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Spin splittings in III-V materials and heterostructures are of interest because of potential applications, mainly in spintronic devices. A necessary condition for the existence of these spin splittings is the absence of inversion symmetry.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Miguel A Oliveira , Angus MacKinnon

The Rashba spin-orbit coupling arising from structure inversion asymmetry couples spin and momentum degrees of freedom providing a suitable (and very intensively investigated) environment for spintronic effects and devices. Here we show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 Goetz Seibold , Sergio Caprara , Marco Grilli , Roberto Raimondi

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

A theory of spin manipulation of quasi-two-dimensional (2D) electrons by a time-dependent gate voltage applied to a quantum well is developed. The Dresselhaus and Rashba spin-orbit coupling mechanisms are shown to be rather efficient for…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 E. I. Rashba , Al. L. Efros

We derive a closed-form expression for the weak localization (WL) corrections to the magnetoconductivity of a 2D electron system with arbitrary Rashba $\alpha$ and Dresselhaus $\beta$ (linear) and $\beta_3$ (cubic) spin-orbit interaction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-24 D. C. Marinescu , Pirmin J. Weigele , J. Carlos Egues , Dominik Zumbühl

Semiconductor-superconductor heterostructures represent a promising platform for the detection of Majorana zero modes and subsequently the processing of quantum information using their exotic non-Abelian statistics. Theoretical modeling of…

In this work, we present the analytical solution of the effective mass Pauli equation, with Rashba and linear Dresselhaus interactions, for an electron gas moving through a semiconductor quantum dot under a longitudinal electric field,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-28 J. L. Cardoso

We study the influence of spin-orbit coupling on the hole states in InAs/GaAs quantum dots grown on [001]- and [111]-oriented substrates belonging to symmetry point groups: C2v, C3v and D2d. We investigate the impact of various spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-13 Krzysztof Gawarecki , Mateusz Krzykowski

We present calculations of the frequency-dependent spin susceptibility tensor of a two-dimensional electron gas with competing Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interaction. It is shown that the interplay between both types of spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Catalina López-Bastidas , Jesús A. Maytorena , Francisco Mireles

Intrinsic and extrinsic spin Hall effects are considered together on an equal theoretical footing for the Rashba spin-orbit coupling in two-dimensional (2D) electron and hole systems, using the diagrammatic method for calculating the spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Wang-Kong Tse , S. Das Sarma

Strong interest has arisen recently on low-dimensional systems with strong spin-orbit interaction due to their peculiar properties of interest for some spintronic applications. Here, the time evolution of the electron spin polarization of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 C. Grimaldi

We study the spin polarization of mixed and entangled electron states in a four probe/beam splitter geometry with local Rashba and Dresselhaus interactions. A pair of maximally entangled electrons collides with the beam splitter and enters…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-12-04 Luis A. González-Árraga , Bertrand Berche , Ernesto Medina

We consider determination of spin-orbit (SO) coupling constants for the two-dimensional electron gas from measurements of electric properties in rotated in-plane magnetic field. %Due to the interplay Due to the SO coupling the electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-05 K. Kolasiński , H. Sellier , B. Szafran

The spin-orbit interaction generally leads to spin splitting (SS) of electron and hole energy states in solids, a splitting that is characterized by a scaling with the wavevector $\bf k$. Whereas for {\it 3D bulk zincblende} solids the…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-11-18 Jun-Wei Luo , Athanasios N. Chantis , Mark van Schilfgaarde , Gabriel Bester , Alex Zunger

Spin-charge interconversion is currently the focus of intensive experimental and theoretical research both for its intrinsic interest and for its potential exploitation in the realization of new spintronic functionalities. Spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-04 Amin Maleki , Roberto Raimondi

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

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 introduce a theoretical approach to determine the spin structure of harmonically trapped atoms with two-body zero-range interactions subject to an equal mixture of Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling created through Raman coupling…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-09-30 Q. Guan , D. Blume

Charge and spin density distributions are studied within a nano-ring structure endowed with Rashba and Dresselhaus spin orbit coupling (SOI). For a small number of interacting electrons, in the presence of an external magnetic field, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Csaba Daday , Andrei Manolescu , D. C. Marinescu , Vidar Gudmundsson

We present an $sp^3$ tight-binding model for the calculation of the electronic and optical properties of wurtzite semiconductor quantum dots (QDs). The tight-binding model takes into account strain, piezoelectricity, spin-orbit coupling and…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Schulz , S. Schumacher , G. Czycholl