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Intrinsic giant Stark effect of boron-carbon-nitride nanoribbons with zigzag edges: Electronic properties of zigzag boron-carbon-nitride (BCN) nanoribbons, where the outermost C atoms on the edges of graphene nanoribbons are replaced by B or N atoms, are theoretically studied using the first-principles calculations. ...
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Kondo effect in coupled quantum dots with RKKY interaction: Finite temperature and magnetic field effects: We study transport through two quantum dots coupled by an RKKY interaction as a function of temperature and magnetic field. By applying the Numerical Renormalization Group (NRG) method we obtain the transmission...
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Skyrmion dynamics in quantum Hall ferromagnets: Exploring a classical solution of the non-linear sigma model for a quantum Hall ferromagnet, a skyrmion-magnon effective hamiltonian is obtained via the collective coordinates method. Using the Feynman-Vernon functional integral formalism for this model we find the temper...
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Electronic transport of folded graphene nanoribbons: We investigate the electronic transport properties of a folded graphene nanoribbon with monolayer nanoribbon contacts. We consider two possible foldings: either the nanoribbon can be folded onto itself in the shape of a hairpin with the nanoribbon leads at a $0^\circ...
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Intrinsic spin-orbit torque in an antiferromagnet with a weakly noncollinear spin configuration: An antiferromagnet is a promising material for spin-orbit torque generation. Earlier studies of the spin-orbit torque in an antiferromagnet are limited to collinear spin configurations. We calculate the spin-orbit torque ...
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Magnetoplasmon excitations in arrays of circular and noncircular quantum dots: We have investigated the magnetoplasmon excitations in arrays of circular and noncircular quantum dots within the Thomas-Fermi-Dirac-von Weizs\"acker approximation. Deviations from the ideal collective excitations of isolated parabolically...
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Theoretical Study of Electrical Conduction Through a Molecule Connected to Metallic Nanocontacts: We present a theoretical study of electron transport through a molecule connected to two metallic nanocontacts. The system investigated is 1,4 benzene-dithiolate (BDT) chemically bonded to two Au contacts. The surface ch...
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Kondo physics in tunable semiconductor nanowire quantum dots: We have observed the Kondo effect in strongly coupled semiconducting nanowire quantum dots. The devices are made from indium arsenide nanowires, grown by molecular beam epitaxy, and contacted by titanium leads. The device transparency can be tuned by changin...
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Peierls-type Instability and Tunable Band Gap in Functionalized Graphene: Functionalizing graphene was recently shown to have a dramatic effect on the electronic properties of this material. Here we investigate spatial ordering of adatoms driven by the RKKY-type interactions. In the ordered state, which arises via a Pe...
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Terahertz lasing from intersubband polariton-polariton scattering in asymmetric quantum wells: Electric dipole transitions between different cavity polariton branches or between dressed atomic states with the same excitation number are strictly forbidden in centro-symmetric systems. For doped quantum wells in semicon...
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Detection of quantum interference without interference: Quantum interference is typically detected through the dependence of the interference signal on certain parameters (path length, Aharonov-Bohm flux, etc.), which can be varied in a controlled manner. The destruction of interference by a which-path measurement is a...
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Thermodynamics of a Single Mesoscopic Phononic Mode: In recent decades, the laws of thermodynamics have been pushed down to smaller and smaller scales, within the field of stochastic thermodynamics and state-of-art experiments performed on mesoscopic systems. These measurements concern electrons, photons, and mesoscopi...
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Unexpected Gaussian line shapes reveal electron-adsorbate interaction as dominant broadening mechanism in quantum corrals: Understanding the factors influencing the lifetime of electronic states in artificial quantum structures is of great significance for advancing quantum technologies. This study focuses on CO-base...
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Fast, low-current spin-orbit torque switching of magnetic tunnel junctions through atomic modifications of the free layer interfaces: Future applications of spin-orbit torque will require new mechanisms to improve the efficiency for switching nanoscale magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs), while also controlling the magn...
