Single-electron current sources: Toward a refined definition of the ampere

JP Pekola, OP Saira, VF Maisi, A Kemppinen… - Reviews of Modern …, 2013 - APS
The control of electrons at the level of the elementary charge e was demonstrated
experimentally already in the 1980s. Ever since, the production of an electrical current ef, or …

Quasi-one-dimensional electron states in a split-gate GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructure

SE Laux, DJ Frank, F Stern - Surface Science, 1988 - Elsevier
Self-consistent solutions for quasi-one-dimensional electron states in a narrow inversion
layer channel at a GaAs/AlGaAs heterointerface have been obtained for a structure with a …

Boundary scattering in quantum wires

TJ Thornton, ML Roukes, A Scherer, BP Van de Gaag - Physical review letters, 1989 - APS
Narrow quantum wires of sufficiently high mobility exhibit an anomalous, low-field
magnetoresistance peak at a position scaling as the ratio of the Fermi wave vector to the …

Quantum transport in small disordered samples from the diffusive to the ballistic regime

S Washburn, RA Webb - Reports on Progress in Physics, 1992 - new.iopscience.iop.org
The authors review conductance effects in small samples at low temperatures where
quantum confinement and quantum interference are significant perturbations on the …

Valley subband splitting in bilayer graphene quantum point contacts

R Kraft, IV Krainov, V Gall, AP Dmitriev, R Krupke… - Physical review …, 2018 - APS
We report a study of one-dimensional subband splitting in a bilayer graphene quantum point
contact in which quantized conductance in steps of 4 e 2/h is clearly defined down to the …

Incipient formation of an electron lattice in a weakly confined quantum wire

WK Hew, KJ Thomas, M Pepper, I Farrer, D Anderson… - Physical review …, 2009 - APS
We study the low-temperature transport properties of 1D quantum wires as the confinement
strength V conf and the carrier density n 1 D are varied using a combination of split gates …

Many-body effects in a quasi-one-dimensional electron gas

S Kumar, KJ Thomas, LW Smith, M Pepper, GL Creeth… - Physical Review B, 2014 - APS
We have investigated electron transport in a quasi-one dimensional (quasi-1D) electron gas
as a function of the confinement potential. At a particular potential configuration, and …

Zero-magnetic field fractional quantum states

S Kumar, M Pepper, SN Holmes, H Montagu, Y Gul… - Physical Review Letters, 2019 - APS
Since the discovery of the fractional quantum Hall effect in 1982 there has been
considerable theoretical discussion on the possibility of fractional quantization of …

Row coupling in an interacting quasi-one-dimensional quantum wire investigated using transport measurements

LW Smith, WK Hew, KJ Thomas, M Pepper, I Farrer… - Physical Review B …, 2009 - APS
We study electron transport in quasi-one-dimensional wires at relatively weak electrostatic
confinements, where the Coulomb interaction distorts the ground state, leading to the …

Enhanced current quantization in high-frequency electron pumps in a perpendicular magnetic field

SJ Wright, MD Blumenthal, G Gumbs, AL Thorn… - Physical Review B …, 2008 - APS
We present experimental results of high-frequency quantized charge pumping through a
quantum dot formed by the electric field arising from applied voltages in a GaAs/AlGaAs …