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We study the spin dynamics of carriers due to the Rashba interaction in semiconductor quantum disks and wells after excitation with light with orbital angular momentum. We find that although twisted light transfers orbital angular momentum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-30 M. Cygorek , P. I. Tamborenea , V. M. Axt

A lateral interface connecting two regions with different strengths of the Bychkov-Rashba spin-orbit interaction can be used as a spin polarizer of electrons in two dimensional semiconductor heterostructures. [Khodas \emph{et al.}, Phys.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-16 A. Shekhter , M. Khodas , A. M. Finkel'stein

One-body mechanisms of spin splitting of the energy spectrum of 2D electrons in a one-side doped (001) GaAs/Al$_x$Ga$_{1-x}$As quantum well have been studied theoretically and experimentally. The interfacial spin splitting has been shown to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-10 Zh. A. Devizorova , A. V. Shchepetilnikov , Yu. A. Nefyodov , V. A. Volkov , I. V. Kukushkin

We develop a general scheme of deriving boundary conditions for spin-charge coupled transport in disordered systems with spin-orbit interactions. To illustrate the application of the method, we explicitly derive boundary conditions for spin…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Victor Galitski , A. A. Burkov , S. Das Sarma

We theoretically investigate spin transport in a junction system composed of a ferromagnetic insulator (FI) and a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) with both Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interactions. We briefly present our findings…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-12 Masaki Yama , Mamoru Matsuo , Takeo Kato

Spin drag measurements were performed in a two-dimensional electron system set close to the crossed spin helix regime and coupled by strong intersubband scattering. In a sample with uncommon combination of long spin lifetime and high charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-05 M. Luengo-Kovac , F. C. D. Moraes , G. J. Ferreira , A. S. L. Ribeiro , G. M. Gusev , A. K. Bakarov , V. Sih , F. G. G. Hernandez

We consider the possibility to extract spins that are generated by an electric current in a two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba-Dresselhaus spin-orbit interaction (R2DEG) in the Hall geometry. To this end, we discuss boundary…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-11-28 I. Adagideli , M. Scheid , M. Wimmer , G. E. W. Bauer , K. Richter

We present a microscopic calculation of the Gilbert damping constant for the magnetization of a two-dimensional spin-polarized electron liquid in the presence of intrinsic spin-orbit interaction. First we show that the Gilbert constant can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 E. M. Hankiewicz , G. Vignale , Y. Tserkovnyak

We show that the dissipationless spin current in the ground state of the Rashba model gives rise to a reactive coupling between the spin and charge propagation, which is formally identical to the coupling between the electric and the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 B. Andrei Bernevig , Xiaowei Yu , Shou-Cheng Zhang

The Rashba and Dresselhaus types of spin-orbit coupling are two typical linear coupling forms. We establish the fundamental physics of a model which can be viewed as the double version of the Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling. This…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-15 Hu Zhang , Lulu Zhao , Chendong Jin , Ruqian Lian , Peng-Lai Gong , RuiNing Wang , JiangLong Wang , Xing-Qiang Shi

Persistent, oscillatory charge and spin currents are shown to be driven by a two-component terahertz laser pulse in a one-dimensional mesoscopic ring with Rashba-Dresselhaus spin orbit interactions (SOI) linear in the electron momentum. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Marian Nita , Bogdan Ostahie , D. C. Marinescu , Andrei Manolescu , Vidar Gudmundsson

We study the role of spin-orbit interactions in the coupled magnetoelectric dynamics of a ferromagnetic film coated with an electrical conductor. While the main thrust of this work is phenomenological, several popular simple models are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Yaroslav Tserkovnyak , Scott A. Bender

We report on spatially resolved measurements of the spin-orbit effective magnetic field in a GaAs/InGaAs quantum-well. Biased gate electrodes lead to an electric-field distribution in which the quantum-well electrons move according to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. Meier , G. Salis , E. Gini , I. Shorubalko , K. Ensslin

The existence of global weak solutions to a coupled spin drift-diffusion and Maxwell-Landau-Lifshitz system is proved. The equations are considered in a two-dimensional magnetic layer structure and are supplemented with Dirichlet-Neumann…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-08-12 Nicola Zamponi , Ansgar Jüngel

We theoretically describe the spin excitation spectrum of a two dimensional electron gas embedded in a quantum well with localized magnetic impurities. Compared to the previous work, we introduce equations that allow to consider the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Florent Perez , Joel Cibert , Masha Vladimirova , Denis Scalbert

We studied the electric current induced in a two-dimensional electron gas by the spin current, in the presence of Rashba and cubic Dresselhaus spin-orbit interactions. We found out that the factor relating these currents is not universal,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 L. Y. Wang , A. G. Mal'shukov , C. S. Chu

We consider Rashba spin-orbit effects on spin transport driven by an electric field in semiconductor quantum wells. We derive spin diffusion equations that are valid when the mean free path and the Rashba spin-orbit interaction vary on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Arne Brataas , A. G. Mal'shukov , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

Spin-rotation coupling, which is responsible for angular momentum conversion between the electron spin and rotational deformations of elastic media, is exploited for generating spin current. This method requires neither magnetic moments nor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Mamoru Matsuo , Jun'ichi Ieda , Kazuya Harii , Eiji Saitoh , Sadamichi Maekawa

We investigate the spin-polarized transport properties of a two-dimensional electron gas in a n-type diluted magnetic narrow gap semiconductor quantum well subjected to a perpendicular magnetic and electric field. Interesting beating…

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

We derive the spin-wave dynamics of a magnetic material from the time-dependent spin density functional theory in the linear response regime. The equation of motion for the magnetization includes, besides the static spin stiffness, a "Berry…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 Zhixin Qian , Giovanni Vignale