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The conventional unpolarized current injected into a {\em quantum-coherent} semiconductor ring attached to two external leads can be modulated from perfect conductor to perfect insulator limit via Rashba spin-orbit (SO) coupling. This…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Satofumi Souma , Branislav K. Nikolic

We consider the full driven quantum dynamics of a qubit realized as spin of electron in a one-dimensional double quantum dot with spin-orbit coupling. The driving perturbation is taken in the form of a single half-period pulse of electric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-28 D. V. Khomitsky , E. Ya. Sherman

Using a tight-biding model, we elaborate that the previously discovered out-of-plane polarized helical edge spin current caused by Rashba spin-orbit coupling can be attributed to the fact that in a strip geometry, a positive momentum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-10 Wei Chen , Manfred Sigrist

Advances in fabrication and control of quantum dots allow the realization of metastructures that may exhibit novel electrical transport phenomena. Here, we investigate the electrical current passing through one such metastructure, a system…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-26 Chen-Yen Lai , Massimiliano Di Ventra , Michael Scheibner , Chih-Chun Chien

Theory of electronic transport through a triangular triple quantum dot subject to a perpendicular magnetic field is developed using a tight binding model. We show that magnetic field allows to engineer degeneracies in the triple quantum dot…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-03-11 F. Delgado , P. Hawrylak

We study spin-polarized transient transport in a quantum dot coupled to two ferromagnetic leads subjected to a rectangular bias voltage pulse. Time-dependent spin-resolved currents, occupations, spin accumulation, and tunneling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 F. M. Souza , S. A. Leao , R. M. Gester , A. P. Jauho

In this paper, I present a simple method of obtaining spin-polarised current from a QPC with a large Rashba interaction. The origin of this spin polarisation is the adiabatic evolution of spin "up" of the first QPC sub-band, into spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-29 Samuel Bladwell

We examine electron transport through semiconductor quantum dot subject to a continuous circularly polarized optical irradiation resonant to the electron - heavy hole transition. Electrons having certain spin polarization experience Rabi…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Yu. Smirnov , L. G. Mourokh

An unpolarized charge current passing through a chaotic quantum dot with spin-orbit coupling can produce a spin polarized exit current without magnetic fields or ferromagnets. We use random matrix theory to estimate the typical spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jacob J. Krich , Bertrand I. Halperin

We study the interplay of both Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit couplings (SOCs) and a uniform perpendicular magnetic field $\textbf{B}$ on the transport of a spin-polarized electron along a curved quantum wire. Eigenenergies and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-27 Carlos Baldo , Cristine Villagonzalo

We propose purely electric manipulation of spin qubits by means of the spin-orbit interaction (SOI) {\it without magnetic field or magnets} in a double-quantum dot. All the unitary transformations can be constructed by the time-dependent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-08 Atsuo Shitade , Motohiko Ezawa , Naoto Nagaosa

Spin polarized transport through a quantum dot coupled to ferromagnetic electrodes with noncollinear magnetizations is discussed in terms of nonequilibrium Green functions formalism in the finite-U slave boson mean field approximation. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-10 D. Krychowski , S. Lipiński

The quantum transmission problem for a particle moving in a quantum point contact in the presence of a Rashba spin-orbit interaction and applied magnetic field is solved semiclassically. A strong Rashba interaction and parallel magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-19 Tommy Li

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 derive a formalism describing quantum-coherent features of spin-polarized charge current through a partially-polarized spin triplet defect in a $\textit{transverse}$ magnetic field. We predict distinct few-milli-tesla-dc…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-03 Stephen R. McMillan , Michael E. Flatté

Pumping of charge current by spin dynamics in the presence of the Rashba spin-orbit interaction is theoretically studied. Considering disordered electron, the exchange coupling and spin-orbit interactions are treated perturbatively. It is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jun-ichiro Ohe , Akihito Takeuchi , Gen Tatara

We explore spin and charge transport phenomena in two dimensional electron gas in presence of Rashba spin-orbit coupling connected to two ideal Ferromagnetic leads. In particular we show through a combination of analytical and numerical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. P. Pareek

We examine transport through a quantum dot coupled to three ferromagnetic leads in the regime of weak tunnel coupling. A finite source-drain voltage generates a nonequilibrium spin on the otherwise non-magnetic quantum dot. This spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-09-28 Daniel Urban , Matthias Braun , Jürgen König

We present both theory and numerical-computation results for the transmission and reflection probability currents of a charged particle across a potential step in the presence of a Rashba spin-orbit interaction. By varying kinetic energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-22 Po-Hsin Shih , Godfrey Gumbs , Danhong Huang , Andrii Iurov , Yonatan Abranyos

We study effects of a gate-controlled Rashba spin-orbit coupling to quantum spin-Hall edge states in HgTe quantum wells. A uniform Rashba coupling can be employed in tuning the spin orientation of the edge states while preserving the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-21 Jukka I. Väyrynen , Teemu Ojanen