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We consider a single-level quantum dot coupled to two leads which are ferromagnetic in general. Apart from tunneling processes conserving electron spin, we also include processes associated with spin-flip of tunneling electrons, which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-22 Łukasz Karwacki , Józef Barnaś

The recent discovery of materials featuring strong Rashba spin-orbit coupling (RSOC) and strong electronic correlation raises questions about the interplay of Mott and Rashba physics. In this work, we employ cluster perturbation theory to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-01 Valentina Brosco , Massimo Capone

We study spin-resolved transport in a ballistic quantum dot with Rashba spin-orbit coupling, focusing on charge-to-spin conversion and spin Hall effect. In the regime where the dot size is comparable to the Fermi wavelength, we identify a…

Using spin and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy we investigate a momentum region in Pb quantum well states on Si(111) where hybridization between Rashba-split bands alters the band structure significantly. Starting from the Rashba…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-03-24 Bartosz Slomski , Gabriel Landolt , Stefan Muff , Fabian Meier , Jürg Osterwalder , J. Hugo Dil

Interacting one-dimensional conductors with Rashba spin-orbit coupling are shown to exhibit a spin-selective Peierls-type transition into a mixed spin-charge-density-wave state. The transition leads to a gap for one-half of the conducting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-08-03 Bernd Braunecker , George I. Japaridze , Jelena Klinovaja , Daniel Loss

A Rashba nanowire is subjected to a magnetic field that assumes opposite signs in two sections of the nanowire, and, thus, creates a magnetic domain wall. The direction of magnetic field is chosen to be perpendicular to the Rashba…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Flavio Ronetti , Kirill Plekhanov , Daniel Loss , Jelena Klinovaja

We propose a model for the two-dimensional electron gas formed at the interface of oxide heterostructures that includes a Rashba spin-orbit coupling proportional to an electric field oriented perpendicularly to the interface. Taking into…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-06-06 D. Bucheli , M. Grilli , F. Peronaci , G. Seibold , S. Caprara

We report on a general theory for analyzing quantum transport through devices in the Metal-QD-Metal configuration where QD is a quantum dot or the device scattering region which contains Rashba spin-orbital and electron-electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Qing-feng Sun , Jian Wang , Hong Guo

Quasi--one dimensional edge channels are formed at the boundary of a two-dimensional electron system subject to a strong perpendicular magnetic field. We consider the effect of Rashba spin--orbit coupling, induced by structural inversion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Marco G. Pala , Michele Governale , Ulrich Zülicke , Giuseppe Iannaccone

We analyze the dynamics of the helical edge modes of a quantum spin Hall state in the presence of a spatially non-uniform Rashba spin-orbit (SO) interaction. A randomly fluctuating Rashba SO coupling is found to open a scattering channel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-07-01 Anders Ström , Henrik Johannesson , G. I. Japaridze

We study the transport of electrons through a single-mode quantum ring with electric field induced Rashba spin-orbit interaction that is subjected to an in-plane magnetic field and weakly coupled to electron reservoirs. Modelling a ring…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-09 Fateme K. Joibari , Ya. M. Blanter , Gerrit E. W. Bauer

The conductance modulations in spin field-effect transistors under finite bias voltages were studied. It was shown that when a finite bias voltage is applied between two terminals of a spin field-effect transistor, the spin precession…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Liangbin Hu , Ju Gao , Shun-Qing Shen

Semiconducting quantum wires defined within two-dimensional electron gases and strongly coupled to thin superconducting layers have been extensively explored in recent experiments as promising platforms to host Majorana bound states. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-20 Christopher Reeg , Daniel Loss , Jelena Klinovaja

We study ballistic transport of spin-polarized electrons through quantum wires in which the strength of the Rashba spin-orbit interaction (SOI) is spatially modulated. Subband mixing, due to SOI, between the two lowest subbands is taken…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 X. F. Wang

The emergent induction of spiral magnets that was proposed [Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 58, 120909 (2019)] and recently demonstrated [Nature 586, 232 (2020)] is shown to be further extended by a comprehensive treatment of the Rashba spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-05 Jun'ichi Ieda , Yuta Yamane

We investigate the influence of a perpendicular magnetic field on the spectral and spin properties of a ballistic quasi-one-dimensional electron system with Rashba effect. The magnetic field strongly alters the spin-orbit induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Stefan Debald , Bernhard Kramer

We study the effects of dipolar interactions on a Bose-Einstein condensate with synthetically generated Rashba spin-orbit coupling. The dipolar interaction we consider includes terms that couple spin and orbital angular momentum in a way…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-11-12 Ryan M. Wilson , Brandon M. Anderson , Charles W. Clark

We investigate the bulk-boundary correspondence in two-dimensional type-I semi-Dirac materials with band inversion and Rashba spin-orbit coupling. Employing a dimensional reduction framework, we identify the Zak phase along the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-02 Marta García-Olmos , Yuriko Baba , Alexander López , Mario Amado , Rafael A. Molina

We report on the quantum interference and spin accumulation on double quantum dots with Rashba spin-orbit coupling and electron-electron interaction, based on the Keldysh nonequilibrium Green function formalism. It is shown that Rashba…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Kuo-Wei Chen , Ching-Ray Chang

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