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Interplay between Chiro-Optical and Spin Transport Properties in Chiral CdSe Quantum Dots

The chiral-induced spin selectivity (CISS) effect offers compelling approaches for manipulating spin-dependent processes in both chemistry and physics, yet the physical mechanism(s) underpinning CISS are still debated. Here we present a study of structure-property relationships in chiral quantum dot assemblies to identify attributes of CISS-based phenomena. Our results show that the circular dichroism (CD) strength of chiral CdSe quantum dots’ primary exciton transition correlates with two CISS properties, the propensity to transmit pure spin currents and to produce spin-polarized charge currents. While the spin-polarized charge current reverses its sign with a change in the polarity of the CD signal, the pure spin current transport does not. The trends in both transport types can be rationalized in terms of chirality-induced splitting of spin sub-bands, which are modulated by chiral symmetry breaking under charge transport through the CdSe quantum dots.

cadmium selenide↗

Quantum extremal modular curvature: modular transport with islands

Modular Berry transport is a useful way to understand how geometric bulk information is encoded in the boundary CFT: the modular curvature is directly related to the bulk Riemann curvature. We extend this approach by studying modular transport in the presence of a non-trivial quantum extremal surface. Focusing on JT gravity on an AdS background coupled to a non-gravitating bath, we compute the modular curvature of an interval in the bath in the presence of an island: the Quantum Extremal Modular Curvature (QEMC). We highlight some important properties of the QEMC, most importantly that it is non-local in general. In an OPE limit, the QEMC becomes local and probes the bulk Riemann curvature in regions with an island. Our work gives a new approach to probe physics behind horizons.

2D Gravity↗

Many-Body Theory of Energy Transport and Conversion at the Nanoscale

This project addressed the fundamental challenge of understanding interacting quantum systems far from equilibrium, while simultaneously exploring the potential of nanostructured materials for applications in energy-conversion technologies.

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Disorder-driven localization and electron interactions in Bi x ⁢ TeI thin films

Strong disorder has a crucial effect on the electronic structure in quantum materials by increasing localization, interactions, and modifying the density of states. Bi x TeI films grown at room temperature and 230 K exhibit dramatic magnetotransport effects due to disorder, localization, and electron correlation effects, including a metal-insulator transition at a composition that depends on growth temperature. The increased disorder caused by growth at 230 K causes the conductivity to decrease by several orders of magnitude for several compositions of Bi x TeI. The transition from metal to insulator with decreasing composition x is accompanied by a decrease in the dephasing length, which leads to the disappearance of the weak-antilocalization effect. Electron-electron interactions cause low temperature conductivity corrections on the metallic side and Efros-Shklovskii variable range hopping on the insulating side, effects which are absent in single crystalline Bi x TeI. Finally, the observation of a tunable metal-insulator transition and the associated strong localization and quantum effects in Bi x TeI shows the possibility of tuning spin transport in quantum materials via disorder.

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Coherent Hopping Transport and Giant Negative Magnetoresistance in Epitaxial CsSnBr 3

Single-crystal inorganic halide perovskites are attracting interest for quantum device applications. Here we present low-temperature quantum magnetotransport measurements on thin film devices of epitaxial single-crystal CsSnBr 3 , which exhibit two-dimensional Mott variable range hopping (VRH) and giant negative magnetoresistance. These findings are described by a model for quantum interference between different directed hopping paths, and we extract the temperature-dependent hopping length of charge carriers, their localization length, and a lower bound for their phase coherence length of ~100 nm at low temperatures. These observations demonstrate that epitaxial halide perovskite devices are emerging as a material class for low-dimensional quantum coherent transport devices.

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Isotropically conducting (hidden) quantum Hall stripe phases in a two-dimensional electron gas

Quantum Hall stripe (QHS) phases, predicted by the Hartree-Fock theory, are manifested in GaAs-based two-dimensional electron gases as giant resistance anisotropies. In this communication, we predict a “hidden” QHS phase which exhibits isotropic resistivity whose value, determined by the density of states of QHS, is independent of the Landau index $N$ and is inversely proportional to the Drude conductivity at zero magnetic field. At high enough $N$, this phase yields to an Ando-Unemura-Coleridge-Zawadski-Sachrajda phase in which the resistivity is proportional to 1/$N$ and to the ratio of quantum and transport lifetimes. Experimental observation of this border should allow one to find the quantum relaxation time.

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Dephasing and error dynamics affecting a singlet-triplet qubit during coherent spin shuttling

Quantum information transport over micron to millimeter scale distances is critical for the operation of practical quantum processors based on spin qubits. One method of achieving a long-range interaction is by coherent electron spin shuttling through an array of silicon quantum dots. In order to execute many shuttling operations with high fidelity, it is essential to understand the dynamics of qubit dephasing and relaxation during the shuttling process in order to mitigate them. However, errors arising after many repeated shuttles are not yet well documented. Here, we probe decay dynamics contributing to dephasing and relaxation of a singlet-triplet qubit during coherent spin shuttling over many N repeated shuttle operations, in a small external magnetic field B 0 ≈ 0−10 mT, and in the absence of a micromagnet. We find that losses are dominated by magnetic dephasing, most visible for small N < 10 3 . However, incoherent spin-flip type shuttle errors become evident for large N > 10 3 . Additionally, we estimate shuttle error rates below 10 −4 out to at least N = 10 3 , representing an encouraging figure for future implementations of spin shuttling to entangle distant qubits.

