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cond-mat.mes-hall2014★ 11 cited

Effective spin theories for edge magnetism in graphene zigzag ribbons

Cornelie Koop, Manuel J. Schmidt

We report a thorough study of the reducibility of edge correlation effects in graphene to much-simplified effective models for the edge states. The latter have been used before in…

cond-mat.mes-hall2014★ 32 cited

Contact-induced charge contributions to non-local spin transport measurements in Co/MgO/graphene devices

F. Volmer, M. Drögeler, T. Pohlmann +3

Recently, it has been shown that oxide barriers in graphene-based non-local spin-valve structures can be the bottleneck for spin transport. The barriers may cause spin dephasing du…

cond-mat.mes-hall2014★ 6 cited

Characterization of S-T Transition Dynamics via Correlation Measurements

Christian Dickel, Sandra Foletti, Vladimir Umansky +1

Nuclear spins are an important source of dephasing for electron spin qubits in GaAs quantum dots. Most studies of their dynamics have focused on the relatively slow longitudinal po…

cond-mat.mes-hall2014★ 16 cited

Charge-noise tolerant exchange gates of singlet-triplet qubits in asymmetric double quantum dots

Tuukka Hiltunen, Hendrik Bluhm, Sebastian Mehl +1

In the semi-conductor double quantum dot singlet-triplet qubit architecture, the decoherence caused by the qubit's charge environment poses a serious obstacle in the way towards la…

cond-mat.mes-hall2014★ 6 cited

Raman spectroscopy on mechanically exfoliated pristine graphene ribbons

B. Terrés, S. Reichardt, C. Neumann +3

We present Raman spectroscopy measurements of non-etched graphene nanoribbons, with widths ranging from 15 to 160 nm, where the D-line intensity is strongly dependent on the polari…

cond-mat.mes-hall2014★ 21 cited

Interference and multi-particle effects in a Mach-Zehnder interferometer with single-particle sources

Guillem Rosselló, Francesca Battista, Michael Moskalets +1

We investigate a Mach-Zehnder interferometer fed by two time-dependently driven single-particle sources, one of them placed in front of the interferometer, the other in the center…

cond-mat.mes-hall2014★ 26 cited

Microwave readout of Majorana qubits

Christoph Ohm, Fabian Hassler

Majorana qubits offer a promising way to store and manipulate quantum information by encoding it into the state of Majorana zero modes. As the information is stored in a topologica…

cond-mat.mes-hall2014★ 30 cited

High-efficiency resonant amplification of weak magnetic fields for single spin magnetometry

Luka Trifunovic, Fabio L. Pedrocchi, Silas Hoffman +3

We demonstrate theoretically that by placing a ferromagnetic particle between a nitrogen-vacancy (NV) magnetometer and a target spin, the magnetometer sensitivity is increased dram…

cond-mat.mes-hall2014★ 25 cited

Two-Qubit Pulse Gate for the Three-Electron Double Quantum Dot Qubit

Sebastian Mehl

The three-electron configuration of gate-defined double quantum dots encodes a promising qubit for quantum information processing. I propose a two-qubit entangling gate using a pul…

cond-mat.mes-hall2014★ 44 cited

Suppression of contact-induced spin dephasing in graphene/MgO/Co spin-valve devices by successive oxygen treatments

F. Volmer, M. Drögeler, E. Maynicke +5

By successive oxygen treatments of graphene non-local spin-valve devices we achieve a gradual increase of the contact resistance area products () of Co/MgO spin injection and…

cond-mat.mes-hall2014★ 14 cited

Inverted Singlet-Triplet Qubit Coded on a Two-Electron Double Quantum Dot

Sebastian Mehl, David P. DiVincenzo

The spin configuration of two electrons confined at a double quantum dot (DQD) encodes the singlet-triplet qubit (STQ). We introduce the inverted STQ (ISTQ) that emerges fr…

cond-mat.mes-hall2014★ 4 cited

Diffractive wave guiding of hot electrons by the Au (111) herringbone reconstruction

