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Towards Substrate Engineering of Graphene-Silicon Schottky Diode Photodetectors: Graphene-Silicon Schottky diode photodetectors possess beneficial properties such as high responsivities and detectivities, broad spectral wavelength operation and high operating speeds. Various routes and architectures have been employe...
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Interference Effects on Kondo-Assisted Transport through Double Quantum Dots: We systematically investigate electron transport through double quantum dots with particular emphasis on interference induced via multiple paths of electron propagation. By means of the slave-boson mean-field approximation, we calculate the...
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Quantum transport through single and multilayer icosahedral fullerenes: We use a tight-binding Hamiltonian and Green functions methods to calculate the quantum transmission through single-wall fullerenes and bilayered and trilayered onions of icosahedral symmetry attached to metallic leads. The electronic structure of ...
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Low conductance of the nickel atomic junctions in hydrogen atmosphere: The low conductance of nickel atomic junctions in the hydrogen environment is studied using the nonequilibrium Green's function theory combined with first-principles calculations. The Ni junction bridged by a $H_2$ molecule has a conductance of appr...
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A scattering model of 1D quantum wire regular polygons: We calculate the quantum states of regular polygons made of 1D quantum wires treating each polygon vertex as a scatterer. The vertex scattering matrix is analytically obtained from the model of a circular bend of a given angle of a 2D nanowire. In the single mode ...
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Controlling transport properties of graphene nanoribbons by codoping-induced edge distortions: One notable manifestation of the peculiar edge-localized states in zigzag graphene nanoribbons (zGNRs) is the p-type (n-type) characteristics of nitrogen (boron) edge-doped GNRs, and such behavior was so far considered to b...
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Current-induced mechanical torque in chiral molecular rotors: A great endeavor has been undertaken to engineer molecular rotors operated by an electrical current. A frequently met operation principle is the transfer of angular momentum taken from the incident flux. In this paper we present an alternative driving agent ...
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Low-power photothermal self-oscillation of bimetallic nanowires: We investigate the nonlinear mechanics of a bimetallic, optically absorbing SiN-Nb nanowire in the presence of incident laser light and a reflecting Si mirror. Situated in a standing wave of optical intensity and subject to photothermal forces, the nanowi...
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Non-Hermitian Boundary Modes: We consider conditions for the existence of boundary modes in non-Hermitian systems with edges of arbitrary co-dimension. Through a universal formulation of formation criteria for boundary modes in terms of local Green functions, we outline a generic perspective on the appearance of such m...
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Fast and anomalous exciton diffusion in two-dimensional hybrid perovskites: Two-dimensional hybrid perovskites are currently in the spotlight of condensed matter and nanotechnology research due to their intriguing optoelectronic and vibrational properties with emerging potential for light-harvesting and -emitting app...
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Delocalisation of Majorana quasiparticles in plaquette--nanowire hybrid system: Interplay between superconductivity, spin-orbit coupling and magnetic field can lead to realisation of the topologically non--trivial states which in finite one dimensional nanowires are manifested by emergence of a pair of zero-energy Ma...
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Waiting time distributions in Quantum spin hall based heterostructures: For the distinction of the Andreev bound states and Majorana bound states, we study the waiting time distributions (WTDs) for heterostructures, based on one dimensional edge states of a two dimensional topological insulators (TI) in combination wit...
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High-speed metamagnetic resistive switching of FeRh through Joule heating: Due to its proximity to room temperature and demonstrated high degree of temperature tunability, the metamagnetic ordering transition in FeRh is attractive for novel high-performance computing devices seeking to use magnetism as the state vari...
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Contact-induced negative differential resistance in short-channel graphene FETs: In this work, we clarify the physical mechanism for the phenomenon of negative output differential resistance (NDR) in short-channel graphene FETs (GFETs) through non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) simulations and a simpler semianal...
