Large tunable valley splitting in edge-free graphene quantum dots on boron nitride

NM Freitag, T Reisch, LA Chizhova… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Coherent manipulation of the binary degrees of freedom is at the heart of modern quantum
technologies. Graphene offers two binary degrees: the electron spin and the valley. Efficient …

Emptying Dirac valleys in bismuth using high magnetic fields

Z Zhu, J Wang, H Zuo, B Fauqué, RD McDonald… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
The Fermi surface of elemental bismuth consists of three small rotationally equivalent
electron pockets, offering a valley degree of freedom to charge carriers. A relatively small …

Valley-Tunable Even-Denominator Fractional Quantum Hall State in the Lowest Landau Level of an Anisotropic System

MS Hossain, MK Ma, YJ Chung, SK Singh, A Gupta… - Physical review …, 2023 - APS
Fractional quantum Hall states (FQHSs) at even-denominator Landau level filling factors (ν)
are of prime interest as they are predicted to host exotic, topological states of matter. We …

Valley-degenerate two-dimensional electrons in the lowest Landau level

TM Kott, B Hu, SH Brown, BE Kane - Physical Review B, 2014 - APS
We report low temperature magnetotransport measurements on a high mobility (μ= 325 000
cm 2/V s) two-dimensional electron system on a H-terminated Si (111) surface. We observe …

Orbital effects of a strong in-plane magnetic field on a gate-defined quantum dot

P Stano, CH Hsu, LC Camenzind, L Yu, D Zumbühl… - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
We theoretically investigate the orbital effects of an in-plane magnetic field on the spectrum
of a quantum dot embedded in a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG). We derive an …

Contrast between spin and valley degrees of freedom

T Gokmen, M Padmanabhan, M Shayegan - Physical Review B—Condensed …, 2010 - APS
We measure the renormalized effective mass (m∗) of interacting two-dimensional electrons
confined to an AlAs quantum well while we control their distribution between two spin and …

Valley Gapless Semiconductor: Models and Applications

KW Lee, PH Fu, JF Liu, CH Lee, YS Ang - arxiv preprint arxiv:2502.02057, 2025 - arxiv.org
The emerging field of valleytronics harnesses the valley degree of freedom of electrons, akin
to how electronic and spintronic devices utilize the charge and spin degrees of freedom of …

Effective mass suppression upon complete spin-polarization in an isotropic two-dimensional electron system

T Gokmen, M Padmanabhan, K Vakili, E Tutuc… - Physical Review B …, 2009 - APS
We measure the effective mass (m∗) of interacting two-dimensional electrons confined to a
4.5-nm-wide AlAs quantum well. The electrons in this well occupy a single out-of-plane …

Realization of a valley superlattice

MA Mueed, MS Hossain, I Jo, LN Pfeiffer, KW West… - Physical review …, 2018 - APS
In a number of widely studied materials, such as Si, AlAs, Bi, graphene, MoS 2, and many
transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers, electrons acquire an additional, spinlike …

Dependence of effective mass on spin and valley degrees of freedom

T Gokmen, M Padmanabhan, M Shayegan - Physical review letters, 2008 - APS
We measure the effective mass (m*) of interacting two-dimensional electrons confined to an
AlAs quantum well while we change the conduction-band valley occupation and the spin …