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Papers by Amrit De
Journal of Applied Physics, Dec 27, 2002
We derive an expression for cyclotron frequency c , which sets Re͓⑀ ϩ ⑀ Ϫ ͔ϭ1 in a magneto-optic ... more We derive an expression for cyclotron frequency c , which sets Re͓⑀ ϩ ⑀ Ϫ ͔ϭ1 in a magneto-optic ͑MO͒ substrate, at any incident photon energy. Thereby, at any desired part of the optical spectrum, large Kerr effects can be obtained, which are generally known to occur either at the free-charge-carrier-plasma-resonance frequency p , or at frequencies where active electronic transitions take place. Under these conditions, p is seen to play a very different role; it is seen that for any , the magnitude of the Kerr resonance in a single MO ͑InSb here͒ substrate increases with decreasing p. With the objective of achieving further Kerr enhancement, the effect of coating a thin film of this c-coupled InSb layer on a Ag substrate is numerically studied. Further Kerr enhancement, at the plasma-resonance frequency of Ag, is seen, which is dependent on the thickness of the MO layer and its p. In this configuration, giant resonances appear in the effective-dielectric-tensor spectra. The spectral locations of these resonances are dependent on the thickness of the MO layer. We interpret these resonance structures to be the effective cyclotron resonance. Our results suggest that there exists a strong correlation between the effective-cyclotron frequency and the plasma-resonance frequency of the noble.
arXiv (Cornell University), Sep 25, 2015
Adiabatic or slowly varying gate operations are typically required in order to remain within the ... more Adiabatic or slowly varying gate operations are typically required in order to remain within the qubit subspace in an anharmonic oscillator. However significant speed ups are possible by using the two quadrature derivative-removal-by-adiabatic-gate(DRAG) technique 1,23 , where a second time derivative pulse component burns a spectral hole near an unwanted transition. It is shown here, that simultaneous optimization of the detuning and the pulse norm in addition, further reduces leakage errors and significantly improve gate fidelities. However, with this optimization accounting for the AC Stark shift, there is a low spectral weight pulse envelope regime, where DRAG is almost not needed and where the two state error fidelities are stable against pulse jitter. Explicit time evolution calculations are carried out in the lab frame for truncated multi-level Transmon qubit models obtained from a tight-binding model.
Advances in Condensed Matter Physics, 2015
Low frequency flicker noise has been argued to occur in spatially extended metastable systems nea... more Low frequency flicker noise has been argued to occur in spatially extended metastable systems near a critical point (Bak et al., 1987). An Ising-Glauber model based method is suggested here to systematically obtain temperature dependent nth-order correlation functions for arbitrary interacting two-level systems (TLSs). This model is fully consistent with existing methods to calculate 1/ noise spectra from TLSs and complements them. However, with as such no a priori assumptions on the typical log normal distribution of fluctuation rates, it is shown that 1/ noise manifests in two different cases: first in the thermodynamic limit on a 2D lattice with long range antiferromagnetic interactions at low temperatures and second in the case of a statistical ensemble of finite-sized spin clusters representing disorder, but where each cluster is ordered due to ferromagnetic interactions.
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](Physical Review B, May 7, 2010
Physical Review Letters, Nov 18, 2014
Optics Letters, Mar 1, 2003
A symmetric achiral trilayer structure, which consists of a high-index center layer sandwiched be... more A symmetric achiral trilayer structure, which consists of a high-index center layer sandwiched between two identical low-index films and embedded in a high-index prism, is designed to produce equal and opposite quarter-wave retardation in ref lection and transmission and equal throughput for the p and s polarization at oblique incidence. Such a device splits a beam of incident linearly polarized light into two orthogonally circularly polarized components of equal power that travel in different directions. A visible (633-nm) design that operates at a 60 ± angle of incidence and an infrared (10.6-mm) 45 ± cube design are presented. The spectral and angular sensitivities of the device are also considered.
Physical Review Letters, Feb 15, 2013
We construct a universal set of high fidelity quantum gates to be used on a sparse bipartite latt... more We construct a universal set of high fidelity quantum gates to be used on a sparse bipartite lattice with always-on Ising couplings. The gates are based on dynamical decoupling sequences using shaped pulses, they protect against low-frequency phase noise, and can be run in parallel on non-neighboring qubits. This makes them suitable for implementing quantum error correction with low-density parity check codes like the surface codes and their finite-rate generalizations. We illustrate the construction by simulating quantum Zeno effect with the [[4, 2, 2]] toric code on a spin chain.
Physical Review B, Oct 25, 2007
Physical Review A, Mar 27, 2014
We describe how a universal set of dynamically-corrected quantum gates can be implemented using s... more We describe how a universal set of dynamically-corrected quantum gates can be implemented using sequences of shaped decoupling pulses on any qubit network forming a sparse bipartite graph with always-on Ising interactions. These interactions are constantly decoupled except when they are needed for two-qubit gates. We analytically study the error operators associated with the constructed gates up to third order in the Magnus expansion, analyze these errors numerically in the unitary time evolution of small qubit clusters, and give a bound on high-order errors for qubits on a large square lattice. We prove that with a large enough toric code the present gate set can be used to implement fault-tolerant quantum memory.
Journal of the Optical Society of America, May 1, 2003
Communications are short papers. Appropriate material for this section includes reports of incide... more Communications are short papers. Appropriate material for this section includes reports of incidental research results, comments on papers previously published, and short descriptions of theoretical and experimental techniques. Communications are handled much the same as regular papers. Proofs are provided.
arXiv (Cornell University), Oct 23, 2013
Qubit-qubit interactions can significantly boost quantum coherence times for Bell states. The coh... more Qubit-qubit interactions can significantly boost quantum coherence times for Bell states. The coherence-timeenhancements are however not monotonic and there exists a phase where further increasing the interaction is unhelpful. A resonator in a suggested circuit QED type implementation of the Tavis-Cummings(Dicke) model, is shown to shift this transition point depending on the number of loaded photons. This allows the resonator to amplify the coherence enhancements in certain regimes. The interactions also induce unusual collapse and revival type behavior for the entanglement dynamics. A new and exact open quantum systems formalism-the quasi-Hamiltonians for the Dicke model thus reveals how a Bell state in a resonator can be protected against 1/f noise from randomly fluctuating two level systems. Simple circuit level details are given for flux qubits.
Physical Review A, Jan 13, 2015
Qubit-qubit interactions can significantly boost quantum coherence times for Bell states. The coh... more Qubit-qubit interactions can significantly boost quantum coherence times for Bell states. The coherence-timeenhancements are however not monotonic and there exists a phase where further increasing the interaction is unhelpful. A resonator in a suggested circuit QED type implementation of the Tavis-Cummings(Dicke) model, is shown to shift this transition point depending on the number of loaded photons. This allows the resonator to amplify the coherence enhancements in certain regimes. The interactions also induce unusual collapse and revival type behavior for the entanglement dynamics. A new and exact open quantum systems formalismthe quasi-Hamiltonians for the Dicke model shows how a Bell state singlet-triplet qubit in a resonator can be protected against 1/f noise from randomly fluctuating two level systems. Simple circuit level details are given for flux qubits.
