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We consider a disordered topological insulator thin film placed on the top of a ferromagnetic insulator with a perpendicular exchange field $M$ and subjected to a perpendicular electric field. The presence of ferromagnetic insulator causes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-15 Siamak Pooyan , Mir Vahid Hosseini

We investigate magnetic properties induced by a spinless impurity in strongly correlated electron systems, i.e. the Hubbard model in the spatial dimension $D=1,2,$ and 3. For the 1D system exploiting the Bethe ansatz exact solution we find…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 Satoshi Fujimoto

We theoretically consider the effects of having unintentional charged impurities in laterally coupled two-dimensional double (GaAs) quantum dot systems, where each dot contains one or two electrons and a single charged impurity in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Nga T. T. Nguyen , S. Das Sarma

We explore the longitudinal conductivity of graphene at the Dirac point in a strong magnetic field with two types of short-range scatterers: adatoms that mix the valleys and "scalar" impurities that do not mix them. A scattering theory for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-16 S. Gattenloehner , W. -R. Hannes , P. M. Ostrovsky , I. V. Gornyi , A. D. Mirlin , M. Titov

We revisited the influence of electron-electron scattering on the resistivity of a two-dimensional system with linear spectrum. In conventional systems with parabolic spectrum, where Umklapp scattering is either prohibited or ineffective…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-19 V. M. Kovalev , M. V. Entin , Z. D. Kvon , A. D. Levin , V. A. Chitta , G. M. Gusev , N. N. Mikhailov

We calculate the spin Hall conductivity driven by Rashba spin-orbit interaction in $p$-type two-dimensional semiconductors in the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field. For a highly confined quantum well, the system is described by a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 M. Zarea , Sergio E. Ulloa

We study spectra for a 2D electron in the lowest Landau level with randomly distributed, repulsively correlated electric impurities. The lowest energy band reflects an effective magnetic field downshifted by an integer multiple of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alfred Scharff Goldhaber , M. L. Horner

With a view to electrical spin manipulation and quantum computing applications, recent significant attention has been devoted to semiconductor hole systems, which have very strong spin-orbit interactions. However, experimentally measuring,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-08 Hong Liu , Elizabeth Marcellina , Alexander R. Hamilton , Dimitrie Culcer

The anomalous Hall conductivity has an important extrinsic contribution known as side jump contribution, which is independent of both scattering strength and disorder density. Nevertheless, we discover that side jump has strong dependence…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Shengyuan A. Yang , Hui Pan , Yugui Yao , Qian Niu

Theoretical predictions and recent experimental results suggest one can engineer spin Hall effect in graphene by enhancing the spin-orbit coupling in the vicinity of an impurity. We use a Chebyshev expansion of the Kubo-Bastin formula to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-01 Jose H. Garcia , Tatiana G. Rappoport

Graphene has an unusual low-energy band structure with four chiral bands and half-quantized and quantized Hall effects that have recently attracted theoretical and experimental attention. We study the Fermi energy and disorder dependence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 N. A. Sinitsyn , J. E. Hill , Hongki Min , Jairo Sinova , A. H. MacDonald

We investigate the effects of charged impurity distributions and carrier-carrier interactions on electronic transport in graphene on SiO$_2$ by employing a self-consistent coupled simulation of carrier transport and electrodynamics. We show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-21 N. Sule , S. C. Hagness , I. Knezevic

We consider magnetic impurities in a two dimensional superfluid Fermi gas in the presence of spin-orbit coupling. By using the methods of t-matrix and Green's function, we find spin-orbit coupling has some dramatic impacts on the effects of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-01-07 Zhongbo Yan , Xiaosen Yang , Liang Sun , Shaolong Wan

We develop a quantum Boltzman equation approach that incorporates microscopic impurity models into the theory of orbital transport, revealing, how impurity properties, including their symmetry, influence the relaxation of orbital momentum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-08 V. V. Kabanov , A. V. Shumilin

The anomalous Hall effect in a magnetic two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit coupling is studied within the Kubo-Streda formalism in the presence of pointlike potential impurities. We find that all contributions to the…

In this paper we argue that the electron skew-scattering on paramagnetic impurities in non-magnetic systems, such as bulk semiconductors, possesses a remarkable fingerprint allowing to differentiate it directly from other microscopic…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-02-24 M. A. Rakitskii , K. S. Denisov , I. V. Rozhansky , N. S. Averkiev

A two-dimensional kagome lattice is theoretically investigated within a simple tight-binding model, which includes the nearest neighbor hopping term and the intrinsic spin-orbit interaction between the next nearest neighbors. By using the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-03 Zhigang Wang , Ping Zhang

It is shown that the Hamiltonian for a quantum magnetic impurity on the surface of a topological insulator can be mapped to the conventional pseudo-gap Anderson impurity model, albeit with the combinations of continuum states which…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-02-07 Rok Zitko

We calculate the temperature dependent resistivity in spin-split subbands induced by the inversion asymmetry of the confining potential in GaAs 2D hole systems. By considering both temperature dependent multisubband screening of impurity…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 E. H. Hwang , S. Das Sarma

We theoretically consider the carrier density dependence of low-temperature electrical conductivity in high-quality and low-disorder two-dimensional (2D) `metallic' electronic systems such as 2D GaAs electron or hole quantum wells or gated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-31 S. Das Sarma , E. H. Hwang