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The spin polarization (P) of high-density InSb two-dimensional electron systems (2DESs) has been measured using both parallel and tilted magnetic fields. P is found to exhibit a superlinear increase with the total field B. This P-B…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-08-18 K. F. Yang , H. W. Liu , T. D. Mishima , M. B. Santos , K. Nagase , Y. Hirayama

We use microscopic linear response theory to derive a set of equations that provide a complete description of coupled spin and charge diffusive transport in a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) with the Rashba spin-orbit (SO) interaction.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. A. Burkov , Alvaro S. Nunez , A. H. MacDonald

We propose a new scheme of spin filtering employing ballistic nanostructures in two dimensional electron gases (2DEGs). The proposal is essentially based on the spin-orbit (SO) interaction arising from the lateral confining electric field.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Bellucci , F. Carillo , P. Onorato

The Kubo formula is used to calculate the spin-Hall conductivity in a spin-polarized two-dimensional electron system with Rashba-type spin-orbit interaction. As in the case of the unpolarized electron system, spin Hall conductivity is…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 C. P. Moca , D. C. Marinescu

The influence of disorder and interaction on the ground state polarization of the two-dimensional (2D) correlated electron gas is studied by numerical investigations of unrestricted Hartree-Fock equations. The ferromagnetic ground state is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Nita , V. Dinu , A. Aldea , B. Tanatar

With a view to electrical spin manipulation and quantum computing applications, recent significant attention has been devoted to semiconductor hole systems, which have very strong spin-orbit interactions. However, experimentally measuring,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-08 Hong Liu , Elizabeth Marcellina , Alexander R. Hamilton , Dimitrie Culcer

Bilinear magnetoresistance has been studied theoretically in 2D systems with isotropic cubic form of Rashba spin-orbit interaction. We have derived the effective spin-orbital field due to current-induced spin polarization and discussed its…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-26 A. Krzyzewska , A. Dyrdal

We present a theoretical study of diluted magnetic semiconductors that treats the local sp-d exchange interaction J between the itinerant carriers and the Mn d electrons within a realistic band structure and goes beyond previous mean-field…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Byounghak Lee , Xavier Cartoixa , Nandini Trivedi , Richard M. Martin

We study the tunneling of conduction electrons through a (110)-oriented single-barrier heterostructure grown from III-V semiconductor compounds. It is shown that, due to low spatial symmetry of such a barrier, the tunneling current through…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 P. S. Alekseev , M. M. Glazov , S. A. Tarasenko

We present the analytical result of the expectation value of spin resulting from an injected spin polarized electron into a semi-infinitely extended 2DEG plane with [001] growth geometry via ideal quantum point contact. Both the Rashba and…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Ming-Hao Liu , Ching-Ray Chang , Son-Hsien Chen

We analyze new spin effects in current-carrying state of superconductor-2D electron gas-superconductor (S-2DEG-S) device with spin-polarized nuclei in 2DEG region. The hyperfine interaction of 2D electrons with nuclear spins, described by…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-02-11 E. V. Bezuglyi , A. S. Rozhavsky , I. D. Vagner , P. Wyder

We present semiclassical and quantum mechanical results for the effects of a strong magnetic field in Quantum Wires in the presence of Rashba Spin Orbit coupling. Analytical and numerical results show how the perturbation acts in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 S. Bellucci , P. Onorato

Associated with spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and inversion symmetry breaking, Rashba spin polarization opens a new avenue for spintronic applications that was previously limited to ordinary magnets. However, spin polarization effects in actual…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-10-12 Qihang Liu , Xiuwen Zhang , J. A. Waugh , D. S. Dessau , Alex Zunger

We investigate systematically how the interplay between Rashba spin-orbit interaction and Zeeman coupling affects the electron transport and the spin dynamics in InGaAs-based 2D electron gases. From the quantitative analysis of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 F. E. Meijer , A. F. Morpurgo , T. M. Klapwijk , T. Koga , J. Nitta

We study the spin-dependent conductance of ballistic mesoscopic ring systems in the presence of an inhomogeneous magnetic field. We show that, for the setup proposed, even a small Zeeman splitting can lead to a considerable spin…

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

We investigate the spin accumulation effect in eccentric semiconductor multichannel rings with Rashba spin-orbit interaction and threaded by a magnetic flux. Due to the finite eccentricity, the spin polarization induced at the borders of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 L. E. Segura , M. J. Sánchez

We study the linear response spin Hall conductivity of a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in the presence of the Rashba spin orbit interaction in the diffusive transport regime. When defect scattering is modeled by isotropic short-range…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jun-ichiro Inoue , Gerrit E. W. Bauer , Laurens W. Molenkamp

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…

In situ control of spin-orbit coupling in coherent transport using a clean GaAs/AlGaAs 2DEG is realized, leading to a gate-tunable crossover from weak localization to antilocalization. The necessary theory of 2D magnetotransport in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. B. Miller , D. M. Zumbuhl , C. M. Marcus , Y. B. Lyanda-Geller , D. Goldhaber-Gordon , K. Campman , A. C. Gossard

The transport property of a lateral two-dimensional diluted magnetic semiconductor electron gas under a spatially periodic magnetic field is investigated theoretically. We find that the electron Fermi velocity along the modulation direction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. Yang , Kai Chang , X. G. Wu , H. Z. Zheng