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By calculating the density response function we identify the excitation spectrum of a Bose-Einstein condensate with equal Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling. We find that the velocity of sound along the direction of spin-orbit…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-03-29 Giovanni I. Martone , Yun Li , Lev P. Pitaevskii , Sandro Stringari

We study the relaxation of a spin density injected into a two-dimensional electron system with generic spin-orbit interactions. Our model includes the Rashba as well as linear and cubic Dresselhaus terms. We explicitly derive a general…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-05-29 Tudor D. Stanescu , Victor Galitski

We have studied the relevance of spin-orbit coupling to the dispersion 00009 relation of the Larmor resonance observed in inelastic light scattering and electron-spin resonance experiments on GaAs quantum wells. We show that the spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-16 Francesc Malet , Enrico Lipparini , Manuel Barranco , Martí Pi

We develop the complete theory for the collective plasmon modes of an interacting electron system in the presence of explicit mass (or velocity) anisotropy in the corresponding non-interacting situation, with the effective Fermi velocity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-27 Seongjin Ahn , S. Das Sarma

Collective charge-density modes (plasmons) of the clean two-dimensional unpolarized electron gas are stable, for momentum conservation prevents them from decaying into single-particle excitations. Collective spin-density modes (spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-13 Amit Agarwal , Marco Polini , Giovanni Vignale , Michael E. Flatte

We investigate effects of spin-orbit splitting on electronic transport in a spin valve consisting of a large quantum dot defined on a two-dimensional electron gas with two ferromagnetic contacts. In the presence of both structure inversion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Saarikoski , W. Wetzels , G. E. W. Bauer

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 propose an experiment, which would allow to pinpoint the role of spin-orbit coupling in the metal-nonmetal transition observed in a number of two-dimensional systems at low densities. Namely, we demonstrate that in a parallel magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Guang-Hong Chen , M. E. Raikh , Yong-Shi Wu

We theoretically study the impacts of linear spin-orbit coupling (SOC) on the Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida interaction between magnetic impurities in two kinds of three-dimensional noncentrosymmetric systems. It has been found that linear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-15 Shi-Xiong Wang , Hao-Ran Chang , Jianhui Zhou

We show that the conductivity tensor of a disordered two-dimensional electron gas becomes anisotropic in the presence of both Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interactions (SOI). This anisotropy is a mesoscopic effect and vanishes with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-03-31 Oleg Chalaev , Daniel Loss

We obtain the spin-orbit interaction and spin-charge coupled transport equations of a two-dimensional heavy hole gas under the influence of strain and anisotropy. We show that a simple two-band Hamiltonian can be used to describe the holes.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Vincent E. Sacksteder , B. Andrei Bernevig

An attractive feature of magnetic adatoms and molecules for nanoscale applications is their superparamagnetism, the preferred alignment of their spin along an easy axis preventing undesired spin reversal. The underlying magnetic anisotropy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-22 Maciej Misiorny , Michael Hell , Maarten R. Wegewijs

Recently, one can observe a renewed interest in coupling of spin waves (magnons) and collective charge oscillations (plasmons), especially in two-dimensional systems. Several mechanisms of the magnon-plasmon hybridization in ferromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-29 Wojciech Rudziński , Mirali Jafari , Józef Barnaś , Anna Dyrdał

We investigate the inherent influence of light polarization on the intensity distribution in anisotropic media undergoing a local inhomogeneous rotation of the principal axes. Whereas in general such configuration implies a complicated…

Optics · Physics 2017-03-07 Alessandro Alberucci , Chandroth Pannian Jisha

We study the dynamical dielectric function of a two-dimensional hole gas, exemplified on [001]-GaAs and InAs quantum wells, within the Luttinger model extended to the two lowest subbands including bulk and structure inversion asymmetric…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-03-06 Andreas Scholz , Tobias Dollinger , Paul Wenk , Klaus Richter , John Schliemann

The effect of spin-orbit coupling on the electronic structure of the layered iron-free pnictide superconductor, SrPtAs, has been studied using the full potential linearized augmented plane wave method. The anisotropy in Fermi velocity,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-02-09 S. J. Youn , S. H. Rhim , D. F. Agterberg , M. Weinert , A. J. Freeman

The charge density relaxation propagator of a two dimensional electron system, which is the slope of the imaginary part of the polarization function, exhibits singularities for bosonic momenta having the order of the spin-orbit momentum and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-13 S. M. Badalyan , A. Matos-Abiague , J. Fabian , G. Vignale , F. M. Peeters

We study optical conductivity of a two-dimensional electron gas with anisotropic $k$-cubic Rashba spin-orbit interaction formed at the LaAlO$_3$/SrTiO$_3$ interface. The anisotropic spin splitting energy gives rise to different features of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-01 Alestin Mawrie , Tarun Kanti Ghosh

Using an exact diagonalization approach we show that one- and two-electron InAs quantum dots exhibit avoided crossing in the energy spectra that are induced by the spin-orbit coupling in the presence of an in-plane external magnetic field.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-01 M. P. Nowak , B. Szafran , F. M. Peeters , B. Partoens , W. Pasek

Effects associated with the interference of electron waves around a magnetic point defect in two-dimensional electron gas with combined Rashba-Dresselhaus spin-orbit interaction in the presence of a parallel magnetic field are theoretically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-17 I. V. Kozlov , Yu. A. Kolesnichenko