Spin-Orbit induced semiconductor spin guides
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
2009-11-07 v1
Abstract
The tunability of the Rashba spin-orbit coupling allows to build semiconductor heterostructures with space modulated coupling intensities. We show that a wire-shaped spin-orbit modulation in a quantum well can support propagating electronic states inside the wire only for a certain spin orientation and, therefore, it acts as an effective spin transmission guide for this particular spin orientation.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0211694,
title = {Spin-Orbit induced semiconductor spin guides},
author = {Manuel Valin-Rodriguez and Antonio Puente and Llorens Serra},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0211694},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages, 4 figures. e-mail contact: [email protected], to appear in Nanotechnology (2003)