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Spin-orbit interaction in a dual gated InAs/GaSb quantum well

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2017-12-06 v1

Abstract

Spin-orbit interaction is investigated in a dual gated InAs/GaSb quantum well. Using an electric field the quantum well can be tuned between a single carrier regime with exclusively electrons as carriers and a two-carriers regime where electrons and holes coexist. Spin-orbit interaction in both regimes manifests itself as a beating in the Shubnikov-de Haas oscillations. In the single carrier regime the linear Dresselhaus strength is characterized by β=\beta = 28.5 meVA˚\AA and the Rashba coefficient α\alpha is tuned from 75 to 53 meVA˚\AA by changing the electric field. In the two-carriers regime the spin splitting shows a nonmonotonic behavior with gate voltage, which is consistent with our band structure calculations.

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@article{arxiv.1704.03482,
  title  = {Spin-orbit interaction in a dual gated InAs/GaSb quantum well},
  author = {Arjan J. A. Beukman and Folkert K. de Vries and Jasper van Veen and Rafal Skolasinski and Michael Wimmer and Fanming Qu and David T. de Vries and Binh-Minh Nguyen and Wei Yi and Andrey A. Kiselev and Marko Sokolich and Michael J. Manfra and Fabrizio Nichele and Charles M. Marcus and Leo P. Kouwenhoven},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.03482},
  year   = {2017}
}