{"title":"Moiré edge states in twisted bilayer graphene and their topological relation to quantum pumping","authors":"Manato Fujimoto, M. Koshino","doi":"10.1103/PHYSREVB.103.155410","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVB.103.155410","url":null,"abstract":"We study the edge states of twisted bilayer graphene and their topological origin. We show that the twisted bilayer graphene has special edge states associated with the moir'{e} pattern, and the emergence of these moir'{e} edge states is linked with the sliding Chern number, which describes topological charge pumping caused by relative interlayer sliding. When one layer of the twisted bilayer is relatively slid with respect to the other layer, the edge states are transferred from a single band to another across the band gap, and the number of the edge states pumped in a sliding cycle is shown to be equal to the sliding Chern number of the band gap. The relationship can be viewed as a manifestation of the bulk-edge correspondence inherent in moir'{e} bilayer systems.","PeriodicalId":8465,"journal":{"name":"arXiv: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics","volume":"52 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82623324","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
L. Banszerus, K. Hecker, E. Icking, S. Trellenkamp, F. Lentz, D. Neumaier, Kenji Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, C. Volk, C. Stampfer
{"title":"Pulsed-gate spectroscopy of single-electron spin states in bilayer graphene quantum dots","authors":"L. Banszerus, K. Hecker, E. Icking, S. Trellenkamp, F. Lentz, D. Neumaier, Kenji Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, C. Volk, C. Stampfer","doi":"10.1103/PHYSREVB.103.L081404","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVB.103.L081404","url":null,"abstract":"Graphene and bilayer graphene quantum dots are promising hosts for spin qubits with long coherence times. Although recent technological improvements make it possible to confine single electrons electrostatically in bilayer graphene quantum dots, and their spin and valley texture of the single particle spectrum has been studied in detail, their relaxation dynamics remains still unexplored. Here, we report on transport through a high-frequency gate controlled single-electron bilayer graphene quantum dot. By transient current spectroscopy of single-electron spin states, we extract a lower bound of the spin relaxation time of 0.5~$mu$s. This result represents an important step towards the investigation of spin coherence times in graphene-based quantum dots and the implementation of spin-qubits.","PeriodicalId":8465,"journal":{"name":"arXiv: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90914988","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Chawner, S. Barraud, M. F. Gonzalez-Zalba, S. Holt, Edward Laird, Y. Pashkin, J. Prance
{"title":"Nongalvanic Calibration and Operation of a Quantum Dot Thermometer","authors":"J. Chawner, S. Barraud, M. F. Gonzalez-Zalba, S. Holt, Edward Laird, Y. Pashkin, J. Prance","doi":"10.1103/PHYSREVAPPLIED.15.034044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVAPPLIED.15.034044","url":null,"abstract":"A cryogenic quantum dot thermometer is calibrated and operated using only a single non-galvanic gate connection. The thermometer is probed with radio-frequency reflectometry and calibrated by fitting a physical model to the phase of the reflected radio-frequency signal taken at temperatures across a small range. Thermometry of the source and drain reservoirs of the dot is then performed by fitting the calibrated physical model to new phase data. The thermometer can operate at the transition between thermally broadened and lifetime broadened regimes, and outside the temperatures used in calibration. Electron thermometry was performed at temperatures between $3.0,mathrm{K}$ and $1.0,mathrm{K}$, in both a $1,mathrm{K}$ cryostat and a dilution refrigerator. The experimental setup allows fast electron temperature readout with a sensitivity of $4.0pm0.3 , mathrm{mK}/sqrt{mathrm{Hz}}$, at Kelvin temperatures. The non-galvanic calibration process gives a readout of physical parameters, such as the quantum dot lever arm. The demodulator used for reflectometry readout is readily available and very affordable.","PeriodicalId":8465,"journal":{"name":"arXiv: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics","volume":"119 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81695886","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Bunyaev, B. Budinská, R. Sachser, Qi Wang, K. Levchenko, Sebastian Knauer, A. Bondarenko, M. Urbánek, K. Y. Guslienko, A. Chumak, Michael Huth, G. Kakazei, O. Dobrovolskiy
{"title":"Engineered magnetization and exchange stiffness in direct-write Co–Fe nanoelements","authors":"S. Bunyaev, B. Budinská, R. Sachser, Qi Wang, K. Levchenko, Sebastian Knauer, A. Bondarenko, M. Urbánek, K. Y. Guslienko, A. Chumak, Michael Huth, G. Kakazei, O. Dobrovolskiy","doi":"10.1063/5.0036361","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0036361","url":null,"abstract":"Media with engineered magnetization are essential building blocks in superconductivity, magnetism and magnon spintronics. However, the established thin-film and lithographic techniques insufficiently suit the realization of planar components with on-demand-tailored magnetization in the lateral dimension. Here, we demonstrate the engineering of the magnetic properties of CoFe-based nanodisks fabricated by the mask-less technique of focused electron beam induced deposition (FEBID). The material composition in the nanodisks is tuned emph{in-situ} via the e-beam waiting time in the FEBID process and their post-growth irradiation with Ga ions. The magnetization $M_s$ and exchange stiffness $A$ of the disks are deduced from perpendicular ferromagnetic resonance measurements. The achieved $M_s$ variation in the broad range from $720$ emu/cm$^3$ to $1430$ emu/cm$^3$ continuously bridges the gap between the $M_s$ values of such widely used magnonic materials as permalloy and CoFeB. The presented approach paves a way towards nanoscale 2D and 3D systems with controllable and space-varied magnetic properties.","PeriodicalId":8465,"journal":{"name":"arXiv: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89645840","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Maximilian Bückle, Yannick S. Klaß, Felix B. Nägele, R. Braive, E. Weig
