Gate-Defined Wires in HgTe Quantum Wells: From Majorana Fermions to Spintronics
We introduce a promising new platform for Majorana zero modes and various spintronics applications based on gate-defined wires in HgTe quantum wells. Because of the Dirac-like band structure for HgTe, the physics of such systems differs markedly from that of conventional quantum wires. Most striking...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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American Physical Society
2013-08-01
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| Series: | Physical Review X |
| Online Access: | http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.3.031011 |