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An exact solution is derived for the wave function of an electron in a semiconductor quantum wire with spin-orbit interaction and driven by external time dependent harmonic confining potential. The formalism allows analytical expressions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 T. Cadez , J. H. Jefferson , A. Ramsak

In a quantum ring connected with two external leads the spin properties of an incoming electron are modified by the spin-orbit interaction resulting in a transformation of the qubit state carried by the spin. The ring acts as a one qubit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Peter Foldi , Balazs Molnar , Mihaly G. Benedict , F. M. Peeters

Effect of the spin-involved interaction of electrons with impurity atoms or defects to the transport properties of a two-dimensional electron gas is described by using a simplifying two-component model. Components representing spin-up and…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Seba , P. Exner , K. N. Pichugin , P. Streda

We study the spin-dependent transport properties of a spin valve based on a double quantum dot. Each quantum dot is assumed to be strongly coupled to its own ferromagnetic lead, while the coupling between the dots is relatively weak. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-21 Patrycja Tulewicz , Kacper Wrzesniewski , Szabolcs Csonka , Ireneusz Weymann

We study the transport mechanisms taking place in a quantum spin Hall bar with an embedded quantum dot, where electrons localize and experience Coulomb interaction U as well as spin-flip processes {\lambda}. We solve the problem with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-11 Bruno Rizzo , Alberto Camjayi , Liliana Arrachea

Electronic transport through a quantum wire sandwiched between two metallic electrodes and coupled to a quantum ring, threaded by a magnetic flux $\phi$, is studied. An analytic approach for the electron transport through the bridge system…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Santanu K. Maiti

We investigate electron transport through a mono-atomic wire which is tunnel coupled to two electrodes and also to the underlying substrate. The setup is modeled by a tight-binding Hamiltonian and can be realized with a scanning tunnel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-25 Tomasz Kwapinski , Sigmund Kohler , Peter Hanggi

The electronic transport in a system of two quantum rings side-coupled to a quantum wire is studied via a single-band tunneling tight-binding Hamiltonian. We derived analytical expressions for the conductance and spin polarization when the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-03-31 V. M. Apel , P. A. Orellana , M. Pacheco

We investigate the electronic transport in a quantum wire with localized Rashba interaction. The Rashba field forms quasi-bound states which couple to the continuum states with an opposite spin direction. The presence of this Rashba dot…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Rosa Lopez , David Sanchez , Llorens Serra

A device enabling mechanically-controlled spin and electric transport in mesoscopic structures is proposed. It is based on the transfer of electrons through weak links formed by suspended nanowires, on which the charge carriers experience a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-09 R. I. Shekhter , O. Entin-Wohlman , A. Aharony

We demonstrate that the combined effect of a spatially periodic potential, lateral confinement and spin-orbit interaction gives rise to a quantum ratchet mechanism for spin-polarized currents in two-dimensional coherent conductors. Upon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-11-07 Matthias Scheid , Andreas Pfund , Dario Bercioux , Klaus Richter

The manner in which spin-polarized electrons interact with a magnetized thin film is currently described by a semi-classical approach. This in turn provides our present understanding of the spin transfer, or spin torque phenomenon. However,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-04-17 Wonkee Kim , L. Covaci , F. Dogan , F. Marsiglio

We studied the spin-dependent quantum transport properties using a simple modelling of a Datta-Das spin transistor. We refine previous results by accounting the propagation medium changes of opacity felt by itinerant electrons, when the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-10 R. Cuan , J. J. González , L. Diago-Cisneros

We examine electronic transport in a spin-blockaded double quantum dot. We show that by tuning the strength of the spin-orbit interaction the current flowing through the double dot exhibits a dip at zero magnetic field or a peak at a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 G. Giavaras , Neill Lambert , Franco Nori

Spin dynamics of optically excited electrons confined in asymmetric coupled quantum wells are investigated through time resolved Faraday rotation experiments. The inter-well coupling is shown to depend on applied electric field and barrier…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Poggio , G. M. Steeves , R. C. Myers , N. P. Stern , A. C. Gossard , D. D. Awschalom

In 1984, Bychkov and Rashba introduced a simple form of spin-orbit coupling to explain certain peculiarities in the electron spin resonance of two-dimensional semiconductors. Over the past thirty years, similar ideas have been leading to a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-02 A. Manchon , H. C. Koo , J. Nitta , S. M. Frolov , R. A. Duine

A reconfigurable logic gate is proposed in a two-dimensional double quantum wire system with a coupling window enabled by a Rashba field. Manipulating the spin states of incoming electrons several quantum logic gates (OR, AND, XOR, CNOT)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-26 George Alexandru Nemnes , Daniela Dragoman

The length over which electron spins reverse direction due to the Rashba effect when injected with an initial polarization along the axes of a quantum wire is investigated theoretically. A soft wall confinement of the wire renormalizes the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Wolfgang Häusler

We study the spin polarization induced by a current flow in clean two dimensional electron gases with Rashba spin-orbit coupling. This geometric effect originates from special properties of the electron's scattering at the edges of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Reynoso , Gonzalo Usaj , C. A. Balseiro

We study transport properties of a two-dimensional electron system with Rashba spin-orbit coupling in a perpendicular magnetic field. The spin orbit coupling competes with Zeeman splitting to introduce additional degeneracies between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Shun-Qing Shen , Michael Ma , X. C. Xie , Fu Chun Zhang