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We solve a two-body problem for electrons in a one-dimensional system to show that two-electron bound states can arise as a result of the image-potential-induced spin-orbit interaction (iSOI). The iSOI contributes an attractive component to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-02-12 Yasha Gindikin , Vladimir A. Sablikov

In this paper, current-induced spin polarization for two-dimensional electron gas with a general spin-orbit interaction is investigated. For isotropic energy spectrum, the in-plane current-induced spin polarization is found to be dependent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 C. M. Wang , H. T. Cui , Q. Lin

We investigate the dynamics of spin-nonequilibrium electron systems for the case when normal electron collisions prevail over the other scattering processes and the "hydrodynamic flow" regime is realized. The hydrodynamic equations for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-09-12 R. N. Gurzhi , A. N. Kalinenko , A. I. Kopeliovich , P. V. Pyshkin , A. V. Yanovsky

We consider a two-dimensional structure with spin-orbit-related splitting of the electron (hole) spectrum and calculate the edge spin density which appears due to the intrinsic mechanism of spin-orbit interaction in the presence of a charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Alexander Khaetskii

We consider the macroscopic dynamics of systems with charge and spin currents, using the methods of Onsager's irreversible thermodynamics. Applied to systems with spin-orbit interaction (SOI), we derive Onsager relations showing that, if…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-12 Wayne M. Saslow , Chen Sun

We study theoretically the current-induced spin polarization effect in a two-terminal mesoscopic structure which is composed of a semiconductor two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) bar with Rashba spin-orbit (SO) interaction and two attached…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 Yongjin Jiang

Based on the fundamental interplay between spatial wavefronts and polarization degrees of freedom, spin-orbit interactions (SOI) of light constitute a novel tool for optical control at the nanoscale. While well described in simple…

Optics · Physics 2022-05-25 Federico Carlini , Nicolas Cherroret

We study ballistic transport of spin-polarized electrons through quantum wires in which the strength of the Rashba spin-orbit interaction (SOI) is spatially modulated. Subband mixing, due to SOI, between the two lowest subbands is taken…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 X. F. Wang

In the presence of spin-orbit interactions, the steady state established for spin distributions in an electric field is qualitatively different from the steady state for charge distributions. This is primarily because the steady state…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Dimitrie Culcer , Roland Winkler

Spin-orbit interaction (SOI) leads to spin precession about a momentum-dependent spin-orbit field. In a diffusive two-dimensional (2D) electron gas, the spin orientation at a given spatial position depends on which trajectory the electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-18 P. Altmann , M. Kohda , C. Reichl , W. Wegscheider , G. Salis

We show that in a two dimensional electron gas (2DEG) the interplay between the Rashba spin-orbit coupling and a potential barrier (eg., the sample edge) generates interesting spin effects. In the presence of an external charge current, a…

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

The electron mediated exchange interaction between local spins adsorbed on two-dimensional surface is studied under non-equilibrium conditions. The effective spin-spin interaction is found to depend both on the spin-polarization of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-11-29 J. Fransson

We have studied the distribution of equilibrium edge current density in 2D system in a strong (quantizing) magnetic field. The case of half plane in normal magnetic field has been considered. The transition from classical strong magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 M. V. Entin , L. I. Magarill , M. M. Mahmoodian

An electron propagating through a solid carries spin angular momentum in addition to its mass and charge. Of late there has been considerable interest in developing electronic devices based on the transport of spin, which offer potential…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. P. Weber , N. Gedik , J. E. Moore , J. Orenstein , Jason Stephens , D. D. Awschalom

We theoretically study spin and charge currents through finite-size two-dimensional $s$-wave superconductor/uniform ferromagnet/s-wave superconductor (SFS) junctions with intrinsic spin-orbit interactions (ISOIs) using a quasiclassical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-21 Mohammad Alidoust , Klaus Halterman

This article reviews steady-state spin densities and spin currents in materials with strong spin-orbit interactions. These phenomena are intimately related to spin precession due to spin-orbit coupling which has no equivalent in the steady…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Dimitrie Culcer

We demonstrate that edge currents develop in active chiral matter -- composed of spinning disk-shaped grains with chirally arranged tilted legs confined in a circular vibrating chamber -- due to boundary shielding over a wide range of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-08-09 Alexander P. Petroff , Christopher Whittington , Arshad Kudrolli

We investigate the dynamics of spin-nonequilibrium electron systems in the hydrodynamic flow regime, when the normal scattering processes, which conserve the total quasi-momentum of the system of electrons and quasi-particles that interact…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-17 R. N. Gurzhi , A. N. Kalinenko , A. I. Kopeliovich , P. V. Pyshkin , S. B. Rutkevich , A. V. Yanovsky , A. N. Yashin

We studied the edge states and transverse electron focusing in the presence of spin-orbit interaction in a two dimensional electron gas. Assuming strong spin-orbit coupling we derived semiclassical quantization conditions to describe the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Andor Kormanyos

We introduce the concept of bond spin current, which describes the spin transport between two sites of the lattice model of a multiterminal spin-orbit (SO) coupled semiconductor nanostructure, and express it in terms of the spin-dependent…

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