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We present a formalism to study quantum networks made up by single-channel quantum wires in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit coupling and magnetic field. In particular, linear transport through one-dimensional and two-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dario Bercioux , Michele Governale , Vittorio Cataudella , Vincenzo Marigliano Ramaglia

We generalize magnetoelectronic circuit theory to account for spin transfer to and from the atomic lattice via interfacial spin-orbit coupling. This enables a proper treatment of spin transport at interfaces between a ferromagnet and a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-21 V. P. Amin , M. D. Stiles

We theoretically demonstrate that a rotating electric-field component of circularly polarized microwave or terahertz light can induce electron-spin polarization within a few picoseconds in a two-dimensional electron system with the Rashba…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-09-21 Masahito Mochizuki , Keisuke Ihara , Jun-ichiro Ohe , Akihito Takeuchi

In this work, we show that a gate electric field, applied in the base of the field-effect devices, leads to inducing spin-orbit interactions (Rashba and linear Dresselhauss) and confines the transport electrons in a two-dimensional electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-03 J. L. Cardoso , H. Hernández-Saldaña

Electron transport properties in a parallel double-quantum-dot structure with three-terminals are theoretically studied. By introducing a local Rashba spin-orbit coupling, we find that an incident electron from one terminal can select a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Weijiang Gong , Yisong Zheng

We map electron spin dynamics from time to space in quantum wires with spatially uniform and oscillating Rashba spin-orbit coupling. The presence of the spin-orbit interaction introduces pseudo-Zeeman couplings of the electron spins to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-23 Vanita Srinivasa , Jeremy Levy

We demonstrate that a p-n junction created electrically in HgTe quantum wells with inverted band-structure exhibits interesting intraband and interband tunneling processes. We find a perfect intraband transmission for electrons injected…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 L. B. Zhang , Kai Chang , X. C. Xie , H. Buhmann , L. W. Molenkamp

We investigate theoretically electrical spin injection at a Schottky contact between a spin-polarized electrode and a non-magnetic semiconductor. Current and electron density spin-polarizations are discussed as functions of barrier energy…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 J. D. Albrecht , D. L. Smith

Circulating orbital currents produced by the spin-orbit interaction for a single electron spin in a quantum dot are explicitly evaluated at zero magnetic field, along with their effect on the total magnetic moment (spin and orbital) of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-24 J. van Bree , A. Yu. Silov , P. M. Koenraad , M. E. Flatté

We investigate theoretically the combined effects of the electron-electron and the Rashba spin-orbit interactions on two electrons confined in quasi-one-dimensional AlInSb-based double quantum dots. We calculate the two-electron wave…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 C. L. Romano , P. I. Tamborenea , S. E. Ulloa

We have shown that electron spin density can be generated by a dc current flowing across a $pn$ junction with an embedded asymmetric quantum well. Spin polarization is created in the quantum well by radiative electron-hole recombination…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. G. Mal'shukov , K. A. Chao

We investigate intersubband mixing effects in multichannel quantum wires in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit coupling and attached to two terminals. When the contacts are ferromagnetic and their magnetization direction is perpendicular to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-29 M. M. Gelabert , Llorens Serra , David Sanchez , Rosa Lopez

We report the effect of the insertion of an InP/In$_{0.53}$Ga$_{47}$As Interface on Rashba spin-orbit interaction in In$_{0.52}$Al$_{0.48}$As/In$_{0.53}$Ga$_{0.47}$As quantum wells. A small spin split-off energy in InP produces a very…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Y. Lin , T. Koga , J. Nitta

Joint influence of two effects, namely, nonequilibrium spin injection by current, and current induced surface torque, on spin-valve type ferromagnetic metallic junctions is considered theoretically. The CPP configuration is assumed. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 R. J. Elliott , E. M. Epshtein , Yu. V. Gulyaev , P. E. Zilberman

We study the spin transport theoretically in heterostructures consisting of a ferromagnetic metallic thin film sandwiched between heavy-metal and oxide layers. The spin current in the heavy metal layer is generated via the spin Hall effect,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-30 L. Chotorlishvili , Z. Toklikishvili , X. -G. Wang , V. K. Dugaev , J. Barnas , J. Berakdar

We study the spin polarization of tunneling holes injected from ferromagnetic GaMnAs into a p-doped semiconductor through a tunneling barrier. We obtain an upper limit to the spin injection rate. We find that spin-orbit interaction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 L. Brey , J. Fernandez-Rossier , C. Tejedor

Electron spin precession in nonuniform Rashba-Dresselhaus two-dimensional electron systems along arbitrary continuous paths is investigated. We derive an analytical formula to describe the spin vectors (expectation values of the injected…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ming-Hao Liu , Ching-Ray Chang

High degree of electron spin polarization is of crucial importance in operation of spintronic devices. We study the propagation of spin-polarized electrons through a boundary between two n-type semiconductor regions with different doping…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-22 Yuriy V. Pershin , Vladimir Privman

Spin-magnetophonon level splitting in a quantum well made of a semimagnetic wide gap semiconductor is considered. The semimagnetic semiconductors are characterized by a large effective $g$ factor. The resonance conditions $\hbar\omega_{\rm…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 V. L. Gurevich , M. I. Muradov

Electronic Raman scattering in the fully symmetric channel couples to the charge excitations in the system, including the plasmons. However, the plasmon response has a spectral weight of $\sim q^2$, where $q$, the momentum transferred by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-15 Surajit Sarkar , Alexander Lee , Girsh Blumberg , Saurabh Maiti