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Circulating orbital currents produced by the spin-orbit interaction for a single electron spin in a quantum dot are explicitly evaluated at zero magnetic field, along with their effect on the total magnetic moment (spin and orbital) of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-24 J. van Bree , A. Yu. Silov , P. M. Koenraad , M. E. Flatté

We present several new results, extending our recent proposal of a spin filter based on a tight-binding model for a periodic chain of diamond-like loops [Phys. Rev. B {\bf 78}, 125328 (2008)]. In this filter, the Rashba spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-08 Amnon Aharony , Ora Entin-Wohlman , Yasuhiro Tokura , Shingo Katsumoto

We consider the effect of the Rashba spin-orbital interaction and space charge in a ferromagnet-insulator/semiconductor/insulator-ferromagnet junction where the spin current is severely affected by the doping, band structure and charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Wei Wu , Jinbin Li , Yue Yu , S. T. Chui

Semiconductors in the proximity of superconductors have been proposed to support phases hosting Majorana bound states. When the systems undergo a topological phase transition towards the Majorana phase, the spectral gap closes, then…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-25 Doru Sticlet , Cătălin Paşcu Moca , Balázs Dóra

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

We present an analysis of the symmetries of the interference pattern of critical currents through a two-dimensional superconductor-semiconductor-superconductor junction, taking into account Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interaction, an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-13 Asbjørn Rasmussen , Jeroen Danon , Henri Suominen , Fabrizio Nichele , Morten Kjaergaard , Karsten Flensberg

We demonstrate that the interplay between structural geometry and Rashba spin-orbit coupling generates nontrivial topological phases in honeycomb nanoribbon heterostructures. We consider an armchair nanoribbon in which a Rashba spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-23 Hao-Ru Wu , Jhih-Shih You , Yiing-Rei Chen , Hong-Yi Chen

Current-induced spin-orbit torque (SOT) plays a crucial role in the next-generation spin-orbitronics. Enhancing its efficiency is both fundamentally and practically interesting and remains a challenge to date. Recently, orbital counterparts…

We put forward a new approach based on Green's function formalism to evaluate precisely persistent charge and spin currents in an Aharonov-Bohm ring subjected to Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interactions. Unlike conventional methods…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-19 Santanu K. Maiti , Moumita Dey , S. N. Karmakar

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 theoretically obtain the phase diagram of localized magnetic impurity spins arranged in a one-dimensional chain on top of a one- or two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit coupling. The interactions between the spins are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-05 Younghyun Kim , Meng Cheng , Bela Bauer , Roman M. Lutchyn , S. Das Sarma

We propose a general scattering matrix formalism that guarantees the charge conservation at junctions between conducting arms with arbitrary spin interactions. By using our formalism, we find that the spin-flip scattering can happen even at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-07 Minchul Lee , Dimitrije Stepanenko

Hamiltonian engineering is an important approach for quantum information processing, when appropriate materials do not exist in nature or are unstable. So far there is no stable material for the Kitaev spin Hamiltonian with anisotropic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-27 Tetsufumi Tanamoto , Keiji Ono , Yu-xi Liu , Franco Nori

The effect of an atomically sharp impenetrable interface on the spin splitting of the spectrum of two-dimensional electrons in heterostructures based on (001) III-V compounds has been analyzed. To this end, the single band Hamiltonian…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-10 Zh. A. Devizorova , V. A. Volkov

We address spin dependent transport through an array of diamonds in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit (SO) interaction where each diamond plaquette is penetrated by an Aharonov-Bohm (AB) flux $\phi$. The diamond chain is attached…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-01-21 Moumita Dey , Santanu K. Maiti , S. N. Karmakar

In this work we study interacting electrons on square lattice in the presence of strong Rashba spin-orbit interaction. The spin-orbit term forces the time-reversal electron states to be paired in even Cooper channels. For concreteness, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-03-27 Rasoul Ghadimi , Mehdi Kargarian , S. Akbar Jafari

The effect of Rashba spin-orbital interaction upon supercurrent in S-2DEG-S proximity junctions is investigated in the clean limit. Generalization of Beenakker's formula for Andreev levels to the case of spin-orbital scattering is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ol'ga V. Dimitrova , M. V. Feigel'man

We investigate the persistent currents, spin-polarized local density of states, and spectral functions of topological superconductors constructed by placing ferromagnetic impurities on top of an s-wave superconductor with Rashba spin-orbit…

The phenomenon of mesoscopic Spin-Hall effect reveals in a nonequilibrium spin accumulation (driven by electric current) at the edges of a ballistic conductor or, more generally, in the regions with varying electron density. In this paper…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-12-24 P. G. Silvestrov , E. G. Mishchenko

In a heavily doped semiconductor with weak spin-orbital interaction the Dyakonov-Perel spin relaxation rate is known to be proportional to the Drude conductivity. We argue that in the case of weak spin-orbital interaction this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 B. I. Shklovskii