By Professor Dimi Culcer

Journal articles

Bermeister A; Keith D; Culcer D, 2014, 'Charge noise, spin-orbit coupling, and dephasing of single-spin qubits', Applied Physics Letters, 105, http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4901162

Liu WE; Liu H; Culcer D, 2014, 'Screening, Friedel oscillations, and low-temperature conductivity in topological insulator thin films', Physical Review B Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, 89, http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.89.195417

Ju C; Lei C; Xu X; Culcer D; Zhang Z; Du J, 2014, 'NV-center-based digital quantum simulation of a quantum phase transition in topological insulators', Physical Review B Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, 89, http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.89.045432

Culcer D; Zhang G; Li X; Wu G; Wang J; Kaxiras E, 2014, 'Quantum phase transitions and topological proximity effects in graphene nanoribbon heterostructures', Nanoscale, 2014, pp. 3259 - 3267, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C3NR05284B

Wang J; Culcer D, 2013, 'Suppression of the Kondo resistivity minimum in topological insulators', Physical Review B Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, 88, http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.88.125140

Li XG; Zhang GF; Wu GF; Chen H; Culcer D; Zhang ZY, 2013, 'Proximity effects in topological insulator heterostructures', Chinese Physics B, 22, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1674-1056/22/9/097306

Jiang L; Yang CH; Pan Z; Rossi A; Dzurak AS; Culcer D, 2013, 'Coulomb interaction and valley-orbit coupling in Si quantum dots', Physical Review B, 88, pp. 085311, http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.88.085311

Bi X; He P; Hankiewicz EM; Winkler R; Vignale G; Culcer D, 2013, 'Anomalous spin precession and spin Hall effect in semiconductor quantum wells', Physical Review B Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, 88, http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.88.035316

Culcer D; Zimmerman NM, 2013, 'Dephasing of Si singlet-triplet qubits due to charge and spin defects', Applied Physics Letters, 102, http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4810911

Liu WE; MacDonald AH; Culcer D, 2013, 'Electron-electron interactions in nonequilibrium bilayer graphene', Physical Review B Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, 87, http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.87.085408

Wu Y; Culcer D, 2012, 'Coherent electrical rotations of valley states in Si quantum dots using the phase of the valley-orbit coupling', Physical Review B, 86, pp. 035321, http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.86.035321

Culcer D; Saraiva AL; Koiller B; Hu X; Das Sarma S, 2012, 'Valley-based noise-resistant quantum computation using Si quantum dots', Physical Review Letters, 108, http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.126804

Culcer D, 2012, 'Transport in three-dimensional topological insulators: Theory and experiment', Physica E Low-dimensional Systems and Nanostructures, 44, pp. 860 - 884, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physe.2011.11.003

Culcer D, 2011, 'Linear response theory of interacting topological insulators', Physical Review B, 84, pp. 235411, http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.84.235411

Culcer D; Sarma SD, 2011, 'Anomalous Hall response of topological insulators', Physical Review B, 83, pp. 245441, http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.83.245441

Culcer D; Hu X; Sarma SD, 2010, 'Interface roughness, valley-orbit coupling, and valley manipulation in quantum dots', Physical Review B, 82, pp. 205315, http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.82.205315

Culcer D; Cywiński Ł; Li Q; Hu X; Sarma SD, 2010, 'Quantum dot spin qubits in silicon: Multivalley physics', Physical Review B, 82, pp. 155312, http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.82.155312

Culcer D; Hwang EH; Stanescu TD; Sarma SD, 2010, 'Two-dimensional surface charge transport in topological insulators', Physical Review B, 82, pp. 155457, http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.82.155457

Culcer D; Hankiewicz EM; Vignale G; Winkler R, 2010, 'Side jumps in the spin Hall effect: Construction of the Boltzmann collision integral', Physical Review B, 81, pp. 125332, http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.81.125332

Li Q; Cywiński Ł; Culcer D; Hu X; Sarma SD, 2010, 'Exchange coupling in silicon quantum dots: Theoretical considerations for quantum computation', Physical Review B, 81, pp. 085313, http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.81.085313

Culcer D; Cywiński Ł; Li Q; Hu X; Sarma SD, 2009, 'Realizing singlet-triplet qubits in multivalley Si quantum dots', Physical Review B, 80, pp. 205302, http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.80.205302

Culcer D; Hu X; Sarma SD, 2009, 'Dephasing of Si spin qubits due to charge noise', Applied Physics Letters, 95, pp. 073102, http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3194778

Culcer D; Lucassen ME; Duine RA; Winkler R, 2009, 'Current-induced spin torques in III-V ferromagnetic semiconductors', Physical Review B, 79, pp. 155208, http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.79.155208

Culcer D; Winkler R, 2009, 'External gates and transport in biased bilayer graphene', Physical Review B, 79, pp. 165422, http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.79.165422

Culcer D; Winkler R, 2008, 'Weak momentum scattering and the conductivity of graphene', Physical Review B, 78, pp. 235417, http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.78.235417

Winkler R; Culcer D; Papadakis SJ; Habib B; Shayegan M, 2008, 'Spin orientation of holes in quantum wells', Semiconductor Science and Technology, 23, pp. 114017, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0268-1242/23/11/114017

CULCER D, 2008, 'STEADY-STATE SPIN DENSITIES AND CURRENTS', International Journal of Modern Physics B, 22, pp. 4765 - 4791, http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s021797920804911x

Culcer D; Winkler R, 2007, 'Steady states of spin distributions in the presence of spin-orbit interactions', Physical Review B, 76, pp. 245322, http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.76.245322

