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SYNTHETIC HELICAL LIQUID IN A QUANTUM WIRE George I. Japaridze. Ilia state University and Andronikashvili Institute of Physics. SYNTHETIC HELICAL LIQUID IN A QUANTUM WIRE. What is a helical liquid (HL)? Unconventional State of matter with spin-momentum locking.
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SYNTHETIC HELICAL LIQUID IN A QUANTUM WIREGeorge I. Japaridze Ilia state University and Andronikashvili Institute of Physics
SYNTHETIC HELICAL LIQUID IN A QUANTUM WIRE • What is a helical liquid(HL)? • Unconventional State of matter with spin-momentum locking
SYNTHETIC HELICAL LIQUID IN A QUANTUM WIRE • What is a helical liquid(HL)? • Unconventional State of matter with spin-momentum locking
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Part I:Magnetic field induced quasi-helical liquid state in a disordered 1D electron system with strong spin-orbit interaction • Anders Ström, Bernd Braunecker and G.J. • PRB 87, 075151 (2013).
Band structures Spins look anti-parallell for opposite velocities. Helical? Corrupted by the magnetic field HS! Let’s calculate the spin overlaps!
Band structures Spin Overlaps Limits:
Band structures Spin Overlaps Detail for aa overlap. 0.3 meV (ca 1 T) yields overlap squared of about 0.01.
Disorder: Anderson Localization in 1D !!(absent in the Helical Liquid State!!) Overlaps: Limits:
Disorder RG Scaling equations! For full Luttinger liquid with spin: For spinless or helical Luttinger liquid: Above gap Below gap
Disorder Localisation length Can have loc. from ab disorder, if gap is smaller than ca 6ehjhjhjee5 eV, almost 1 K. Below the gap, we only need to consider disordered aa backscattering.
Part II: SYNTHETIC HELICAL LIQUID IN A QUANTUM WIRE Mariana Malard, Henrik Johannesson and GJ PRB 89, 201403(R) (2014).
Band picture _ _ insulating phase + + branch 2
Band picture conductinghelicalelectronliquid _ _ + + branch 2
Our proposal modulation of the spin-orbit Rashba interaction HL in a quantum wire using electrical fields only and standard nanoscale semiconductor technology! top nanogates + spin-orbit Dresselhaus + e-e interactions Semiconductor heterostructure quantum wire
The MODEL hopping and chemical potential + modulated Rashba interaction + + e-e interaction uniform Rashba and Dresselhaus interactions
Effective theory sine-Gordon potential relevant for K < ½ gap helical Dirac hamiltonian branch-mixing potential
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