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Control of a spin qubit in a lateral GaAs quantum dot based on symmetry of gating potential: We study the influence of quantum dot symmetry on the Rabi frequency and phonon induced spin relaxation rate in a single electron GaAs spin qubit. We find that anisotropic dependence on the magnetic field direction is indepen...
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Coherent radiation by magnets with exchange interactions: A wide class of materials acquires magnetic properties due to particle interactions through exchange forces. These can be atoms and molecules composing the system itself, as in the case of numerous magnetic substances. Or these could be different defects, as in ...
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Second-order polaron resonances in self assembled quantum dots: We theoretically study the optical properties of an InAs/GaAs quantum dot (QD) near the area of the second-order resonance between an electron confined in the QD and two longitudinal optical phonons. We present the absorption spectra of an inhomogeneously ...
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Polarization Of Quantum Hall States, Skyrmions and Berry Phase: We have discussed here the polarization of quantum Hall states in the framework of the hierarchical analysis of IQHE and FQHE in terms of Berry phase. It is observed that we have fully polarized states for the filling factor $\nu=1$ as well as $\nu=\frac{1...
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Magnetization dynamics and spin pumping induced by standing elastic waves: The magnetization dynamics induced by standing elastic waves excited in a thin ferromagnetic film is described with the aid of micromagnetic simulations taking into account the magnetoelastic coupling between spins and lattice strains. The sim...
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Magnetic anisotropy in surface-supported single-ion lanthanide complexes: Single-ion lanthanide-organic complexes can provide stable magnetic moments with well-defined orientation for spintronic applications on the atomic level. Here, we show by a combined experimental approach of scanning tunneling microscopy and X-ra...
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Light-Driven Nanoscale Vectorial Currents: Controlled charge flows are fundamental to many areas of science and technology, serving as carriers of energy and information, as probes of material properties and dynamics, and as a means of revealing or even inducing broken symmetries. Emerging methods for light-based curre...
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Surface Percolation and Growth. An alternative scheme for breaking the diffraction limit in optical patterning: A nanopatterning scheme is presented by which the structure height can be controlled in the tens of nanometers range and the lateral resolution is a factor at least three times better than the point spread ...
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Electron-Hole Liquid in Monolayer Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Heterostructures: Monolayer films of transition metal dichalcogenides (in particular, MoS2, MoSe2, WS2, and WSe2) can be considered as ideal systems for the studies of high-temperature electron-hole liquids. The quasi-two-dimensional nature of electron...
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The specific heat and the radial thermal expansion of bundles of single-walled carbon nanotubes: The specific heat at constant pressure of bundles of single-walled carbon nanotubes closed at their ends has been investigated in a temperature interval of 2-120 K. It is found that the curve of heat capacity has features...
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Optical orientation of excitons in a longitudinal magnetic field in indirect band gap (In,Al)As/AlAs quantum dots with type-I band alignment: The exciton recombination and spin dynamics in (In,Al)As/AlAs quantum dots (QDs) with indirect band gap and type-I band alignment are studied. The negligible (less than $0.2~\m...
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Spectral and transport properties of the two-dimensional Lieb lattice: The specific topology of the line centered square lattice (known also as the Lieb lattice) induces remarkable spectral properties as the macroscopically degenerated zero energy flat band, the Dirac cone in the low energy spectrum, and the peculiar H...
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Microwave amplification with nanomechanical resonators: Sensitive measurement of electrical signals is at the heart of modern science and technology. According to quantum mechanics, any detector or amplifier is required to add a certain amount of noise to the signal, equaling at best the energy of quantum fluctuations....
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Second-Harmonic Generation in Nano-Structured Metamaterials: We conduct a theoretical and numerical study on the second-harmonic (SH) optical response of a nano-structured metamaterial composed of a periodic array of inclusions. Both the inclusions and their surrounding matrix are made of centrosymmetrical materials, f...
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Terahertz-induced resistance oscillations in high mobility two-dimensional electron systems: We report on a theoretical work on magnetotransport under terahertz radiation with high mobility two-dimensional electron systems. We focus on the interaction between the obtained radiation-induced magnetoresistance oscillati...
