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Spin-orbit coupling (SOC) can induce spin polarization in nonmagnetic 3D crystals when the inversion symmetry is broken, as manifested by the bulk Rashba (R-1) and Dresselhaus (D-1) effects. We determine that these spin polarization effects…

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Chirality-induced spin selectivity is a spin-splitting phenomenon from a helical structure with a considerably effective spin-orbit coupling. This unexpectedly large spin-splitting phenomenon has been experimentally observed in chiral…

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Phonon-induced orbital and spin relaxation rates of single electron states in lateral single and double quantum dots are obtained numerically for realistic materials parameters. The rates are calculated as a function of magnetic field and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter Stano , Jaroslav Fabian

Materials that break time-reversal or inversion symmetry possess nondegenerate electronic bands, which can touch at so-called Weyl points. The spinor eigenstates in the vicinity of a Weyl point exhibit a well-defined chirality $\pm 1$.…

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The behaviour of the interaction of the induced electric dipole moment of an atom with a uniform magnetic field and a non-uniform electric field are investigated in a rotating reference frame. An interesting aspect of this interaction is…

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The dynamics of a binary system with two spinning components on an eccentric orbit is studied, with the inclusion of the spin-spin interaction terms appearing at the second post-Newtonian order. A generalized true anomaly parametrization…

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We demonstrate strong anisotropic spin-orbit interaction (SOI) in graphene induced by monolayer WS$_2$. Direct comparison between graphene/monolayer WS$_2$ and graphene/bulk WS$_2$ system in magnetotransport measurements reveals that…

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Spin-orbit coupling induced anisotropies of plasmon dynamics are investigated in two-dimensional semiconductor structures. The interplay of the linear Bychkov-Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interactions drastically affects the plasmon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 S. M. Badalyan , A. Matos-Abiague , G. Vignale , J. Fabian

Frustrated triangular molecule magnets such as \{Cu$_3$\} are characterized by two degenerate S=1/2 ground-states with opposite chirality. Recently it has been proposed theoretically [PRL {\bf 101}, 217201 (2008)] and verified by {\it…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-15 J. F. Nossa , M. F. Islam , C. M. Canali , M. R. Pederson

In electronic solids with strong spin-orbit interactions (SOIs), the spin and orbital degrees of freedom of an electron are quantum mechanically entangled, which may result in an exotic multipolar order instead of a conventional dipolar…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-01 Daigorou Hirai , Hajime Sagayama , Shang Gao , Hiroyuki Ohsumi , Gang Chen , Taka-hisa Arima , Zenji Hiroi

We investigate the spin-orbit induced spin-interference pattern of ballistic electrons travelling along any regular polygon. It is found that the spin-interference depends strongly on the Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit constants as well…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Marc J. van Veenhuizen , Takaaki Koga , Junsaku Nitta

The Schr\"{o}dinger equation for an electron in a mesoscopic ring, in the presence of the Rashba and linear Dresselhaus terms of the spin-orbit interaction (SOI) and of a magnetic field $B$, is solved exactly. The effective electric fields…

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Various multi-spin magnetic exchange interactions (MEI) of chiral nature have been recently unveiled. Owing to their potential impact on the realisation of twisted spin-textures, their implication in spintronics or quantum computing is very…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-01-19 Samir Lounis

Electron spins in a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) can be manipulated by spin-orbit (SO) fields originating from either Rashba or Dresselhaus interactions with independent isotropic characteristics. Together, though, they produce…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-26 Henri Saarikoski , Andrés Reynoso , José Pablo Baltanás , Diego Frustaglia , Junsaku Nitta

Charge and spin density distributions are studied within a nano-ring structure endowed with Rashba and Dresselhaus spin orbit coupling (SOI). For a small number of interacting electrons, in the presence of an external magnetic field, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Csaba Daday , Andrei Manolescu , D. C. Marinescu , Vidar Gudmundsson

In this paper we study the current-induced spin polarization in a two-dimensional electron gas, known also as the Edelstein effect. Compared to previous treatments, we consider both the Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interaction as well…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-27 Amin Maleki , Roberto Raimondi , Ka Shen

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

We show that the conductivity tensor of a disordered two-dimensional electron gas becomes anisotropic in the presence of both Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interactions (SOI). This anisotropy is a mesoscopic effect and vanishes with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-03-31 Oleg Chalaev , Daniel Loss

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…

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