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Onset of optical-phonon cooling in multilayer graphene revealed by RF noise and black-body radiation thermometries: We report on electron cooling power measurements in few-layer graphene excited by Joule heating by means of a new setup combining electrical and optical probes of the electron and phonon baths temperatu...
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Demonstration of Entanglement of Electrostatically Coupled Singlet-Triplet Qubits: Quantum computers have the potential to solve certain interesting problems significantly faster than classical computers. To exploit the power of a quantum computation it is necessary to perform inter-qubit operations and generate enta...
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Confinement and Fermion Doubling Problem in Dirac-like Hamiltonians: We investigate the interplay between confinement and the fermion doubling problem in Dirac-like Hamiltonians. Individually, both features are well known. First, simple electrostatic gates do not confine electrons due to the Klein tunneling. Second, a ...
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Ion-beam nanopatterning of silicon surfaces under co-deposition of non-silicide-forming impurities: We report experiments on surface nanopatterning of Si targets which are irradiated with 2 keV Ar + ions impinging at near-glancing incidence, under concurrent co-deposition of Au impurities simultaneously extracted fro...
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Lateral plasmonic crystals: Tunability, dark modes, and weak-to-strong coupling transition: We study transmission of the terahertz radiation through a two-dimensional electron gas with a concentration controlled by grating gate electrodes. Voltage applied to these electrodes creates a lateral plasmonic crystal with a...
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On the possibility of the fractional ac Josephson effect in non-topological conventional superconductor-normal-superconductor junctions: Topological superconductors supporting Majorana Fermions with non-abelian statistics are presently a subject of intense theoretical and experimental effort. It has been proposed tha...
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Phononic bandgap nano-acoustic cavity with ultralong phonon lifetime: We present measurements at millikelvin temperatures of the microwave-frequency acoustic properties of a crystalline silicon nanobeam cavity incorporating a phononic bandgap clamping structure for acoustic confinement. Utilizing pulsed laser light to ...
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Electron cooling with graphene-insulator-superconductor tunnel junctions and applications to fast bolometry: Electronic cooling in hybrid normal metal-insulator-superconductor junctions is a promising technology for the manipulation of thermal loads in solid state nanosystems. One of the main bottlenecks for efficien...
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Phonon wave packet emission during state preparation of a semiconductor quantum dot using different schemes: The carrier-phonon interaction in semiconductor quantum dots can greatly affect the optical preparation of the excited state. For resonant excitation used in the Rabi preparation scheme, the polaron is formed ...
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Imaging electron flow from collimating contacts in graphene: The ballistic motion of electrons in graphene encapsulated in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) promises exciting opportunities for electron-optics devices. A narrow electron beam is desired, with both the mean free path and coherence length exceeding the device ...
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Electronic bandstructure and optical gain of lattice matched III-V dilute nitride bismide quantum wells for 1.55 $μ$m optical communication systems: Dilute nitride bismide GaNBiAs is a potential semiconductor alloy for near- and mid-infrared applications, particularly in 1.55 $\mu$m optical communication systems. I...
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Sideband ground-state cooling of graphene with Rydberg atoms via vacuum forces: We present a scheme leading to ground-state cooling of the fundamental out-of-plane (flexural) mode of a suspended graphene sheet. Our proposal exploits the coupling between a driven Rydberg atom and the graphene resonator, which is enabl...
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Decoupling of the many-body effects from the electron mass in GaAs by means of reduced dimensionality: Determining the (bare) electron mass $m_0$ in crystals is often hindered by many-body effects since Fermi-liquid physics renormalises the band mass, making the observed effective mass $m^*$ depend on density. Here, ...
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Probing topological protected transport in finite-sized Su-Schrieffer-Heeger chains: In order to transport information with topological protection, we reveal and demonstrate experimentally the existence of a characteristic length $L_c$, coined as the transport length, in the bulk size for edge states in one-dimension...
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A study on the universality of the magnetic-field-induced phase transitions in the two-dimensional electron system in an AlGaAs/GaAs heterostructure: Plateau-plateau (P-P) and insulator-quantum Hall conductor (I-QH) transitions are observed in the two-dimensional electron system in an AlGaAs/GaAs heterostructure. A...