Applied Physics Letters, Feb 23, 2005
A magneto-optic Kerr effect ͑MOKE͒-based spectroscopic technique is proposed in the terahertz reg... more A magneto-optic Kerr effect ͑MOKE͒-based spectroscopic technique is proposed in the terahertz regime. This method relies on very large reflection edge splitting effects, which occur when the cyclotron frequency ͑CF͒ is of the same order of magnitude or greater than the plasma frequency. In the event of a very large reflection edge split, the Kerr rotation ͑KR͒ no longer occurs at the plasma edge, but instead occurs at Re(+ −) Ϸ 1, within the macroscopic framework of the Drude model. This implies that one can control the spectral occurrence of the MOKE resonance, simply by tuning the magnetic field strength. This phenomenon is unheard of for much shorter wavelengths, due to practical limitations on required magnetic field strengths and hence, can only be realized in the THz regime. A 3 T magnet can easily cover the proposed 0.5-5 THz spectral range for an InSb substrate. Our calculations show that in order to achieve good spectral resolution, the InSb substrate needs to be cooled to 77 K. The Kerr rotation obtained at 77 K for a CF of 1 THz is about 6.28°, which can be increased to about 18.35°by coating a thin low refractive index material on the InSb substrate. A well established ellipsometric technique, which uses four incoherent detectors, is proposed, for fast-simultaneous measurement of KR, Kerr ellipticity and reflectivity.
Quantum Information Processing, Apr 19, 2019
Adiabatic gate operations required to remain within the qubit subspace in an anharmonic oscillato... more Adiabatic gate operations required to remain within the qubit subspace in an anharmonic oscillator can be slow when compared to qubit decoherence times. However, significant gate speedups are possible using methods such as derivative-removal-byadiabatic-gate (DRAG) (Motzoi et al. in Phys Rev Lett 103:110501, 2009), which creates spectral-holes near unwanted transitions. We analyze the effect of DRAG on the transmon qubit in some detail for cosine and truncated Gaussian pulses. An accurate tight-binding multi-level transmon model is presented here along with a multi-level Lindblad model and time-evolution methods to remove phase oscillations. It is shown that in addition to DRAG, the simultaneous optimization of the pulse truncation, detuning and the pulse norm significantly reduces leakage errors. For sharply truncated Gaussian pulses, DRAG leads to faster gates that are also stable against pulse jitter. However, for slow rising pulse envelopes, DRAG is not effective. This is explained using spectral analysis. Overall this can lead to much faster reverse-engineered qubit gates soon.
Bulletin of the American Physical Society, Mar 4, 2014
Riverside-We prescribe a method to implement a universal set of dynamically-corrected quantum gat... more Riverside-We prescribe a method to implement a universal set of dynamically-corrected quantum gates on any qubit network that forms a sparse bipartite graph using sequences of decoupling pulses. The qubit networks have Ising interactions that are always turned on and our method works to selectively decouple the interactions even when they differ. We study the error operators associated with the constructed gates for small qubit clusters and give bounds on high-order errors. We find that the present gate set can be used to achieve fault-tolerance with a concatenated code by choosing a suitable qubit network.
Proceedings of SPIE, Feb 12, 2009
Optical Engineering, Jul 1, 2005
A procedure is presented for the design of bilayer pellicle and bilayer-coated prism beam splitte... more A procedure is presented for the design of bilayer pellicle and bilayer-coated prism beam splitters that serve as the key optical element of the division-of-amplitude photopolarimeter (DOAP). The bilayer consists of two transparent thin films of sufficiently different refractive indices whose thicknesses are selected to achieve 50 to 50% split ratio and optimum ellipsometric parameters in reflection and transmission, such
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Physical review, Apr 21, 2016
We model repetitive quantum error correction (QEC) with the single-error-correcting five-qubit co... more We model repetitive quantum error correction (QEC) with the single-error-correcting five-qubit code on a network of individually-controlled qubits with always-on Ising couplings, using our previously designed universal set of quantum gates based on sequences of shaped decoupling pulses. In addition to serving as accurate quantum gates, the sequences also provide dynamical decoupling (DD) of low-frequency phase noise. The simulation involves integrating unitary dynamics of six qubits over the duration of tens of thousands of control pulses, using classical stochastic phase noise as a source of decoherence. The combined DD/QEC protocol dramatically improves the coherence, with the QEC alone responsible for more than an order of magnitude infidelity reduction.
Physical review, Jul 25, 2018
In the Kerr rotation geometry, magneto optic memory devices typically suffer from low figure-of-m... more In the Kerr rotation geometry, magneto optic memory devices typically suffer from low figure-of-merit (FOM) and long write times. We show that skyrmions formed at the interface of a thin-film multiferroic and a topological insulator can give rise to high FOM magneto optic Kerr effects (MOKEs). Huge differential MOKE can arise in parts of the phase diagram. Resonance like features in the MOKE spectra arising from the induced low energy TI bandgap, the multiferroic-film thickness, and the high energy Drude like behavior are resolved and explained. The Fermi level dependence of the MOKE signatures is distinct for the different magnetic textures. This has broad implications for magnetic texture characterization, electro-optic modulators and isolators and high density magnetic optic memory.
Physical review, Jan 6, 2017
Interlayer electron transport through a graphene / hexagonal boron-nitride (h-BN) / graphene hete... more Interlayer electron transport through a graphene / hexagonal boron-nitride (h-BN) / graphene heterostructure is strongly affected by the misorientation angle θ of the h-BN with respect to the graphene layers with different physical mechanisms governing the transport in different regimes of angle, Fermi level, and bias. The different mechanisms and their resulting signatures in resistance and current are analyzed using two different models, a tight-binding, non-equilibrium Green function model and an effective continuum model, and the qualitative features resulting from the two different models compare well. In the large-angle regime (θ > 4 •), the change in the effective h-BN bandgap seen by an electron at the K point of the graphene causes the resistance to monotonically increase with angle by several orders of magnitude reaching a maximum at θ = 30 •. It does not affect the peak-to-valley current ratios in devices that exhibit negative differential resistance. In the small-angle regime (θ < 4 •), Umklapp processes open up new conductance channels that manifest themselves as non-monotonic features in a plot of resistance versus Fermi level that can serve as experimental signatures of this effect. For small angles and high bias, the Umklapp processes give rise to two new current peaks on either side of the direct tunneling peak.
Journal of Applied Physics, Dec 27, 2002
We derive an expression for cyclotron frequency c , which sets Re͓⑀ ϩ ⑀ Ϫ ͔ϭ1 in a magneto-optic ... more We derive an expression for cyclotron frequency c , which sets Re͓⑀ ϩ ⑀ Ϫ ͔ϭ1 in a magneto-optic ͑MO͒ substrate, at any incident photon energy. Thereby, at any desired part of the optical spectrum, large Kerr effects can be obtained, which are generally known to occur either at the free-charge-carrier-plasma-resonance frequency p , or at frequencies where active electronic transitions take place. Under these conditions, p is seen to play a very different role; it is seen that for any , the magnitude of the Kerr resonance in a single MO ͑InSb here͒ substrate increases with decreasing p. With the objective of achieving further Kerr enhancement, the effect of coating a thin film of this c-coupled InSb layer on a Ag substrate is numerically studied. Further Kerr enhancement, at the plasma-resonance frequency of Ag, is seen, which is dependent on the thickness of the MO layer and its p. In this configuration, giant resonances appear in the effective-dielectric-tensor spectra. The spectral locations of these resonances are dependent on the thickness of the MO layer. We interpret these resonance structures to be the effective cyclotron resonance. Our results suggest that there exists a strong correlation between the effective-cyclotron frequency and the plasma-resonance frequency of the noble.
arXiv (Cornell University), Sep 25, 2015
Adiabatic or slowly varying gate operations are typically required in order to remain within the ... more Adiabatic or slowly varying gate operations are typically required in order to remain within the qubit subspace in an anharmonic oscillator. However significant speed ups are possible by using the two quadrature derivative-removal-by-adiabatic-gate(DRAG) technique 1,23 , where a second time derivative pulse component burns a spectral hole near an unwanted transition. It is shown here, that simultaneous optimization of the detuning and the pulse norm in addition, further reduces leakage errors and significantly improve gate fidelities. However, with this optimization accounting for the AC Stark shift, there is a low spectral weight pulse envelope regime, where DRAG is almost not needed and where the two state error fidelities are stable against pulse jitter. Explicit time evolution calculations are carried out in the lab frame for truncated multi-level Transmon qubit models obtained from a tight-binding model.
