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The specific band structure of graphene, with its unique valley structure and Dirac neutrality point separating hole states from electron states has led to the observation of new electronic transport phenomena such as anomalously quantized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-05 Nikolaos Tombros , Csaba Jozsa , Mihaita Popinciuc , Harry T. Jonkman , Bart J. van Wees

We study the dependence of the spin splitting on the number $N$ of atomic layers, using first-principles calculation for Au(111) surface. When the slab of the atomic layers is sufficiently thick, the lower split state has a minimum away…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-28 Taichi Kosugi , Takashi Miyake , Shoji Ishibashi

We investigate the spin relaxation due to the random Rashba spin-orbit coupling in symmetric GaAs (110) quantum wells from the fully microscopic kinetic spin Bloch equation approach. All relevant scatterings, such as the electron-impurity,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-03-17 Y. Zhou , M. W. Wu

We study the scattering of an electron in a definite state of spin at an interface of an hybrid system with a Rashba spin-orbit coupling on one side. Out of the normal incidence the double refraction phenomenon appears, with one or two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Marigliano Ramaglia , V. Cataudella , G. De Filippis , C. A. Perroni , F. Ventriglia

We investigate the longitudinal spin relaxation arising due to spin-flip transitions accompanied by phonon emission in quantum dots where the strength of the Rashba spin-orbit coupling is a random function of the lateral (in-plane)…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 E. Ya. Sherman , D. J. Lockwood

Spin Hall effect due to random Rashba spin-orbit coupling in the two-dimensional honeycomb lattice of carbon atoms (graphene) is considered theoretically. Using the Green function method and diagrammatic technique we show that fluctuations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-26 A. Dyrdal , J. Barnas

We have studied the spin-orbit interaction in a high mobility two-dimensional electron gas in a GaInAs/InP heterostructure as a function of an applied gate voltage as well as a function of temperature. Highly sensitive magnetotransport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Vitaliy A. Guzenko , Thomas Schäpers , Hilde Hardtdegen

Valley chiral kagom\'e networks can arise in various situations, like for example, in double-aligned graphene-hexagonal boron nitride and periodically strained graphene. Here, we construct a phenomenological scattering model based on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-11 P. Wittig , F. Dominguez , P. Recher

We report a magnetotransport study of spin relaxation in 1.4-21.2 nm epitaxial SrIrO$_3$ thin films coherently strained on SrTiO$_3$ substrates. Fully charge compensated semimetallic transport has been observed in SrIrO$_3$ films thicker…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-06-16 L. Zhang , X. Jiang , X. Xu , X. Hong

The influence of the Rashba spin-orbit coupling on the electron spin dynamics is investigated for a ballistic semiconductor quantum wire with a finite width. We monitor the spin evolution using the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Manuel Valin-Rodriguez , Antonio Puente , Llorens Serra

Within an effective Dirac theory the low-energy dispersions of monolayer graphene in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit coupling and spin-degenerate bilayer graphene are described by formally identical expressions. We explore implications of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-06 Ming-Hao Liu , Jan Bundesmann , Klaus Richter

We experimentally study the electronic spin transport in hBN encapsulated single layer graphene nonlocal spin valves. The use of top and bottom gates allows us to control the carrier density and the electric field independently. The spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-27 M. H. D. Guimarães , P. J. Zomer , J. Ingla-Aynés , J. C. Brant , N. Tombros , B. J. van Wees

Recently, we developed an \textit{ab initio} approach of spin lifetime (\tau_{s}) and spin diffusion length (l_{s}) in solids [Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 046705 (2025)], based on a density-matrix master equation with quantum treatment of…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-22 Junqing Xu , Can Liu , Weiwei Chen

$\gamma$-triclinic and $\alpha$-monoclinic polymorphs of CoV$_{2}$O$_{6}$ are two of the few known transition metal ion based materials that display stepped $1/3$ magnetization plateaus at low temperatures. Neutron diffraction [M. Markkula…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-12-23 F. Wallington , A. M. Arevalo-Lopez , J. W. Taylor , J. R. Stewart , V. Garcia-Sakai , J. P. Attfield , C. Stock

Hydrogen adsorbates in graphene are interesting as they are not only strong Coulomb scatterers but they also induce a change in orbital hybridization of the carbon network from sp^2 into sp^3. This change increases the spin-orbit coupling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-26 M. Wojtaszek , I. J. Vera-Marun , T. Maassen , B. J. van Wees

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

Rashba-like spin-orbit interaction at oxide heterostructures emerges as a much sought-after feature in the context of oxide spintronics and spin-orbitronics. KTaO$_3$ (KTO) is one of the best substrates available for the purpose, owing to…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-09-19 Vivek Kumar , Nirmal Ganguli

We develop a self-consistent theory describing the spin and spatial electron diffusion in the impurity band of doped semiconductors under the effect of a weak spin-orbit coupling. The resulting low-temperature spin-relaxation time and…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-11-02 Thomas Wellens , Rodolfo A. Jalabert

We study spin control for an electron confined in a flake of silicene. We find that the lowest-energy conduction-band levels are split by the diagonal intrinsic spin-orbit coupling into Kramers doublets with a definite projection of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-30 Bartlomiej Szafran , Alina Mrenca-Kolasinska , Bartlomiej Rzeszotarski , Dariusz Zebrowski

We propose an experimental realization of the Spin Hall effect in graphene by illuminating a graphene sheet on top of a substrate with circularly polarized monochromatic light. The substrate induces a controllable Rashba type spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 Alexander Lopez , Rafael Molina