Title
Split-Channel Ballistic Transport in an InSb Nanowire
Date Issued
11 April 2018
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Niquet Y.M.
Cleuziou J.P.
Lee E.J.H.
Car D.
Plissard S.R.
Bakkers E.P.A.M.
De Franceschi S.
University Grenoble Alpes
Publisher(s)
American Chemical Society
Abstract
We report an experimental study of one-dimensional (1D) electronic transport in an InSb semiconducting nanowire. A total of three bottom gates are used to locally deplete the nanowire, creating a ballistic quantum point contact with only a few conducting channels. In a magnetic field, the Zeeman splitting of the corresponding 1D sub-bands is revealed by the emergence of conductance plateaus at multiples of e2/h, yet we find a quantized conductance pattern largely dependent on the configuration of voltages applied to the bottom gates. In particular, we can make the first plateau disappear, leaving a first conductance step of 2e2/h, which is indicative of a remarkable 2-fold sub-band degeneracy that can persist up to several tesla. For certain gate voltage settings, we also observe the presence of discrete resonant states producing conductance features that can resemble those expected from the opening of a helical gap in the sub-band structure. We explain our experimental findings through the formation of two spatially separated 1D conduction channels.
Start page
2282
End page
2287
Volume
18
Issue
4
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería mecánica Física de la materia condensada
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85045183331
PubMed ID
Source
Nano Letters
ISSN of the container
15306984
Sponsor(s)
We acknowledge financial support from the Agence Nationale de la Recherche through the TOPONANO project and from the EU through the ERC grant no. 280043. The calculations were run on the Marconi/KNL machine at CINECA thanks to a PRACE allocation.
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