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Effective spin-orbit (SO) Hamiltonians for conduction electrons in wurtzite heterostructures are lacking in the literature, in contrast to zincblende structures. Here we address this issue by deriving such an effective Hamiltonian valid for…

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Theoretical calculations predict the dissipationless circulating current induced by a spin defect in a two-dimensional electron gas with spin-orbit coupling. The shape and spatial extent of these dissipationless circulating currents depend…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-15 Adonai R. da Cruz , Michael E. Flatté

We theoretically describe the spin excitation spectrum of a two dimensional electron gas embedded in a quantum well with localized magnetic impurities. Compared to the previous work, we introduce equations that allow to consider the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Florent Perez , Joel Cibert , Masha Vladimirova , Denis Scalbert

We study the coherent transport of heavy holes through a one-dimensional ring in the presence of spin-orbit coupling. Spin-orbit interaction of holes, cubic in the in-plane components of momentum, gives rise to an angular momentum dependent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Dimitrije Stepanenko , Minchul Lee , Guido Burkard , Daniel Loss

We propose a new scheme of spin filtering based on nanometric crossjunctions in the presence of Spin Orbit interaction, employing ballistic nanojunctions patterned in a two-dimensional electron gas. We demonstrate that the flow of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Bellucci , P. Onorato

We present a microscopic electronic description of how antiskyrmions can be stabilized in a Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupled magnetic metal. Furthermore, we show that the antiskyrmions can be tuned into Bloch skyrmions via a change in sign of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-12-15 Deepak S. Kathyat , Arnob Mukherjee , Sanjeev Kumar

We augment the information extractable from a single absorption image of a spinor Bose-Einstein condensate by coupling to initially empty auxiliary hyperfine states. Performing unitary transformations in both, the original and auxiliary…

We investigate the relevance of the spin-orit coupling to the far-infrared absorption of two-dimensional semiconductor dots. Varying the strength of the Dresselhaus term, a mechanism feasible in experiment by changing the dot width,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Manuel Valin-Rodriguez , Antonio Puente , Llorens Serra

We study transport in ferromagnetic single-electron transistors. The non- equilibrium spin accumulation on the island caused by a finite current through the system is described by a generalized theory of the Coulomb blockade. It enhances…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Arne Brataas , Yu. V. Nazarov , J. Inoue , G. E. W. Bauer

We show that a pure spin current can be injected in quantum wells by the absorption of linearly polarized infrared radiation, leading to transitions between subbands. The magnitude and the direction of the spin current depend on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 E. Ya. Sherman , Ali Najmaie , J. E. Sipe

The Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit (SO) interactions in 2D electron gases act as effective magnetic fields with momentum-dependent directions, which cause spin decay as the spins undergo arbitrary precessions about these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-26 Florian Dettwiler , Jiyong Fu , Shawn Mack , Pirmin J. Weigele , J. Carlos Egues , David D. Awschalom , Dominik M. Zumbühl

We use the non-perturbative gauge field approach to study the effects of spin orbit coupling on the dynamic of magnetic moment. We present a general equation of motion (EOM) which unifies i) the spin orbit coupling effect derived from the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-25 S. G. Tan , M. B. A. Jalil , Xiong-Jun Liu

We use numerical simulations to investigate the spin Hall effect in quantum wires in the presence of both Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling. We find that the intrinsic spin Hall effect is highly anisotropic with respect to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-18 A. W. Cummings , R. Akis , D. K. Ferry

Optical pump-probe measurements of spin-dynamics at temperatures down to 1.5K are described for a series of (001)-oriented GaAs/AlGaAs quantum well samples containing high mobility two-dimensional electron gases (2DEGs). For well widths…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 W. J. H. Leyland , R. T. Harley , M. Henini , D. Taylor , A. J. Shields , I. Farrer , D. A. Ritchie

We investigate the possibility of spin-preserving symmetries due to the interplay of Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling in n-doped zinc-blende semiconductor quantum wells of general crystal orientation. It is shown that a conserved…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-02 Michael Kammermeier , Paul Wenk , John Schliemann

One-body mechanisms of spin splitting of the energy spectrum of 2D electrons in a one-side doped (001) GaAs/Al$_x$Ga$_{1-x}$As quantum well have been studied theoretically and experimentally. The interfacial spin splitting has been shown to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-10 Zh. A. Devizorova , A. V. Shchepetilnikov , Yu. A. Nefyodov , V. A. Volkov , I. V. Kukushkin

Using the effective-mass approximation and Floquet theory, we study the electron transmission over a quantum well in semiconductor heterostructures with Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling and an applied oscillation field. It is demonstrated by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Cun-Xi Zhang , Y. -H. Nie , J. -Q. Liang

We investigate the spin relaxation limited by the D'yakonov-Perel' mechanism in $n$-type (111) GaAs quantum wells, by means of the kinetic spin Bloch equation approach. In (111) GaAs quantum wells, the in-plane effective magnetic field from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-10 B. Y. Sun , P. Zhang , M. W. Wu

Extending a previous work on spin precession in GaAs/AlGaAs quantum dots with spin-orbit coupling, we study the role of deformation in the external confinement. Small elliptical deformations are enough to alter the precessional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Manuel Valin-Rodriguez , Antonio Puente , Llorens Serra

We investigate the persistent current in a hybrid Aharonov-Bohm ring - quantum dot system coupled to a reservoir which provides spin fluctuations. It is shown that the spin exchange interaction between the quantum dot and the reservoir…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Kicheon Kang , Sam Young Cho , Kyoung Wan Park