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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

Spin-orbit interaction (SOI) has been a key tool to steer and manipulate spin-dependent transport properties in two-dimensional electron gases. Here we demonstrate how spin currents can be created and efficiently read out in nano- or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-05 F. N. Gürsoy , P. Reck , C. Gorini , K. Richter , I. Adagideli

Using standard quantum network method, we analytically investigate the effect of Rashba spin-orbit coupling (RSOC) and a magnetic field on the spin transport properties of a polygonal quantum ring. Using Landauer-Buttiker formula, we have…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Han-Zhao Tang , Li-Xue Zhai , Man Shen , Jian-Jun Liu

Electron transport in a new low-dimensional structure - the nuclear spin polarization induced quantum wire (NSPI QW) is theoretically studied. In the proposed system the local nuclear spin polarization creates the effective hyperfine field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Yu. V. Pershin , S. N. Shevchenko , I. D. Vagner , P. Wyder

Spin-orbit interaction (SOI) is a fundamental component for electrically driven spin qubits and hybrid superconducting-semiconducting systems. In particular, Rashba SOI (RSOI) is a key mechanism enabling all-electrical spin manipulation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-18 Patrick Del Vecchio , Stefano Bosco , Daniel Loss , Oussama Moutanabbir

We introduce a new spin filter based on spin-resolved Fano resonances due to spin-split levels in a quantum ring (QR) side-coupled to a quantum wire (QW). Spin-orbit coupling inside the QR, together with external magnetic fields, induces…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Minchul Lee , C. Bruder

We propose a semiconductor structure that can rotate the electron spin without using ferromagnetic contacts, tunneling barriers, external radiation etc. The structure consists of a strongly curved one-dimensional ballistic wire with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-03 Maxim P. Trushin , Alexander L. Chudnovskiy

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 consider theoretically transport in a spinfull one-channel interacting quantum wire placed in an external magnetic field. For the case of two point-like impurities embedded in the wire, under a small voltage bias the spin-polarized…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-02-17 Zoran Ristivojevic , George I. Japaridze , Thomas Nattermann

A key concept in the emerging field of spintronics is the electric field control of spin precession via the effective magnetic field generated by the Rashba spin orbit interaction (RSOI). Here, by extensive Density Matrix Renormalization…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-29 G. L. Rossini , D. C. Cabra , G. I. Japaridze

We present the study of transport properties of a superconducting wire with strong Rashba spin-orbit coupling for different orientations of an external magnetic field. Using the nonequilibrium Green's functions in the tight-binding approach…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-30 V. V. Val'kov , S. V. Aksenov

A scheme for a spin polarization direction switch is investigated by studying the spin-dependent electron transport of an asymmetrical quantum wire (QW) with Rashba spin-orbit coupling (SOC). It is found that the magnitude of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Zhonghui Xu , Xianbo Xiao , Yuguang Chen

Quantum interference effects in rings provide suitable means for controlling spin at mesoscopic scales. Here we apply such a control mechanism to the spin-dependent transport in a ballistic quasi one dimensional ring patterned in two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Bellucci , P. Onorato

Ballistic transport through nanoscale devices with time-dependent Rashba-type spin-orbit interaction (SOI) can lead to spin-polarized wave packets that appear even for completely unpolarized input. The SOI that oscillates in a finite domain…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-19 Viktor Szaszko-Bogar , Peter Foldi , F. M. Peeters

We investigate the transport properties of ballistic quantum wires in the presence of Zeeman spin splittings and a spatially inhomogeneous Rashba interaction. The Zeeman interaction is extended along the wire and produces gaps in the energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 David Sanchez , Llorens Serra , Mahn-Soo Choi

A novel spin filtering in two-dimensional electron system with nonuniform spin-orbit interactions (SOI) is theoretically studied. The strength of SOI is modulated perpendicular to the charge current. A spatial gradient of effective magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jun-ichiro Ohe , Masayuki Yamamoto , Tomi Ohtsuki , Junsaku Nitta

Indium arsenide (InAs) nanowires (NWs) are a promising platform to fabricate quantum electronic devices, among others they have strong spin-orbit interaction (SOI). The controlled tuning of the SOI is desired in spin based quantum devices.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-03 Zoltán Scherübl , Gergő Fülöp , Morten Hannibal Madsen , Jesper Nygård , Szabolcs Csonka

We derive the effective dimensionally reduced Schr\"odinger equation with spin-orbit interaction in low-dimensional electronic strain driven nanostructures. A method of adiabatic separation among fast normal quantum degrees of freedom and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-29 Paola Gentile , Mario Cuoco , Carmine Ortix

Quantum wires with periodic local Rashba spin-orbit couplings are proposed for a higher performance of spin field-effect transistor. Fano-Rashba quantum interference due to the spin-dependent modulated structure gives rise to a broad energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-12-20 L. Wang , K. Shen , S. Y. Cho , M. W. Wu

We study electron transport through waveguides (WGs) in which the strengths of the Rashba ($\alpha$) and Dresselhaus ($\beta$) terms of the spin-orbit interaction (SOI) vary in space. Subband mixing, due to lateral confinement, is taken…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 P. M. Krstajic , E. Rezasoltani , P. Vasilopoulos