Lehrstuhl für Theoretische Physik IV: Mesoskopische Physik
Research topics
- Mesoscopic effects and quantum coherence in solid state nanostructures
- Transport properties of carbon nanotubes and graphene
- Topological Insulators
- Spintronics: spin qubits and spin transport
- Physics of quantum information processing
- Physics of 1D systems: Luttinger liquids
- Nano electromechanical systems
Selected recent publications
C. Brüne, A. Roth, H. Buhmann, E. M. Hankiewicz, L. W. Molenkamp, J. Maciejko, X.L. Qi, and S-C. Zhang
Spin polarization of the quantum spin Hall edge states
Nature Physics 8, 491 (2012)
J. C. Budich, F. Dolcini, P. Recher, and B. Trauzettel
Phonon induced backscattering in helical edge states
Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 086602 (2012)
D. Tilahun, B. Lee, E. M. Hankiewicz, and A. H. MacDonald
Quantum Hall Superfluids in Topological Insulator Thin Films
Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 246401 (2012)
B. Büttner, C. X. Liu, G. Tkachov, E. G. Novik, C. Brüne, H. Buhmann, E. M. Hankiewicz, P. Recher, B. Trauzettel, S. C. Zhang, and L. W. Molenkamp
Single valley Dirac fermions in zero-gap HgTe quantum wells
Nature Phys. 7. 418 (2011)
J. Schelter, P. M. Ostrovsky, I. V. Gornyi, B. Trauzettel, and M. Titov
Color-dependent conductance of graphene with adatoms
Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 166806 (2011)
