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We study the electron transport through a system of two low-capacitance metal islands connected in series between two electrodes. The work is motivated in part by experiments on semiconducting double-dots, which show intriguing effects…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Teemu Pohjola , Jürgen König , Herbert Schoeller , Gerd Schön

In two-dimensional (2D) electron systems under strong magnetic fields, interactions can cause fractional quantum Hall (FQH) effects. Bringing two 2D conductors to proximity, a new set of correlated states can emerge due to interactions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-17 Xiaomeng Liu , Zeyu Hao , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Bertrand Halperin , Philip Kim

Quantum point contacts (QPC) are a key instrument in investigating the physics of edge excitations in the quantum Hall effect. However, at not-so-high bias voltage values, the predictions of the conventional point QPC model often deviate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-11 Prasoon Kumar , Kyrylo Snizhko

We experimentally study electron transport between edge states in the fractional quantum Hall effect regime. We find an anomalous increase of the transport across the 2/3 incompressible fractional stripe in comparison with theoretical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. V. Deviatov , V. T. Dolgopolov , A. Lorke , W. Wegscheider , A. D. Wieck

Tunnelling between two-dimensional electron systems has been studied in the magnetic field perpendicular to the systems planes. The satellite conductance peaks of the main resonance have been observed due to the electron tunnelling assisted…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-07-10 V. G. Popov , Yu. V. Dubrovskii , J. -C. Portal

We study the magnetotransport properties of dual-gated graphene bilayers, in which the total density and layer density imbalance are independently controlled. As the bilayer is imbalanced we observe the emergence of a quantum Hall state…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-15 Seyoung Kim , E. Tutuc

We explore the characteristics of equilibrium tunneling of electrons from a 3D electrode into a high mobility 2D electron system. For most 2D Landau level filling factors, we find that tunneling can be characterized by a single,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 H. B. Chan , R. C. Ashoori , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

We study the phase structure and Hall conductance quantization in weakly coupled multi-layer electron systems in the integer quantum Hall regime. We derive an effective field theory and perform a two-loop renormalization group calculation.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Ziqiang Wang

We study the effect of interlayer Coulomb interaction in an electronic double layer. Assuming that each of the layers consists of a bipartite lattice, a sufficiently strong interlayer interaction leads to an interlayer pairing of electrons…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-07-22 Andreas Sinner , Yurii E. Lozovik , Klaus Ziegler

Bilayer quantum Hall systems have a broken symmetry ground state at filling factor $\nu=1$ which can be viewed either as an excitonic superfluid or as a pseudospin ferromagnet. We present a theory of inter-layer transport in quantum Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Enrico Rossi , Alvaro S. Núñez , A. H. MacDonald

We investigate theoretically the effects of intralayer and interlayer exchange in biased double-layer electron and hole systems, in the absence of a magnetic field. We use a variational Hartree-Fock-like approximation to analyze the effects…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 C. B. Hanna , Dylan Haas , J. C. Diaz-Velez

The quantum Hall effect is investigated in a high-mobility two-dimensional electron gas on the surface of a cylinder. The novel topology leads to a spatially varying filling factor along the current path. The resulting inhomogeneous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-01 K. -J. Friedland , A. Siddiki , R. Hey , H. Kostial , A. Riedel , D. K. Maude

We report on the quantum Hall effect in two stacked graphene layers rotated by 2 degree. The tunneling strength among the layers can be varied from very weak to strong via the mechanism of magnetic breakdown when tuning the density.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-09 Youngwook Kim , Pilkyung Moon , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Jurgen H. Smet

We consider a quantum spin Hall system in a two-terminal setup, with an extended tunneling contact connecting upper and lower edges. We analyze the effects of this geometry on the backscattering current as a function of voltage,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-08 G. Dolcetto , S. Barbarino , D. Ferraro , N. Magnoli , M. Sassetti

We investigate electronic transport in dual-gated twisted bilayer graphene. Despite the sub-nanometer proximity between the layers, we identify independent contributions to the magnetoresistance from the graphene Landau level spectrum of…

We use a scanning capacitance probe to image transport in the quantum Hall system. Applying a DC bias voltage to the tip induces a ring-shaped incompressible strip (IS) in the 2D electron system (2DES) that moves with the tip. At certain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. A. Steele , R. C. Ashoori , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

Interband quantum tunneling of electrons in semiconductors is of intense recent interest as the underlying transport mechanism in tunneling field-effect transistors. Such transistors can potentially perform electronic switching with lower…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-15 Nan Ma , Debdeep Jena

We study the tunneling current between two counterpropagating edge modes described by chiral Luttinger liquids when the tunneling takes place along an extended region. We compute this current perturbatively by using a tunnel Hamiltonian.…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Aranzana , N. Regnault , Th. Jolicoeur

Nonreciprocal dissipationless transport has long been sought for applications in superconducting technologies. Recently, it has been implemented by the so called superconducting diode effect. Such effect arises from an imbalance in critical…

We address the issue of an apparent disagreement between theory and experiment on the I-V characteristic of electron tunneling from a metal to the edge of a two-dimensional electron gas in the fractional quantum Hall regime. A part of our…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Dung-Hai Lee , Xiao-Gang Wen