Theory of Chirality Induced Spin Selectivity in Two Terminal Transport

In this thesis we perform a theoretical study on the Chirality Induced Spin Selectivity effect in the context of two-terminal measurements for realistic parameters. In twoterminal measurements on chiral molecules one of the leads is magnetized and the current is measured for opposite magnetizations. In experiment it is found that the currents...

Mesoscopic transport in 2D materials and heterostructures

This thesis presents an experimental work on electronic transport in two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals systems. The variety of the physics of the chapters reflects the exploratory character of the Ph.D. study and demonstrates the versatility and the unique properties of some of the members of the vast group of van der Waals materials. In the...

Spin–orbit coupling and geometric phases at oxide interfaces

In this work, we investigate electronic and magnetic phenomena in thin films and heterostructures of transition metal oxides with strong spin–orbit coupling. Ultrathin films are prepared by pulsed laser deposition, a technique which enables layer-by-layer growth of complex materials on atomically flat crystal surfaces. The properties of these...

Quantum transport at oxide interfaces

The realization of interfaces between different transition metal oxides has heralded a new era of materials and physics research. Notably, it enabled a uniquely diverse set of coexisting physical properties to be combined with an ever-increasing degree of experimental control. The primary focus of this thesis is the celebrated interface between...

Propagation and estimation of the dynamical behaviour of gravitationally interacting rigid bodies

Next-generation planetary tracking methods, such as interplanetary laser ranging (ILR) and same-beam interferometry (SBI) promise an orders-of-magnitude increase in the accuracy of measurements of solar system dynamics. This requires a reconsideration of modelling strategies for the translational and rotational dynamics of natural bodies, to...

Weak localization in boron nitride encapsulated bilayer MoS2

We present measurements of weak localization on hexagonal boron nitride encapsulated bilayer MoS2. From the analysis we obtain information regarding the phase coherence and the spin diffusion of the electrons. We find that the encapsulation with boron nitride provides higher mobilities in the samples, and the phase coherence shows improvement...

Electric field tunable superconductor-semiconductor coupling in Majorana nanowires

We study the effect of external electric fields on superconductor-semiconductor coupling by measuring the electron transport in InSb semiconductor nanowires coupled to an epitaxially grown Al superconductor. We find that the gate voltage induced electric fields can greatly modify the coupling strength, which has consequences for the proximity...

Single spins in nanowire quantum dots with strong spin-orbit coupling

Spin Caloritronic Phenomena Driven by Spin-orbit Coupling

In this thesis, we report several effects in spintronics and spin caloritronics related to relativistic spin-orbit coupling. In Chapter 2, we discuss the relativistic spin caloritronicHall effects in terms of a semiclassical theory for anomalous thermoelectric effects in ferromagnetic metals due to spin-orbit scattering at impurities, including...

Individual single-wall carbon nanotubes as quantum wires