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This article presents an overview of results pertaining to electronic structure, transport properties, and interaction effects in ballistic quantum wires with Rashba spin splitting. Limits of weak and strong spin--orbit coupling are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Governale , U. Zuelicke

To realize a one-dimensional (1D) system with strong spin-orbit coupling is a big challenge in modern physics, since the electrons in such a system are predicted to exhibit exotic properties unexpected from the 2D or 3D counterparts, while…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-02-12 A. Takayama , T. Sato , S. Souma , T. Oguchi , T. Takahashi

Quantum interference effects in rings provide suitable means for controlling spin at mesoscopic scales. Here we apply such control mechanisms to coherent spin-dependent transport in one- and two-dimensional rings subject to Rashba…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Diego Frustaglia , Klaus Richter

In spintronic devices, the two main approaches to actively control the electrons' spin degree of freedom involve either static magnetic or electric fields. An alternative avenue relies on the application of optical fields to generate spin…

We study the pseudospin and spin dynamical effects in single-layer silicene due to a perpendicular electric field periodically driven and its interplay with the intrinsic and extrinsic (Rashba) spin-orbit interaction. We find that the spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-15 Alexander Lopez , Francisco Mireles , John Schliemann , Benjamin Santos

We theoretically demonstrate that a rotating electric-field component of circularly polarized microwave or terahertz light can induce electron-spin polarization within a few picoseconds in a two-dimensional electron system with the Rashba…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-09-21 Masahito Mochizuki , Keisuke Ihara , Jun-ichiro Ohe , Akihito Takeuchi

Static and dynamic properties of vortices in a two-component Bose-Einstein condensate with Rashba spin-orbit coupling are investigated. The mass current around a vortex core in the plane-wave phase is found to be deformed by the spin-orbit…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-04-12 Masaya Kato , Xiao-Fei Zhang , Hiroki Saito

The beating pattern of Shubnikov-de Haas oscillations in 2D electron system in the presence of a Rashba zero-field spin splitting is reproduced. It is shown, taking into account the Zeeman splitting, that the explicit formulae for the node…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. V. Cheremisin , A. S. Furman

We studied the dynamic effects of an electromagnetic(EM) wave with circular polarization on a two-level damped atom. The results demonstrate interesting ac Stark split of energy levels of damped atom. The split levels have different…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Z. Y. Zeng , G. J. Zeng , L. M. Kuang , L. D. Zhang

Disorder scattering and spin-orbit coupling are together responsible for the diffusion and relaxation of spin-density in time-reversal invariant systems. We study spin-relaxation and diffusion in a two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-24 Yasufumi Araki , Guru Khalsa , Allan H. MacDonald

In this study, we employ density functional theory (DFT) based first-principles calculations to investigate the spin-orbit effects in the electronic structure of a polar-nonpolar sandwich heterostructure namely…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-11 Sanchari Bhattacharya , Sanjoy Datta

We investigate, both numerically and analytically, the time evolution of a particle in an initial plane wave state as it is subject to elastic scattering in a two-dimensional disordered system with Rashba spin-orbit coupling (SOC). In the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-03-06 Masataka Kakoi , Keith Slevin

We study the effect of Rashba spin-orbit coupling (SOC) on the charge and spin degrees of freedom of a quasi-one-dimensional (quasi-1D) Wigner crystal. As electrons in a quasi-1D Wigner crystal can move in the transverse direction, SOC…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-20 Viktoriia Kornich , Christopher J. Pedder , Thomas L. Schmidt

We investigate theoretically the Rashba spin-orbit interaction in InAs/GaSb quantum wells(QWs). We find that the Rashba spin-splitting (RSS) depends sensitively on the thickness of the InAs layer. The RSS exhibits nonlinear behavior for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Li , Kai Chang , G. Q. Hai , K. S. Chan

We propose and formulate an interaction induced staggered spin-orbit order as a new emergent phase of two-dimensional Fermi gases. We show that when some form of inherent spin-splitting via Rashba-type spin-orbit coupling renders two…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-01-30 Tanmoy Das

To leading order in displacement size, the scattering of electrons in a Cu-O plane from O displacements perpendicular to that plane is due to spin-orbit coupling. This scattering is investigated with the following results: (1) As a…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-02-03 N. E. Bonesteel

By varying the orientation of the applied magnetic field with respect to the normal of a two-dimensional electron gas, the chemical potential and the specific heat reveal persistent spin splitting in all field ranges. The corresponding…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-24 Rayda Gammag , Cristine Villagonzalo

Spin-orbit interactions in two-dimensional electron liquids are responsible for many interesting transport phenomena in which particle currents are converted to spin polarizations and spin currents and viceversa. Prime examples are the spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 K. Shen , R. Raimondi , G. Vignale

We developed the theory of electronic properties of semiconductor quantum rings with the Rashba spin-orbit interaction irradiated by an off-resonant high-frequency electromagnetic field (dressing field). Within the Floquet theory of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-30 V. K. Kozin , I. V. Iorsh , O. V. Kibis , I. A. Shelykh

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