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We study screening properties of the two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit coupling. Calculating the dielectric function within the random phase approximation, we describe the new features of screening induced by spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Pletyukhov , V. Gritsev

The control of "flying" (or moving) spin qubits is an important functionality for the manipulation and exchange of quantum information between remote locations on a chip. Typically, gates based on electric or magnetic fields provide the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-12 Paul L. J. Helgers , James A. H. Stotz , Haruki Sanada , Yoji Kunihashi , Klaus Biermann , Paulo V. Santos

In a two dimensional electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit coupling, the external electric field may cause a spin Hall current in the direction perpendicular to the electric field. This effect was called the intrinsic spin Hall effect. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Xiaohua Ma , Liangbin Hu , Ruibao Tao , Shun-Qing Shen

Spin effects in a normal two-dimensional (2D) electron gas in lateral contact with a 2D region with spin-orbit interaction are studied. The peculiarity of this system is the presence of spin-dependent scattering of electrons from the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Aleksei A. Sukhanov , Vladimir A. Sablikov , Yurii Ya. Tkach

We study the edge states in a two dimensional electron gas with a transverse magnetic field and Rashba spin-orbit coupling. In the bulk, the interplay between the external field perpendicular to the gas plane and the spin-orbit coupling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Reynoso , Gonzalo Usaj , M. J. Sanchez , C. A. Balseiro

We derive the transport equations for two-dimensional electron systems with spin-orbit interaction and short-range spin-independent disorder. In the limit of slow spatial variations of the electron distribution we obtain coupled diffusion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. G. Mishchenko , A. V. Shytov , B. I. Halperin

The dynamics of magnetization coupled to an electron gas via s-d exchange interaction is investigated by using density matrix technique. Our theory shows that non-equilibrium spin accumulation induces a spin torque and the electron bath…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Yong Wang , Wei-qiang Chen , Fu-Chun Zhang

We simulate the electron transport in vertical bi-layer nanowire which can be fabricated in molecular beam epitaxy process with lateral confinement potential formed by means of cleaved overgrowth or surface oxidization methods giving…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 T. Chwiej

Inefficient screening of electric fields in nanoconductors makes electric manipulation of electronic transport in nanodevices possible. Accordingly, electrostatic (charge) gating is routinely used to affect and control the Coulomb…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-22 R. I. Shekhter , M. Jonson

We theoretically consider spin pumping in a junction between a ferromagnetic insulator (FI) and a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in which the Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interactions coexist. Using second-order perturbation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-10 M. Yama , M. Tatsuno , T. Kato , M. Matsuo

An exact solution is derived for the wave function of an electron in a semiconductor quantum wire with spin-orbit interaction and driven by external time dependent harmonic confining potential. The formalism allows analytical expressions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 T. Cadez , J. H. Jefferson , A. Ramsak

The subbands of weakly coupled double-layer two dimensional electron gas systems consist of narrowly spaced pairs whose corresponding wavefunctions are symmetric and antisymmetric combinations of isolated layer subband wavefunctions. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-28 L. Swierkowski , A. H. MacDonald

We consider the electronic transport through a Rashba quantum dot coupled to ferromagnetic leads. We show that the interference of localized electron states with resonant electron states leads to the appearance of the Fano-Rashba effect.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. A. Orellana , M. Amado , F. Dominguez-Adame

We investigate spin transport by thermally excited spin waves in an antiferromagnetic insulator. Starting from a stochastic Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert phenomenology, we obtain the out-of-equilibrium spin-wave properties. In linear response to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-05 Scott A. Bender , Hans Skarsvåg , Arne Brataas , Rembert A. Duine

A two dimensional hopping system with Rashba spin-orbit interaction is considered. Our main interest is concerned with the evolution of the spin degree of freedom of the electrons. We derive the rate equations governing the evolution of the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 T. Damker , H. Boettger , V. V. Bryksin

The theory of spin orientation of two-dimensional (2D) electron gas has been developed for intrasubband indirect optical transitions. The monopolar optical orientation of electrons in the conduction band is caused by the indirect scattering…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. A. Tarasenko , E. L. Ivchenko

We analyze equilibrium spin currents in a 2D electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit interaction (Rashba medium). In a uniform Rashba medium these currents are constant, and their ability to really transport spin is not evident. But even weak…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. B. Sonin

We present a methodology to address, from first principles, charge-spin interconversion in two-dimensional materials with spin-orbit coupling. Our study relies on an implementation of density functional theory based quantum transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-05 Maedeh Rassekh , Hernán Santos , Andrea Latge , Leonor Chico , Saber Farjami Shayesteh , Juan Jose Palacios

A possibility of controlled manipulation of electron spin states has been investigated for a cylindrical two-dimensional electron gas confined in a semiconductor nanotube/cylindrical nanowire with the Rashba spin-orbit interaction. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-03 P. Wójcik , J. Adamowski , M. Wołoszyn , B. J. Spisak

Spin currents can be obtained through adiabatic pumping by means of electrical gating only. This is possible by making use of the tunability of the Rashba spin-orbit coupling in semiconductor heterostructures. We demonstrate the principles…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Governale , F. Taddei , Rosario Fazio