New directions in the pursuit of Majorana fermions in solid state systems

J Alicea - Reports on progress in physics, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
The 1937 theoretical discovery of Majorana fermions—whose defining property is that they
are their own anti-particles—has since impacted diverse problems ranging from neutrino …

Spintronics: Fundamentals and applications

I Žutić, J Fabian, SD Sarma - Reviews of modern physics, 2004 - APS
Spintronics, or spin electronics, involves the study of active control and manipulation of spin
degrees of freedom in solid-state systems. This article reviews the current status of this …

Electronic transport in two-dimensional graphene

S Das Sarma, S Adam, EH Hwang, E Rossi - Reviews of modern physics, 2011 - APS
A broad review of fundamental electronic properties of two-dimensional graphene with the
emphasis on density and temperature-dependent carrier transport in doped or gated …

Majorana fermions in a tunable semiconductor device

J Alicea - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and Materials …, 2010 - APS
The experimental realization of Majorana fermions presents an important problem due to
their non-Abelian nature and potential exploitation for topological quantum computation …

Tunable Rashba spin-orbit interaction at oxide interfaces

AD Caviglia, M Gabay, S Gariglio, N Reyren… - Physical review …, 2010 - APS
The quasi-two-dimensional electron gas found at the LaAlO 3/SrTiO 3 interface offers
exciting new functionalities, such as tunable superconductivity, and has been proposed as a …

Spin dynamics in semiconductors

MW Wu, JH Jiang, MQ Weng - Physics Reports, 2010 - Elsevier
This article reviews the current status of spin dynamics in semiconductors which has
achieved much progress in the recent years due to the fast growing field of semiconductor …

Theory of spin torque due to spin-orbit coupling

A Manchon, S Zhang - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and Materials …, 2009 - APS
The combined effect of spin-orbit coupling and exchange interaction in a single
ferromagnetic layer is investigated. It is shown that, in nonequilibrium regime, the spin-orbit …

Phase diagram of patchy colloids: Towards empty liquids

E Bianchi, J Largo, P Tartaglia, E Zaccarelli… - Physical review letters, 2006 - APS
We report theoretical and numerical evaluations of the phase diagram for patchy colloidal
particles of new generation. We show that the reduction of the number of bonded nearest …

Origin and magnitude of 'designer'spin-orbit interaction in graphene on semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides

Z Wang, DK Ki, JY Khoo, D Mauro, H Berger… - Physical Review X, 2016 - APS
We use a combination of experimental techniques to demonstrate a general occurrence of
spin-orbit interaction (SOI) in graphene on transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) substrates …

Equilibrium cluster phases and low-density arrested disordered states: the role of short-range attraction and long-range repulsion

F Sciortino, S Mossa, E Zaccarelli, P Tartaglia - Physical review letters, 2004 - APS
We study a model in which particles interact with short-ranged attractive and long-ranged
repulsive interactions, in an attempt to model the equilibrium cluster phase recently …