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The level splittings induced by a horizontal magnetic field in a parabolic two-dimensional quantum dot with spin-orbit interaction are obtained. Characteristic features induced by the spin-orbit coupling are the appearance of zero-field…

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We report spin-polarized tunneling density of states measurements of the proximity modulated superconductor-insulator transition in ultra thin Be-Al bilayers. The bilayer samples consisted of a Be film of varying thickness,…

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The conditions for a spontaneous spin polarization in a quantum wire positioned in a zero magnetic field are analyzed under weak population of one-dimensional subbands that gives rise to the efficient quenching of the kinetic energy by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 N. T. Bagraev , V. K. Ivanov , L. E. Klyachkin , I. A. Shelykh

The complex structure of the valence band in many semiconductors leads to multifaceted and unusual properties for spin-3/2 hole systems compared to typical spin-1/2 electron systems. In particular, two-dimensional hole systems show a highly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-22 C. Gradl , R. Winkler , M. Kempf , J. Holler , D. Schuh , D. Bougeard , A. Hernández-Mínguez , K. Biermann , P. V. Santos , C. Schüller , T. Korn

We report an experimental study of quantum point contacts defined in a high-quality strained germanium quantum well with layered electric gates. At zero magnetic field, we observe quantized conductance plateaus in units of 2$e^2/h$.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-07 Han Gao , Zhen-Zhen Kong , Po Zhang , Yi Luo , Haitian Su , Xiao-Fei Liu , Gui-Lei Wang , Ji-Yin Wang , H. Q. Xu

We report conductance measurements of ballistic one-dimensional (1D) wires defined in GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructures in an in-plane magnetic field, B. When the Zeeman energy is equal to the 1D subband energy spacing, the spin-split subband…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. C. Graham , K. J. Thomas , M. Pepper , N. R. Cooper , M. Y. Simmons , D. A. Ritchie

Ballistic quantum wires are exposed to longitudinal profiles of perpendicular magnetic fields composed of a spike (magnetic barrier) and a homogeneous part. An asymmetric magnetoconductance peak as a function of the homogeneous magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 A. Tarasov , S. Hugger , Hengyi Xu , M. Cerchez , T. Heinzel , I. V. Zozoulenko , U. Gasser-Szerer , D. Reuter , A. D. Wieck

Through magneto-transport measurements and analysis of the observed Shubnikov de Haas oscillations in (010) (AlxGa1-x)2O3/Ga2O3 heterostructures, spin-splitting of the Landau levels in the (010) Ga2O3 two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) has…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Adam T. Neal , Yuewei Zhang , Said Elhamri , Siddharth Rajan , Shin Mou

Magnetic-field-induced phase transitions in the integer quantum Hall effect are studied under the formation of paired Landau bands arising from Zeeman spin splitting. By investigating features of modular symmetry, we showed that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. R. Hang , R. B. Dunford , Gil-Ho Kim , H. D. Yeh , C. F. Huang , D. A. Ritchie , I. Farrer , Y. W. Zhang , C. -T. Liang , Y. H. Chang

Transport measurements in inverted InAs/GaSb quantum wells reveal a giant spin-orbit splitting of the energy bands close to the hybridization gap. The splitting results from the interplay of electron-hole mixing and spin-orbit coupling, and…

We investigate the topological nodal structure of three-dimensional (3D) ZrTe$_5$ driven by Zeeman splitting as a function of the direction of external magnetic (B) field by using a Wannier-function-based tight-binding (WFTB) model obtained…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-29 Yichul Choi , John W. Villanova , Kyungwha Park

The spectroscopic properties of a spin polarized two-dimensional hole gas are studied in modulation doped (Cd,Mn)Te quantum wells. The giant Zeeman effect induces a significant spin splitting even at very small values of the applied field.…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-01-29 P. Kossacki , H. Boukari , M. Bertolini , D. Ferrand , J. Cibert , S. Tatarenko , J. A. Gaj , B. Deveaud , V. Ciulin , M. Potemski

We show that for lattice-mismatched zinc-blende-type (110)-grown quantum wells a significant contribution to the zero-magnetic-field spin splitting of electron subbands comes from strain-induced spin-orbit coupling. Combining envelope…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-05 M. O. Nestoklon , S. A. Tarasenko , R. Benchamekh , P. Voisin

Electron shuttling is one of the current avenues being pursued to scale semiconductor quantum dot-based spin qubits. Adiabatic spin qubit transfer along a chain of tunnel-coupled quantum dots is one of the possible schemes. In this scheme,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-13 Jan A. Krzywda , Łukasz Cywiński

We use an empirical tight-binding approach to calculate electron and hole states in [111]-grown PbSe nanowires. We show that the valley-orbit and spin-orbit splittings are very sensitive to the atomic arrangement within the nanowire…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-29 I. D. Avdeev , A. N. Poddubny , S. V. Goupalov , M. O. Nestoklon

Unconventional magnets with momentum-dependent spin-splitting but zero net magnetization form a recently identified class of collinear magnets that are challenging to probe via conventional means. We show that these systems can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-03 Neelanjan Chakraborti , Sudeep Kumar Ghosh , Snehasish Nandy

We report measurements of the compressibility of a one-dimensional (1D) quantum wire, defined in the upper well of a GaAs/AlGaAs double quantum well heterostructure. A wire defined simultaneously in the lower well probes the ability of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 L. W. Smith , A. R. Hamilton , K. J. Thomas , M. Pepper , I. Farrer , J. P. Griffiths , G. A. C. Jones , D. A. Ritchie

This article is a brief review of Zeeman spin-orbit coupling, arising in a low-carrier commensurate N\'eel antiferromagnet subject to magnetic field. The field tends to lift the degeneracy of the electron spectrum. However, a hidden…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-06-13 Revaz Ramazashvili

We present a theoretical investigation of the electronic and optical properties of V- and T-shaped quantum wires. Valence band mixing as well as realistic sample geometries are fully included through an accurate and efficient approach that…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 G. Goldoni , F. Rossi , E. Molinari , A. Fasolino

We have measured the Zeeman splitting of quantum levels in few-electron quantum dots (QDs) formed in narrow bandgap InSb nanowires via the Schottky barriers at the contacts under application of different spatially orientated magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-15 Jingwei Mu , Shaoyun Huang , Ji-Yin Wang , Guang-Yao Huang , Xuming Wang , H. Q. Xu