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The fundamental properties of valleys are recently attracting growing attention due to electrons in new and topical materials possessing this degree-of-freedom and recent proposals for val-leytronics devices. In silicon MOSFETs, the…
We have studied the temperature dependence of resistivity, $\rho$, for a two-dimensional electron system in silicon at low electron densities, $n_s\sim10^{11}$ cm$^{-2}$, near the metal/insulator transition. The resistivity was empirically…
We report results of a magneto-transport study on thin films of the topological semi-metal candidate PdSb$_{2}$ (PS). We observe a positive correction to magneto-conductivity at low temperatures, which is a signature of weak…
Results of experimental study of the weak localization phenomenon in 2D system with artificial inhomogeneity of potential relief are presented. It is shown that the shape of the magnetoconductivity curve is determined by the statistics of…
This paper is devoted to the temperature dependence of the resistivity in Si- MOS samples over the wide range of densities in the ``metallic phase'' (n>n_c) but not too close to the critical density n_c. Three domains of different behavior…
We report on low temperature (2-30K) electron transport and magneto-transport measurements of a chemically synthesized InAs nanowire. Both the temperature, T, and transverse magnetic field dependences of the nanowire conductance are…
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Spin-flip scattering of charge carriers in metals with magnetic defects leads to the low-temperature saturation of the decoherence time, $\tau_\varphi$, of electrons at the value comparable to their spin relaxation time, $\tau_s$. In…
We calculate the temperature, density, and parallel magnetic field dependence of low temperature electronic resistivity in 2D high-mobility Si/SiGe quantum structures, assuming the conductivity limiting mechanism to be carrier scattering by…
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…
We study the evolution of low-temperature magnetoresistance in double quantum wells in the region below 1 Tesla as the applied current density increases. A flip of the magneto-intersubband oscillation peaks, which occurs as a result of the…
The two dimensional conducting interfaces in SrTiO$_3$-based systems are known to show a variety of coexisting and competing phenomena in a complex phase space. Magnetoresistance measurements, which are typically used to extract information…
Low-field magnetotransport measurements on a high mobility (mu=110,000 cm^2/Vs) two-dimensional (2D) electron system on a H-terminated Si(111) surface reveal a sixfold valley degeneracy with a valley splitting <= 0.1 K. The zero-field…
Combining experimental data, numerical transport calculations, and theoretical analysis, we study the temperature-dependent resistivity of high-mobility 2D Si MOSFETs to search for signatures of weak localization induced quantum corrections…
Using the Drude-Boltzmann semiclassical transport theory, we calculate the weak-field Hall resistance of a two-dimensional system at low densities and temperatures, assuming carrier scattering by screened random charged impurity centers.…
We report on an extensive study of the elastic scattering time $\tauS$ of matter-waves in optical disordered potentials. Using direct experimental measurements, numerical simulations and comparison with first-order Born approximation based…
We have extracted the phase coherence time $\tau_{\phi}$ of electronic quasiparticles from the low field magnetoresistance of weakly disordered wires made of silver, copper and gold. In samples fabricated using our purest silver and gold…
The temperature evolution of spin relaxation time, {\tau}sf, in degenerate silicon (Si)-based lateral spin valves is investigated by means of the Hanle effect measurements. {\tau}sf at 300 K is estimated to be 1.68+-0.03 ns and…
We develop a classical kinetic theory of magnetotransport of 2D electrons in narrow channels with partly diffusive boundary scattering and apply it to description of magnetoresistance measured in the temperature interval 4.2-30 K in long…
We have studied the carrier transport in two topological insulator (TI) Bi$_{2}$Te$_{3}$ microflakes between 0.3 and 10 K and under applied backgate voltages ($V_{\rm BG}$). Logarithmic temperature dependent resistance corrections due to…