spin polarization and average spin current in the bulk as well as at the edges of a two-dimensional electron system with Rashba spin-orbit…
We consider a one-dimensional spin-orbit-coupled nanowire quantum dot, driven by external electric and magnetic fields, and theoretically formulate an electric mechanism to interfere its electron orbits. Owing to the existence of spin-orbit…
The influence of a magnetic field on the tunneling of an electron out of a confining plane is studied by a path integral method. We map this 3-d problem on to a 1-d one, and find that the tunneling is strongly affected by the field. Without…
Microscopic theories of magnetoresistance have traditionally focused on momentum relaxation and the plasma frequency of itinerant electrons. Here, we uncover a distinct mechanism in which magnetoresistance originates from quantum…
We discuss possible magnetic structures in UPt$_3$ based on our analysis of elastic neutron-scattering experiments in high magnetic fields at temperatures $T<T_N$. The existing experimental data can be explained by a single-{\bf q}…
Magnetic excitations are studied in gapped quantum spin systems, for which spontaneous two-magnon decays are allowed by symmetry. Interaction between one- and two-particle states acquires nonanalytic frequency and momentum dependence near…
The dynamics of magnetic moments consist of a precession around the magnetic field direction and a relaxation towards the field to minimize the energy. While the magnetic moment and the angular momentum are conventionally assumed to be…