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Current noise of a superconducting single electron transistor coupled to a resonator: We analyze the current and zero-frequency current noise properties of a superconducting single electron resonator (SSET) coupled to a resonator, focusing on the regime where the SSET is operated in the vicinity of the Josephson quas...
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Magnetotransport in graphene on silicon side of SiC: We have studied the transport properties of graphene grown on silicon side of SiC. Samples under study have been prepared by two different growth methods in two different laboratories. Magnetoresistance and Hall resistance have been measured at temperatures between 4...
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Resonant single and multi-photon coherent transitions in a detuned regime: We performed quantum manipulations of the multi-level spin system S=5/2 of a Mn$^{2+}$ ion, by means of a two-tone pulse drive. The detuning between the excitation and readout radio frequency pulses allows one to select the number of photons i...
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Self-Focusing Skyrmion Racetracks in Ferrimagnets: We theoretically study the dynamics of ferrimagnetic skyrmions in inhomogeneous metallic films close to the angular momentum compensation point. In particular, it is shown that the line of the vanishing angular momentum can be utilized as a self-focusing racetrack for ...
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Dynamics of hole singlet triplet qubits with large g-factor differences: The spin-orbit interaction is the key element for electrically tunable spin qubits. Here we probe the effect of cubic Rashba spin-orbit interaction on mixing of the spin states by investigating singlet-triplet oscillations in a planar Ge hole doub...
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Bilayer graphene: gap tunability and edge properties: Bilayer graphene -- two coupled single graphene layers stacked as in graphite -- provides the only known semiconductor with a gap that can be tuned externally through electric field effect. Here we use a tight binding approach to study how the gap changes with the a...
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Manipulation of edge states in microwave artificial graphene: Edge states are one important ingredient to understand transport properties of graphene nanoribbons. We study experimentally the existence and the internal structure of edge states under uniaxial strain of the three main edges: zigzag, bearded, and armchair....
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Direct electronic measurement of the spin Hall effect: The generation, manipulation and detection of spin-polarized electrons in nanostructures define the main challenges of spin-based electronics[1]. Amongst the different approaches for spin generation and manipulation, spin-orbit coupling, which couples the spin of a...
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Exciton-phonon-scattering: A competition between bosonic and fermionic nature of bound electron-hole pairs: The question of macroscopic occupation and spontaneous emergence of coherence for exciton ensembles has gained renewed attention due to the rise of van der Waals heterostructures made of atomically thin semicon...
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Spin-orbit coupling and the static polarizability of single-wall carbon nanotubes: We calculate the static longitudinal polarizability of single-wall carbon nanotubes in the long wavelength limit taking into account spin-orbit effects. We use a four-orbital orthogonal tight-binding formalism to describe the electroni...
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4$π$ and 8$π$ dual Josephson effects induced by symmetry defects: In topological insulator edges, the duality between the Zeeman field orientation and the proximitized superconducting phase has been recently exploited to predict a magneto-Josephson effect with a 4$\pi$ periodicity. We revisit this latter Josephson effe...
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Strain-induced pseudomagnetic and scalar fields in symmetry-enforced Dirac nodes: It is known that Dirac nodes can be present at high-symmetry points of Brillouin zone only for certain space groups. For these cases, the effect of strain is treated by symmetry considerations. The dependence of strain-induced potential...
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TSTG II: Projected Hartree-Fock Study of Twisted Symmetric Trilayer Graphene: The Hamiltonian of the magic-angle twisted symmetric trilayer graphene (TSTG) can be decomposed into a TBG-like flat band Hamiltonian and a high-velocity Dirac fermion Hamiltonian. We use Hartree-Fock mean field approach to study the projec...
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Quantum pumping in graphene: We show that graphene-based quantum pumps can tap into evanescent modes, which penetrate deeply into the device as a consequence of Klein tunneling. The evanescent modes dominate pumping at the Dirac point, and give rise to a universal response under weak driving for short and wide pumps, i...
