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We investigate the ballistic electron transport in a two dimensional Quantum Wire under the action of an electric field ($E_y$). We demonstrate how the presence of a Spin Orbit coupling, due to the uniform electric confinement field gives a…

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

We find that the total spectrum of electron states in a bounded 2D electron gas with spin-orbit interaction contains two types of evanescent states lying in different energy ranges. The first-type states fill in a gap, which opens in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-01-03 Vladimir A. Sablikov , Yurii Ya. Tkach

In quasi two-dimensional (2D) hole systems with an effective spin j=3/2, heavy hole-light hole splitting results in a quantization of angular momentum perpendicular to the 2D plane. The spin polarization of quasi 2D hole systems due to an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Winkler

Spin Hall effects are a collection of phenomena, resulting from spin-orbit coupling, in which an electrical current flowing through a sample can lead to spin transport in a perpendicular direction and spin accumulation at lateral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-09-18 Hans-Andreas Engel , Emmanuel I. Rashba , Bertrand I. Halperin

Direct and inverse spin Hall effects lie at the heart of novel applications that utilize spins of electrons as information carriers, allowing generation of spin currents and detecting them via the electric voltage. In the standard…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-01-03 Arunesh Roy , Marcos H. D. Guimarães , Jagoda Sławińska

In this paper, current-induced spin polarization for two-dimensional electron gas with a general spin-orbit interaction is investigated. For isotropic energy spectrum, the in-plane current-induced spin polarization is found to be dependent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 C. M. Wang , H. T. Cui , Q. Lin

We derive boundary conditions for the electrically induced spin accumulation in a finite, disordered 2D semiconductor channel. While for DC electric fields these boundary conditions select spatially constant spin profiles equivalent to a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Mathias Duckheim , Dmitrii L. Maslov , Daniel Loss

We predict theoretically that, when a normal metallic thin film (without bulk spin-orbit coupling, such as Cu or Al) is sandwiched by two insulators, two prominent effects arise due to the interfacial spin-orbit coupling: a giant spin-Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-22 Xuhui Wang , Jiang Xiao , Aurelien Manchon , Sadamichi Maekawa

Enhancement of the electron spin polarization in a correlated two-layer two-dimensional electron system at a total Landau level filling factor of one is reported. Using resistively detected nuclear magnetic resonance, we demonstrate that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-04-30 L. Tiemann , W. Wegscheider , M. Hauser

Using the four-terminal Landauer-B\"{u}ttiker formula and Green's function approach, we calculate numerically the spin-Hall conductance in a two-dimensional junction system with the Rashba spin-orbit (SO) coupling and disorder. We find that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 L. Sheng , D. N. Sheng , C. S. Ting

The magnetic field of complete spin polarization is calculated in a disorderless single-valley strongly-interacting 2D electron system. In the metallic region above the Wigner-Mott transition, non-equilibrium spin states are predicted,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-09-10 V. T. Dolgopolov , A. A. Shashkin

It is shown that a flux of unpolarized electrons across a symmetric double barrier quantum well induces a spin polarization inside the well. Besides, the transmitted current acquires a spin polarized component and the spin-Hall current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. G. Mal'shukov , C. S. Chu

We study spin conductance in a ballistic and quasi-ballistic two dimensional electron system with Rasbha spin-orbit coupling. The system has a four-terminal geometry with round corners at the connection to the leads. It is found that by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-08 Gunnar Thorgilsson , Sigurdur I. Erlingsson

We study the spin polarization and its associated spin-Hall current due to EDSR in disordered two-dimensional electron systems. We show that the disorder induced damping of the resonant spin polarization can be strongly reduced by an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 Mathias Duckheim , Daniel Loss

We demonstrate that flow of longitudinal unpolarized current through a ballistic two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit coupling will induce nonequilibrium spin accumulation which has opposite sign for the two lateral edges and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Branislav K. Nikolic , Satofumi Souma , Liviu P. Zarbo , Jairo Sinova

We study a two-dimensional electron system in the presence of spin-orbit interaction. It is shown analytically that the spin-orbit interaction acts as a transversal effective electric field, whose orientation depends on the sign of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Manuel Valin-Rodriguez

We show that the spin-orbit interaction induced by the boundary confining potential causes opposite spin accumulations on the transverse edges in a zonal two-dimensional electron gas in the presence of external longitudinal electric field.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Yanxia Xing , Qing-feng Sun , Liang Tang , JiangPing Hu

We study spin-resolved probability distributions for electrons in a multichannel waveguide in the presence of a spin-orbit interaction. For a spin-polarized electron injection, a zitterbewegung pattern is predicted in the probability…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Brusheim , H. Q. Xu

A useful experimental signature of the ordinary spin Hall effect is the spin accumulation it produces at the sample edges. The superspin Hall current [Phys. Rev. B 96, 094512 (2017)] is a transverse equilibrium spin current which is induced…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-05-15 Vetle Risinggård , Jacob Linder

We study the edge spin current and spin polarization in a two-dimensional electron gas with spin-orbit coupling in the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field. The edge effect removes the degeneracy of Landau levels due to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yun-Juan Bao , Huai-Bing Zhuang , Shun-Qing Shen , Fu-Chun Zhang