In the effort to develop disruptive quantum technologies, germanium is emerging as a
versatile material to realize devices capable of encoding, processing and transmitting …

In recent years, hole-spin qubits based on semiconductor quantum dots have advanced at a
rapid pace. We first review the main potential advantages of these hole-spin qubits with …

Van der Waals interactions with transition metal dichalcogenides were shown to induce
strong spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in graphene, offering great promises to combine large …

We study theoretically the low-energy hole states in Si, Ge, and Ge/Si core/shell nanowires
(NWs). The NW core in our model has a rectangular cross section, the results for a square …

We demonstrate that the Berry curvature monopole of nonmagnetic two-dimensional spin-
3/2 holes leads to a novel Hall effect linear in an applied in-plane magnetic field B∥ …

Spin–orbit coupling forms the physical basis for quantum materials with non-trivial topology
and potential spintronics applications. The Rashba interaction is a textbook model of spin …

Magnetic focusing of charge carriers in two-dimensional systems provides a solid state
version of a mass spectrometer. In the presence of a spin-orbit interaction, the first focusing …

Classical charge transport, such as longitudinal and Hall currents in weak magnetic fields, is
usually not affected by quantum phenomena. Yet relativistic quantum mechanics is at the …

Spin-momentum locking, which constrains spin orientation perpendicular to electron
momentum, is attracting considerable interest for exploring various spin functionalities in …

The spatial separation of electron spins followed by the control of their individual spin
dynamics has recently emerged as an essential ingredient in many proposals for spin-based …