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Category: Spotlight

Welcome to Prof. Bhaskaran Muralidharan's Computational Nanoelectronics & Quantum Transport Group

Are symmetry protected topological phases immune to dephasing? – a topological electronics perspective

Harnessing topological phases with their dissipationless edge-channels coupled with the effective engineering of quantum phase transitions is a spinal aspect of topological electronics. The accompanying symmetry protection leads to different kinds of topological edge-channels which include, for instance, the quantum spin Hall (QSH) phase, and the spin quantum anomalous Hall (SQAH) phase. To model realistic…
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Valleytronics using two-dimensional materials

Valleytronics using two-dimensional materials opens unprecedented opportunities for information processing using a valley polarizer as a basic building block. Various methodologies, such as strain engineering, the inclusion of line defects, and the application of static magnetic fields, have been widely explored for creating valley polarization. However, these methods suffer from low transmission or lack of…
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Conductance spectroscopy of Majorana zero modes in superconductor-magnetic insulator nanowire hybrid systems

There has been recent interest in superconductor-magnetic insulator hybrid Rashba nanowire setups for potentially hosting Majorana zero modes at smaller external Zeeman fields. Using the non-equilibrium Green’s function technique, we develop a quantum transport model that accounts for the interplay between the quasiparticle dynamics in the superconductor-magnetic insulator bilayer structure and the transport processes through…
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Proposal for a solid-state magnetoresistive Larmor quantum clock

We propose a solid-state implementation of the Larmor clock that exploits tunnel magnetoresistance to distill information on how long itinerant spins take to traverse a barrier embedded in it. Keeping in mind that the tunneling time innately involves pristine preselection and postselection, our proposal takes into account the detrimental aspects of multiple reflections by incorporating…
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Robust all-electrical topological valley filtering using monolayer 2D-Xenes

We propose a realizable device design for an all-electrical robust valley filter that utilizes spin protected topological interface states hosted on monolayer 2D-Xene materials with large intrinsic spin–orbit coupling. In contrast with conventional quantum spin-Hall edge states localized around the X-points, the interface states appearing at the domain wall between topologically distinct phases are either from…
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Supercurrent interference in nanowire-superconductor hybrid systems

Semiconductor-superconductor hybrid systems provide a promising platform for hosting unpaired Majorana fermions towards the realization of fault-tolerant topological quantum computing. In this study we employ the Keldysh nonequilibrium Green’s function formalism to model quantum transport in normal-superconductor junctions.

Graphene NEMS Piezoresistor

Motivated by the recent prediction of anisotropy in piezoresistance of ballistic graphene along longitudinal and transverse directions, we investigate the angular gauge factor of graphene in the ballistic and diffusive regimes using highly efficient quantum transport models. It is shown that the angular gauge factor in both ballistic and diffusive graphene between 0∘ to 90∘…
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Enhancement of thermal spin transfer torque via bandpass energy filtering

We propose employing the energy bandpass filtering approach in a magnetic tunnel junction device as a route to enhance the thermal spin transfer torque. Using the spin-resolved non-equilibrium Green’s function formalism, we propose to harness the optical analog of anti-reflective coatings in a heterostructure MTJ device, and report a large boost in spin torque in…
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