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Spin-orbit interaction is usefully classified as extrinsic or intrinsic depending on its origin: the potential due to random impurities (extrinsic), or the crystalline potential associated with the band or device structure (intrinsic). In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-19 R. Raimondi , P. Schwab , C. Gorini , G. Vignale

We consider the edge dynamics of a compact, fully spin polarized state at filling factor $\nu=1$. We show that there are two sets of collective excitations localized near the edge: the much studied, gapless, edge magnetoplasmon but also an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Karlhede , K. Lejnell , S. L. Sondhi

We predict that the flow of unpolarized current in electron-doped GaAs and InP at room temperature is unstable at high electric fields to the dynamic formation of spin-polarized current pulses. Spin-polarized current is spontaneously…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yunong Qi , Zhi-Gang Yu , Michael E. Flatté

Quantum interference effects in rings provide suitable means for controlling spin at mesoscopic scales. Here we apply such a control mechanism to the spin-dependent transport in a ballistic quasi one dimensional ring patterned in two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Bellucci , P. Onorato

We imaged the transport of current-induced spin coherence in a two-dimensional electron gas confined in a triple quantum well. Nonlocal Kerr rotation measurements, based on the optical resonant amplification of the electrically-induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-20 F. G. G. Hernandez , S. Ullah , G. J. Ferreira , N. M. Kawahala , G. M. Gusev , A. K. Bakarov

We have developed new methods to calculate dispersion curves (analytically in the simpler cases) from which we are able to derive the spatial distribution of electron and current densities. We investigate the case where the magnetic field…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 E. Hofstetter , J. M. C. Taylor , A. MacKinnon

In order to enhance spin injection efficiency from ferromagnetic (FM) metal into a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG), we introduce another FM metal and two tunnel barriers (I) between them to investigate the current polarization in such…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Jun Wang , D. Y. Xing , H. B. Sun

We study the spin dynamics of two dimensional electron gases (2DEGs) with Rashba spin-orbit coupling by taking account of electron-electron interactions. The diffusion equations for charge and spin densities are derived by making use of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Yuan Li , You-Quan Li

The influence of inelastic relaxation time on the intrinsic spin Hall effects in a disordered two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba interaction is studied, which clarifies the controversy of impurity effects in the system. We reveal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-04-19 Pei Wang , You-Quan Li

It is shown that the flow of electric current in an altermagnet results in the formation of a homogeneous electron spin orientation in the sample. The spin of the conduction electrons generated in altermagnets with $d$-wave spin-momentum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-18 L. E. Golub , L. Šmejkal

We study the optically induced spin polarization, spin dephasing and diffusion in several high-mobility two-dimensional electron systems, which are embedded in GaAs quantum wells grown on (110)-oriented substrates. The experimental…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 R. Voelkl , M. Schwemmer , M. Griesbeck , S. A. Tarasenko , D. Schuh , W. Wegscheider , C. Schueller , T. Korn

The theory of spin orientation of two-dimensional (2D) electron gas has been developed for intrasubband indirect optical transitions. The monopolar optical orientation of electrons in the conduction band is caused by the indirect scattering…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. A. Tarasenko , E. L. Ivchenko

We demonstrate that flow of longitudinal unpolarized current through a ballistic two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit coupling will induce nonequilibrium spin accumulation which has opposite sign for the two lateral edges and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Branislav K. Nikolic , Satofumi Souma , Liviu P. Zarbo , Jairo Sinova

The charge and spin response of a spin--polarized electron gas is investigated including terms beyond the random phase approximation. We evaluate the charge response, the longitudinal and transverse spin response, and the mixed spin--charge…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Kyung-Soo Yi , J. J. Quinn

The concept of a ponderomotive force due to the intrinsic spin of electrons is developed. An expression containing both the classical as well as the spin-induced ponderomotive force is derived. The results are used to demonstrate that an…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 G. Brodin , A. P. Misra , M. Marklund

We derive from first principles the existence of a low-frequency plasmon in a strongly coupled three-dimensional homogeneous electron gas (HEG). From its dispersion and its satisfaction of the 3rd frequency sum rule we identify it with the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-12-29 Gabor J. Kalman , Kenneth I. Golden , Luciano G. Silvestri

We study the effect of electron-electron interaction on the charge and spin structures at the edge of integer quantum Hall liquids, under three different kinds of confining potentials. Our exact diagonalization calculation for small systems…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-12 Yuhui Zhang , Kun Yang

Using a `standard' NMR spin-echo technique we determined the spin polarization of two-dimensional electrons, confined to GaAs quantum wells, from the hyperfine shift of Ga nuclei in the wells. Concentrating on the temperature and magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Melinte , N. Freytag , M. Horvatic , C. Berthier , L. P. Levy , V. Bayot , M. Shayegan

We study spin-resolved probability distributions for electrons in a multichannel waveguide in the presence of a spin-orbit interaction. For a spin-polarized electron injection, a zitterbewegung pattern is predicted in the probability…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Brusheim , H. Q. Xu

We investigate spin accumulation caused by spin-orbit interactions (SOIs) in a two dimensional electron system confined in one direction. We calculate spin density caused by three kinds of SOIs; arising from edge potential, Rashba and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Kazuhisa Suzuki , Susumu Kurihara