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We study the transverse electron focusing in a two dimensional electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit coupling. We show that the interplay between the external magnetic field and the spin-orbit coupling gives two branches of states with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gonzalo Usaj , C. A. Balseiro

Within the Kubo formalism, we estimate the spin-Hall conductivity in a two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit interaction and study its variation as a function of disorder strength and system size. The numerical algorithm…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. P. Moca , D. C. Marinescu

Starting from a continuum constituted by charged tops, we formulate the classical counterpart of a previously obtained covariant continuity-like equation for the spin current. Such a formulism provides an intuitive picture to elucidate the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-04-19 Pei-Qing Jin , You-Quan Li

We report on a comparative numerical study of the spin Hall conductivity in two-dimensions for three different spin-orbit interaction models; the standard k-linear Rashba model, the k-cubic Rashba model that describes two-dimensional hole…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 K. Nomura , Jairo Sinova , N. A. Sinitsyn , A. H. MacDonald

Equilibrium spin-current is calculated in a quasi-two-dimensional electron gas with finite thickness under in-plane magnetic field and in the presence of Rashba- and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interactions. The transverse confinement is modeled…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 E. Nakhmedov , O. Alekperov

We propose a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) system in which an external magnetic (B) field with a small chirality is applied to provide a topological U(1) U(1) gauge field that separates conduction electrons of opposite spins in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. G. Tan , M. B. A. Jalil , Xiong-Jun Liu , Takashi Fujita

We study screening properties of the two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit coupling. Calculating the dielectric function within the random phase approximation, we describe the new features of screening induced by spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Pletyukhov , V. Gritsev

We propose a nonequilibrium Green's function approach to study the spin-Hall effect in a two-dimensional electron system with both the Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit couplings. By taking into account the long-range electron-impurity…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Y. Liu , X. L. Lei

We study spin-dependent transport in a two-dimensional electron gas subject to an external step-like potential $V(x)$ and irradiated by an electromagnetic field (EF). In the absence of EF the electronic spectrum splits into spin sub-bands…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. V. Fistul , K. B. Efetov

We develop the microscopic theory of the extrinsic spin Hall conductivity of a two-dimensional electron gas, including skew-scattering, side-jump, and Coulomb interaction effects. We find that while the spin-Hall conductivity connected with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 E. M. Hankiewicz , Giovanni Vignale

Electronic bound states around charged impurities in two-dimensional systems with structural inversion asymmetry can be described in terms of a two-dimensional hydrogen atom in the presence of a Rashba spin-orbit interaction. Here, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. Grimaldi

We study the effect of disorder on the intrinsic anomalous Hall (AH) conductivity in a spin-polarized two-dimensional electron gas with a Rashba-type spin-orbit interaction. We find that AH conductivity vanishes unless the lifetime is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Jun-ichiro Inoue , Takashi Kato , Yasuhito Ishikawa , Hiroyoshi Itoh , Gerrit E. W. Bauer , Laurens W. Molenkamp

The single particle equations describing motion of carriers in external potential in 2D Dirac-like and Kane intrinsic semiconductors are obtained within second quantization method. The terms renormalizing external potential in these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-19 E. L. Rumyantsev , P. E. Kunavin

Using the Matsubara Green's function formalism we calculate the temperature dependence of the nonequilibrium spin polarization induced by an external electric field in the presence of spin-orbit coupling. The model Hamiltonian includes an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-13 L. Karwacki , A. Dyrdal , J. Berakdar , J. Barnas

We show that the joint effect of spin-orbit and magnetic fields leads to a spin polarization perpendicular to the plane of a two-dimensional electron system with Rashba spin-orbit coupling and in-plane parallel dc magnetic and electric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hans-Andreas Engel , Emmanuel I. Rashba , Bertrand I. Halperin

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

In order to model the phase-coherent scattering of electrons in two-dimensional electron gases in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit coupling, a general partial-wave expansion is developed for scattering from a cylindrically symmetric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Jamie D. Walls , Jian Huang , Robert M. Westervelt , Eric J. Heller

In 2D systems with a spin-orbit interaction, magnetic focussing can be used to create a spatial separation of particles with different spin. Here we measure hole magnetic focussing for two different magnitudes of the Rashba spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-25 M. J. Rendell , S. D. Liles , A. Srinivasan , O. Klochan , I. Farrer , D. A. Ritchie , A. R. Hamilton

The charge density relaxation propagator of a two dimensional electron system, which is the slope of the imaginary part of the polarization function, exhibits singularities for bosonic momenta having the order of the spin-orbit momentum and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-13 S. M. Badalyan , A. Matos-Abiague , J. Fabian , G. Vignale , F. M. Peeters

We calculate the frequency dependent spin susceptibilities for a two-dimensional electron gas with both Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interaction. The resonances of the susceptibilities depends on the relative values of the Rashba and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sigurdur I. Erlingsson , John Schliemann , Daniel Loss