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Localized surface plasmons in a continuous and flat graphene sheet: We derive an integral equation describing surface-plasmon polaritons in graphene deposited on a substrate with a planar surface and a dielectric protrusion in the opposite surface of the dielectric slab. We show that the problem is mathematically equiv...
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Stabilization of single-electron pumps by high magnetic fields: We study the effect of perpendicular magnetic fields on a single-electron system with a strongly time-dependent electrostatic potential. Continuous improvements to the current quantization in these electron pumps are revealed by high-resolution measurement...
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Even-odd effects in NSN scattering problems: Application to graphene nanoribbons: We study crossed Andreev reflection (CAR) of electrons or holes in normal metal-superconductor-normal metal junctions and highlight some very strong effects of the underlying lattice. In particular, we demonstrate that for sharp interfa...
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Effect of picosecond magnetic pulse on dynamics of electron's subbands in semiconductor bilayer nanowire: We report on possibility of charge current generation in nanowire made of two tunnel coupled one-dimensional electron waveguides by means of single magnetic pulse lasting up to 20 ps. Existence of interlayer tunn...
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Control of Spin Dynamics of Excitons in Nanodots for Quantum Operations: This work presents a step furthering a new perspective of proactive control of the spin-exciton dynamics in the quantum limit. Laser manipulation of spin-polarized optical excitations in a semiconductor nanodot is used to control the spin dynamics...
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Coupling single photons from discrete quantum emitters in WSe$_2$ to lithographically defined plasmonic slot-waveguides: We report the observation of the generation and routing of single plasmons generated by localized excitons in a WSe$_2$ monolayer flake exfoliated onto lithographically defined Au-plasmonic wavegui...
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Floquet multi-gap topology: Non-Abelian braiding and anomalous Dirac string phase: Topological phases of matter span a wide area of research shaping fundamental pursuits and offering promise for future applications. While a significant fraction of topological materials has been characterized using symmetry requiremen...
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Optical Probing of the Spin Polarization of the nu=5/2 Quantum Hall State: We apply polarization resolved photoluminescence spectroscopy to measure the spin polarization of a two dimensional electron gas in perpendicular magnetic field. In the vicinity of filling factor nu=5/2, we observe a sharp discontinuity in the...
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Anisotropy of spin relaxation and transverse transport in metals: Using first principles methods we explore the anisotropy of the spin relaxation and transverse transport properties in bulk metals with respect to the direction of the spin quantization axis in paramagnets or of the spontaneous magnetization in ferromagn...
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Magnetotransport in multi-Weyl semimetals: A kinetic theory approach: We study the longitudinal magnetotransport in three-dimensional multi-Weyl semimetals, constituted by a pair of (anti)-monopole of arbitrary integer charge ($n$), with $n=1,2$ and $3$ in a crystalline environment. For any $n>1$, even though the distr...
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Giant spin-orbit torque in a single ferrimagnetic metal layer: Antiferromagnets and compensated ferrimagnets offer opportunities to investigate spin dynamics in the 'terahertz gap' because their resonance modes lie in the 0.3 THz to 3 THz range. Despite some inherent advantages when compared to ferromagnets, these mate...
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Growth and Optical Properties Investigation of Pure and Al-doped SnO2 Nanostructures by Sol-Gel Method: SnO2 nanoparticles with different percentage of Al (5%, 15%, and25%) were synthesized by sol-gel method. The structure and nature of nanoparticles are determined by of X-ray diffraction analysis. Also morphology of...
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Gate-induced magneto-oscillation phase anomalies in graphene bilayers: The magneto-oscillations in graphene bilayers are studied in the vicinity of the K and K' points of the Brillouin zone within the four-band continuum model ased on the simplest tight-binding approximation involving only the nearest neighbor interact...
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Nonabelian magnonics in antiferromagnets: We present a semiclassical formalism for antiferromagnetic (AFM) magnonics which promotes the central ingredient of spin wave chirality, encoded in a quantity called magnonic isospin, to a first-class citizen of the theory. We use this formalism to unify results of interest fro...
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A Compact Approximate Solution to the Friedel-Anderson Impuriy Problem: An approximate groundstate of the Anderson-Friedel impurity problem is presented in a very compact form. It requires solely the optimization of two localized electron states and consists of four Slater states (Slater determinants). The resulting si...
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Coherent phonon Rabi oscillations with a high frequency carbon nanotube phonon cavity: Phonon-cavity electromechanics allows the manipulation of mechanical oscillations similar to photon-cavity systems. Many advances on this subject have been achieved in various materials. In addition, the coherent phonon transfer (p...
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Decoherence of two entangled spin qubits coupled to an interacting sparse nuclear spin bath: application to nitrogen vacancy centers: We consider pure dephasing of Bell states of electron spin qubits interacting with a sparse bath of nuclear spins. Using the newly developed two-qubit generalization of cluster correla...
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Zero-point fluctuations in the ground state of a mesoscopic normal ring: We investigate the persistent current of a ring with an in-line quantum dot capacitively coupled to an external circuit. Of special interest is the magnitude of the persistent current as a function of the external impedance in the zero temperature...
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Entanglement genesis by ancilla-based parity measurement in 2D circuit QED: We present an indirect two-qubit parity meter in planar circuit quantum electrodynamics, realized by discrete interaction with an ancilla and a subsequent projective ancilla measurement with a dedicated, dispersively coupled resonator. Quantu...
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Graphene Plasmonics: a Novel Fully Atomistic Approach for Realistic Structures: We demonstrate that the plasmonic properties of realistic graphene and graphene-based materials can effectively and accurately be modeled by a novel, fully atomistic, yet classical, approach, named $\omega$FQ. Such model is able to reprod...
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Spin-Orbit Based Coherent Spin Ratchets: The concept of ratchets, driven asymmetric periodic structures giving rise to directed particle flow, has recently been generalized to a quantum ratchet mechanism for spin currents mediated through spin-orbit interaction. Here we consider such systems in the coherent mesoscopic ...
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Decoherence in qubits due to low-frequency noise: The efficiency of the future devices for quantum information processing is limited mostly by the finite decoherence rates of the qubits. Recently a substantial progress was achieved in enhancing the time, which a solid-state qubit demonstrates a coherent dynamics. This ...
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Perspective on Coupled Colloidal Quantum Dot Molecules: Electronic coupling and hence hybridization of atoms serve as the basis for the rich properties of the endless library of naturally occurring molecules. Colloidal quantum dots (CQDs) manifesting quantum strong confinement, possess atomic like characteristics with ...
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Quantum Coherence at Low Temperatures in Mesoscopic Systems: Effect of Disorder: We study the disorder dependence of the phase coherence time of quasi one-dimensional wires and two-dimensional (2D) Hall bars fabricated from a high mobility GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructure. Using an original ion implantation technique, we ...
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Quasi-Periodic Nanoripples in Graphene Grown by Chemical Vapor Deposition and Its Impact on Charge Transport: The technical breakthrough in synthesizing graphene by chemical vapor deposition methods (CVD) has opened up enormous opportunities for large-scale device applications. In order to improve the electrical prop...
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Numerical Analysis of the Anderson Localization: The aim of this paper is to demonstrate, by simple numerical simulations, the main transport properties of disordered electron systems.
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Quantum Phenomena in Low-Dimensional Systems: A brief summary of the physics of low-dimensional quantum systems is given. The material should be accessible to advanced physics undergraduate students. References to recent review articles and books are provided when possible.
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Observation of charged excitons in hole-doped carbon nanotubes using photoluminescence and absorption spectroscopy: We report the first observation of trions (charged excitons), three-particle bound states consisting of one electron and two holes, in hole-doped carbon nanotubes at room temperature. When p-type dopant...
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Giant Interaction-Induced Gap and Electronic Phases in Rhombohedral Trilayer Graphene: Due to their unique electron dispersion and lack of a Fermi surface, Coulomb interactions in undoped two-dimensional Dirac systems, such as single, bi- and tri-layer graphene, can be marginal or relevant. Relevant interactions can ...
