English
Related papers

Related papers: Spin Filtering in a Nonuniform Quantum Wire with R…

200 papers

A recursive Green's function technique is developed to calculate the spin-dependent conductance in mesoscopic structures. Using this technique, we study the spin-dependent electronic transport of quantum point contacts in the presence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Shi-Liang Zhu , Z. D. Wang , Lian Hu

Spin-polarized transport through a band-gap-matched ZnSe/Zn_{1-x}Mn_{x} Se/ZnSe/Zn_{1-x}Mn_{x}Se/ZnSe multilayer structure is investigated. The resonant transport is shown to occur at different energies for different spins owing to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Zhen-Gang Zhu , Gang Su

We study the electrical conductance in single-mode quantum wires with Rashba spin-orbit interaction subjected to externally applied magnetic fields in the regime in which the ratio of spin-orbit momentum to the Fermi momentum is close to an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-17 Pavel P. Aseev , Daniel Loss , Jelena Klinovaja

Quantum interference in Aharonov-Bohm (AB) ring structure provides additional control of spin at mesoscopic scale. We propose a scheme for spin filter by studying the coherent transport through the AB structure with lateral magnetic…

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

Electrical tunability of spin polarization has been a focus in spintronics. Here, we report that the trigonal warping (TW) effect, together with spin-orbit coupling (SOC), can lead to two distinct magnetoelectric effects in low-dimensional…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-02-14 Da-Shuai Ma , Zhi-Ming Yu , Hui Pan , Yugui Yao

We generalize the scattering theory of quantum shot noise to include the full spin-density matrix of electrons injected from a spin-filtering or ferromagnetic electrode into a quantum-coherent nanostructure governed by various…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ralitsa L. Dragomirova , Branislav K. Nikolic

The Rashba effect is one of the most striking manifestations of spin-orbit coupling in solids, and provides a cornerstone for the burgeoning field of semiconductor spintronics. It is typically assumed to manifest as a momentum-dependent…

Using canonical transformations we diagonalize approximately the Hamiltonian of a gaussian wire with Rashba spin-orbit interaction. This proceedure allows us to obtain the energy dispersion relations and the wavefunctions with good…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. I. Erlingsson , J. C. Egues , D. Loss

The ability to manipulate electron spins with voltage-dependent electric fields is key to the operation of quantum spintronics devices, such as spin-based semiconductor qubits. A natural approach to electrical spin control exploits the…

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

We report a first principles theoretical investigation of quantum transport in monolayer WSe2 field effect transistor (FET). Due to a strong spin-orbit interaction (SOI) and the atomic structure of the two-dimensional (2D) lattice,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Kui Gong , Lei Zhang , Dongping Liu , Lei Liu , Yu Zhu , Yonghong Zhao , Hong Guo

We consider the electronic transport through a Rashba quantum dot coupled to ferromagnetic leads. We show that the interference of localized electron states with resonant electron states leads to the appearance of the Fano-Rashba effect.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. A. Orellana , M. Amado , F. Dominguez-Adame

We show by spatially and time-resolved photoluminescence that the application of an electric field transverse to the plane of an intrinsic GaAs (111) quantum well (QW) allows the transport of photogenerated electron spins polarized along…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-13 A. Hernández-Mínguez , K. Biermann , R. Hey , P. V. Santos

We investigate intersubband mixing effects in multichannel quantum wires in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit coupling and attached to two terminals. When the contacts are ferromagnetic and their magnetization direction is perpendicular to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-29 M. M. Gelabert , Llorens Serra , David Sanchez , Rosa Lopez

In this work we study the effects of a longitudinal periodic potential on a parabolic quantum wire defined in a two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit interaction. For an infinite wire superlattice we find, by direct…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-01 Gunnar Thorgilsson , J. Carlos Egues , Daniel Loss , Sigurdur I. Erlingsson

We present analysis of the interacting quantum wire problem in the presence of magnetic field and spin-orbital interaction. We show that an interesting interplay of Zeeman and spin-orbit terms, facilitated by the electron-electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-09-05 Suhas Gangadharaiah , Jianmin Sun , Oleg A. Starykh

Non-resonant circularly polarized electromagnetic radiation can exert torques on magnetization by the Inverse Faraday Effect (IFE). Here we discuss the enhancement of IFE by spin-orbit interactions (SOI). We illustrate the principle by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-08 Fateme K. Joibari , Ya. M. Blanter , Gerrit E. W. Bauer

We show that an initially unpolarized electron flow acquires spin polarization after passing through a lateral barrier in two-dimensional (2D) system with spin-orbit interaction (SOI) even if the current is directed normally to the barrier.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-02-26 Yurii Ya. Tkach , Vladimir A. Sablikov , Aleksei A. Sukhanov

Ballistic spin transport, through periodically stubbed waveguides, is studied in the presence of a weak spin-orbit interaction (SOI) and the resulting subband mixing. By an appropriate choice of the waveguide length and of the stub…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 X. F. Wang , P. Vasilopoulos

We consider Rashba spin-orbit effects on spin transport driven by an electric field in semiconductor quantum wells. We derive spin diffusion equations that are valid when the mean free path and the Rashba spin-orbit interaction vary on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Arne Brataas , A. G. Mal'shukov , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak