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We calculate the current-voltage characteristic of a one-dimensional band insulator with magnetic field and Rashba spin-orbit coupling which is connected to nonmagnetic leads. Without spin-orbit coupling we find a complete spin-filtering…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-02 Thibaut Jonckheere , George Japaridze , Thierry Martin , Roland Hayn

We introduce a spin-interference device that comprises a quantum ring (QR) with three embedded quantum point contacts (QPCs) and study theoretically its spin transport properties in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit interaction. Two of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Leo Diago-Cisneros , Francisco Mireles

We calculate adiabatic charge and spin pumping through a serial double quantum dot with strong Coulomb interaction, coupled to normal metal or ferromagnetic contacts. We use a real-time diagrammatic approach in the regime of weak coupling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-12-13 Roman-Pascal Riwar , Janine Splettstoesser

The electronic transport in a system of two quantum rings side-coupled to a quantum wire is studied via a single-band tunneling tight-binding Hamiltonian. We derived analytical expressions for the conductance and spin polarization when the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-03-31 V. M. Apel , P. A. Orellana , M. Pacheco

We consider a quantum graph consisting of a ring with Rashba hamiltonian and an arbitrary number of semi-infinite wires attached. We describe the scattering matrix for this system and investigate spin filtering for a three terminal device.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Harmer

We predict strong non-local effects in the three-terminal hybrid device, comprising the quantum dot embedded between two conducting leads and third superconducting reservoir. They result from competition between the ballistic electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-29 G. Michalek , T. Domanski , B. R. Bulka , K. I. Wysokinski

We examine electronic transport in a spin-blockaded double quantum dot. We show that by tuning the strength of the spin-orbit interaction the current flowing through the double dot exhibits a dip at zero magnetic field or a peak at a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 G. Giavaras , Neill Lambert , Franco Nori

A single electron spin in a double quantum dot in a magnetic field is considered in terms of a four-level system. By describing the electron motion between the potential minima by spin-conserving tunneling and spin flip caused by a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 Yi-Chao Li , Xi Chen , J. G. Muga , E. Ya. Sherman

Far infrared radiation absorption of a quantum dot with few electrons in an orthogonal magnetic field could monitor the crossover to the fully spin polarized state. A Rashba spin-orbit coupling can tune the energy and the spin density of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 P. Lucignano , B. Jouault , A. Tagliacozzo , B. L. Altshuler

We report a study of spin dependent transport in a system composed of a quantum dot coupled to a normal metal lead and a ferromagnetic lead (NM-QD-FM). We use the master equation approach to calculate the spin-resolved currents in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. M. Souza , J. C. Egues , A. P. Jauho

A scheme for a spin polarization direction switch is investigated by studying the spin-dependent electron transport of an asymmetrical quantum wire (QW) with Rashba spin-orbit coupling (SOC). It is found that the magnitude of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Zhonghui Xu , Xianbo Xiao , Yuguang Chen

Spin-charge interconversion is a very active direction in spintronics. Yet, the complex behaviour of some of the most promising systems such as SrTiO$_3$ (STO) interfaces is not fully understood. Here, on the basis of a 6-band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-11 D. Q. To , T. H. Dang , L. Vila , J. P. Attané , M. Bibes , H. Jaffrès

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

We develop a theory of designing slit experiments in two-dimensional electron systems with the Rashba spin-orbit interaction. By simulating the spatiotemporal dynamics of electrons passing through a single slit or a double slit, we find…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-22 Kotaro Shimizu , Masahito Mochizuki

A reconfigurable logic gate is proposed in a two-dimensional double quantum wire system with a coupling window enabled by a Rashba field. Manipulating the spin states of incoming electrons several quantum logic gates (OR, AND, XOR, CNOT)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-26 George Alexandru Nemnes , Daniela Dragoman

We apply an analysis of time-dependent spin-polarized current in a semiconductor channel at room temperature to establish how the magnetization configuration and dynamics of three ferromagnetic terminals, two of them biased and third…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-02-20 L. Cywinski , H. Dery , L. J. Sham

Because of the peculiar coupling of spatial and spin degrees of freedom effected by the Rashba spin-orbit interaction, lateral confinement of a two dimensional electronic system leads to a finite transverse spin polarization near the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Chesi , G. F. Giuliani

We report on a general theory for analyzing quantum transport through devices in the Metal-QD-Metal configuration where QD is a quantum dot or the device scattering region which contains Rashba spin-orbital and electron-electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Qing-feng Sun , Jian Wang , Hong Guo

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

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 N. T. Bagraev , N. G. Galkin , W. Gehlhoff , L. E. Klyachkin , A. M. Malyarenko , I. A. Shelykh

We investigate the electronic transport in a quantum wire with localized Rashba interaction. The Rashba field forms quasi-bound states which couple to the continuum states with an opposite spin direction. The presence of this Rashba dot…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Rosa Lopez , David Sanchez , Llorens Serra