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A theory of spin-polarized electron transport in ferromagnet/semiconductor heterostructures, based on a unified semiclassical description of ballistic and diffusive transport in semiconductor structures, is developed. The aim is to provide…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 R. Lipperheide , U. Wille

We consider a mesoscopic {\it ballistic} structure with Rashba spin-orbit splitting of the electron spectrum. The ballistic region is attached to the leads with a voltage applied between them. We calculate the edge spin density which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Alexander Khaetskii , Eugene Sukhorukov

We theoretically demonstrate that a rotating electric-field component of circularly polarized microwave or terahertz light can induce electron-spin polarization within a few picoseconds in a two-dimensional electron system with the Rashba…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-09-21 Masahito Mochizuki , Keisuke Ihara , Jun-ichiro Ohe , Akihito Takeuchi

A spin interferometer utilizing the Rashba effect is proposed. The novel design is composed of a one-dimensional (1D) straight wire and a 1D half-ring. By calculating the norm of the superposed wave function, we derive analytical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 Ming-Hao Liu , Kuo-Wei Chen , Son-Hsien Chen , Ching-Ray Chang

The electronic states of a mesoscopic ring are assessed in the presence of Rashba Spin Orbit coupling and a $U(1)$ gauge field. Spin symmetric coupling to an ideal lead is implemented following B\"uttiker's voltage probe. The exact density…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-23 Michael Ellner , Nelson Bolívar , Bertrand Berche , Ernesto Medina

Recent experiments demonstrate that a ballistic version of spin resonance, mediated by spin-orbit interaction, can be induced in narrow channels of a high-mobility GaAs two-dimensional electron gas by matching the spin precession frequency…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 S. Luescher , S. M. Frolov , J. A. Folk

We study fluctuations of spin-polarized currents in a three-terminal spin-valve system consisting of a diffusive normal metal wire connected by tunnel junctions to three ferromagnetic terminals. Based on a spin-dependent Boltzmann-Langevin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Zareyan , W. Belzig

We present an approach to spin dynamics by extending the optical Bloch equations for the driven two-level system to derive microscopic expressions for the transverse and longitudinal spin relaxation times. This is done for the 6-level…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 C. Lechner , U. Roessler

We present a numerical study of spin relaxation in a semiclassical electron ensemble in a large ballistic quantum dot. The dot is defined in a GaAs/AlGaAs heterojunction system with a two-dimensional electron gas, and relaxation occurs due…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-04-21 E. J. Koop , B. J. van Wees , C. H. van der Wal

We use microscopic linear response theory to derive a set of equations that provide a complete description of coupled spin and charge diffusive transport in a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) with the Rashba spin-orbit (SO) interaction.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. A. Burkov , Alvaro S. Nunez , A. H. MacDonald

Semiconductor Rashba nanowires are quasi-one dimensional systems that have large spin-orbit (SO) coupling arising from a broken inversion symmetry due to an external electric field. There exist parametrized multiband models that can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-25 Samuel D. Escribano , Alfredo Levy Yeyati , Elsa Prada

We investigate the two-dimensional (2D) highly spin-polarized electron accumulation layers commonly appearing near the surface of n-type polar semiconductors BiTeX (X = I, Br, and Cl) by angular-resolved photoemission spectroscopy. Due to…

A model with both Rashba and Dresselhaus spin orbit (SO) couplings and Hubbard electron-electron interaction is studied on planar strips at quarter filling at zero temperature in the clean limit. In the absence of Hubbard repulsion and at…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-02-06 Jose A. Riera

We show that spin-flip rotation in a semiconductor quantum wire, caused by the Rashba and the Dresselhaus interactions (both of arbitrary strengths), can be suppressed by dint of an in-plane magnetic field. We found a new type of symmetry,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-05-07 R. G. Nazmitdinov , K. N. Pichugin , M. Valin-Rodriguez

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

The length over which electron spins reverse direction due to the Rashba effect when injected with an initial polarization along the axes of a quantum wire is investigated theoretically. A soft wall confinement of the wire renormalizes the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Wolfgang Häusler

Spin transport property of polarization induced two-dimensional electron gas channel formed in the central vertical plane of a wedge-shaped \textit{c}-oriented GaN nanowall is investigated theoretically. Since the confining potential…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-21 Swarup Deb , Subhabrata Dhar

We simulate the electron transport in vertical bi-layer nanowire which can be fabricated in molecular beam epitaxy process with lateral confinement potential formed by means of cleaved overgrowth or surface oxidization methods giving…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 T. Chwiej

We report measurements of room-temperature spin-relaxation times $T_1$ and $T_2$ of charge-carrier spins in a $\pi$-conjugated polymer thin film under bipolar injection and low ($1\mbox{ mT}\lesssim B_0\lesssim 10\mbox{ mT}$) static…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-27 T. H. Tennahewa , S. Hosseinzadeh , S. I. Atwood , H. Popli , H. Malissa , J. M. Lupton , C. Boehme

We study the spin-dependent electronic transport through a one-dimensional ballistic quantum wire in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit interaction. In particular, we consider the effect of the spin-orbit interaction resulting from the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. E. Birkholz , V. Meden