{"title":"Universal Length Dependence of Tensile Stress in Nanomechanical String Resonators","authors":"Maximilian Bückle, Yannick S. Klaß, Felix B. Nägele, R. Braive, E. Weig","doi":"10.1103/PHYSREVAPPLIED.15.034063","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVAPPLIED.15.034063","url":null,"abstract":"We investigate the tensile stress in freely suspended nanomechanical string resonators, and observe a material-independent dependence on the resonator length. We compare strongly stressed sting resonators fabricated from four different material systems based on amorphous silicon nitride, crystalline silicon carbide as well as crystalline indium gallium phosphide. The tensile stress is found to increase by approximately 50% for shorter resonators. We establish a simple elastic model to describe the observed length dependence of the tensile stress. The model accurately describes our experimental data. This opens a perspective for stress-engineering the mechanical quality factor of nanomechanical string resonators.","PeriodicalId":8465,"journal":{"name":"arXiv: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics","volume":"97 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86369276","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Non-Bloch band theory in bosonic Bogoliubov–de Gennes systems","authors":"Kazuki Yokomizo, S. Murakami","doi":"10.1103/PHYSREVB.103.165123","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVB.103.165123","url":null,"abstract":"In recent researches, it has been shown that non-Hermitian systems exhibits sensitivity to boundaries, and it is caused by the non-Hermitian skin effect. In this work, we construct the non-Bloch band theory in bosonic Bogoliubov-de Gennes (BdG) systems. From our theory, we can calculate the generalized Brillouin zone and the energy spectrum in such systems with open boundary conditions in the thermodynamic limit, and we can thus discuss its non-Hermitian nature, despite Hermiticity of an original Hamiltonian. In fact, we find that the bosonic Kitaev-Majorana chain exhibits rich aspects of the non-Hermitian skin effect, such as instability against infinitesimal perturbations and reentrant behavior, in terms of the non-Bloch band theory. This result indicates that our theory is powerful tool for studying non-Hermitian nature in bosonic BdG systems.","PeriodicalId":8465,"journal":{"name":"arXiv: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics","volume":"44 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88139806","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Design of an optomagnonic crystal: Towards optimal magnon-photon mode matching at the microscale","authors":"J. Graf, Sanchar Sharma, H. Huebl, S. Kusminskiy","doi":"10.1103/PHYSREVRESEARCH.3.013277","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVRESEARCH.3.013277","url":null,"abstract":"We put forward the concept of an optomagnonic crystal: a periodically patterned structure at the microscale based on a magnetic dielectric, which can co-localize magnon and photon modes. The co-localization in small volumes can result in large values of the photon-magnon coupling at the single quanta level, which opens perspectives for quantum information processing and quantum conversion schemes with these systems. We study theoretically a simple geometry consisting of a one-dimensional array of holes with an abrupt defect, considering the ferrimagnet Yttrium Iron Garnet (YIG) as the basis material. We show that both magnon and photon modes can be localized at the defect, and use symmetry arguments to select an optimal pair of modes in order to maximize the coupling. We show that an optomagnonic coupling in the kHz range is achievable in this geometry, and discuss possible optimization routes in order to improve both coupling strengths and optical losses.","PeriodicalId":8465,"journal":{"name":"arXiv: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74407351","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J'er'emy L'etang, C. de Melo, C. Guillemard, A. Vecchiola, D. Rontani, S. Petit-Watelot, Myoung-Woo Yoo, T. Devolder, K. Bouzehouane, V. Cros, S. Andrieu, Joo-Von Kim
{"title":"Nanocontact vortex oscillators based on \u0000Co2MnGe\u0000 pseudo spin valves","authors":"J'er'emy L'etang, C. de Melo, C. Guillemard, A. Vecchiola, D. Rontani, S. Petit-Watelot, Myoung-Woo Yoo, T. Devolder, K. Bouzehouane, V. Cros, S. Andrieu, Joo-Von Kim","doi":"10.1103/PhysRevB.103.224424","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.103.224424","url":null,"abstract":"We present an experimental study of vortex dynamics in magnetic nanocontacts based on pseudo spin valves comprising the Co$_2$MnGe Heusler compound. The films were grown by molecular beam epitaxy, where precise stoichiometry control and tailored stacking order allowed us to define the bottom ferromagnetic layer as the reference layer, with minimal coupling between the free and reference layers. 20-nm diameter nanocontacts were fabricated using a nano-indentation technique, leading to self-sustained gyration of the vortex generated by spin-transfer torques above a certain current threshold. By combining frequency- and time-domain measurements, we show that different types of spin-transfer induced dynamics related to different modes associated to the magnetic vortex configuration can be observed, such as mode hopping, mode coexistence and mode extinction appear in addition to the usual gyration mode.","PeriodicalId":8465,"journal":{"name":"arXiv: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75084769","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}