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Inefficient screening of electric fields in nanoconductors makes electric manipulation of electronic transport in nanodevices possible. Accordingly, electrostatic (charge) gating is routinely used to affect and control the Coulomb…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-22 R. I. Shekhter , M. Jonson

We present a theory for spin selective Aharonov-Bohm oscillations in a lateral triple quantum dot. We show that to understand the Aharonov-Bohm (AB) effect in an interacting electron system within a triple quantum dot molecule (TQD) where…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-03-11 F. Delgado , Y. -P. Shim , M. Korkusinski , L. Gaudreau , S. A. Studenikin , A. S. Sachrajda , P. Hawrylak

The non-equilibrium transportation of two-dimensional electrons through a narrow channel is investigated under the influence of the Rashba interaction. By introducing suitable lifetime in the Green's function, the average spin values can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-16 Yi-Ying Chin , Jui-Yu Chiu , Ming-Che Chang , Chung-Yu Mou

Contrary to the well known spin qubits, rare-earth qubits are characterized by a strong influence of crystal field due to large spin-orbit coupling. At low temperature and in the presence of resonance microwaves, it is the magnetic moment…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-26 Sylvain Bertaina , J. H. Shim , S. Gambarelli , B. Z. Malkin , B. Barbara

We consider a system of two spins under a scanning tunneling microscope bias and derive its master equation. We find that the tunneling elements to the electronic contacts (tip and substrate) generate an exchange interaction between the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-25 Baruch Horovitz , Carsten Henkel

It has recently been realized that magnetic systems with coplanar magnetic order that are invariant under the combined operation of time-reversal and translation with half a unit cell feature energy bands with a symmetry-protected p-wave…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-02 Erik Wegner Hodt , Hendrik Bentmann , Jacob Linder

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

We study spin effects in the magneto-conductance of ballistic mesoscopic systems subject to inhomogeneous magnetic fields. We present a numerical approach to the spin-dependent Landauer conductance which generalizes recursive Green function…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Diego Frustaglia , Martina Hentschel , Klaus Richter

We consider spin-dependent tunneling through a gallium arsenide barrier, a material which has no inversion symmetry. We are dealing with free electrons, with one effective mass and a spin-splitting in the barrier material. When we take into…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-29 T. L. Hoai Nguyen , Henri-Jean Drouhin , Jean-Eric Wegrowe , Guy Fishman

As spin-based quantum technology evolves, the ability to manipulate spin with non-magnetic fields is critical - both for the development of hybrid quantum systems and for compatibility with conventional technology. Particularly useful…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 E. R. MacQuarrie , T. A. Gosavi , N. R. Jungwirth , S. A. Bhave , G. D. Fuchs

The quantum transmission problem for a particle moving in a quantum point contact in the presence of a Rashba spin-orbit interaction and applied magnetic field is solved semiclassically. A strong Rashba interaction and parallel magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-19 Tommy Li

A scheme of spin diode is proposed that uses a step-like quantum wire with Rashba spin-orbit interaction, connected to two leads with different width. It is shown that a very large vertical spin-polarized current can be generated when…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Xianbo Xiao , Yuguang Chen

We developed the theory of electronic properties of semiconductor quantum rings with the Rashba spin-orbit interaction irradiated by an off-resonant high-frequency electromagnetic field (dressing field). Within the Floquet theory of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-30 V. K. Kozin , I. V. Iorsh , O. V. Kibis , I. A. Shelykh

In this work we investigate magneto-optical properties of two-dimensional semiconductor quantum-ring excitons with Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interactions threaded by a magnetic flux perpendicular to the plane of the ring. By…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-08 Wen-Hsuan Kuan , Vidar Gudmundsson

Proximity effects are one of the pillars of exotic phenomena and technological applications of two dimensional materials. However, the interactions nature depends strongly on the materials involved, their crystalline symmetries, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-11 Armando Pezo , Zeila Zanolli , Nils Wittemeier , Pablo Ordejon , Adalberto Fazzio , Stephan Roche , Jose H. Garcia

We employ a path integral real time approach to compute the DC conductance and spin polarization for electrons transported across a ballistic Quantum Ring with Rashba spin-orbit interaction. We use a piecewise semiclassical approximation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-07-23 P. Lucignano , D. Giuliano , A. Tagliacozzo

We investigate numerically the spin polarization of the current in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit interaction in a T-shaped conductor proposed by A.A. Kiselev and K.W. Kim (Appl. Phys. Lett. {\bf 78} 775 (2001)). The recursive Green…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Yamamoto , T. Ohtsuki , B. Kramer

A design for a quantum gate performing transformations of a single electron spin is presented. The spin rotations are performed by the electron going around the closed loops in a gated semiconductor device. We demonstrate the operation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-11-25 S. Bednarek , B. Szafran

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 propose a quantum control scheme aimed at interacting systems that gives rise to highly selective coupling among their near-to-resonance constituents. Our protocol implements temporal control of the interaction strength, switching it on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-06 J. F. Haase , Z. -Y. Wang , J. Casanova , M. B. Plenio