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Based on Keldysh non-equilibrium Green function method, we have investigated spin current production in a hybrid T-shaped device, consisting of a central quantum dot connected to the leads and a side dot which only couples to the central…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-14 I. L. Fernandes , G. G. Cabrera

We investigate numerically the spin polarization of the current in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit interaction in a T-shaped conductor proposed by A.A. Kiselev and K.W. Kim (Appl. Phys. Lett. {\bf 78} 775 (2001)). The recursive Green…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Yamamoto , T. Ohtsuki , B. Kramer

We study nonequilibrium generation of spin-dependent transport through a single-level quantum dot embedded in a ring with the Rashba spin-orbit coupling. We consider nonmagnetic systems, involving no magnetic field nor ferromagnetic leads.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-23 Nobuhiko Taniguchi , Kenta Isozaki

We demonstrate that the flow of a longitudinal spin current with different spin polarization will induce different patterns of charge accumulation in a two-terminal strip, or electric current distribution in a four-terminal Hall-bar…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jian Li , Shun-Qing Shen

We briefly review the phenomenon of the spin-double refraction that originates at an interface separating a two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit coupling from a one without. We demonstrate how this phenomenon in semiconductor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Bercioux , V. Marigliano Ramaglia

We experimentally investigate electron transport through the interface between a permalloy ferromagnet and the edge of a two-dimensional electron system with strong Rashba-type spin-orbit coupling. We observe strongly non-linear transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-04 A. Kononov , S. V. Egorov , G. Biasiol , L. Sorba , E. V. Deviatov

We analyze the effect of Rashba spin-orbit coupling and of a local tunnel barrier on the persistent spin and charge currents in a one-dimensional conducting Aharonov-Bohm (AB) ring symmetrically coupled to two leads. First, as an important…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. Citro , F. Romeo

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

We propose a device acting as a spin valve which is based on a double quantum dot structure with parallel topology. Using the exact analytical solution for the noninteracting case we argue that, at a certain constellation of system…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-03-18 J. P. Dahlhaus , S. Maier , A. Komnik

A scheme for a spin polarization direction switch is investigated by studying the spin-dependent electron transport of an asymmetrical quantum wire (QW) with Rashba spin-orbit coupling (SOC). It is found that the magnitude of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Zhonghui Xu , Xianbo Xiao , Yuguang Chen

We consider fluctuation relations between the transport coefficients of a spintronic system where magnetic interactions play a crucial role. We investigate a prototypical spintronic device (a spin-diode) which consists of an interacting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-25 Jong Soo Lim , Rosa Lopez , David Sanchez

We study the performance of a quantum wire spin filter that is based on the Rashba spin-orbit interaction in the presence of the electron-electron interaction. The finite length wire is attached to two semi-infinite nonmagnetic leads.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 J. E. Birkholz , V. Meden

We calculate spin Hall conductivities in the two dimensional electron systems with Rashba spin-orbit interaction. The salient feature is that, apart from the usual spin-Hall conductivity \sigma^z_{xy} which corresponds to the induction of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ankur Sensharma , Sudhansu S. Mandal

We propose a new type of the spin Seebeck effect (SSE) emerging from the Rashba spin-orbit coupling in asymmetric four-terminal electron systems. This system generates spin currents or spin voltages along the longitudinal direction parallel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-11 Jun Zhou , Biao Wang , Mengjie Li , Tsuneyoshi Nakayama , Baowen Li

Current-voltage characteristics of a spintromechanical device, in which spin-polarized electrons tunnel between magnetic leads with anti-parallel magnetization through a single level movable quantum dot, are calculated. New exchange- and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 Olya A. Ilinskaya , Danko Radic , Hee Chul Park , Ilya V. Krive , Robert I. Shekhter , Mats Jonson

We study spin dependent electron transmission through one- and two-dimensional curved waveguides and quantum dots with account of spin-orbit interaction. We prove that for a transmission through arbitrary structure there is no spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Evgeny N. Bulgakov , Almas. F. Sadreev

Spin currents can be obtained through adiabatic pumping by means of electrical gating only. This is possible by making use of the tunability of the Rashba spin-orbit coupling in semiconductor heterostructures. We demonstrate the principles…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Governale , F. Taddei , Rosario Fazio

We study spin-dependent transport through a spin diode in the presence of spin-flip by means of reduced density matrix approach. The current polarization and the spin accumulation are computed and influence of spin-flip on the current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-13 M. Bagheri Tagani , H. Rahimpour Soleimani

A spin current has novel linear and second-order nonlinear optical effects due to its symmetry properties. With the symmetry analysis and the eight-band microscopic calculation we have systematically investigated the interaction between a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-26 Jing Wang , Sheng-Nan Ji , Bang-Fen Zhu , Ren-Bao Liu

Monoaxial chiral magnets exhibit a chiral conical magnetic state in a magnetic field parallel to the chiral axis. The conical spins carry the potential for nonreciprocal transport phenomena, as they break both spatial inversion and time…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-07-24 Shun Okumura , Hiroaki Ishizuka , Yasuyuki Kato , Jun-ichiro Ohe , Yukitoshi Motome