Molecular nanoarchitectonics: unification of nanotechnology and molecular/materials science

• Katsuhiko Ariga

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2023, 14, 434–453, doi:10.3762/bjnano.14.35

• tip was brought close enough to obtain a single-atom conductance gap, it was retracted and silicon atoms were removed. A perpendicular magnetic field was applied to explore physical phenomena such as Kondo resonance. The nanoarchitectonics of magnetic topological states due to spin polarization in

A zero-dimensional topologically nontrivial state in a superconducting quantum dot

• Pasquale Marra,
• Alessandro Braggio and
• Roberta Citro

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 1705–1714, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.162

• CNR-SPIN, 84084 Fisciano (Salerno), Italy 10.3762/bjnano.9.162 Abstract The classification of topological states of matter in terms of unitary symmetries and dimensionality predicts the existence of nontrivial topological states even in zero-dimensional systems, i.e., systems with a discrete energy

• temperatures. Keywords: Josephson effect; Josephson junctions; quantum dots; superconducting quantum dots; topological states; topological superconductors; Introduction Since the discovery of the quantum Hall effect [1][2] and the theoretical prediction of Majorana bound states in triplet superconductors [3

• ], a whole new class of novel electronic phases has been theoretically described and experimentally realized, namely, the class of topologically nontrivial states of matter [4][5][6][7]. Topological states of matter can be classified in terms of the antiunitary symmetries and dimensionality of the

Robust topological phase in proximitized core–shell nanowires coupled to multiple superconductors

• Tudor D. Stanescu,
• Anna Sitek and
• Andrei Manolescu

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 1512–1526, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.142

• some topological regions, as indicated by the diffuse reddish regions, suggesting that some topological states may become gapless. This tendency is consistent with the results of the multiple chain model, compare Figure 4B with Figure 6C. As with the coupled-chains model, we also tested the effect of

Thermoelectric current in topological insulator nanowires with impurities

• Sigurdur I. Erlingsson,
• Jens H. Bardarson and
• Andrei Manolescu

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 1156–1161, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.107

• insulator material, such as BiSe, is formed into a nanowire, topological states can appear on its surface. Recently, such wires in a magnetic field have been studied extensively both theoretically [20][21][22][23][24] and experimentally [5][6][7][8][9][10][25]. When the nanowires are of circular cross

Non-equilibrium electron transport induced by terahertz radiation in the topological and trivial phases of Hg_1−xCd_xTe

• Alexandra V. Galeeva,
• Alexey I. Artamkin,
• Alexey S. Kazakov,
• Sergey N. Danilov,
• Sergey A. Dvoretskiy,
• Nikolay N. Mikhailov,
• Ludmila I. Ryabova and
• Dmitry R. Khokhlov

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 1035–1039, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.96

• focus on the study of terahertz photoconductivity in the spectral range of 90–496 µm of Hg1−xCdxTe solid solutions in close vicinity of the band inversion point. This is done to determine possible effects of the topological states on the non-equilibrium transport. The Hg1−xCdxTe heterostructures were