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Are Microwave Induced Zero Resistance States Necessarily Static?: We study the effect of inhomogeneities in Hall conductivity on the nature of the Zero Resistance States seen in the microwave irradiated two-dimensional electron systems in weak perpendicular magnetic fields, and we show that time-dependent domain patter...
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Exchange interaction effects in the thermodynamic properties of quantum dots: We study electron-electron interaction effects in the thermodynamic properties of quantum-dot systems. We obtain the direct and exchange contributions to the specific heat C_v in the self-consistent Hartree-Fock approximation at finite temp...
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Scattering by linear defects in graphene: a tight-binding approach: We develop an analytical scattering formalism for computing the transmittance through periodic defect lines within the tight-binding model of graphene. We first illustrate the method with a relatively simple case, the pentagon-only defect line. Afterwa...
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Screening of a Luttinger liquid wire by a scanning tunneling microscope tip: II. Transport properties: We study the effect of an electrostatic coupling between a scanning tunneling microscope tip and a Luttinger liquid wire on the tunneling current and noise between the two. Solving the Dyson equations non perturbati...
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Oxygen vacancies dynamics in redox-based interfaces: Tailoring the memristive response: Redox-based memristive devices are among the alternatives for the next generation of non volatile memories, but also candidates to emulate the behavior of synapses in neuromorphic computing devices. It is nowadays well established...
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Ramsey Interference in a Multi-level Quantum System: We report Ramsey interference in the excitonic population of a negatively charged quantum dot revealing the coherence of the state in the limit where radiative decay is dominant. Our experiments show that the decay time of the Ramsey interference is limited by the sp...
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Quantum information processing with large nuclear spins in GaAs semiconductors: We propose an implementation for quantum information processing based on coherent manipulations of nuclear spins I=3/2 in GaAs semiconductors. We describe theoretically an NMR method which involves multiphoton transitions and which exploi...
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Effect of the electromagnetic environment on current fluctuations in driven tunnel junctions: We examine current fluctuations in tunnel junctions driven by a superposition of a constant and a sinusoidal voltage source. In standard setups the external voltage is applied to the tunneling element via an impedance provid...
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Electronics and photonics: two sciences in the benefit of solar energy conversion: This paper gives a personal global point of view on two sciences: electronics and photonics towards plasmonics and solar energy conversion. The new research directions in these two sciences are pointed out by comparison and in the pers...
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Neck Barrier Engineering in Quantum Dot Dimer Molecules via Intra-Particle Ripening: Coupled colloidal quantum dot (CQD) dimers represent a new class of artificial molecules composed of fused core/shell semiconductor nanocrystals. The electronic coupling and wavefunction hybridization is enabled by the formation of a...
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Van Hove scenario of anisotropic transport in a two-dimensional spin-orbit coupled electron gas in an in-plane magnetic field: We study electronic transport in two-dimensional spin-orbit coupled electron gas subjected to an in-plane magnetic field. The interplay of the spin-orbit interaction and the magnetic field le...
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Quantum theory of an electron waiting time clock: The electron waiting time is the time that passes between two subsequent charge transfers in an electronic conductor. Recently, theories of electron waiting times have been devised for quantum transport in Coulomb-blockade structures and for mesoscopic conductors, howev...
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Effect of charged line defects on conductivity in graphene: numerical Kubo and analytical Boltzmann approaches: Charge carrier transport in single-layer graphene with one-dimensional charged defects is studied theoretically. Extended charged defects, considered an important factor for mobility degradation in chemical...
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Unexpected Behavior of the Local Compressibility Near the B=0 Metal-Insulator Transition: We have measured the local electronic compressibility of a two-dimensional hole gas as it crosses the B=0 Metal-Insulator Transition. In the metallic phase, the compressibility follows the mean-field Hartree-Fock (HF) theory and...