Advances in Condensed Matter Physics, 2015
Low frequency flicker noise has been argued to occur in spatially extended metastable systems nea... more Low frequency flicker noise has been argued to occur in spatially extended metastable systems near a critical point (Bak et al., 1987). An Ising-Glauber model based method is suggested here to systematically obtain temperature dependent nth-order correlation functions for arbitrary interacting two-level systems (TLSs). This model is fully consistent with existing methods to calculate 1/ noise spectra from TLSs and complements them. However, with as such no a priori assumptions on the typical log normal distribution of fluctuation rates, it is shown that 1/ noise manifests in two different cases: first in the thermodynamic limit on a 2D lattice with long range antiferromagnetic interactions at low temperatures and second in the case of a statistical ensemble of finite-sized spin clusters representing disorder, but where each cluster is ordered due to ferromagnetic interactions.
Physical Review B, May 7, 2010
Physical Review Letters, Nov 18, 2014
Optics Letters, Mar 1, 2003
A symmetric achiral trilayer structure, which consists of a high-index center layer sandwiched be... more A symmetric achiral trilayer structure, which consists of a high-index center layer sandwiched between two identical low-index films and embedded in a high-index prism, is designed to produce equal and opposite quarter-wave retardation in ref lection and transmission and equal throughput for the p and s polarization at oblique incidence. Such a device splits a beam of incident linearly polarized light into two orthogonally circularly polarized components of equal power that travel in different directions. A visible (633-nm) design that operates at a 60 ± angle of incidence and an infrared (10.6-mm) 45 ± cube design are presented. The spectral and angular sensitivities of the device are also considered.
Physical Review Letters, Feb 15, 2013
We construct a universal set of high fidelity quantum gates to be used on a sparse bipartite latt... more We construct a universal set of high fidelity quantum gates to be used on a sparse bipartite lattice with always-on Ising couplings. The gates are based on dynamical decoupling sequences using shaped pulses, they protect against low-frequency phase noise, and can be run in parallel on non-neighboring qubits. This makes them suitable for implementing quantum error correction with low-density parity check codes like the surface codes and their finite-rate generalizations. We illustrate the construction by simulating quantum Zeno effect with the [[4, 2, 2]] toric code on a spin chain.
Physical Review B, Oct 25, 2007
Physical Review A, Mar 27, 2014
We describe how a universal set of dynamically-corrected quantum gates can be implemented using s... more We describe how a universal set of dynamically-corrected quantum gates can be implemented using sequences of shaped decoupling pulses on any qubit network forming a sparse bipartite graph with always-on Ising interactions. These interactions are constantly decoupled except when they are needed for two-qubit gates. We analytically study the error operators associated with the constructed gates up to third order in the Magnus expansion, analyze these errors numerically in the unitary time evolution of small qubit clusters, and give a bound on high-order errors for qubits on a large square lattice. We prove that with a large enough toric code the present gate set can be used to implement fault-tolerant quantum memory.
Journal of the Optical Society of America, May 1, 2003
Communications are short papers. Appropriate material for this section includes reports of incide... more Communications are short papers. Appropriate material for this section includes reports of incidental research results, comments on papers previously published, and short descriptions of theoretical and experimental techniques. Communications are handled much the same as regular papers. Proofs are provided.
arXiv (Cornell University), Oct 23, 2013
Qubit-qubit interactions can significantly boost quantum coherence times for Bell states. The coh... more Qubit-qubit interactions can significantly boost quantum coherence times for Bell states. The coherence-timeenhancements are however not monotonic and there exists a phase where further increasing the interaction is unhelpful. A resonator in a suggested circuit QED type implementation of the Tavis-Cummings(Dicke) model, is shown to shift this transition point depending on the number of loaded photons. This allows the resonator to amplify the coherence enhancements in certain regimes. The interactions also induce unusual collapse and revival type behavior for the entanglement dynamics. A new and exact open quantum systems formalism-the quasi-Hamiltonians for the Dicke model thus reveals how a Bell state in a resonator can be protected against 1/f noise from randomly fluctuating two level systems. Simple circuit level details are given for flux qubits.