quantum dots↗

Charge transport in topological graphene nanoribbons and nanoribbon heterostructures

Although it is generally accepted that structural parameters like width, shape, and edge structure crucially affect the electronic characteristics of graphene nanoribbons (GNRs), the exact relationship between geometry and charge transport remains largely unexplored. Here, in this paper, we present in situ through-transport measurements of various topological GNRs and GNR heterostructures by lifting the ribbon with the tip of a scanning tunneling microscope. At the same time, we develop a comprehensive transport model that enables us to understand various features, such as obscuring of localized states in through transport, the effect of topology on transport, as well as negative differential conductance in heterostructures with localized electronic modes. The combined experimental and theoretical efforts described in this paper serve to elucidate general charge transport phenomena in GNRs and GNR heterostructures.

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Quantum many-body physics from a gravitational lens

The past two decades have seen the emergence of remarkable interconnections among previously remotely related disciplines, such as condensed matter, nuclear physics, gravity and quantum information, fuelled both by experimental advances and by the new powerful theoretical methods offered by holographic duality. In this Review, we sample some recent developments in holographic duality in connection with quantum many-body dynamics. These include insights into strongly correlated phases without quasiparticles and their transport properties, quantum many-body chaos and the scrambling of quantum information. We also discuss recent progress in understanding the structure of holographic duality itself using quantum information, including a ‘local’ version of the duality, as well as the quantum error-correction interpretation of quantum many-body states with a gravity dual, and how such notions help to demonstrate the unitarity of black hole evaporation.

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Superdiffusion from Emergent Classical Solitons in Quantum Spin Chains

Finite-temperature spin transport in the quantum Heisenberg spin chain is known to be superdiffusive, and has been conjectured to lie in the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) universality class. Using a kinetic theory of transport, we compute the KPZ coupling strength for the Heisenberg chain as a function of temperature, directly from microscopics; the results agree well with density-matrix renormalization group simulations. Here, we establish a rigorous quantum-classical correspondence between the “giant quasiparticles” that govern superdiffusion and solitons in the classical continuous Landau-Lifshitz ferromagnet. We conclude that KPZ universality has the same origin in classical and quantum integrable isotropic magnets: a finite-temperature gas of low-energy classical solitons.

1-dimensional spin chains↗

Robustness of Kardar-Parisi-Zhang-like transport in long-range interacting quantum spin chains

Isotropic integrable spin chains such as the Heisenberg model feature superdiffusive spin transport belonging to an as-yet-unidentified dynamical universality class closely related to that of Kardar, Parisi, and Zhang (KPZ). To determine whether these results extend to more generic one-dimensional models, particularly those realizable in quantum simulators, we investigate spin and energy transport in non-integrable, long-range Heisenberg models using state-of-the-art tensor network methods. Despite the lack of integrability and the asymptotic expectation of diffusion, for power-law models (with exponent 2<α<∞) we observe long-lived z=3/2 superdiffusive spin transport and two-point correlators consistent with KPZ scaling functions, up to times t∼103/J. We conjecture that this KPZ-like transport is due to the proximity of such power-law-interacting models to the integrable family of Inozemtsev models, which we show to also exhibit KPZ-like spin transport across all interaction ranges. Finally, we consider anisotropic spin models naturally realized in Rydberg atom arrays and ultracold polar molecules, demonstrating that a wide range of long-lived, non-diffusive transport can be observed in experimental settings.

Anand↗

Quantum interference in superposed lattices

Charge transport in solids at low temperature reveals a material’s mesoscopic properties and structure. Under a magnetic field, Shubnikov–de Haas (SdH) oscillations inform complex quantum transport phenomena that are not limited by the ground state characteristics and have facilitated extensive explorations of quantum and topological interest in two- and three-dimensional materials. Here, in elemental metal Cr with two incommensurately superposed lattices of ions and a spin-density-wave ground state, we reveal that the phases of several low-frequency SdH oscillations in σ xx (ρ xx ) and σ yy (ρ yy ) are no longer identical but opposite. These relationships contrast with the SdH oscillations from normal cyclotron orbits that maintain identical phases between σ xx (ρ xx ) and σ yy (ρ yy ) . We trace the origin of the low-frequency SdH oscillations to quantum interference effects arising from the incommensurate orbits of Cr’s superposed reciprocal lattices and explain the observed π-phase shift by the reconnection of anisotropic joint open and closed orbits.

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Hidden Quantum Hall Stripes in Al x Ga 1 - x As / Al 0.24 Ga 0.76 As Quantum Wells

We report on transport signatures of hidden quantum Hall stripe (hQHS) phases in high (N>2) half-filled Landau levels of Al x Ga 1-x As/Al 0.24 Ga 0.76 As quantum wells with varying Al mole fraction x<10 -3 . Residing between the conventional stripe phases (lower N) and the isotropic liquid phases (higher N), where resistivity decreases as 1/N, these hQHS phases exhibit isotropic and N-independent resistivity. Using the experimental phase diagram, we establish that the stripe phases are more robust than theoretically predicted, calling for improved theoretical treatment. We also show that, unlike conventional stripe phases, the hQHS phases do not occur in ultrahigh mobility GaAs quantum wells but are likely to be found in other systems.

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