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Evolution of the Spin Hall Magnetoresistance in Cr$_2$O$_3$/Pt bilayers close to the Néel temperature: We study the evolution of magnetoresistance with temperature in thin film bilayers consisting of platinum and the antiferromagnet Cr$_2$O$_3$ with its easy axis out of the plane. We vary the temperature from 20 - 60...
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Localized States and Quantum Spin Hall Effect in Si-Doped InAs/GaSb Quantum Wells: We study localized in-gap states and quantum spin Hall effect in Si-doped InAs/GaSb quantum wells. We propose a model describing donor and/or acceptor impurities to describe Si dopants. This model shows in-gap bound states and wide con...
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Escape from a zero current state in a one dimensional array of Josephson junctions: A long one dimensional array of small Josephson junctions exhibits Coulomb blockade of Cooper pair tunneling. This zero current state exists up to a switching voltage, Vsw, where there is a sudden onset of current. In this paper we pr...
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Topological classification of the single-wall carbon nanotube: The single-wall carbon nanotube (SWNT) can be a one-dimensional topological insulator, which is characterized by a $\mathbb{Z}$-topological invariant, winding number. Using the analytical expression for the winding number, we classify the topology for all p...
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Tuning the magnetic configuration of bilayer graphene quantum dot by twisting: Twistronic has recently attracted tremendous attention because the twisting can engineer the bilayer graphene-like materials into varying types of strongly correlated phases. In this paper, we study the twisting of bilayer graphene (BLG) q...
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Photoluminescence in PbS nanocrystal thin films: Nanocrystal density, film morphology and energy transfer: We show that photoluminescence properties of PbS nanocrystal thin films are directly related to film morphology and nanocrystal density. In densely packed PbS nanocrystal films, low-temperature donor-to-acceptor...
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Gate-Controlled Magnetoresistance of a Paramagnetic Insulator|Platinum Interface: We report an electric field-induced in-plane magnetoresistance of an atomically flat paramagnetic insulator|platinum (Pt) interface at low temperatures with an ionic liquid gate. Transport experiments as a function of applied magnetic f...
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Deterministic Weak Localization in Periodic Structures: The weak localization is found for perfect periodic structures exhibiting deterministic classical diffusion. In particular, the velocity autocorrelation function develops a universal quantum power law decay at 4 times Ehrenfest time, following the classical stretc...
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Electrical transport in deformed nanostrips: electrical signature of reversible mechanical failure: We calculate the electrical conductivity of a thin crystalline strip of atoms confined within a quasi one dimensional channel of fixed width. The conductivity shows anomalous behavior as the strip is deformed under ten...
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Spatially dispersive dynamical response of hot carriers in doped graphene: We study theoretically wave-vector and frequency dispersion of the complex dynamic conductivity tensor (DCT), $\sigma_{lm}(\mathbf{k}, \omega)$, of doped monolayer graphene under a strong dc electric field. For a general analysis, we consider ...
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Material Parameters for Faster Ballistic Switching of an In-plane Magnetized Nanomagnet: High-speed magnetization switching of a nanomagnet is necessary for faster information processing. The ballistic switching by a pulsed magnetic filed is a promising candidate for the high-speed switching. It is known that the swi...
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Temperature-linear Resistivity in Twisted Double Bilayer Graphene: We report an experimental study of carrier density (n), displacement field (D) and twist angle ({\theta}) dependence of temperature (T)-linear resistivity in twisted double bilayer graphene (TDBG). For a large twist angle ({\theta}>1.5{\deg}) where corr...
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Electric field effects on the band gap and edge states of monolayer 1T'-WTe2: Monolayer 1T'-WTe2 is a quantum spin Hall insulator with a gapped bulk and gapless helical edge states persisting to temperatures around 100 K. Recent studies have revealed a topological-to-trivial phase transition as well the emergence of ...
