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We investigate mesoscopic fluctuations in the spin polarization generated by a static electric field and by Rashba spin-orbit interaction in a disordered 2D electron gas. In a diagrammatic approach we find that the out-of-plane polarization…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-12-08 Mathias Duckheim , Daniel Loss

We explore electrically injected, spin polarized transport in a ballistic two-dimensional electron gas. We augment the Buettiker-Landauer picture with a simple, but realistic model for spin-selective contacts to describe multimode…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 H. X. Tang , F. G. Monzon , Ron Lifshitz , M. C. Cross , M. L. Roukes

We present a theoretical study of spin-dependent transport through a ferromagnetic domain wall. With an increase of the number of components of the exchange coupling, we have observed that the variance of the conductance becomes half. As…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 J. Ohe , M. Yamamoto , T. Ohtsuki , K. Slevin

Experimental studies of spin transport in a two-dimensional electron gas hosted by a triple GaAs/AlGaAs quantum well are reported. Using time-resolved Kerr rotation, we observed the precession of the spin polarization about a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 S. Ullah , G. J. Ferreira , G. M. Gusev , A. K. Bakarov , F. G. G. Hernandez

An influence of spin-orbit interaction on the tunneling between two 2D electron layers is considered. Particular attention is addressed to the relation between the contribution of Rashba and Dresselhaus types. It is shown that without…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 I. V. Rozhansky , N. S. Averkiev

We study the spin-dependent transport through a quantum dot coupled to two ferromagnetic electrodes using the equation of motion method for the nonequilibrium Green's functions. Our results show that the conductance and the density of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Huanwen Lai , Xuean Zhao , Zhu-An Xu , You-Quan Li

A nonequilibrium Green's functions approach to spin-Hall effect is developed in a diffusive two-dimensional electron system with Rashba spin-orbit interaction. In the presence of long-range impurities, the coupled quantum kinetic equations…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Y. Liu , X. L. Lei

Motivated by recent discovery of strongly spin-orbit coupled two-dimensional (2D) electron gas near the surface of Rashba semiconductors BiTeX (X=Cl, Br, I), we calculate thermoelectric responses of spin polarization in 2D Rashba model…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-19 Cong Xiao , Dingping Li , Zhongshui Ma

It is well known that a current driven through a two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit coupling induces a spin polarization in the perpendicular direction (Edelstein effect). This phenomenon has been extensively studied in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-30 Giovanni Vignale , I. V. Tokatly

The coupling of the spin of electrons to their motional state lies at the heart of recently discovered topological phases of matter. Here we create and detect spin-orbit coupling in an atomic Fermi gas, a highly controllable form of quantum…

We present the calculation of the density matrix response function of the two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit interaction, which is applicable in a wide range of parameters covering the diffusive and non-diffusive, the dirty…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Pletyukhov

We study spin dynamics in a two-dimensional electron gas with a pure gauge non-Abelian spin-orbit field, for which systems with balanced Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit couplings, and the (110)-axis grown GaAs quantum wells are typical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-20 I. V. Tokatly , E. Ya. Sherman

We report the direct observation of interband spin-orbit (SO) coupling in a two-dimensional (2D) surface electron system, in addition to the anticipated Rashba spin splitting. Using angle-resolved photoemission experiments and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Hendrik Bentmann , Samir Abdelouahed , Mattia Mulazzi , Juergen Henk , Friedrich Reinert

We examine spin-dependent displacement of a single electron, resulting in separation and relocation of the electron wavefunction components, and thus charge parts, corresponding to opposite spins. This separation is induced by a pulse of an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-26 J. Pawłowski , G. Skowron , M. Górski , S. Bednarek

We investigate theoretically the spin-polarized electron transport for a wide-narrow-wide (WNW) quantum wire under the modulation of Rashba spin-orbit interaction (SOI). The influence of both the structure of the quantum wire and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Xianbo Xiao , Xiaomao Li , Yuguang Chen

We theoretically propose a novel spin-dependent electronic transport mechanism in which the spin-unpolarized electron beam is split into different directions depending on spins at an atomic domain boundary in non-magnetic material.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Tetsuro Habe , Mikito Koshino

We present numerical calculations of the ballistic spin-transport properties of quasi-one-dimensional wires in the presence of the spin-orbit (Rashba) interaction. A tight-binding analog of the Rashba Hamiltonian which models the Rashba…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Francisco Mireles , George Kirczenow

Spatiotemporal spin dynamics under spin-orbit interaction is investigated in a (001) GaAs two-dimensional electron gas using magneto-optical Kerr rotation microscopy. Spin polarized electrons are diffused away from the excited position,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-20 Daisuke Iizasa , Asuka Aoki , Takahito Saito , Junsaku Nitta , Gian Salis , Makoto Kohda

Thermoelectric coefficients of a two dimensional electron gas with the Rashba spin-orbit interaction are presented here. In absence of magnetic field, thermoelectric coefficients are enhanced due to the Rashba spin-orbit interaction. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-02 S. K. Firoz Islam , Tarun Kanti Ghosh

We study the nonequilibrium spin transport through a quantum dot containing two spin levels coupled to the magnetic electrodes. A formula for the spin-dependent current is obtained and is applied to discuss the linear conductance and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ping Zhang , Qi-Kun Xue , Yu-Peng Wang , X. C. Xie