Orbital Contributions to the Electron g Factor in Semiconductor Nanowires

Georg W. Winkler*, Dániel Varjas, Rafal Skolasinski, Alexey A. Soluyanov, Matthias Troyer, M.T. Wimmer

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Abstract

Recent experiments on Majorana fermions in semiconductor nanowires [S. M. Albrecht, A. P. Higginbotham, M. Madsen, F. Kuemmeth, T. S. Jespersen, J. Nygård, P. Krogstrup, and C. M. Marcus, Nature (London) 531, 206 (2016)NATUAS0028-083610.1038/nature17162] revealed a surprisingly large electronic Landé g factor, several times larger than the bulk value - contrary to the expectation that confinement reduces the g factor. Here we assess the role of orbital contributions to the electron g factor in nanowires and quantum dots. We show that an L·S coupling in higher subbands leads to an enhancement of the g factor of an order of magnitude or more for small effective mass semiconductors. We validate our theoretical finding with simulations of InAs and InSb, showing that the effect persists even if cylindrical symmetry is broken. A huge anisotropy of the enhanced g factors under magnetic field rotation allows for a straightforward experimental test of this theory.

Original languageEnglish
Article number037701
Number of pages6
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume119
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2017

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