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Excitons are neutral objects, that, naively, should have no response to a uniform, electric field. Could the Berry curvature of the underlying electronic bands alter this conclusion? In this work, we show that Berry curvature can indeed…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-04-21 Swati Chaudhary , Christina Knapp , Gil Refael

We investigate the local density of states in the vicinity of a native dumbbell defect arising from an Fe vacancy in FeSe single crystals. The tunneling spectra close to the impurity display two bound states inside the superconducting gap,…

We compute the tunneling density of states of doped multi-wall nanotubes including disorder and electron-electron interactions. A non-conventional Coulomb blockade reflecting nonperturbative Altshuler-Aronov-Lee power-law zero-bias…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. Egger , A. O. Gogolin

Motivated by a recent tunneling experiment in a double quantum-well system, which reports an anomalously enhanced electronic scattering rate in a clean two-dimensional electron gas, we calculate the inelastic quasiparticle lifetime due to…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Lian Zheng , S. Das Sarma

The precise positioning of dopants in semiconductors using scanning tunneling microscopes has led to the development of planar dopant-based devices, also known as $\delta$-layers, facilitating the exploration of new concepts in classical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-20 Juan P. Mendez , Denis Mamaluy

A deep understanding of the correlation between electronic and mechanical degrees of freedom is crucial to the development of quantum devices in a nanoelectromechanical system (NEMS). In this work, we first establish a fully quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-14 Chengjie Wu , Yi Ding , Yiying Yan , Yuguo Su , Elijah Omollo Ayieta , Slobodan Radošević , Georg Engelhardt , Gernot Schaller , JunYan Luo

We predict that in a twisted homobilayer of transition-metal dichalcogenide MoS$_2$, spin-orbit coupling in the conduction band states from $\pm K$ valleys can give rise to moir\'{e} flat bands with nonzero Chern numbers in each valley. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-21 Benjamin T. Zhou , Shannon Egan , Marcel Franz

We theoretically study transport signatures associated with a spontaneous 2-valley to 1-valley quantum phase transition in a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) tuned by decreasing the 2D carrier density, as claimed in a recent experiment…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-06 Seongjin Ahn , Sankar Das Sarma

Two-dimensional moir\'e materials offer a powerful, twist-tunable platform for engineering electronic bands and correlations, though most studies to date have focused on small twist angles where flat bands arise from symmetry-pinned…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-15 Giovanny Espitia , Seung Hun Lee , Calvin Kaiyu Chiu , Junyeong Ahn , Mit H. Naik

We study the effect of open boundary condition on charge density waves (CDW). The electron density oscillates rapidly close to the boundary, and additional non-oscillating terms (~ln(r)) appear. The Friedel oscillations survive beyond the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-25 Balázs Dóra

The density of states and the Hall conductivity of a two-dimensional electron gas in a uniform magnetic field and in the presence of a delta impurity are exactly calculated using elementary field theoretic techniques. Although these results…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 R. M. Cavalcanti , C. A. A. de Carvalho

The electron hole asymmetry has been measured in natural graphite using magneto-optical absorption measurements. A splitting is observed for the transitions at both the $K$-point and the $H$-point of the Brillouin zone of graphite where the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-14 P. Plochocka , P. Y. Solane , R. J. Nicholas , J. M. Schneider , B. A. Piot , D. K. Maude , O. Portugall , G. L. J. A. Rikken

We report the first experimental observation of a characteristic nonlinear threshold behavior from dc dynamical response as an evidence for a Wigner crystallization in high-purity GaAs 2D hole systems in zero magnetic field. The system…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Jian Huang , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

While the exponential decay of tunneling probability with barrier thickness is well known, the accompanying oscillations with thickness have been comparatively less explored. Using a tight binding model, we investigate an AB-stacked bilayer…

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We propose a simple, general, and accurate formula for analyzing the tunneling between classical configurations of a non-planar molecule in a gas medium, as a function of the thermodynamic parameters of the gas. We apply it to two…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-12-23 Mohammad Bahrami , Angelo Bassi

Tunneling conductance spectra between a normal metal / d-wave superconductor junction under the presence of bulk impurities in the superconductor are studied. The quasiclassical theory has been applied to calculate the spatial variation of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 Y. Tanaka , Y. Tanuma , S. Kashiwaya

The Kondo effect is the many-body screening of a local spin by a cloud of electrons at very low temperature. It has been proposed as an explanation of the zero-bias anomaly in quantum point contacts where interactions drive a spontaneous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-30 B. Brun , F. Martins , S. Faniel , B. Hackens , A. Cavanna , C. Ulysse , A. Ouerghi , U. Gennser , D. Mailly , P. Simon , S. Huant , V. Bayot , M. Sanquer , H. Sellier

It is shown that in a structure consisting of a superconducting ring-shaped electrode overlapped by a normal metal contact through a thin oxide barrier, measurements of the tunnel current in magnetic field can probe persistent currents in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-04-07 K. Yu. Arutyunov , T. T. Hongisto , D. Y. Vodolazov

We use Boltzmann theory to study the semi-classical dynamics of electrons in a two-dimensional (2D) tilted Dirac material in which the tilt varies in space. The spatial variation of the tilt parameter induces a non-trivial spacetime…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-11 Abolfath Hosseinzadeh , Seyed Akbar Jafari