Physical Review A, Jan 13, 2015
Qubit-qubit interactions can significantly boost quantum coherence times for Bell states. The coh... more Qubit-qubit interactions can significantly boost quantum coherence times for Bell states. The coherence-timeenhancements are however not monotonic and there exists a phase where further increasing the interaction is unhelpful. A resonator in a suggested circuit QED type implementation of the Tavis-Cummings(Dicke) model, is shown to shift this transition point depending on the number of loaded photons. This allows the resonator to amplify the coherence enhancements in certain regimes. The interactions also induce unusual collapse and revival type behavior for the entanglement dynamics. A new and exact open quantum systems formalismthe quasi-Hamiltonians for the Dicke model shows how a Bell state singlet-triplet qubit in a resonator can be protected against 1/f noise from randomly fluctuating two level systems. Simple circuit level details are given for flux qubits.
Applied Physics Letters, Feb 23, 2005
A magneto-optic Kerr effect ͑MOKE͒-based spectroscopic technique is proposed in the terahertz reg... more A magneto-optic Kerr effect ͑MOKE͒-based spectroscopic technique is proposed in the terahertz regime. This method relies on very large reflection edge splitting effects, which occur when the cyclotron frequency ͑CF͒ is of the same order of magnitude or greater than the plasma frequency. In the event of a very large reflection edge split, the Kerr rotation ͑KR͒ no longer occurs at the plasma edge, but instead occurs at Re(+ −) Ϸ 1, within the macroscopic framework of the Drude model. This implies that one can control the spectral occurrence of the MOKE resonance, simply by tuning the magnetic field strength. This phenomenon is unheard of for much shorter wavelengths, due to practical limitations on required magnetic field strengths and hence, can only be realized in the THz regime. A 3 T magnet can easily cover the proposed 0.5-5 THz spectral range for an InSb substrate. Our calculations show that in order to achieve good spectral resolution, the InSb substrate needs to be cooled to 77 K. The Kerr rotation obtained at 77 K for a CF of 1 THz is about 6.28°, which can be increased to about 18.35°by coating a thin low refractive index material on the InSb substrate. A well established ellipsometric technique, which uses four incoherent detectors, is proposed, for fast-simultaneous measurement of KR, Kerr ellipticity and reflectivity.
Quantum Information Processing, Apr 19, 2019
Adiabatic gate operations required to remain within the qubit subspace in an anharmonic oscillato... more Adiabatic gate operations required to remain within the qubit subspace in an anharmonic oscillator can be slow when compared to qubit decoherence times. However, significant gate speedups are possible using methods such as derivative-removal-byadiabatic-gate (DRAG) (Motzoi et al. in Phys Rev Lett 103:110501, 2009), which creates spectral-holes near unwanted transitions. We analyze the effect of DRAG on the transmon qubit in some detail for cosine and truncated Gaussian pulses. An accurate tight-binding multi-level transmon model is presented here along with a multi-level Lindblad model and time-evolution methods to remove phase oscillations. It is shown that in addition to DRAG, the simultaneous optimization of the pulse truncation, detuning and the pulse norm significantly reduces leakage errors. For sharply truncated Gaussian pulses, DRAG leads to faster gates that are also stable against pulse jitter. However, for slow rising pulse envelopes, DRAG is not effective. This is explained using spectral analysis. Overall this can lead to much faster reverse-engineered qubit gates soon.
