Hyperfine-mediated transport in a one-dimensional channel.

We survey some recent accumulated body of works on hyperfine-mediated transport in a confined one-dimensional channel, realized typically by electrostatic gating. Our review begins with how the spin-polarized edge current can be used as a means to dynamically generate and detect an ensemble of nuclear spins in the channel. We show how the transmission of spin-polarized edge in the presence of nuclear polarization could provide a convenient way to explain various NMR lineshapes observed in experiments. We discuss recent attempt to electrically detecting NMR at moderate to low magnetic fields that would particularly be helpful to address some fundamental physics problems in quantum transport such as the microscopic nature of fractional conductance developed below the last integer plateau. For a more applied-oriented, the developed NMR can be turned to probe an ultra-low level strain modulation in the channel owing to differential thermal contraction between metal gates and a semiconductor via nuclear quadrupole interaction.