F. Libisch, V. Geringer, D. Subramaniam +2

The surface potential of the herringbone reconstruction on Au(111) is known to guide surface-state electrons along the potential channels. Surprisingly, we find by scanning tunneli…

cond-mat.mes-hall2014★ 91 cited

Spintronic magnetic anisotropy

Maciej Misiorny, Michael Hell, Maarten R. Wegewijs

An attractive feature of magnetic adatoms and molecules for nanoscale applications is their superparamagnetism, the preferred alignment of their spin along an easy axis preventing…

cond-mat.mes-hall2014★ 20 cited

Charge fluctuations in nonlinear heat transport

Niklas M. Gergs, Christoph B. M. Hörig, Maarten R. Wegewijs +1

We show that charge fluctuation processes are crucial for the nonlinear heat conductance through an interacting nanostructure, even far from a resonance. We illustrate this for an…

cond-mat.mes-hall2014★ 19 cited

Preferential antiferromagnetic coupling of vacancies in graphene on SiO_2: Electron spin resonance and scanning tunneling spectroscopy

S. Just, S. Zimmermann, V. Kataev +3

Monolayer graphene grown by chemical vapor deposition and transferred to SiO_2 is used to introduce vacancies by Ar^+ ion bombardment at a kinetic energy of 50 eV. The density of d…

cond-mat.mes-hall2014★ 30 cited

Probing Transverse Magnetic Anisotropy by Electronic Transport through a Single-Molecule Magnet

M. Misiorny, E. Burzurí, R. Gaudenzi +6

By means of electronic transport, we study the transverse magnetic anisotropy of an individual Fe single-molecule magnet (SMM) embedded in a three-terminal junction. In particu…

cond-mat.mes-hall2014★ 171 cited

Nanosecond spin lifetimes in single- and few-layer graphene-hBN heterostructures at room temperature

Marc Drögeler, Frank Volmer, Maik Wolter +6

We present a new fabrication method of graphene spin-valve devices which yields enhanced spin and charge transport properties by improving both the electrode-to-graphene and graphe…

cond-mat.mes-hall2014★ 472 cited

Raman spectroscopy as probe of nanometer-scale strain variations in graphene

Christoph Neumann, Sven Reichardt, Pedro Venezuela +9

Confocal Raman spectroscopy is a versatile, non-invasive investigation tool and a major workhorse for graphene characterization. Here we show that the experimentally observed Raman…

cond-mat.mes-hall2014★ 6 cited

Investigations of local electronic transport in InAs nanowires by scanning gate microscopy at helium temperatures

A. A. Zhukov, Ch. Volk, A. Winden +2

In the current paper a set of experiments dedicated to investigations of local electronic transport in undoped InAs nanowires at helium temperatures in the presence of a charged at…

cond-mat.mes-hall2014★ 9 cited

Supersymmetry in the Majorana Cooper-Pair Box

Jascha Ulrich, Inanc Adagideli, Dirk Schuricht +1

Over the years, supersymmetric quantum mechanics has evolved from a toy model of high energy physics to a field of its own. Although various examples of supersymmetric quantum mech…

cond-mat.mes-hall2014★ 46 cited

Mechanics of nanoscale wrinkling of graphene on a non-developable spherical surface

Yanguang Zhou, Yuli Chen, Bin Liu +4

The configuration of graphene (GE) sheet conforming to the spherical surface substrate is studied through theoretical model and molecular simulations. Two basic configurations are…

cond-mat.mes-hall2014★ 50 cited

Energy and power fluctuations in ac-driven coherent conductors

Francesca Battista, Federica Haupt, Janine Splettstoesser

Using a scattering matrix approach we study transport in coherent conductors driven by a time-periodic bias voltage. We investigate the role of electron-like and hole-like excitati…

cond-mat.mes-hall2014★ 31 cited

Kondo model in nonequilibrium: Interplay between voltage, temperature, and crossover from weak to strong coupling

Frank Reininghaus, Mikhail Pletyukhov, Herbert Schoeller

We consider an open quantum system in contact with fermionic metallic reservoirs in a nonequilibrium setup. For the case of spin, orbital or potential fluctuations, we present a sy…

cond-mat.mes-hall2014★ 25 cited

Spin resonance without spin splitting

M. Hell, B. Sothmann, M. Leijnse +2

We predict that a single-level quantum dot without discernible splitting of its spin states develops a spin-precession resonance in charge transport when embedded into a spin valve…