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The effect of Rashba spin-orbit interaction in quantum wires with hard-wall boundaries is discussed. The exact wave function and eigenvalue equation are worked out pointing out the mixing between the spin and spatial parts. The spectral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. A. Perroni , D. Bercioux , V. M. Ramaglia , V. Cataudella

The Rashba effect is one of the most striking manifestations of spin-orbit coupling in solids, and provides a cornerstone for the burgeoning field of semiconductor spintronics. It is typically assumed to manifest as a momentum-dependent…

The intrinsic spin-Hall effect on spin accumulation and electric conductance in a diffusive regime of a 2D electron gas has been studied for a 2D strip of a finite width. It is shown that the spin polarization near the flanks of the strip,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. G. Mal'shukov , L. Y. Wang , C. S. Chu , K. A. Chao

We study the performance of a quantum wire spin filter that is based on the Rashba spin-orbit interaction in the presence of the electron-electron interaction. The finite length wire is attached to two semi-infinite nonmagnetic leads.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 J. E. Birkholz , V. Meden

The spin precession in a cylindrical semiconductor nanowire due to Rashba spin-orbit coupling has been investigated theoretically using an InAs nanowire containing a surface two-dimensional electron gas as a model. The eigenstates,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 A. Bringer , Th. Schäpers

In inversion asymmetric semiconductors, spin-orbit interactions give rise to very effective relaxation mechanisms of the electron spin. Recent work, based on the dimensionally constrained D'yakonov Perel' mechanism, describes increasing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Alexander W. Holleitner

We develop a theory of designing slit experiments in two-dimensional electron systems with the Rashba spin-orbit interaction. By simulating the spatiotemporal dynamics of electrons passing through a single slit or a double slit, we find…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-22 Kotaro Shimizu , Masahito Mochizuki

We have analysed spin relaxation behaviour of various II-VI semiconductors for nanowire structure and 2-D channel by simulating spin polarized transport through a semi-classical approach. Monte Carlo simulation method has been applied to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-14 Ashutosh Sharma , Swetali Nimje , Bahniman Ghosh

We consider Rashba spin-orbit effects on spin transport driven by an electric field in semiconductor quantum wells. We derive spin diffusion equations that are valid when the mean free path and the Rashba spin-orbit interaction vary on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Arne Brataas , A. G. Mal'shukov , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

We propose a semi-classical model for femtosecond-laser induced demagnetization due to spin-polarized excited electron diffusion in the super-diffusive regime. Our approach treats the finite elapsed time and transport in space between…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-06-14 Marco Battiato , Karel Carva , Peter M. Oppeneer

We study electron spin relaxation in one-dimensional structures of finite length in the presence of Bychkov-Rashba spin-orbit coupling and boundary spin relaxation. Using a spin kinetic equation approach, we formulate boundary conditions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-19 V. A. Slipko , A. A. Hayeva , Y. V. Pershin

In this manuscript, we present relaxation optimized methods for transfer of bilinear spin correlations along Ising spin chains. These relaxation optimized methods can be used as a building block for transfer of polarization between distant…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-01-17 Dionisis Stefanatos , Steffen J. Glaser , Navin Khaneja

We construct a spin-drift-diffusion model to describe spin-polarized electron transport in zincblende semiconductors in the presence of magnetic fields, electric fields, and off-diagonal strain. We present predictions of the model for…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Hruska , S. Kos , S. A. Crooker , A. Saxena , D. L. Smith

This article presents an overview of results pertaining to electronic structure, transport properties, and interaction effects in ballistic quantum wires with Rashba spin splitting. Limits of weak and strong spin--orbit coupling are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Governale , U. Zuelicke

We propose a semiclassical framework for solving open quantum dynamics in driven-dissipative spin systems. Our method consists of generalized spin-wave approximations tailored to describing quantum trajectories unravelled from the master…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-24 Zejian Li , Anna Delmonte , Rosario Fazio

We develop a semiclassical theory for spin-dependent quantum transport in ballistic quantum dots. The theory is based on the semiclassical Landauer formula, that we generalize to include spin-orbit and Zeeman interaction. Within this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 Oleg Zaitsev , Diego Frustaglia , Klaus Richter

Conventional transport theory focuses on either the diffusive or ballistic regimes and neglects the crossover region between the two. In the presence of spin-orbit coupling, the transport equations are known only in the diffusive regime,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 B. Andrei Bernevig , Jiangping Hu

We employ a self-consistent Green's function approach to investigate the spin-wave relaxation \Gamma(p) in diluted magnetic semiconductors. We find the trend of the spin-wave relaxation strongly depends on the ratio of the itinerant and…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 J. E. Bunder , Shih-Jye Sun , Hsiu-Hau Lin

We investigate mesoscopic fluctuations in the spin polarization generated by a static electric field and by Rashba spin-orbit interaction in a disordered 2D electron gas. In a diagrammatic approach we find that the out-of-plane polarization…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-12-08 Mathias Duckheim , Daniel Loss

We investigate the spin-dependent transport properties of two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) systems formed in diluted magnetic semiconductors and in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit interaction in the framework of the scattering matrix…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Anh T. Ngo , J. M. Villas-Boas , Sergio E. Ulloa