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This study explores the relationship between spin diffusion, spin lifetime, electron density and lateral spatial confinement in two-dimensional electron gases hosted in GaAs quantum wells. Using time-resolved magneto-optical Kerr effect…

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Studies of weak localization by scattering from vapor atoms for electrons on a liquid helium surface are reported. There are three contributions to the dephasing time. Dephasing by the motion of vapor atoms perpendicular to the surface is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 I. Karakurt , D. Herman , H. Mathur , A. J. Dahm

We have analytically studied plasmons in an electron system comprised of two spatially separated layers -- an infinite two-dimensional electron system (2DES) and a 2D strip. Our analysis reveals the existence of plasmon modes that are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-14 A. A. Zabolotnykh , V. A. Volkov

This work elucidates the novel behavior found in a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) under a tilted magnetic field in which the field's angle becomes the dominant factor in tuning the spin-splitting rather than the strength of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-01 Rayda Gammag , Cristine Villagonzalo

The cross section of atomic electron Compton scattering $\gamma + e \rightarrow \gamma^\prime + e^\prime $ was measured in the 4.40--5.475 GeV photon beam energy region by the {\em PrimEx} collaboration at Jefferson Lab with an accuracy of…

We investigate theoretically the energy exchange between electrons of two co-propagating, out-of-equilibrium edge states with opposite spin polarization in the integer quantum Hall regime. A quantum dot tunnel-coupled to one of the edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-11 Anders Mathias Lunde , Simon E. Nigg

Scattering of electrons from chiral spin textures such as the skyrmions is an emerging research area due to its richness in topological quantum transport, which is significant for spintronic devices. We study the dynamical process of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Hareram Swain , Arijit Mandal , S. Satpathy , B. R. K. Nanda

Scattering of a tightly focused electron beam by an atom forms one of the bases of modern electron microscopy. A fundamental symmetry breaking occurs when the target atom is displaced from the beam center. This displacement results in a…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Yuya Morimoto , Peter Hommelhoff , Lars Bojer Madsen

We analyze electrostatic interaction between a sharp conducting tip and a thin one-dimensional wire, e.g., a carbon nanotube, in a scanned gate microscopy (SGM) experiment. The problem is analytically tractable if the wire resides on a thin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-02 Lingfeng M. Zhang , Michael M. Fogler

We present a theoretical study of elastic spin-dependent electron scattering caused by a nonuniform Rashba spin-orbit coupling strength. Using the spin-generalized method of partial waves the scattering amplitude is exactly derived for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 András Pályi , Csaba Péterfalvi , József Cserti

We discuss the target and beam normal spin asymmetries in elastic electron-nucleon scattering which depend on the imaginary part of two-photon exchange processes between electron and nucleon. We express this imaginary part as a phase space…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 B. Pasquini , M. Vanderhaeghen

We present a theoretical study of Compton scattering of X- and $\gamma$-rays by a $K$-shell electron. Special attention is paid to the double-differential cross section and polarization of the scattered photons for linearly polarized…

Detection of electron recoils by dark matter (DM) may reveal the structure of the dark sector. We consider a scenario where a heavier DM particle inelastically scatters off an electron and is converted into a lighter DM particle. A small…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-02 Keisuke Harigaya , Yuichiro Nakai , Motoo Suzuki

Hot electron transport of direct and scattered carriers across an epitaxial NiSi_2/n-Si(111) interface, for different NiSi_2 thickness, is studied using Ballistic Electron Emission Microscopy (BEEM). We find the BEEM transmission for the…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-02-08 S. Parui , P. S. Klandermans , S. Venkatesan , C. Scheu , T. Banerjee

Lack of inversion symmetry in metals breaks SU(2) symmetry which results in spin-splitting of the electronic states at the Fermi level due to various types of spin-orbit coupling (SOC) such as Dresselhaus, Rashba, or Ising (also called…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-02 Mojdeh Saleh , Saurabh Maiti

The energy-spread of the triple-pulse electron beam generated by the Dragon-II linear induction accelerator is measured using the method of energy dispersion in the magnetic field. A sector magnet is applied for energy analyzing of the…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2016-03-15 Yi Wang , Qin Li , Zhiyong Yang , Huang Zhang , Hengsong Ding , Anmin Yang , Minhong Wang

In this work, we employed non-equilibrium Green's function to investigate the electron transport properties in the nanowire with the presence of scatterings. The scattering mechanism is modelled by using the concept of B\"uttiker probe. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Jing Li , Tin Cheung Au Yeung , Chan Hin Kam

Bi$_{2}$Se$_{3}$ is a topological insulator whose unique properties result from topological surface states (TSS) in the band gap. Low energy ion scattering can determine the properties of the outermost few atomic layers of a solid. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-20 Weimin Zhou , Haoshan Zhu , Jory A. Yarmoff

We report on a study of quasi-ballistic transport in deep submicron, inhomogeneous semiconductor structures, focusing on the analysis of signatures found in the full nonequilibrium electron distribution. We perform self-consistent numerical…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 D. Csontos , S. E. Ulloa

The quasi-bound and scattered states in a 2DEG subjected to a circular symmetric steplike magnetic profile with zero average magnetic field are studied. We calculate the effect of a random distribution of such identical profiles on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Reijniers , F. M. Peeters , A. Matulis