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We theoretically study scattering process and superconducting triplet correlations in a graphene junction comprised of ferromagnet-RSO-superconductor in which RSO stands for a region with Rashba spin orbit interaction. Our results reveal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-21 Razieh Beiranvand , Hossein Hamzehpour , Mohammad Alidoust

We present calculations of the frequency-dependent spin susceptibility tensor of a two-dimensional electron gas with competing Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interaction. It is shown that the interplay between both types of spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Catalina López-Bastidas , Jesús A. Maytorena , Francisco Mireles

We investigated the Rashba spin splittings in a compressive-strained SrTiO$_3$(001) ultra thin-film using first-principles calculations. The effect of the polarization due to the compressive strain leads to the 2DEG with large Rashba spin…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-08-07 Naoya Yamaguchi , Fumiyuki Ishii

We intercalate a van der Waals heterostructure of graphene and hexagonal Boron Nitride with Au, by encapsulation, and show that Au at the interface is two dimensional. A charge transfer upon current annealing indicates redistribution of Au…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 E. C. T. O'Farrell , J. Y. Tan , Y. Yeo , G. K. W. Koon , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , B. Özyilmaz

We consider spin effects related to the random spin-orbit interaction in graphene. Such a random interaction can result from the presence of ripples and/or other inhomogeneities at the graphene surface. We show that the random spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 V. K. Dugaev , E. Ya. Sherman , J. Barnas

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

We discuss the transport properties of a disordered two-dimensional electron gas with strong Rashba spin-orbit coupling. We show that in the high-density regime where the Fermi energy overcomes the energy associated with spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-28 Valentina Brosco , Lara Benfatto , Emmanuele Cappelluti , Claudio Grimaldi

Proximity-induced spin-orbit coupling in graphene has led to the observation of intriguing phenomena like time-reversal invariant $\mathbb{Z}_2$ topological phase and spin-orbital filtering effects. An understanding of the effect of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-18 Priya Tiwari , Mohit Kumar Jat , Adithi Udupa , Deepa S. Narang , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Diptiman Sen , Aveek Bid

We study the interplay of both Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit couplings (SOCs) and a uniform perpendicular magnetic field $\textbf{B}$ on the transport of a spin-polarized electron along a curved quantum wire. Eigenenergies and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-27 Carlos Baldo , Cristine Villagonzalo

We show that the dissipationless spin current in the ground state of the Rashba model gives rise to a reactive coupling between the spin and charge propagation, which is formally identical to the coupling between the electric and the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 B. Andrei Bernevig , Xiaowei Yu , Shou-Cheng Zhang

The fundamental spin-orbit coupling and spin mixing in graphene and rippled honeycomb lattice materials silicene, germanene, stanene, blue phosphorene, arsenene, antimonene, and bismuthene is investigated from first principles. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-25 Marcin Kurpas , Paulo E. Faria Junior , Martin Gmitra , Jaroslav Fabian

We consider twisted bilayer and trilayer graphene in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit coupling and explore the physics of Moir\'e spintronics. The electronic charge density has a sharp step right at the magic angles $\theta_m$. As a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-17 Yshai Avishai , Yehuda Band

We discuss by analytic means the theory of the high-density limit of the unpolarized two-dimensional electron liquid in the presence of Rashba or Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling. A generalization of the ring-diagram expansion is performed.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Stefano Chesi , Gabriele F. Giuliani

We address the problem of spin-resolved scattering through spin-orbit nanostructures in graphene, i.e., regions of inhomogeneous spin-orbit coupling on the nanometer scale. We discuss the phenomenon of spin-double refraction and its…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-27 D. Bercioux , A. De Martino

We present low temperature magnetoconductivity measurements of a density-tunable and high mobility two-dimensional electron gas confined in the wide bandgap GaN/AlGaN system. We observed pronounced anti-localization minima in the low-field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Schmult , M. J. Manfra , A. Punnoose , A. M. Sergent , K. W. Baldwin , R. J. Molnar

We consider Rashba spin-orbit effects on spin transport driven by an electric field in semiconductor quantum wells. We derive spin diffusion equations that are valid when the mean free path and the Rashba spin-orbit interaction vary on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Arne Brataas , A. G. Mal'shukov , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

We present a first-principles and quantum transport study of proximity-induced spin-orbit torque (SOT) in graphene on a trigonal CrSBr monolayer. Density functional theory combined with nonequilibrium Green's function calculations shows…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-29 Maedeh Rassekh , Martin Gmitra

We show that the propagation of spin polarized carriers may be dramatically affected by {\em inhomogeneous} electric fields. Surprisingly, the spin diffusion length is found to strongly depend on the sign and magnitude of electric field…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Dan Csontos , Sergio E. Ulloa

Graphene sandwiched between semiconducting monolayers of ferromagnet Cr$_2$Ge$_2$Te$_6$ and transition-metal dichalcogenide WS$_2$ acquires both spin-orbit (SO), of valley-Zeeman and Rashba types, and exchange couplings. Using…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-14 Klaus Zollner , Marko D. Petrovic , Kapildeb Dolui , Petr Plechac , Branislav K. Nikolic , Jaroslav Fabian

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