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We study the tunability of the spin-orbit interaction in a two-dimensional electron gas with a front and a back gate electrode by monitoring the spin precession frequency of drifting electrons using time-resolved Kerr rotation. The Rashba…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-14 M. Studer , G. Salis , K. Ensslin , D. C. Driscoll , A. C. Gossard

Motivated by recent all optical NMR experiments\cite{Awschalom1,Awschalom2} on GaAs quantum wells, we propose new experiments that would involve creating spatially modulated nuclear spin profiles. Due to the hyperfine coupling these would…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Aditi Mitra , Steven M. Girvin

We have studied the spin-splitting effect in a four-terminal two-dimensional (2D) electron gas system with two potential barriers generated by two surface metal gates and an external perpendicular magnetic field. The calculations show that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-26 Zijiang Wang , Jianhong He , Huazhong Guo

Using time-resolved Faraday rotation, the drift-induced spin-orbit Field of a two-dimensional electron gas in an InGaAs quantum well is measured. Including measurements of the electron mobility, the Dresselhaus and Rashba coefficients are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-01-06 M. Studer , S. Schön , K. Ensslin , G. Salis

We study the nonlinear classical dynamics of an electron confined in a double dot potential and subjected to a spin-orbit coupling and a constant external magnetic field. It is shown that due to the spin orbit coupling, the energy can be…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-03 L. Chotorlishvili , Z. Toklikishvili , A. Komnik , J. Berakdar

In this work we manifest that an electrostatic disorder in conducting systems with broken time reversal symmetry universally leads to a chiral ordering of the electron gas giving rise to skyrmion-like textures in spatial distribution of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-08 K. S. Denisov , I. V. Rozhansky , N. S. Averkiev , E. Lahderanta

Time-resolved optical measurements of electron spin dynamics in modulation doped InGaAs quantum wells are used to explore electron spin coherence times and spin precession frequencies in a regime where an out of plane magnetic field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Sih , W. H. Lau , R. C. Myers , A. C. Gossard , M. E. Flatté , D. D. Awschalom

We consider the spin-orbit-induced spin Hall effect and spin swapping in diffusive superconductors. By employing the non-equilibrium Keldysh Green's function technique in the quasiclassical approximation, we derive coupled transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-22 Camilla Espedal , Peter Lange , Severin Sadjina , A. G. Mal'shukov , Arne Brataas

We present a numerical study of the spin Hall effect in a two-dimensional hole gas (2DHG) system in the presence of disorder. We find that the spin Hall conductance (SHC), extrapolated to the thermodynamic limit, remains finite in a wide…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 W. Q. Chen , Z. Y. Weng , D. N. Sheng

We study spin-dependent diffusive transport in the presence of a tunable spin-orbit (SO) interaction in a two-dimensional electron system. The spin precession of an electron in the SO coupling field is expressed in terms of a covariant…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yaroslav Tserkovnyak , Shimul Akhanjee

The spin-Hall conductivity in spatially-homogeneous two-dimensional electron systems described by the spin-orbit Hamiltonian \hbar \Omega_p \sigma is presented as a sum of the universal part Me/8 \pi \hbar determined by the Berry phase…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 O. E. Raichev

We have made quantitative measurements of the spin polarization of two-dimensional (2D) GaAs (100) electrons and GaAs (311)A holes, as a function of an in-plane magnetic field. The functional form of the in-plane magnetoresistance is shown…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 E. Tutuc , E. P. De Poortere , S. J. Papadakis , M. Shayegan

We have investigated the complex two-dimensional electron system with unequal Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interactions in the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field. The spin polarizations are obtained in a wide range of magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-06 Degang Zhang , C. S. Ting

We study the edge spin current and spin polarization in a two-dimensional electron gas with spin-orbit coupling in the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field. The edge effect removes the degeneracy of Landau levels due to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yun-Juan Bao , Huai-Bing Zhuang , Shun-Qing Shen , Fu-Chun Zhang

We study the spin-spin interaction between quantum dots coupled through a two dimensional electron gas with spin-orbit interaction. We show that the interplay between transverse electron focusing and spin-orbit coupling allows to…

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

We have considered the conductivity properties of a two dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in two different kinds of inhomogeneous magnetic fields, i.e.\ a disordered distribution of magnetic flux vortices, and a periodic array of magnetic…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-14 Mads Nielsen , Per Hedegård

The electron spin dynamics in (111)-oriented GaAs/AlGaAs quantum wells is studied by timeresolved photoluminescence spectroscopy. By applying an external field of 50 kV/cm a two-order of magnitude increase of the spin relaxation time can be…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-28 A. Balocchi , Q. H. Duong , P. Renucci , B. Liu , C. Fontaine , T. Amand , D. Lagarde , X. Marie

Density-functional calculations using an exact exchange potential for a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) formed in a GaAs single quantum well predict the existence of a spin-polarized phase, when an excited subband becomes slightly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. R. Goñi , P. Giudici , F. A. Reboredo , C. R. Proetto , C. Thomsen , K. Eberl , M. Hauser

We study the spin-charge coupled transport in a two-dimensional electron system using the method of quasiclassical ($\xi$-integrated) Green's functions. In particular we derive the Eilenberger equation in the presence of a generic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Roberto Raimondi , Cosimo Gorini , Peter Schwab , Michael Dzierzawa

We present a comprehensive quasiclassical approach for studying transport properties of superconducting diffusive hybrid structures in the presence of extrinsic spin-orbit coupling. We derive a generalized Usadel equation and boundary…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-11-16 F. S. Bergeret , I. V. Tokatly