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Larmor's theorem holds for magnetic systems that are invariant under spin rotation. In the presence of spin-orbit coupling this invariance is lost and Larmor's theorem is broken: for systems of interacting electrons, this gives rise to a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-12 Shahrzad Karimi , Florent Baboux , Florent Perez , Carsten A. Ullrich , Grzegorz Karczewski , Tomasz Wojtowicz

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 spin-dependent dynamical response of a quantum ring with a spin-orbit interaction upon the application of linearly polarized, picosecond, asymmetric electromagnetic pulses. The oscillations of the generated dipole moment…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Zhen-Gang Zhu , Jamal Berakdar

Confinement asymmetry effects on the photoabsorption of a quantum well are discussed by means of a sum-rules approach using a Hamiltonian including a Rashba spin-orbt coupling. We show that while the strength of the excitation is zero when…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-18 A. Ambrosetti , J. M Escartin , E. Lipparini , F. Pederiva

We calculate the persistent spin current inside a quantum ring as a function of the strength of the Rashba or Dresselhaus spin-orbit interaction. We provide analytical results for the spin current of a one-dimensional (1D) ring of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-21 Thorsten Arnold , Chi-Shung Tang , Andrei Manolescu , Vidar Gudmundsson

We study electron transport through a multi-level quantum dot with Rashba spin-orbit interaction in the presence of local Coulomb repulsion. Motivated by recent experiments, we compute the level splitting induced by the spin-orbit…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-08-29 S. Grap , V. Meden , S. Andergassen

It has been predicted recently that an electron beam can be polarized when it flows adiabatically through a quantum point contact in a system with spin-orbit interaction. Here, we show that a simple transverse electron focusing setup can be…

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

We propose and investigate a simple one-dimensional model for a single-channel quantum wire hosting electrons that interact repulsively and are subject to a significant spin-orbit interaction. We show that an external Zeeman magnetic field,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-10-29 Ren-Bo Wang , Akira Furusaki , Oleg A. Starykh

We investigate transport through a finite interacting wire connected to noninteracting leads. The conductance of the pure wire is not renormalized by the interactions for any spatial variation of the interaction parameters $u,K$, and not…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 I. Safi , H. J. Schulz

Semiconductor point contacts can be a useful tool for producing spin-polarized currents in the presence of spin-orbit (SO) interaction. Neither magnetic fields nor magnetic materials are required. By numerical studies, we show that (i) the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Mikio Eto , Tetsuya Hayashi , Yuji Kurotani

A planar ballistic structure is predicted to be highly effective in filtering electron spin from an unpolarized source into two output fluxes with the opposite and practically pure spin polarizations. The operability of the proposed device…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. A. Kiselev , K. W. Kim

Spin-polarized transport through a quantum dot side attached to a topological superconductor and coupled to a pair of normal leads is discussed in Coulomb and Kondo regimes. For discussion of Coulomb range equation of motion method with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 D. Krychowski , S. Lipiński , G. Cuniberti

We have measured dispersions of spin-flip waves and spin-flip single-particle excitations of a spin polarized two-dimensional electron gas in a CdMnTe quantum well using resonant Raman scattering. We find the energy of the spin-flip wave to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Cynthia Aku-Leh , Florent Perez , Bernard Jusserand , David Richards , Grzegorz Karczewski

We present a microscopic calculation of the Gilbert damping constant for the magnetization of a two-dimensional spin-polarized electron liquid in the presence of intrinsic spin-orbit interaction. First we show that the Gilbert constant can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 E. M. Hankiewicz , G. Vignale , Y. Tserkovnyak

We propose that a magnetic quantum wire composed of magnetic and non-magnetic atomic sites can be used as a spin filter for a wide range of applied bias voltage. We adopt a simple tight-binding Hamiltonian to describe the model where the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-03-15 Moumita Dey , Santanu K. Maiti , S. N. Karmakar

All-electric devices for the generation and filtering of spin currents are of crucial importance for spintronics experiments and applications. Here we consider a quantum dot between two metallic leads in the presence of spin-orbit coupling,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-06-08 Valentina Brosco , Markus Jerger , Pablo San-Jose , Gergely Zarand , Alexander Shnirman , Gerd Schön

We study the quantum mechanical states of electrons situated on a cylindrical surface of finite axial length to model a semiconductor core-shell nanowire. We calculate the conductance in the presence of a longitudinal magnetic field by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-21 Tomas Orn Rosdahl , Andrei Manolescu , Vidar Gudmundsson

We analyzed the effects of a spin voltage as well as a conventionally applied voltage in a QD system with a different number of quantum states in the dot region in presence of Coulombic interaction between the quantum dot and two leads. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 O. V. Ogloblya , G. M. Kuznetsova

We investigate a one--dimensional wire of interacting electrons connected to one--dimensional noninteracting leads in the absence and in the presence of a backscattering potential. The ballistic wire separates the charge and spin parts of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 Inès Safi , H. J. Schulz

Coulomb interactions that occur in electronic structure calculations are correlated by allowing basis function components of the interacting densities to polarize, thereby reducing the magnitude of the interaction. Exchange integrals of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-05-16 Jerry L. Whitten