Bulletin of the American Physical Society, Mar 4, 2014
Riverside-We prescribe a method to implement a universal set of dynamically-corrected quantum gat... more Riverside-We prescribe a method to implement a universal set of dynamically-corrected quantum gates on any qubit network that forms a sparse bipartite graph using sequences of decoupling pulses. The qubit networks have Ising interactions that are always turned on and our method works to selectively decouple the interactions even when they differ. We study the error operators associated with the constructed gates for small qubit clusters and give bounds on high-order errors. We find that the present gate set can be used to achieve fault-tolerance with a concatenated code by choosing a suitable qubit network.
Proceedings of SPIE, Feb 12, 2009
Optical Engineering, Jul 1, 2005
A procedure is presented for the design of bilayer pellicle and bilayer-coated prism beam splitte... more A procedure is presented for the design of bilayer pellicle and bilayer-coated prism beam splitters that serve as the key optical element of the division-of-amplitude photopolarimeter (DOAP). The bilayer consists of two transparent thin films of sufficiently different refractive indices whose thicknesses are selected to achieve 50 to 50% split ratio and optimum ellipsometric parameters in reflection and transmission, such
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Physical review, Apr 21, 2016
We model repetitive quantum error correction (QEC) with the single-error-correcting five-qubit co... more We model repetitive quantum error correction (QEC) with the single-error-correcting five-qubit code on a network of individually-controlled qubits with always-on Ising couplings, using our previously designed universal set of quantum gates based on sequences of shaped decoupling pulses. In addition to serving as accurate quantum gates, the sequences also provide dynamical decoupling (DD) of low-frequency phase noise. The simulation involves integrating unitary dynamics of six qubits over the duration of tens of thousands of control pulses, using classical stochastic phase noise as a source of decoherence. The combined DD/QEC protocol dramatically improves the coherence, with the QEC alone responsible for more than an order of magnitude infidelity reduction.
Physical review, Jul 25, 2018
In the Kerr rotation geometry, magneto optic memory devices typically suffer from low figure-of-m... more In the Kerr rotation geometry, magneto optic memory devices typically suffer from low figure-of-merit (FOM) and long write times. We show that skyrmions formed at the interface of a thin-film multiferroic and a topological insulator can give rise to high FOM magneto optic Kerr effects (MOKEs). Huge differential MOKE can arise in parts of the phase diagram. Resonance like features in the MOKE spectra arising from the induced low energy TI bandgap, the multiferroic-film thickness, and the high energy Drude like behavior are resolved and explained. The Fermi level dependence of the MOKE signatures is distinct for the different magnetic textures. This has broad implications for magnetic texture characterization, electro-optic modulators and isolators and high density magnetic optic memory.
Physical review, Jan 6, 2017
Interlayer electron transport through a graphene / hexagonal boron-nitride (h-BN) / graphene hete... more Interlayer electron transport through a graphene / hexagonal boron-nitride (h-BN) / graphene heterostructure is strongly affected by the misorientation angle θ of the h-BN with respect to the graphene layers with different physical mechanisms governing the transport in different regimes of angle, Fermi level, and bias. The different mechanisms and their resulting signatures in resistance and current are analyzed using two different models, a tight-binding, non-equilibrium Green function model and an effective continuum model, and the qualitative features resulting from the two different models compare well. In the large-angle regime (θ > 4 •), the change in the effective h-BN bandgap seen by an electron at the K point of the graphene causes the resistance to monotonically increase with angle by several orders of magnitude reaching a maximum at θ = 30 •. It does not affect the peak-to-valley current ratios in devices that exhibit negative differential resistance. In the small-angle regime (θ < 4 •), Umklapp processes open up new conductance channels that manifest themselves as non-monotonic features in a plot of resistance versus Fermi level that can serve as experimental signatures of this effect. For small angles and high bias, the Umklapp processes give rise to two new current peaks on either side of the direct tunneling peak.