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We consider the Higgs mode at nonzero momentum in superconductors and demonstrate that in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit coupling, it couples linearly with an external exchange field. The Higgs-spin coupling dramatically modifies the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-02-10 Yao Lu , Risto Ojajärvi , P. Virtanen , M. A. Silaev , Tero T. Heikkilä

We present the first findings of the spin transistor effect caused by the Rashba gate-controlled ring embedded in the p-type self-assembled silicon quantum well that is prepared on the Si (100) surface. The coherence and phase sensitivity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 N. T. Bagraev , N. G. Galkin , W. Gehlhoff , L. E. Klyachkin , A. M. Malyarenko , I. A. Shelykh

Here, we study diffusive spin transport in two dimensions and demonstrate that an intrinsic analog to a previously predicted extrinsic spin swapping effect, where the spin polarization and the direction of flow are interchanged due to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 Severin Sadjina , Arne Brataas , A. G. Mal'shukov

We present theoretical studies of the influence of spin orbit coupling on the spin wave excitations of the Fe monolayer and bilayer on the W(110) surface. The Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction is active in such films, by virtue of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-19 A. T. Costa , R. B. Muniz , S. Lounis , A. B. Klautau , D. L. Mills

We study the effects of a Zeeman magnetic field on the electron transport of one-dimensional quantum rings which are marked by electronic states with $d-$orbital symmetry in the presence of spin-orbit and orbital Rashba couplings. By…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-13 Gianluca Francica , Paola Gentile , Mario Cuoco

Associated with spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and inversion symmetry breaking, Rashba spin polarization opens a new avenue for spintronic applications that was previously limited to ordinary magnets. However, spin polarization effects in actual…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-10-12 Qihang Liu , Xiuwen Zhang , J. A. Waugh , D. S. Dessau , Alex Zunger

Electrons with spin-orbit coupling moving in mesoscopic structures can often exhibit local spin polarization. In this paper, we study the influence of the Rashba coupling on the scattering of two-dimensional electrons from a circular disk.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jr-Yu Yeh , Chung-Yu Mou , Ming-Che Chang

Large Rashba effect efficiently tuned by an external electric field is highly desired for spintronic devices. Using first-principles calculations, we demonstrate that large Rashba splitting is locked at conduction band minimum in…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-09-10 Yan Song , Dong Zhang , Ben Xu , Kai Chang , Ce-Wen Nan

We investigate the electron transport through a two-dimensional semiconductor with a nonuniform Rashba spin-orbit interaction. Due to the combination of the coherence effect and the Rashba interaction, a spontaneous spin-polarized current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Qing-feng Sun , X. C. Xie

Theory of Rashba spin-orbit coupling in magnetic metals is worked out from microscopic Hamiltonian describing d-orbitals. When structural inversion symmetry is broken, electron hopping between $d$-orbitals generates chiral ordering of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-07 Jin-Hong Park , Choong H. Kim , Hyun-Woo Lee , Jung Hoon Han

We study the effect of the Rashba spin-orbit interaction in the quantum transport of carbon nanotubes with arbitrary chiralities. For certain spin directions, we find a strong spin-polarized electrical current that depends on the diameter…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-28 Hernán Santos , A. Latgé , J. E. Alvarellos , Leonor Chico

Motivated by the recent findings of unconventional superconductivity in $\mathrm{CoSi_2 / TiSi_2}$ heterostructures, we study the effect of interface induced Rashba spin orbit coupling on the conductance of a three terminal "T" shape…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-05-18 Vivek Mishra , Yu Li , Fu-Chun Zhang , Stefan Kirchner

The current induced local spin polarization due to weak Rashba spin-orbit coupling in narrow strip is studied. In the presence of longitudinal charge current, local spin polarizations appear in the sample. The spin polarization…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 Q. Wang , L. Sheng , C. S. Ting

We consider quasiballistic electron transmission in a one-dimensional quantum wire subject to both time-independent and periodic potentials of a finger gate that results in a coordinate- and time-dependent Rashba-type spin-orbit coupling. A…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-11 Almas F. Sadreev , E. Ya. Sherman

We study a proximity junction between a conventional s-wave superconductor and a conductor with Rashba spin-orbit coupling, with a specific focus on the spin structure of the induced pairing amplitude. We find that spin-triplet pairing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-23 Christopher R. Reeg , Dmitrii L. Maslov

An influence of spin-orbit interaction on the tunneling between two 2D electron layers is considered. Particular attention is addressed to the relation between the contribution of Rashba and Dresselhaus types. It is shown that without…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 I. V. Rozhansky , N. S. Averkiev

The concept of ferroelectricity is now often extended to include continuous inversion symmetry-breaking transitions in various metals and doped semiconductors. Paraelectric metals near ferroelectric quantum criticality, which we term…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-07-09 Kyoung-Min Kim , Suk Bum Chung

We demonstrate that the flow of a longitudinal spin current with different spin polarization will induce different patterns of charge accumulation in a two-terminal strip, or electric current distribution in a four-terminal Hall-bar…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jian Li , Shun-Qing Shen

We study the Kondo screening of a magnetic impurity in a two-dimensional superconductor with Rashba spin-orbit coupling (SOC). It is found that the Rashba interaction generates a novel Kondo screening channel, in which the local moment is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-03-13 Lin Li , Ming-Xin Gao , Zhen-Hua Wang , Hong-Gang Luo , Wei-Qiang Chen

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