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Quantum Hall system in Tao-Thouless limit: We consider spin-polarized electrons in a single Landau level on a torus. The quantum Hall problem is mapped onto a one-dimensional lattice model with lattice constant $2\pi/L_1$, where $L_1$ is a circumference of the torus (in units of the magnetic length). In the Tao-Thoules...
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Quantum manipulation in a Josephson LED: We access the suitability of the recently proposed Josephson LED for quantum manipulation purposes. We show that the device can both be used for on-demand production of entangled photon pairs and operated as a two-qubit gate. Besides, one can entangle particle spin with photon p...
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Model for Topological Phononics and Phonon Diode: The quantum anomalous Hall effect, an exotic topological state first theoretically predicted by Haldane and recently experimentally observed, has attracted enormous interest for low-power-consumption electronics. In this work, we derived a Schr{\"o}dinger-like equation ...
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Scaling of intrinsic domain wall magneto-resistance with confinement in electromigrated nanocontacts: In this work we study the evolution of intrinsic domain wall magnetoresistance (DWMR) with domain wall confinement. Clean permalloy notched half-ring nanocontacts are fabricated using a special ultra-high vacuum elec...
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Plasmons enhance near-field radiative heat transfer for graphene-covered dielectrics: It is shown that a graphene layer on top of a dielectric slab can dramatically influence the ability of this dielectric for radiative heat exchange. Effect of graphene is related to thermally excited plasmons. Frequency of these res...
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Exciton Polaritons in a Two-Dimensional Lieb Lattice with Spin-Orbit Coupling: We study exciton-polaritons in a two-dimensional Lieb lattice of micropillars. The energy spectrum of the system features two flat bands formed from $S$ and $P_{x,y}$ photonic orbitals, into which we trigger bosonic condensation under high...
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Quantum thermodynamics in a single-electron box: This chapter provides an overview of the methods and results for quantum thermodynamic experiments with single-electron devices. The experiments with a single-electron box on Jarzynski equality and Crooks relation, two-temperature fluctuation relations, and Maxwell's dem...
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$Γ(2)$ modular symmetry, renormalization, group flow and the quantum Hall effect: We construct a family of holomorphic $\beta$-functions whose RG flow preserves the $\Gamma(2)$ modular symmetry and reproduces the observed stability of the Hall plateaus. The semi-circle law relating the longitudinal and Hall conductiv...
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Origin of Discrepancies in Inelastic Electron Tunneling Spectra of Molecular Junctions: We report inelastic electron tunneling spectroscopy (IETS) of multilayer molecular junctions with and without incorporated metal nano-particles. The incorporation of metal nanoparticles into our devices leads to enhanced IET inten...
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Influence of MgO tunnel barrier thickness on spin-transfer ferromagnetic resonance and torque in magnetic tunnel junctions: Spin-transfer ferromagnetic resonance (ST-FMR) in symmetric magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) with a varied thickness of the MgO tunnel barrier (0.75 nm < $t_{MgO}$ < 1.05 nm) is studied using th...
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Hole Flying Qubits in Quantum Dot Arrays: Quantum information transfer is fundamental for scalable quantum computing in any potential platform and architecture. Hole spin qubits, owing to their intrinsic spin-orbit interaction (SOI), promise fast quantum operations which are fundamental for the implementation of quantu...
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Tunable microwave impedance matching to a high impedance source using a Josephson metamaterial: We report the efficient coupling of a $50\,\Omega$ microwave circuit to a high impedance conductor. We use an impedance transformer consisting of a $\lambda/4$ co-planar resonator whose inner conductor contains an array of...
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Elementary Charge Transfer Processes in Mesoscopic Conductors: We determine charge transfer statistics in a quantum conductor driven by a time-dependent voltage and identify the elementary transport processes. At zero temperature unidirectional and bidirectional single charge transfers occur. The unidirectional process...
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Anomalous zero-temperature magnetopolaronic blockade of resonant electron tunneling in Majorana-resonant-level single-electron transistor: The magnetopolaronic generalization of a Majorana-resonant-level (MRL) model is considered for a single-level vibrating quantum dot coupled to two half-infinite $g=1/2$ Tomonaga-L...
