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Spin relaxation under identical Dresselhaus and Rashba coupling strengths in GaAs quantum wells is studied in both the traditional collinear statistics, where the energy spectra do not contain the spin-orbit coupling terms, and the helix…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 J. L. Cheng , M. W. Wu

We have developed a method to systematically compute the form of Rashba- and Dresselhaus-like contributions to the spin Hamiltonian of heterostructures to an arbitrary order in the wavevector k. This is achieved by using the double group…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 X. Cartoixa , L. -W. Wang , D. Z. -Y. Ting , Y. -C. Chang

We study the phase diagram of the interacting two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) with equal Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling, which for weak coupling gives rise to the well-known persistent spin-helix phase. We construct the full…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-19 Hong Liu , Weizhe Edward Liu , Stefano Chesi , Robert Joynt , Dimitrie Culcer

We derive a spin diffusion equation for a spin-orbit coupled two-dimensional electron gas including the Hartree-Fock field resulting from 1st order electron-electron interactions. We find that the lifetime of the persistent spin helix,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-27 Matthias C. Lüffe , Jeroen Danon , Tamara S. Nunner

The intrinsic spin-Hall effect in hexagon-shaped samples is investigated. To take into account the spin-orbit couplings and to fit the hexagon edges, we derive the triangular version of the tight-binding model for the linear Rashba [Sov.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-08-16 Son-Hsien Chen , Ming-Hao Liu , Ching-Ray Chang

We investigate the properties of persistent charge current driven by magnetic flux in a quasi-periodic mesoscopic Fibonacci ring with Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interactions. Within a tight-binding framework we work out individual…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-11 Moumita Patra , Santanu K. Maiti

We study harmonically trapped one-dimensional atoms subjected to an equal combination of Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling induced by Raman transition. We first examine the wave function and the degeneracy of the single-particle…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-09-27 Chuanzhou Zhu , Lin Dong , Han Pu

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

The spin Hall and longitudinal conductivity of a 2D heavy-hole gas with {\it k}-cubic Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interaction is studied in the ac frequency domain. Using Kubo linear-response theory and a recently proposed definition…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Arturo Wong , Francisco Mireles

We present a technique to map an electronic model with local interactions (a generalized multi-orbital Hubbard model) onto an effective model of interacting classical spins, by requiring that the thermodynamic potentials associated to spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-27 Andrea Secchi , Alexander I. Lichtenstein , Mikhail I. Katsnelson

We propose a simple method to detect the relative strength of Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-obit interactions in quantum wells (QWs) without relying on the directional-dependent physical quantities. This method utilize the asymmetry of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Jun Li , Kai Chang

We briefly review recent progress on ultracold atomic Fermi gases with different types of synthetic spin-orbit coupling, including the one-dimensional (1D) equal weight Rashba-Dresselhaus and two-dimensional (2D) Rasbha spin-orbit…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-08-23 Jing Zhang , Hui Hu , Xia-Ji Liu , Han Pu

Inclusion of spin-dependent interactions in graphene in the vicinity of the Dirac points can be posed in terms of non-Abelian gauge potentials. Such gauge potentials being surrogates of physical electric fields and material parameters, only…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-04 Bertrand Berche , Nelson Bolí var , Alexander López , Ernesto Medina

We discuss by analytic means the theory of the high-density limit of the unpolarized two-dimensional electron liquid in the presence of Rashba or Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling. A generalization of the ring-diagram expansion is performed.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Stefano Chesi , Gabriele F. Giuliani

Recently, it has been shown that the spin-orbit coupling (SOC) of the Dresselhaus type in $[110]$ quantum wells can be mathematically removed by a non-Abelian gauge transformation. In the presence of an additional uniform magnetic field,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Qin Liu , Tianxing Ma , Shou-Cheng Zhang

This paper contains the details of Phys. Rev. Lett. 73, 2919 (1994) and, to a lesser extent, Phys. Rev. Lett. 72, 3710 (1994). We treat a Hubbard model which includes all the 3d states of the Cu ions and the 2p states of the O ions. We also…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 T. Yildirim , A. B. Harris , Amnon Aharony , O. Entin-Wohlman

In a two-dimensional electron gas as realized by a semiconductor quantum well, the presence of spin-orbit coupling of both the Rashba and Dresselhaus type leads to anisotropic dispersion relations and Fermi contours. We study the effect of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 John Schliemann , Daniel Loss

The Hamiltonian describing 2D electron gas, in a spin-orbit active medium, can be cast into a consistent non-Abelian gauge field theory leading to a proper definition of the spin current. The generally advocated gauge symmetric version of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-09-25 Bertrand Berche , Ernesto Medina , Alexander López

Spin drag measurements were performed in a two-dimensional electron system set close to the crossed spin helix regime and coupled by strong intersubband scattering. In a sample with uncommon combination of long spin lifetime and high charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-05 M. Luengo-Kovac , F. C. D. Moraes , G. J. Ferreira , A. S. L. Ribeiro , G. M. Gusev , A. K. Bakarov , V. Sih , F. G. G. Hernandez

Spin properties of single electron states in laterally coupled quantum dots in the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field are studied by exact numerical diagonalization. Dresselhaus (linear and cubic) and Bychkov-Rashba spin-orbit…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter Stano , Jaroslav Fabian