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most citedEnergy spectra of quantum rings

474 citations · 775 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Metastable magnetic domains and the anomalous resistance peak in twisted double bilayer graphene

Zhenxiang Gao, Christopher Coleman, Silvia Lüscher +7

In graphene moirés, valley polarization gives rise to orbital magnetism, manifested as an anomalous Hall effect and resulting in Barkhausen jumps in longitudinal resistance when ch…

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Remote entropy measurement in coupled quantum dots

Owen Sheekey, Tim Child, Elena Cornick +8

Recent experiments have demonstrated that measurements of the entropy change associated with the addition of electrons to semiconductor- and graphene-based quantum dots accurately…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021★ 21 cited

A robust protocol for entropy measurement in mesoscopic circuits

Tim Child, Owen Sheekey, Silvia Lüscher +4

Previous measurements utilizing Maxwell relations to measure change in entropy, , demonstrated remarkable accuracy of measuring the spin-1/2 entropy of electrons in a weakly cou…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021★ 39 cited

Entropy measurement of a strongly coupled quantum dot

Tim Child, Owen Sheekey, Silvia Lüscher +8

The spin 1/2 entropy of electrons trapped in a quantum dot has previously been measured with great accuracy, but the protocol used for that measurement is valid only within a restr…

cond-mat.str-el2021

Strongly correlated zero-bias anomaly in double quantum dot measurements

Rachel Wortis, Joshua Folk, Silvia Lüscher +1

Experiments in doped transition metal oxides often show suppression in the single-particle density of states at the Fermi level, but disorder-induced zero-bias anomalies in strongl…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021

Activation of magnetic moments in CVD-grown graphene by annealing

Hyungki Shin, Ebrahim Sajadi, Ali Khademi +2

Effects of annealing on chemical vapor deposited graphene are investigated via a weak localization magnetoresistance measurement. Annealing at \SI{300}{\celsius} in inert gases, a…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019★ 64 cited

Detecting the universal fractional entropy of Majorana zero modes

Eran Sela, Yuval Oreg, Stephan Plugge +3

A pair of Majorana zero modes (MZMs) constitutes a nonlocal qubit whose entropy is . Upon strongly coupling one of the constituent MZMs to a reservoir with a continuous den…

cond-mat.mes-hall2017★ 33 cited

Quantum Lifetime in Ultra-High Quality GaAs Quantum Wells: Relationship to and Impact of Density Fluctuations

Qi Qian, James R. Nakamura, Saeed Fallahi +6

We consider quantum lifetime derived from low-field Shubnikov-de Haas oscillations as a metric of quality of the two-dimensional electron gas in GaAs quantum wells that expresses l…

cond-mat.mes-hall2015★ 17 cited

Influence of impurity spin dynamics on quantum transport in epitaxial graphene

Samuel Lara-Avila, Sergey Kubatkin, Oleksiy Kashuba +6

Experimental evidence from both spin-valve and quantum transport measurements points towards unexpectedly fast spin relaxation in graphene. We report magnetotransport studies of ep…

cond-mat.mes-hall2014★ 1 cited

Bias-induced breakdown of electron solids in the second Landau level

Alexander V. Rossokhaty, Silvia Lüscher, Joshua A. Folk +3

Reentrant integer quantum Hall (RIQH) states are believed to be correlated electron solid phases, though their microscopic description remains unclear. As bias current increases, l…

cond-mat.mes-hall2014★ 17 cited

Low-temperature illumination and annealing of ultra-high quality quantum wells

Mohammad Samani, Alexander V. Rossokhaty, Ebrahim Sajadi +5

The effects of low temperature illumination and annealing on fractional quantum Hall (FQH) characteristics of a GaAs/AlGaAs quantum well are investigated. Illumination alone, below…

cond-mat.mes-hall2010★ 7 cited

Numerical study of resonant spin relaxation in quasi-1D channels

S. Luescher, S. M. Frolov, J. A. Folk

Recent experiments demonstrate that a ballistic version of spin resonance, mediated by spin-orbit interaction, can be induced in narrow channels of a high-mobility GaAs two-dimensi…

cond-mat.mes-hall2007★ 15 cited

Charge rearrangement and screening in a quantum point contact

Silvia Lüscher, Lindsay S. Moore, Tomaz Rejec +3

Compressibility measurements, sensitive to charge rearrangements, are performed on a quantum point contact (QPC). Screening due to mobile charges in the QPC is quantitatively measu…

cond-mat.mes-hall2001★ 474 cited

Energy spectra of quantum rings

A. Fuhrer, S. Luescher, T. Ihn +4

Ring geometries have fascinated experimental and theoretical physicists over many years. Open rings connected to leads allow the observation of the Aharonov-Bohm effect, a paradigm…

cond-mat.mes-hall2000★ 31 cited

Transport properties of quantum dots with hard walls

A. Fuhrer, S. Luescher, T. Heinzel +3

Quantum dots are fabricated in a Ga[Al]As-heterostructure by local oxidation with an atomic force microscope. This technique, in combination with top gate voltages, allows us to ge…

cond-mat.mes-hall1999★ 44 cited

In-plane gate single-electron transistor in Ga[Al]As fabricated by scanning probe lithography

S. Luescher, A. Fuhrer, R. Held +3

A single-electron transistor has been realized in a Ga[Al]As heterostructure by oxidizing lines in the GaAs cap layer with an atomic force microscope. The oxide lines define the bo…

cond-mat.mes-hall1999★ 12 cited

Shifting a Quantum Wire through a Disordered Crystal: Observation of Conductance Fluctuations in Real Space

T. Heinzel, G. Salis, R. Held +4

A quantum wire is spatially displaced by suitable electric fields with respect to the scatterers inside a semiconductor crystal. As a function of the wire position, the low-tempera…