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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 time-resolved Kerr rotation measurements of electron spin dynamics in a GaAs/AlGaAs heterojunction system that contains a high-mobility two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG). Due to the complex layer structure of this material the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 P. J. Rizo , A. Pugzlys , A. Slachter , S. Z. Denega , D. Reuter , A. D. Wieck , P. H. M. van Loosdrecht , C. H. van der Wal

We have studied the spin-orbit interaction in a high mobility two-dimensional electron gas in a GaInAs/InP heterostructure as a function of an applied gate voltage as well as a function of temperature. Highly sensitive magnetotransport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Vitaliy A. Guzenko , Thomas Schäpers , Hilde Hardtdegen

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

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

We investigate the spin dynamics and relaxation in remotely-doped two dimensional electron systems where the dopants lead to random fluctuations of the Rashba spin-orbit coupling. Due to the resulting random spin precession, the spin…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 E. Ya. Sherman , Jairo Sinova

Spin relaxation can be greatly enhanced in narrow channels of two-dimensional electron gas due to ballistic spin resonance, which is mediated by spin-orbit interaction for trajectories that bounce rapidly between channel walls. The channel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-30 W. W. Yu , S. M. Frolov , S. Luescher , J. A. Folk , W. Wegscheider

The z axis magnetization of a two dimensional electron gas with contact repulsive interaction and in presence of a Rashba potential is computed by means of quantum field theory at second order. A striking effect of the pure Rashba…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-21 Alberto Ambrosetti , Pier Luigi Silvestrelli , Flavio Toigo

It is shown that the interplay of long-range disorder and in-plane magnetic field gives rise to an out-of-plane spin polarization and a finite spin Hall conductivity of the two-dimensional electron gas in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Milletari' , R. Raimondi , P. Schwab

A theory of spin relaxation in graphene including intrinsic, Bychkov-Rashba, and ripple spin-orbit coupling is presented. We find from spin relaxation data by Tombros et al. [Nature 448, 571 (2007).] that intrinsic spin-orbit coupling…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-13 F. Simon , F. Muranyi , B. Dora

In this paper, we study a two-dimensional gas of electrons with Rashba spin-orbit coupling with anharmonic potential. The splitting of the Hamiltonian in two parts can be recovering the Jaynes-Cummings model, which describes a system with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 Rachid Houça , El Bouâzzaoui Choubabi , Abdellatif Kamal , Abdelhadi Belouad , Mohammed El Bouziani

Spin distribution in the diffraction pattern of two-dimensional electron gas by a split gate and a quantum point contact is computed in the presence of the spin-orbit coupling. After diffracted, the component of spin perpendicular to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Cheng-Ju Lin , Chyh-Hong Chern

We consider a two-dimensional system of harmonically trapped particles with pseudo-spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ degree of freedom. This degree of freedom is coupled to the particle's momentum via the so-called Rashba spin-orbit interaction. We…

The charge and spin response of a spin--polarized electron gas is investigated including terms beyond the random phase approximation. We evaluate the charge response, the longitudinal and transverse spin response, and the mixed spin--charge…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Kyung-Soo Yi , J. J. Quinn

We make detailed analysis of each possible spin-orbit coupling of zincblende narrow-gap cylindrical quantum dots built in two-dimensional electron gas. These couplings are related to both bulk (Dresselhaus) and structure (Rashba) inversion…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. F. Destefani , S. E. Ulloa , G. E. Marques

We investigate the spin-dependent transport properties of two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) systems formed in diluted magnetic semiconductors and in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit interaction in the framework of the scattering matrix…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Anh T. Ngo , J. M. Villas-Boas , Sergio E. Ulloa

The Bloch spinors, energy spectrum and spin density in energy bands are studied for the two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) with Rashba spin-orbit (SO) interaction subject to one-dimensional (1D) periodic electrostatic potential of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 V. Ya. Demikhovskii , D. V. Khomitsky

We report distinct nonanalytic signatures in the spin-orbit entanglement of a 2D electron gas with Rashba interactions at integer values of the filling factor and at certain level crossings. The accompanying sharp changes in the bulk…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-05-16 Rona F. Barbarona , Francis N. C. Paraan

We present a formalism for calculating the image potential for a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) with Rashba spin-orbit interaction (SOI) as well as for a 2D topological insulator (TI). The formalism is further generalized for including…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Godfrey Gumbs , Oleksiy Roslyak , Danhong Huang , Antonios Balassis

We study the spin-spin interaction between quantum dots coupled through a two dimensional electron gas with spin-orbit interaction. We show that the interplay between transverse electron focusing and spin-orbit coupling allows to…

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