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The quantum oscillatory magnetization M of a two-dimensional electron system in a magnetic field B is found to provide quantitative information on both the Rashba- and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interaction (SOI). This is shown by first…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-26 Marc A. Wilde , Dirk Grundler

We consider a spin-orbit coupled system of particles in an external trap that is represented by a deformed harmonic oscillator potential. The spin-orbit interaction is a Rashba interaction that does not commute with the trapping potential…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-06-25 O. V. Marchukov , A. G. Volosniev , D. V. Fedorov , A. S. Jensen , N. T. Zinner

We consider a one-dimensional gas of cold atoms with strong contact interactions and construct an effective spin-chain Hamiltonian for a two-component system. The resulting Heisenberg spin model can be engineered by manipulating the shape…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-02-24 A. G. Volosniev , D. Petrosyan , M. Valiente , D. V. Fedorov , A. S. Jensen , N. T. Zinner

We explore spin and charge transport phenomena in two dimensional electron gas in presence of Rashba spin-orbit coupling connected to two ideal Ferromagnetic leads. In particular we show through a combination of analytical and numerical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. P. Pareek

The spin-orbit splitting of the electron levels in a two-dimensional quantum dot in a perpendicular magnetic field is studied. It is shown that at the point of an accidental degeneracy of the two lowest levels above the ground state the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Denis V. Bulaev , Daniel Loss

Using an ensemble of atoms in an optical cavity, we engineer a family of nonlocal Heisenberg Hamiltonians with continuously tunable anisotropy of the spin-spin couplings. We thus gain access to a rich phase diagram, including a…

We calculate the linear and the second harmonic (SH) spin current response of two anisotropic systems with spin orbit (SO) interaction. The first system is a two-dimensional (2D) electron gas in the presence of Rashba and k-linear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-19 D. Muñoz-Santana , Jesús A. Maytorena

The electron Hamiltonian of narrow semiconductor rings with the Rashba and Dresselhaus spin orbit terms is invariant under time-reversal operation followed by a large gauge transformation. We find that all the eigenstates are doubly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. -R. Eric Yang

In this paper we attempt to reconstruct one of the last projects of Volodya Geyler which remained unfinished. We study motion of a quantum particle in the plane to which a halfline lead is attached assuming that the particle has spin…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-12-10 Pavel Exner , Petr Šeba

The spin-orbit interaction of 2D electrons in the quantum wells grown from the III-V semiconductors consists of the two parts with different symmetry: the Bychkov-Rashba and the Dresselhaus terms. The last term is usually attributed to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-07 P. S. Alekseev , M. O. Nestoklon

We use the method of invariants to derive one- and two-band effective Hamiltonians of a noncentrosymmetric two-dimensional electron gas, in the presence of magnetic field. A complete classification of the antisymmetric spin-orbit and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-24 K. V. Samokhin

We study the frequency dependent spin- and charge- conductivity tensors of a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) with Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interaction. We show that the angular anisotropy of the spin-splitting energy induced by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Jesús A. Maytorena , Catalina López-Bastidas , Francisco Mireles

We build and probe a $\mathbb{Z}_2$ spin liquid in a programmable quantum device, the D-Wave DW-2000Q. Specifically, we observe the classical 8-vertex and 6-vertex (spin ice) states and transitions between them. To realize this state of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-08-25 Shiyu Zhou , Dmitry Green , Edward D. Dahl , Claudio Chamon

Interacting one-dimensional conductors with Rashba spin-orbit coupling are shown to exhibit a spin-selective Peierls-type transition into a mixed spin-charge-density-wave state. The transition leads to a gap for one-half of the conducting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-08-03 Bernd Braunecker , George I. Japaridze , Jelena Klinovaja , Daniel Loss

Using canonical transformations we diagonalize approximately the Hamiltonian of a gaussian wire with Rashba spin-orbit interaction. This proceedure allows us to obtain the energy dispersion relations and the wavefunctions with good…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. I. Erlingsson , J. C. Egues , D. Loss

A collective spin model is used to describe two species of mutually interacting ultracold bosonic atoms confined to a toroidal trap. The system is modeled by a Hamiltonian that can be split into two components, a linear part and a quadratic…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-06-05 Allison Brattley , Tomáš Opatrný , Kunal K. Das

We investigate the persistent spin currents in one- and two-dimensional electron systems with spin-orbit interaction in thermodynamics equilibrium at absolute zero temperature. The persistent spin current is the intrinsic one which is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-03-18 Xiang Zhou , Cheng-Zheng Hu , Zhenyu Zhang , Ling Miao , Xia Wang

We address the electromagnetic properties of two-dimensional electron gas confined by a dielectric environment in the presence of both Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interactions. It is demonstrated that off-diagonal components of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-04 Dmitry Yudin , Dmitry R. Gulevich , Ivan A. Shelykh

We investigate the possibility of spin-preserving symmetries due to the interplay of Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling in n-doped zinc-blende semiconductor quantum wells of general crystal orientation. It is shown that a conserved…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-02 Michael Kammermeier , Paul Wenk , John Schliemann

Recently, we have found an additional spin-orbit (SO) interaction in quantum wells with two subbands [Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 076603 (2007)]. This new SO term is non-zero even in symmetric geometries, as it arises from the intersubband…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-10-20 Rafael S. Calsaverini , Esmerindo Bernardes , J. Carlos Egues , Daniel Loss