Culcer D; Winkler R, 2007, 'Publisher’s Note: Generation of Spin Currents and Spin Densities in Systems with Reduced Symmetry [Phys. Rev. Lett.99, 226601 (2007)]', Physical Review Letters, 99, http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.99.239902

Culcer D; Winkler R, 2007, 'Generation of Spin Currents and Spin Densities in Systems with Reduced Symmetry', Physical Review Letters, 99, pp. 226601, http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.99.226601

Culcer D; Winkler R, 2007, 'Spin polarization decay in spin- 12 and spin- 32 systems', Physical Review B, 76, pp. 195204, http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.76.195204

Culcer D; Lechner C; Winkler R, 2006, 'Spin Precession and Alternating Spin Polarization in Spin-3/2 Hole Systems', Physical Review Letters, 97, pp. 106601, http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.97.106601

Culcer D; Niu Q, 2006, 'Geometrical phase effects on the Wigner distribution of Bloch electrons', Physical Review B, 74, pp. 035209, http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.74.035209

Culcer D; Yao Y; Niu Q, 2005, 'Coherent wave-packet evolution in coupled bands', Physical Review B, 72, pp. 085110, http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.72.085110

Culcer D; Yao Y; MacDonald AH; Niu Q, 2005, 'Electrical generation of spin in crystals with reduced symmetry', Physical Review B, 72, pp. 045215, http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.72.045215

Culcer D; Sinova J; Sinitsyn NA; Jungwirth T; MacDonald AH; Niu Q, 2004, 'Semiclassical Spin Transport in Spin-Orbit-Coupled Bands', Physical Review Letters, 93, pp. 046602, http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.93.046602

Sinova J; Culcer D; Niu Q; Sinitsyn NA; Jungwirth T; MacDonald AH, 2004, 'Universal Intrinsic Spin Hall Effect', Physical Review Letters, 92, pp. 126603, http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.92.126603

Culcer D; MacDonald A; Niu Q, 2003, 'Anomalous Hall effect in paramagnetic two-dimensional systems', Physical Review B, 68, pp. 045327, http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.68.045327

Conference Papers

Culcer D; Liu H; Burgos Atencia R, 2024, 'Quantum correction to the orbital Hall effect', in Jaffrès H; Wegrowe J-E; Razeghi M; Friedman JS (eds.), Spintronics XVII, SPIE, pp. 77 - 77, presented at Spintronics XVII, 18 August 2024 - 23 August 2024, http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.3029051

Cullen JH; Atencia RB; Culcer D, 2022, 'Current-induced spin polarizations in the bulk of topological insulators with inhomogeneous magnetic textures', in Proceedings of SPIE the International Society for Optical Engineering, http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2635768

Fuhrer MS; Edmonds MT; Culcer D; Nadeem M; Wang X; Medhekar N; Yin Y; Cole JH, 2021, 'Proposal for a Negative Capacitance Topological Quantum Field-Effect Transistor', in Technical Digest International Electron Devices Meeting Iedm, pp. 38.2.1 - 38.2.4, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IEDM19574.2021.9720587

Bhalla P; MacDonald A; Culcer D, 2020, 'Theory of the nonlinear response of doped magnetic topological materials: resonant photovoltaic effect', in Drouhin H-JM; Wegrowe J-E; Razeghi M (eds.), Spintronics XIII, SPIE, pp. 30 - 30, presented at Spintronics XIII, 24 August 2020 - 04 September 2020, http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2565266

Tanttu T; Hensen B; Chan KW; Yang H; Huang W; Fogarty M; Culcer D; Itoh K; Laucht A; Morello A; Dzurak A, 2018, 'Controlling spin-orbit interaction in scalable silicon-MOS quantum dot architectures', in Extended Abstracts of the 2018 International Conference on Solid State Devices and Materials, The Japan Society of Applied Physics, presented at 2018 International Conference on Solid State Devices and Materials, 09 September 2018 - 13 September 2018, http://dx.doi.org/10.7567/ssdm.2018.a-7-01

Culcer D; Marcellina E; Liu H; Hamilton AR; Sekine A; MacDonald AH, 2018, 'Anomalies in magneto-transport in spin-orbit coupled systems', in Proceedings of SPIE the International Society for Optical Engineering, http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2323582

Culcer D; Salfi J; Rogge S, 2016, 'A single-atom spin-orbit qubit in Si (Conference Presentation)', in Drouhin H-J; Wegrowe J-E; Razeghi M (eds.), Spintronics IX, SPIE, pp. 54 - 54, presented at Spintronics IX, 28 August 2016 - 01 September 2016, http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2231059

Culcer D; Liu W; Adroguer P; Bi X; Hankiewicz E, 2014, 'Weak antilocalisation in topological insulators with strong spin-orbit scattering (presentation video)', in Drouhin H-J; Wegrowe J-E; Razeghi M (eds.), SPIE Proceedings, SPIE, pp. 91672F - 91672F, presented at SPIE NanoScience + Engineering, http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2063515

Preprints

Wang Z; Cullen JH; Raimondi R; Culcer D, 2026, Inter-band coherence effects in disordered crystals: beyond the non-crossing approximation, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2606.28809

Cullen JH; Wang Z; Culcer D, 2026, Orbital Hall effect in spin-3/2 hole-doped semiconductors and its implications for orbitronics, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2509.20436

Culcer D, 2026, Zitterbewegung velocity in semiclassical electron dynamics, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2605.15292

Cullen JH; Culcer D, 2026, Ge as an orbitronic platform: giant in-plane orbital magneto-electric effect in a 2-dimensional hole gas, http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2603.04500

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