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The concept of ferroelectricity is now often extended to include continuous inversion symmetry-breaking transitions in various metals and doped semiconductors. Paraelectric metals near ferroelectric quantum criticality, which we term…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-07-09 Kyoung-Min Kim , Suk Bum Chung

Ballistic spin transport is studied through electronic tuners with double stubs attached to them. The spins precess due to the spin-orbit interaction. Injected polarized spins can exit the structure polarized in the opposite direction. A…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 X. F. Wang , P. Vasilopoulos , F. M. Peeters

The electronic structure of two vertically coupled quantum dots containing two electrons is investigated in the presence of interdot tunneling. Our approach also includes the interdot exchange and we find that the tunneling is affected by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Partoens , A. Matulis , F. M. Peeters

Prospect of building spintronic devices in which electron spins store and transport information has attracted strong attention in recent years. Here we present some of our representative theoretical results on three fundamental aspects of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Das Sarma , Jaroslav Fabian , Xuedong Hu , Igor Zutic

The coherent quantum dynamics of an electron in the quantum-dot ring structure under the resonant electromagnetic pulse is studied theoretically. A possibility of the selective electron transfer between any two dots is demonstrated. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. V. Tsukanov , L. A. Openov

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

In order to model the phase-coherent scattering of electrons in two-dimensional electron gases in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit coupling, a general partial-wave expansion is developed for scattering from a cylindrically symmetric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Jamie D. Walls , Jian Huang , Robert M. Westervelt , Eric J. Heller

We develop a theory of electron transport through quantum dots that are weakly coupled to ferromagnetic leads. The theory covers both the linear and nonlinear transport regime, takes non-collinear magnetization of the leads into account,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Matthias Braun , Jürgen König , Jan Martinek

We calculate the current-voltage characteristic of a one-dimensional band insulator with magnetic field and Rashba spin-orbit coupling which is connected to nonmagnetic leads. Without spin-orbit coupling we find a complete spin-filtering…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-02 Thibaut Jonckheere , George Japaridze , Thierry Martin , Roland Hayn

We consider theoretically a magnetic impurity spin driven by polarized electrons tunneling through a double quantum dot system. Spin blockade effect and spin conservation in the system make the magnetic impurity sufficiently interact with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-04 Wenxi Lai , Wen Yang

Spin-polarized transport through a double quantum dot system attached to a common superconducting lead and two ferromagnetic electrodes (fork geometry) is investigated theoretically. The key objective of the analysis is to describe the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-16 Piotr Trocha , Józef Barnaś

We study the effect of the Rashba spin-orbit coupling on the Fermi arcs of topological Dirac semimetals. The Rashba coupling is induced by breaking the inversion symmetry at the surface. Remarkably, this coupling could be enhanced by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-12 Yuriko Baba , Francisco Domínguez-Adame , Gloria Platero , Rafael A. Molina

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 influence of the Rashba spin-orbit coupling on the electron spin dynamics is investigated for a ballistic semiconductor quantum wire with a finite width. We monitor the spin evolution using the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Manuel Valin-Rodriguez , Antonio Puente , Llorens Serra

We present numerical calculations of the ballistic spin-transport properties of quasi-one-dimensional wires in the presence of the spin-orbit (Rashba) interaction. A tight-binding analog of the Rashba Hamiltonian which models the Rashba…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Francisco Mireles , George Kirczenow

Spin transport property of polarization induced two-dimensional electron gas channel formed in the central vertical plane of a wedge-shaped \textit{c}-oriented GaN nanowall is investigated theoretically. Since the confining potential…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-21 Swarup Deb , Subhabrata Dhar

Single electron tunneling is studied in a many electron quantum dot in high magnetic fields. For such a system multiple transitions of the spin configuration are theoretically predicted. With a combination of spin blockade and Kondo effect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. C. Rogge , C. Fuhner , R. J. Haug

We present a theory of spin, electronic and transport properties of a few-electron lateral triangular triple quantum dot molecule in a magnetic field. Our theory is based on a generalization of a Hubbard model and the Linear Combination of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-03-11 F. Delgado , Y. -P. Shim , M. Korkusinski , P. Hawrylak

We consider theoretically transport in a spinfull one-channel interacting quantum wire placed in an external magnetic field. For the case of two point-like impurities embedded in the wire, under a small voltage bias the spin-polarized…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-02-17 Zoran Ristivojevic , George I. Japaridze , Thomas Nattermann

Fast long-range interactions between distant quantum dots in arrays remains an unsolved issue, which can be key to solve scalability issues in quantum simulation and computation processes, particularly related to the overhead associated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Mikel Olano , Geza Giedke