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We describe theoretically the process of multi-beam reflection in a two-dimensional electron system with a lateral potential barrier. Due to spin-orbital interaction, the reflection process leads to the formation of three beams with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. O. Govorov , A. V. Kalameitsev , J. P. Dulka

The spin Hall effect is a phenomenon of inducing spin current by an external electric field. We recently proposed that this effect can occur in p-type semiconductors without relying upon any disorder scattering [S. Murakami et al., Science…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 Shuichi Murakami

A biref review is presented on resonant spin Hall effect, where a tiny external electric field induces a saturated spin Hall current in a 2-dimensional electron or hole gas in a perpendicular magnetic field. The phenomenon is attributted to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-04-14 Fu-Chun Zhang , Shun-Qing Shen

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

We present a microscopic theory of spin-orbit coupling in the integer quantum Hall regime. The spin-orbit scattering length is evaluated in the limit of long-range random potential. The spin-flip rate is shown to be determined by rare…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 D. G. Polyakov

The quantum spin Hall effect has been observed in topological insulators using spin-orbit coupling as the probe, but it has not yet been observed in a metal. An experiment is proposed to measure the quantum spin Hall effect of an electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-21 Aiying Zhao , Qiang Gu , Timothy J. Haugan , Thomas J. Bullard , Richard A. Klemm

We study spin effects in the magneto-conductance of ballistic mesoscopic systems subject to inhomogeneous magnetic fields. We present a numerical approach to the spin-dependent Landauer conductance which generalizes recursive Green function…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Diego Frustaglia , Martina Hentschel , Klaus Richter

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 study the transport properties of a quantum dot embedded in an Aharonov-Bohm ring in the presence of spin-orbit interactions. Using a numerical renormalization group analysis of the system in the Kondo regime, we find that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-08-13 E. Vernek , N. Sandler , S. E. Ulloa

In transition metals and their compounds, the orbital degrees of freedom gives rise to an orbital current, in addition to the ordinary spin and charge currents. We reveal that considerably large spin and anomalous Hall effects (SHE and AHE)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 H. Kontani , T. Tanaka , D. S. Hirashima , K. Yamada , J. Inoue

We introduce s.n where n is the unit vector in the direction of the radius vector and s is the spin, which along with the velocity forms a spin-orbit interaction of the order of v/c whereas the usual spin-orbit interaction is of the order…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Keshav N. Shrivastava

We study the quantum interference effects induced by the Aharonov-Casher phase in asymmetrically confined two-dimensional electron and heavy-hole ring structures systems taking into account the electrically tunable spin-orbit (SO)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-17 M. F. Borunda , Xin Liu , Alexey A. Kovalev , Xiong-Jun Liu , T. Jungwirth , Jairo Sinova

Here we propose an isotropic all electrical spin analyzer in a quantum ring with spin-orbit coupling by analytically and numerically modeling how the charge transmission rates depend on the polarization of the incident spin. The formalism…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 Shenglin Peng , Wenchen Luo , Jian Sun , Ai-Min Guo , Fangping Ouyang , Tapash Chakraborty

The role of Aharonov-Bohm effect in quantum tunneling is examined when a potential is defined on the $S^1$ and has $N$-fold symmetry. We show that the low-lying energy levels split from the $N$-fold degenerate ground state oscillate as a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 ChangSoo Park , D. K. Park

We theoretically investigate electrical transport in a quantum Hall system hosting bulk and edge current carrying states. Spatially varying magnetic and electric confinement creates pairs of current carrying lines that drift in the same or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-12 Puja Mondal , Alain Nogaret , Sankalpa Ghosh

Electron edge states in graphene in the Quantum Hall effect regime can carry both charge and spin. We show that spin splitting of the zeroth Landau level gives rise to counterpropagating modes with opposite spin polarization. These chiral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-04-12 D. A. Abanin , P. A. Lee , L. S. Levitov

The discovery of the topological nature of free-space light and its quantum chiral behavior has recently raised large attention. This important scientific endeavor features spin-based integrated quantum technologies. Herein, we discuss a…

We show that a two-dimensional spin-orbit-coupled system in the presence of a charge/spin-density wave with a wave-vector perpendicular to an applied electric field supports bulk manifestations of the direct/inverse spin-Hall effect. We…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-03-15 Brandon Anderson , Tudor D. Stanescu , Victor Galitski

Due to the Berry curvature in momentum space, the magnon wavepacket undergoes two types of orbital motions in analogy with the electron system: the self-rotation motion and a motion along the boundary of the sample (edge current). The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-12 Ryo Matsumoto , Shuichi Murakami

We study the influences of antidot-induced bound states on transport properties of two- dimensional quantum spin Hall insulators. The bound statesare found able to induce quantum percolation in the originally insulating bulk. At some…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-27 Rui-Lin Chu , Jie Lu , Shun-Qing Shen