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The conventional unpolarized current injected into a {\em quantum-coherent} semiconductor ring attached to two external leads can be modulated from perfect conductor to perfect insulator limit via Rashba spin-orbit (SO) coupling. This…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Satofumi Souma , Branislav K. Nikolic

Because of the peculiar coupling of spatial and spin degrees of freedom effected by the Rashba spin-orbit interaction, lateral confinement of a two dimensional electronic system leads to a finite transverse spin polarization near the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Chesi , G. F. Giuliani

We consider electronic transport through semiconducting nanowires (W) with spin-orbit interaction (SOI), in a hybrid N-W-N setup where the wire is contacted by normal-metal leads (N). We investigate the conductance behavior of the system as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-16 Diego Rainis , Daniel Loss

We investigate the electric manipulation of a single electron spin in a single gate-defined quantum dot. We observe that so-far neglected differences between the hyperfine and spin-orbit mediated electric dipole spin resonance conditions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-06-27 M. Shafiei , K. C. Nowack , C. Reichl , W. Wegscheider , L. M. K. Vandersypen

We study the spin polarization induced by a current flow in clean two dimensional electron gases with Rashba spin-orbit coupling. This geometric effect originates from special properties of the electron's scattering at the edges of the…

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

We propose a simple scheme for the spin filter by studying the coherent transport of electrons through a double-bend structure in a quantum wire with a weak lateral magnetic potential which is much weaker than the Fermi energy of the leads.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Q. W. Shi , J. Zhou , M. W. Wu

We introduce the spin and momentum dependent {\em force operator} which is defined by the Hamiltonian of a {\em clean} semiconductor quantum wire with homogeneous Rashba spin-orbit (SO) coupling attached to two ideal (i.e., free of spin and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Branislav K. Nikolic , Liviu P. Zarbo , Sven Welack

We present a formalism to study quantum networks made up by single-channel quantum wires in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit coupling and magnetic field. In particular, linear transport through one-dimensional and two-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dario Bercioux , Michele Governale , Vittorio Cataudella , Vincenzo Marigliano Ramaglia

We study spin-dependent transport in a two-dimensional electron gas subject to an external step-like potential $V(x)$ and irradiated by an electromagnetic field (EF). In the absence of EF the electronic spectrum splits into spin sub-bands…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. V. Fistul , K. B. Efetov

We devise an approach to measure the polarization of nuclear spins via conductance measurements. Specifically, we study the combined effect of external magnetic field, nuclear spin polarization, and Rashba spin-orbit interaction on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-12 James A. Nesteroff , Yuriy V. Pershin , Vladimir Privman

We investigate intersubband polaritons formed in the asymmetric quantum well (AQW) embedded into the semiconductor microcavity and study the effects of spin-orbit interaction (SOI) acting on intersubband excitations. The spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-05 O. Kyriienko , I. A. Shelykh

We propose a new method for dynamic nuclear polarisation in a quasi one-dimensional quantum wire utilising the spin-orbit interaction, the hyperfine interaction, and a finite source-drain potential difference. In contrast with current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-03-05 V. Tripathi , A. C. H. Cheung , N. R. Cooper

We propose the mesoscopic device based on the Rashba spin orbit interaction (SOI) that contains a gated ballistic Aharonov-Bohm (AB) ring with incoming lead and two asymmetrically situated outgoing leads. The variations of the Rashba…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 I. A. Shelykh , N. G. Galkin , N. T. Bagraev

We consider a single electron confined within a quantum wire in a system of two electrostatically-induced QDs defined by nearby gates. The time-varying electric field, of single GHz frequency, perpendicular to the quantum wire, is used to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-19 J. Pawłowski , G. Skowron , P. Szumniak , S. Bednarek

We propose purely electric manipulation of spin qubits by means of the spin-orbit interaction (SOI) {\it without magnetic field or magnets} in a double-quantum dot. All the unitary transformations can be constructed by the time-dependent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-08 Atsuo Shitade , Motohiko Ezawa , Naoto Nagaosa

Understanding the flow of spins in magnetic layered structures has enabled an increase in data storage density in hard drives over the past decade of more than two orders of magnitude1. Following this remarkable success, the field of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-20 C. H. L. Quay , T. L. Hughes , J. A. Sulpizio , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. Baldwin , K. W. West , D. Goldhaber-Gordon , R. de Picciotto

The phenomenon originating from spin-orbit coupling (SOC) provides energy-efficient strategies for spin manipulation and device applications. The broken inversion symmetry interface and resulting electric field induce a Rashba-type…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-12 Xinhe Wang , Wei Yang , Wang Yang , Yuan Cao , Xiaoyang Lin , Guodong Wei , Haichang Lu , Peizhe Tang , Weisheng Zhao

The lack of some spatial symmetries in planar devices with Rashba spin-orbit interaction opens the possibility of producing spin polarized electrical currents in absence of external magnetic field or magnetic impurities. We study how the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Leonor Chico , A. Latgé , Luis Brey

The Rashba effect, which plays a crucial role in fundamental materials physics and potential spintronics applications, has been engineered in diverse systems, including semiconductor quantum wells, oxide heterostructures, metallic surfaces,…

High spin polarization materials or spin filters are key components in spintronics, a niche subfield of electronics where carrier spins play a functional role. Carrier transmission through these materials is "spin selective" i.e. these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-28 Kazi M. Alam , Sandipan Pramanik