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We report the dispersive readout of the spin state of a double quantum dot formed at the corner states of a silicon nanowire field-effect transistor. Two face-to-face top-gate electrodes allow us to independently tune the charge occupation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 A. C. Betz , R. Wacquez , M. Vinet , X. Jehl , A L. Saraiva , M. Sanquer , A. J. Ferguson , M. F. Gonzalez-Zalba

The quantum spin Hall effect (QSHE), a hallmark of topological insulators, enables dissipationless, spin-polarized edge transport and has been predicted in various two-dimensional materials. However, challenges such as limited scalability,…

In this work, we show that a gate electric field, applied in the base of the field-effect devices, leads to inducing spin-orbit interactions (Rashba and linear Dresselhauss) and confines the transport electrons in a two-dimensional electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-03 J. L. Cardoso , H. Hernández-Saldaña

Spin-orbit torques due to interfacial Rashba and spin Hall effects have been widely considered as a potentially more efficient approach than the conventional spin-transfer torque to control the magnetization of ferromagnets. We report a…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-09-07 Liupeng Yang , Yining Fei , Kaiyuan Zhou , Lina Chen , Qingwei Fu , Liyuan Li , Cunjie Yan , Haotian Li , Youwei Du , Ronghua Liu

We theoretically manifest that the edge of a quantum spin Hall insulator (QSHI), attached to an insulating ferromagnet (FM), can realize a highly efficient spin-to-charge conversion. Based on a one-dimensional QSHI-FM junction, the electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-22 Yasufumi Araki , Takahiro Misawa , Kentaro Nomura

The relativistic Rashba contribution to the spin-Hall effect in external electric and magnetic fields in Al and Pt was investigated. Schemes of edge accumulation of spins are proposed that take into account the flip of spins when they do…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-27 Yu. N. Chiang , M. O. Dzyuba

We study the dynamics of a quantum spin Hall edge coupled to a magnet with its own dynamics. Using spin transfer torque principles, we analyze the interplay between spin currents in the edge state and dynamics of the axis of the magnet, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-11 Qinglei Meng , Smitha Vishveshwara , Taylor L. Hughes

The Rashba spin-orbit coupling in carbon nanotubes and its effect on spin-dependent transport properties are analyzed theoretically. We focus on clean non-interacting nanotubes with tunable number of subbands $N$. The peculiar band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. De Martino , R. Egger

A recently published report in the journal Science claims that the Datta-Das Spin Field Effect Transistor has been demonstrated because an exact agreement was found between the voltage modulation in a fabricated structure and a theoretical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-03 Supriyo Bandyopadhyay

We propose and analyze a new method for manipulation of a heavy hole spin in a quantum dot. Due to spin-orbit coupling between states with different orbital momenta and opposite spin orientations, an applied rf electric field induces…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Denis V. Bulaev , Daniel Loss

In this paper, we present the theoretical predication of a thermospin Hall effect, in which a transverse spin current can be generated in semiconductors in the presence of spin-orbit coupling by a frequency-dependent longitudinal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-02-05 Zhongshui Ma

The Rashba effect leads to a chiral precession of the spins of moving electrons while the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) generates preference towards a chiral profile of local spins. We predict that the exchange interaction between…

We investigate nonperturbatively the effect of a magnetic dopant impurity on the edge transport of a quantum spin Hall (QSH) insulator. We show that for a strongly coupled magnetic dopant located near the edge of a system, a pair of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-17 Jun-Hui Zheng , Miguel A. Cazalilla

Using canonical transformations we diagonalize approximately the Hamiltonian of a gaussian wire with Rashba spin-orbit interaction. This proceedure allows us to obtain the energy dispersion relations and the wavefunctions with good…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. I. Erlingsson , J. C. Egues , D. Loss

A hybrid setup consisting of a superconductivity-proximitized quantum spin Hall (QSH) insulator and a quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) insulator is proposed for chiral injection of electrons into the Majorana bound state (MBS). An unexplored…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-17 Vivekananda Adak , Aabir Mukhopadhyay , Suman Jyoti De , Udit Khanna , Sumathi Rao , Sourin Das

The quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect has been recently discovered in experiment using thin-film topological insulator with ferromagnetic ordering and strong spin-orbit coupling. Here we investigate the spin degree of freedom of a QAH…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-30 Jiansheng Wu , Jie Liu , Xiong-Jun Liu

We predict two spin-dependent transport phenomena in two-dimensional electron systems, which are induced by spatially fluctuating Rashba spin-orbit interaction. When the electron gas is magnetized, the random Rashba interaction leads to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-26 V. K. Dugaev , M. Inglot , E. Ya. Sherman , J. Berakdar , J. Barnas

We study a two-dimensional electron system in the presence of spin-orbit interaction. It is shown analytically that the spin-orbit interaction acts as a transversal effective electric field, whose orientation depends on the sign of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Manuel Valin-Rodriguez

We present a theoretical study of a spin field-effect transistor realized in a quantum well formed in a p--doped ferromagnetic-semiconductor- nonmagnetic-semiconductor-ferromagnetic-semiconductor hybrid structure. Based on an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Marco G. Pala , Michele Governale , Jürgen König , Ulrich Zülicke , Giuseppe Iannaccone

We theoretically study the magnetoelectric coupling in a quantum anomalous Hall insulator state induced by interfacing a dynamic magnetization texture to a topological insulator. In particular, we propose that the quantum anomalous Hall…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-03 Pramey Upadhyaya , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak