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Spin distribution in the diffraction pattern of two-dimensional electron gas by a split gate and a quantum point contact is computed in the presence of the spin-orbit coupling. After diffracted, the component of spin perpendicular to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Cheng-Ju Lin , Chyh-Hong Chern

The scattering of conduction electrons off neutral donors depends sensitively on the relative orientation of their spin states. We present a theory of spin-dependent scattering in the two dimensional electron gas (2DEG) of field effect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-25 Rogerio de Sousa , Cheuk Chi Lo , Jeffrey Bokor

Spin effects in a normal two-dimensional (2D) electron gas in lateral contact with a 2D region with spin-orbit interaction are studied. The peculiarity of this system is the presence of spin-dependent scattering of electrons from the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Aleksei A. Sukhanov , Vladimir A. Sablikov , Yurii Ya. Tkach

Scattering of electrons from chiral spin textures such as the skyrmions is an emerging research area due to its richness in topological quantum transport, which is significant for spintronic devices. We study the dynamical process of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Hareram Swain , Arijit Mandal , S. Satpathy , B. R. K. Nanda

We develop the theory of the spin and valley Hall effects in two-dimensional systems caused by asymmetric -- skew -- scattering of the quasiparticles. The collision integral is derived in the third order in the particle-particle interaction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-14 M. M. Glazov , L. E. Golub

We investigate the extrinsic spin Hall effect in the electron gas model due to magnetic impurities, by focusing on Ce- and Yb-impurities. In the dilute limit, the skew scattering term dominates the side jump term. For Ce-impurities, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 T. Tanaka , H. Kontani

We characterize the role of the spin-orbit coupling between electrons and the confining potential of the edge in nonequilibrium 2D homogeneous electronic gas. We derive a simple analytical result for the magnitude of the current induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-03-18 Peter Bokes , Frantisek Horvath

Scattering by multiple scatterers sometimes gives rise to nontrivial consequences such as anomalous Hall effect. We here study a mechanism for anomalous Hall effect which originates from the correlation of nonmagnetic impurities and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-27 Hiroaki Ishizuka , Naoto Nagaosa

We have studied experimentally and theoretically the influence of electron-electron collisions on the propagation of electron beams in a two-dimensional electron gas for excess injection energies ranging from zero up to the Fermi energy. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 H. Predel , H. Buhmann , L. W. Molenkamp , R. N. Gurzhi , A. N. Kalinenko , A. I. Kopeliovich , A. V. Yanovsky

It is known that the presence of the Fermi sea modifies the scattering of an electron from a point-like impurity. This is due to the Friedel oscillations of the electron density around the impurity. These oscillations create an additional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-30 Nathan L. Foulk , M. E. Raikh

We provide a theoretical framework for the electric field control of the electron spin in systems with diffusive electron motion. The approach is valid in the experimentally important case where both intrinsic and extrinsic spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-10 R. Raimondi , P. Schwab

We derive the ratio of transport and single particle relaxation times in three and two - dimensional electron gases due to scattering from charged dislocations in semiconductors. The results are compared to the respective relaxation times…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 D. Jena , U. K. Mishra

An arbitrarily small concentration of impurities can affect the spin Hall conductivity in a two-dimensional semiconductor system. We develop a Boltzmann-like equation that can be used for impurity scattering with arbitrary angular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. V. Shytov , E. G. Mishchenko , H. -A. Engel , B. I. Halperin

The energy relaxation in the spin-polarized disordered electron systems is studied in the diffusive regime. We derived the quantum kinetic equation in which the kernel of electron-electron collision integral explicitly depends on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-04-05 N. M. Chtchelkatchev , I. S. Burmistrov

This is a short review of the physics of single-spin asymmetries caused by two-photon exchange in elastic scattering of electrons by nucleons and nuclei.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-10-17 Andrei Afanasev

We consider a one-dimensional (1D) wire along which single conduction electrons can propagate in the presence of two spin-1/2 magnetic impurities. The electron may be scattered by each impurity via a contact-exchange interaction and thus a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. Ciccarello , G. M. Palma , M. Zarcone , Y. Omar , V. R. Vieira

We study potential scattering in a two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit coupling in the limit that the energy of the scattering electron approaches the bottom of the lower spin-split band. Focusing on two spin-independent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 Joel Hutchinson , Joseph Maciejko

We propose and study theoretically a new mechanism of electron-impurity scattering in doped seminconductors with large dielectric constant. It is based upon the idea of \textit{vector} character of deformations caused in the crystalline…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-26 Khachatur G. Nazaryan , Mikhail Feigel'man

Electrons with spin-orbit coupling moving in mesoscopic structures can often exhibit local spin polarization. In this paper, we study the influence of the Rashba coupling on the scattering of two-dimensional electrons from a circular disk.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jr-Yu Yeh , Chung-Yu Mou , Ming-Che Chang

We demonstrate that electrostatic interactions between helical electrons at the edge of a quantum spin Hall insulator and a dynamical impurity can induce quasi-elastic backscattering. Modelling the impurity as a two-level system, we show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-07 Max McGinley , Nigel R. Cooper