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Alternating currents and shear waves in viscous electronics: Strong interaction among charge carriers can make them move like viscous fluid. Here we explore alternating current (AC) effects in viscous electronics. In the Ohmic case, incompressible current distribution in a sample adjusts fast to a time-dependent voltag...
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Cyclotron Resonance Assisted Photocurrents in Surface States of a 3D Topological Insulator Based on a Strained High Mobility HgTe Film: We report on the observation of cyclotron resonance induced photocurrents, excited by continuous wave terahertz radiation, in a 3D topological insulator (TI) based on an 80 nm strain...
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Dirac Theory and Topological Phases of Silicon Nanotube: Silicon nanotube is constructed by rolling up a silicene, i.e., a monolayer of silicon atoms forming a two-dimensional honeycomb lattice. It is a semiconductor or an insulator owing to relatively large spin-orbit interactions induced by its buckled structure. The...
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Experimental demonstrations of high-Q superconducting coplanar waveguide resonators: We designed and successfully fabricated an absorption-type of superconducting coplanar waveguide (CPW) resonators. The resonators are made from a Niobium film (about 160 nm thick) on a high-resistance Si substrate, and each resonator...
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Nano-ironing van der Waals Heterostructures Towards Electrically Controlled Quantum Dots: Assembling two-dimensional van der Waals layered materials into heterostructures is an exciting development that sparked the discovery of rich correlated electronic phenomena and offers possibilities for designer device applicat...
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Operation of graphene quantum Hall resistance standard in a cryogen-free table-top system: We demonstrate quantum Hall resistance measurements with metrological accuracy in a small cryogen-free system operating at a temperature of around 3.8K and magnetic fields below 5T. Operating this system requires little experim...
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High thermoelectric performance in excitonic bilayer graphene: We consider the excitonic effects on the thermal properties in the AB-stacked bilayer graphene. The calculations are based on the bilayer generalization of the usual Hubbard model at the half-filling. The full interaction bandwidth is used without any low-e...
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Exotic plasma as classical Hall Liquid: A non-relativistic plasma model endowed with an ``exotic'' structure associated with the two-parameter central extension of the planar Galilei group is constructed. Introducing a Chern-Simons statistical gauge field provides us with a self-consistent system; when the magnetic fie...
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Majorana edge modes of topological exciton condensate with superconductors: I study the edge states of the topological exciton condensate formed by Coulomb interaction between two parallel surfaces of a strong topological insulator. When the condensate is contacted by superconductors with a {\pi} phase shift across t...
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Sign changes and resonance of intrinsic spin Hall effect in two-dimensional hole gas: The intrinsic spin Hall conductance shows rich sign changes by applying a perpendicular magnetic field in a two-dimensional hole gas. Especially, a notable sign changes can be achieved by adjusting the characteristic length of the R...
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Ripples in a graphene membrane coupled to Glauber spins: We propose a theory of ripples in suspended graphene sheets based on two-dimensional elasticity equations that are made discrete on the honeycomb lattice and then periodized. At each point carbon atoms are coupled to Ising spins whose values indicate the atoms lo...
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Electric generation of spin in crystals with reduced symmetry: We propose a simple way of evaluating the bulk spin generation of an arbitrary crystal with a known band structure in the strong spin-orbit coupling limit. We show that, in the presence of an electric field, there exists an intrinsic torque term which gives...
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Designer quantum states of matter created atom-by-atom: With the advances in high resolution and spin-resolved scanning tunneling microscopy as well as atomic-scale manipulation, it has become possible to create and characterize quantum states of matter bottom-up, atom-by-atom. This is largely based on controlling the ...
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Energy Spectrum and Quantum Hall Effect in Twisted Bilayer Graphene: We investigate the electronic spectra and quantum Hall effect in twisted bilayer graphenes with various rotation angles under magnetic fields, using a model rigorously including the interlayer interaction. We describe the spectral evolution from discr...
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