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Valley filters using graphene blister defects from first principles: Valleytronics, which makes use of the two valleys in graphenes, attracts considerable attention and a valley filter is expected to be the central component in valleytronics. We propose the application of the graphene valley filter using blister defect...
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Mesoscopic to universal crossover of transmission phase of multi-level quantum dots: Transmission phase \alpha measurements of many-electron quantum dots (small mean level spacing \delta) revealed universal phase lapses by \pi between consecutive resonances. In contrast, for dots with only a few electrons (large \del...
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Magnetic field induces giant nonlinear optical response in Weyl semimetals: We study the second-order optical response of Weyl semimetals in the presence of a magnetic field. We consider an idealized model of a perfectly linear Weyl node and use the Kubo formula at zero temperature to calculate the intrinsic contribu...
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Low-field magnetotransport in graphene cavity devices: Confinement and edge structures are known to play significant roles in electronic and transport properties of two-dimensional materials. Here, we report on low-temperature magnetotransport measurements of lithographically patterned graphene cavity nanodevices. It i...
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Skyrmion Brownian circuit implemented in a continuous ferromagnetic thin film: The fabrication of a skyrmion circuit which stabilizes skyrmions is important to realize micro- to nano-sized skyrmion devices. One example of promising skyrmion-based device is Brownian computers, which have been theoretically proposed, b...
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Thickness and electric field dependent polarizability and dielectric constant in phosphorene: Based on extensive first principle calculations, we explore the thickness dependent effective di- electric constant and slab polarizability of few layer black phosphorene. We find that the dielectric constant in ultra-thin p...
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Tunable spin and transport in porphyrin-graphene nanoribbon hybrids: Recently, porphyrin units have been attached to graphene nanoribbons (Por-GNR) enabling a multitude of possible structures. Here we report first principles calculations of two prototypical, experimentally feasible, Por-GNR hybrids, one of which displa...
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Control of charging in resonant tunneling through InAs nanocrystal quantum dots: Tunneling spectroscopy of InAs nanocrystals deposited on graphite was measured using scanning tunneling microscopy, in a double-barrier tunnel-junction configuration. The effect of the junction symmetry on the tunneling spectra is studie...
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Quantum transport in flat bands and super-metallicity: Quantum physics in flat-band (FB) systems embodies a variety of exotic phenomenon and even counter intuitive features. The quantum transport in several graphene based compounds that exhibit a flat band and a tunable gap is investigated. Despite the localized nature...
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Cotunneling effects in GaAs vertical double quantum dot: We observed lifting of Coulomb blockade in GaAs vertical double quantum dot with low potential barriers, induced by cotunneling mechanisms at dilution fridge temperature of 10 mK. Several distinct features were observed, compared to single dot case, and appropria...
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Spin dynamics and spin-dependent recombination of a polaron pair under a strong ac drive: We study theoretically the recombination within a pair of two polarons in magnetic field subject to a strong linearly polarized ac drive. Strong drive implies that the Zeeman frequencies of the pair-partners are much smaller tha...
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Fast and slow edges in bilayer graphene nanoribbons: Tuning the transition from band- to Mott-insulator: We show that gated bilayer graphene zigzag ribbons possess a fast and a slow edge, characterized by edge state velocities that differ due to non-negligible next-nearest-neighbor hopping elements. By applying boson...
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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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Reaction diffusion dynamics and the Schryer-Walker solution for domain walls of the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation: We study the dynamics of the equation obtained by Schryer and Walker for the motion of domain walls. The reduced equation is a reaction diffusion equation for the angle between the applied field and t...
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Formation of image-potential states at the graphene/metal interface: The formation of image-potential states at the interface between a graphene layer and a metal surface is studied by means of model calculations. An analytical one-dimensional model-potential for the combined system is constructed and used to calculate...
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Full counting statistics of information content and particle number: We consider a bipartite quantum conductor and discuss the joint probability distribution of particle number in a subsystem and the self-information associated with the reduced density matrix of the subsystem. By extending the multi-contour Keldysh Gre...
