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We investigate the relationship between the Zeeman interaction and the inversion asymmetry induced spin orbit interactions (Rashba and Dresselhaus SOIs) in GaAs hole quantum point contacts. The presence of a strong SOI results in crossing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-12 A. Srinivasan , D. S. Miserev , K. L. Hudson , O. Klochan , K. Muraki , Y. Hirayama , D. Reuter , A. D. Wieck , O. P. Sushkov , A. R. Hamilton

We theoretically obtain the phase diagram of localized magnetic impurity spins arranged in a one-dimensional chain on top of a one- or two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit coupling. The interactions between the spins are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-05 Younghyun Kim , Meng Cheng , Bela Bauer , Roman M. Lutchyn , S. Das Sarma

We present a comprehensive theoretical analysis of magnetic heterostructures composed of ferromagnetic (FM) layers interfaced with three-dimensional topological insulators (TIs). Integrating out the topological surface states and computing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-13 Christian Svingen Johnsen , Asle Sudbø

We theoretically study the Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) interaction between magnetic impurities in both Dirac and Weyl semimetals (SMs). We find that the internode process, as well as the unique three-dimensional spin-momentum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-09 Hao-Ran Chang , Jianhui Zhou , Shi-Xiong Wang , Wen-Yu Shan , Di Xiao

We consider Mn-doped bulk zinc-blende semiconductors described by the 4 $ \times$ 4 Luttinger Hamiltonian. In these semiconductors, Mn atom acts as an acceptor providing the system a mobile hole, and also acts like a magnetic impurity of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-24 Sonu Verma , Arijit Kundu , Tarun Kanti Ghosh

The spin-sensitive charge oscillation, controlled by an external magnetic field, was recently proposed as a mechanism of transformations of qubits, defined as two-electron spin-charge Wannier molecules in a square quantum dot. The paper…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-30 Ambroz Kregar , Anton Ramsak

The spin of a single electron in an electrically defined quantum dot in a 2DEG can be manipulated by moving the quantum dot adiabatically in a closed loop in the 2D plane under the influence of applied gate potentials. In this paper we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-26 Sanjay Prabhakar , James Raynolds , Akira Inomata , Roderick Melnik

The tunability of the Rashba spin-orbit coupling allows to build semiconductor heterostructures with space modulated coupling intensities. We show that a wire-shaped spin-orbit modulation in a quantum well can support propagating electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Manuel Valin-Rodriguez , Antonio Puente , Llorens Serra

We present a theoretical method for the design and optimization of quantum corrals with specific electronic properties. Taking advantage that spins are subject to a RKKY interaction that is directly controlled by the scattering of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Alfredo A. Correa , Fernando A. Reboredo , C. A. Balseiro

An exact solution is derived for the wave function of an electron in a semiconductor quantum wire with spin-orbit interaction and driven by external time dependent harmonic confining potential. The formalism allows analytical expressions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 T. Cadez , J. H. Jefferson , A. Ramsak

We theoretically explore the possibility of creating spin quantum entanglement in a system of two electrons confined respectively in two vertically coupled quantum dots in the presence of Rashba type spin-orbit coupling. We find that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Nan Zhao , L. Zhong , Jia-Lin Zhu , C. P. Sun

We present a theory of magnetotransport through an electronic orbital, where the electron spin interacts with a (sufficiently) large external spin via an exchange interaction. Using a semiclassical approximation, we derive a set of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-22 Klemens Mosshammer , Tobias Brandes

The spin-orbit interaction of two-dimensional (2D) electrons in semiconductor quantum wells is usually considered to be determined by the band profile of a heterostructure. In the GaAs/AlGaAs type heterosystems, this interaction consists of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-19 P. S. Alekseev , M. O. Nestoklon

Arrays of highly excited Rydberg atoms can be used as powerful quantum simulation platforms. Here, we introduce an approach that makes it possible to implement fully controllable effective spin interactions in such systems. We show that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-01 Xiaoling Wu , Fan Yang , Shuo Yang , Klaus Mølmer , Thomas Pohl , Meng Khoon Tey , Li You

We present a microscopic theory of an atomic spin diode. Our proposed system consists of two magnetic adatoms deposited on the surface of a two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit coupling. A local s-d type coupling between the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-05 William J. Huddie , Rembert A. Duine

The electronic and optical properties of a GaAs quantum ring (QR) with few electrons in the presence of the Rashba spin-orbit interaction (RSOI) and the Dresselhaus spin-orbit interaction (DSOI) have been investigated theoretically.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 Zhenhua Wu , Jian Li , J. Li , H. Yin , Yu Liu

The spin-orbit interaction in semiconductors is shown to result in an anisotropic contribution into the exchange Hamiltonian of a pair of localized conduction-band electrons. The anisotropic exchange interaction exists in semiconductor…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 K. V. Kavokin

In this work we study interacting electrons on square lattice in the presence of strong Rashba spin-orbit interaction. The spin-orbit term forces the time-reversal electron states to be paired in even Cooper channels. For concreteness, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-03-27 Rasoul Ghadimi , Mehdi Kargarian , S. Akbar Jafari

The spin states of electrons confined in semiconductor quantum dots form a promising platform for quantum computation. Recent studies of silicon CMOS qubits have shown coherent manipulation of electron spin states with extremely high…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-03 S. D. Liles , R. Li , C. H. Yang , F. E. Hudson , M. Veldhorst , A. S. Dzurak , A. R. Hamilton

Spin-orbit interaction (SOI) in low-dimensional systems results in the fascinating property of spin-momentum locking. In a Rashba system the inversion symmetry normal to the plane of a two-dimensional (2D) electron gas is broken, generating…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-02-22 Bartosz Slomski , Gabriel Landolt , Gustav Bihlmayer , Jürg Osterwalder , J. Hugo Dil