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Ultrafast excitation and topological soliton formation in incommensurate charge density wave states: Topological soliton is a nonperturbative excitation in commensurate density wave states and connects degenerate ground states. In incommensurate density wave states, ground states are continuously degenerate and topol...
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Controlling the conductance of molecular wires by defect engineering: a divide et impera approach: Understanding of charge transport mechanisms in nanoscale structures is essential for the development of molecular electronic devices. Charge transport through 1D molecular systems connected between two contacts is infl...
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Thermodynamic Properties of Graphene in Magnetic Field and Rashba Coupling: We study the thermodynamic properties of massless Dirac fermions in graphene subjected to a uniform magnetic field $B$ together with Rashba coupling parameter $\lambda_R$. The thermodynamic functions such as the Helmholtz free energy, total e...
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Driven Andreev molecule: We study the three terminal S-QD-S-QD-S Josephson junction biased with commensurate voltages. In the absence of an applied voltage, the Andreev bound states on each quantum dot hybridize forming an `Andreev molecule'. However, understanding of this system in a non-equilibrium setup is lacking. ...
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Bloch-point-mediated topological transformations of magnetic domain walls in cylindrical nanowires: Cylindrical nanowires made of soft magnetic materials, in contrast to thin strips, may host domain walls of two distinct topologies. Unexpectedly, we evidence experimentally the dynamic transformation of topology upon ...
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Excited-state spectroscopy on a quantum dot side-coupled to a quantum wire: We report excited-state spectroscopy on a quantum dot side-coupled to a quantum wire with accurate energy estimation. Our method utilizes periodic voltage pulses on the dot, and the energy calibration is performed with reference to the bias v...
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Fragility of spectral flow for topological phases in non-Wigner-Dyson classes: Topological insulators and superconductors support extended surface states protected against the otherwise localizing effects of static disorder. Specifically, in the Wigner-Dyson insulators belonging to the symmetry classes A, AI, and AII...
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Spin-orbit coupled transport and spin torque in a ferromagnetic heterostructure: Ferromagnetic heterostructures provide an ideal platform to explore the nature of spin-orbit torques arising from the interplay mediated by itinerant electrons between a Rashba-type spin-orbit coupling and a ferromagnetic exchange intera...
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Cotunneling thermopower of single electron transistors: We study the thermopower of a quantum dot weakly coupled to two reservoirs by tunnel junctions. At low temperatures the transport through the dot is suppressed by charging effects (Coulomb blockade). As a result the thermopower shows an oscillatory dependence on t...
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Atomically thin quantum light emitting diodes: Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are optically active layered materials providing potential for fast optoelectronics and on-chip photonics. We demonstrate electrically driven single-photon emission from localised sites in tungsten diselenide (WSe2) and tungsten disu...
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The Parallel Magnetoconductance of Interacting Electrons in a Two Dimensional Disordered System: The transport properties of interacting electrons for which the spin degree of freedom is taken into account are numerically studied for small two dimensional diffusive clusters. On-site electron-electron interactions ten...
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Strong gate-tunability of flat bands in bilayer graphene due to moiré encapsulation between hBN monolayers: When using hexagonal boron-nitride (hBN) as a substrate for graphene, the resulting moir\'e pattern creates secondary Dirac points. By encapsulating a multilayer graphene within aligned hBN sheets the controlle...
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The Edge-State Theory of Integer-Quantum-Hall-Effect to Insulator Transition: Direct transitions, driven by disorder, from several integral quantum Hall states to an insulator have been observed in experiment. This finding is enigmatic in light of a theoretical phase diagram, based on rather general considerations, t...
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Quantum Fluctuations along Symmetry Crossover in Kondo-correlated Quantum Dot: Universal properties of entangled many-body states are controlled by their symmetry and quantum fluctuations. By magnetic-field tuning of the spin-orbital degeneracy in a Kondo-correlated quantum dot, we have modified quantum fluctuations ...
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Bundling dynamics regulates the active mechanics and transport in carbon nanotube networks: High-density carbon nanotube networks (CNNs) continue to attract interest as active elements in nanoelectronic devices, nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) and multifunctional nanocomposites. The interplay between the network...
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Theoretical Investigation of Local Electron Temperature in Quantum Hall Systems: In this work we solve thermo-hydrodynamical equations considering a two dimensional electron system in the integer quantum Hall regime, to calculate the spatial distribution of the local electron temperature. We start from the self-consi...
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Time scales for Majorana manipulation using Coulomb blockade in gate-controlled superconducting nanowires: We numerically compute the low-energy spectrum of a gate-controlled superconducting topological nanowire segmented into two islands, each Josephson-coupled to a bulk superconductor. This device may host two pair...
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Cooling of suspended nanostructures with tunnel junctions: We have investigated electronic cooling of suspended nanowires with SINIS tunnel junction coolers. The suspended samples consist of a free standing nanowire suspended by four narrow ($\sim$ 200 nm) bridges. We have compared two different cooler designs for cool...
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Anomalous levitation and annihilation in Floquet topological insulators: Anderson localization in two-dimensional topological insulators takes place via the so-called levitation and pair annihilation process. As disorder is increased, extended bulk states carrying opposite topological invariants move towards each other...
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Spin Polarization and Transport of Surface States in the Topological Insulators Bi2Se3 and Bi2Te3 from First Principles: We investigate the band dispersion and the spin texture of topologically protected surface states in the bulk topological insulators Bi2Se3 and Bi2Te3 by first-principles methods. Strong spin-orbit...
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Few-layer graphene patterned bottom gates for van der Waals heterostructures: We introduce a method of local gating for van der Waals heterostructures, employing a few-layer graphene patterned bottom gate. Being a member of the 2D material family, few-layer graphene adapts perfectly to the commonly used stacking meth...
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Interplay of quantum spin Hall effect and spontaneous time-reversal symmetry breaking in electron-hole bilayers I: Transport properties: The band-inverted electron-hole bilayers, such as InAs/GaSb, are an interesting playground for the interplay of quantum spin Hall effect and correlation effects because of the small...
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Deviation from the normal mode expansion in a coupled graphene-nanomechanical system: We optomechanically measure the vibrations of a nanomechanical system made of a graphene membrane suspended on a silicon nitride nanoresonator. When probing the thermal noise of the coupled nanomechanical device, we observe a signif...
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Transport properties of overheated electrons trapped on a Helium surface: An ultra-strong photovoltaic effect has recently been reported for electrons trapped on a liquid Helium surface under a microwave excitation tuned at intersubband resonance [D. Konstantinov et. al. : J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 81, 093601 (2012) ]. In thi...
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Dirac fermion quantization on graphene edges: Isospin-orbit coupling, zero modes and spontaneous valley polarization: The paper addresses boundary electronic properties of graphene with a complex edge structure of the armchair/zigzag/armchair type. It is shown that the finite zigzag region supports edge bound states ...
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Strongly bound excitons in monolayer MoSi$_2$Z$_4$ (Z = pnictogen): Reduced dielectric screening in two-dimensional materials enables bound excitons, which modifies their optical absorption and optoelectronic response even at room temperature. Here, we demonstrate the existence of excitons in the bandgap of the monolay...
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Zero-field magnetometry using hyperfine-biased nitrogen-vacancy centers near diamond surfaces: Shallow nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond are promising for nano-magnetometry for they can be placed proximate to targets. To study the intrinsic magnetic properties, zero-field magnetometry is desirable. However, fo...
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Nonlinear dynamics of a functionally graded piezoelectric micro-resonator in the vicinity of the primary resonance: This research is on the nonlinear dynamics of a two-sided electrostatically actuated capacitive micro-beam. The microresonator is composed of silicon and PZT as a piezoelectric material. PZT is function...
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