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Using standard quantum network method, we analytically investigate the effect of Rashba spin-orbit coupling (RSOC) and a magnetic field on the spin transport properties of a polygonal quantum ring. Using Landauer-Buttiker formula, we have…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Han-Zhao Tang , Li-Xue Zhai , Man Shen , Jian-Jun Liu

We consider quasiballistic electron transmission in a one-dimensional quantum wire subject to both time-independent and periodic potentials of a finger gate that results in a coordinate- and time-dependent Rashba-type spin-orbit coupling. A…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-11 Almas F. Sadreev , E. Ya. Sherman

We derive the eigenenergies and eigenstates of electrons in a quantum wire subjected to an external magnetic field. These are calculated in the presence of spin orbit interactions arising from the Rashba (structural inversion asymmetry) and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Bandyopadhyay , S. Pramanik , M. Cahay

We generalize a Landauer-type formula, using a real$\otimes$spin-space Green function technique, to treat spin-dependent transport in quantum-coherent conductors attached to two ferromagnetic contacts. The formalism is employed to study the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Branislav K. Nikolic , J. K. Freericks

We present both theory and numerical-computation results for the transmission and reflection probability currents of a charged particle across a potential step in the presence of a Rashba spin-orbit interaction. By varying kinetic energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-22 Po-Hsin Shih , Godfrey Gumbs , Danhong Huang , Andrii Iurov , Yonatan Abranyos

The Rashba effect as an electrically tunable spin-orbit interaction is the base for a multitude of possible applications such as spin filters, spin transistors, and quantum computing using Majorana states in nanowires. Moreover, this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-13 Jan Raphael Bindel , Mike Pezzotta , Jascha Ulrich , Marcus Liebmann , Eugene Sherman , Markus Morgenstern

Spin-dependent electron transport in a periodically stubbed quantum wire in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit interaction (SOI) is studied via the nonequilibrium Green's function method combined with the Landauer-Buttiker formalism. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-20 Xianbo Xiao , Zhaoxia Chen , Zhiming Rao , Wenjie Nie , Guanghui Zhou

We investigate the electronic transport in a quantum wire with localized Rashba interaction. The Rashba field forms quasi-bound states which couple to the continuum states with an opposite spin direction. The presence of this Rashba dot…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Rosa Lopez , David Sanchez , Llorens Serra

We use magnetoconductance measurements in dual-gated InSb nanowire devices together with a theoretical analysis of weak antilocalization to accurately extract spin-orbit strength. In particular, we show that magnetoconductance in our…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-12 I. van Weperen , B. Tarasinski , D. Eeltink , V. S. Pribiag , S. R. Plissard , E. P. A. M. Bakkers , L. P. Kouwenhoven , M. Wimmer

We investigate the linear conductance of a stripe of spin-orbit interaction in a 2D electron gas; that is, a 2D region of length $\ell$ along the transport direction and infinite in the transverse one in which a spin-orbit interaction of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 M. M. Gelabert , Ll. Serra

The length over which electron spins reverse direction due to the Rashba effect when injected with an initial polarization along the axes of a quantum wire is investigated theoretically. A soft wall confinement of the wire renormalizes the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Wolfgang Häusler

The z axis magnetization of a two dimensional electron gas with contact repulsive interaction and in presence of a Rashba potential is computed by means of quantum field theory at second order. A striking effect of the pure Rashba…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-21 Alberto Ambrosetti , Pier Luigi Silvestrelli , Flavio Toigo

We perform a numerical study on the spin-resolved transport in a quantum wire (QW) under the modulation of both Rashba spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and a perpendicular magnetic field (MF) by adopting the developed Usuki transfer-matrix method…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-06-13 Xianbo Xiao , Zhaoxia Chen , Wenjie Nie , Guanghui Zhou , Fei Li

We investigate the influence of Rashba spin-orbit coupling in a parabolic nanowire modulated by longitudinal periodic potential. The modulation potential can be obtained from realistically grown supperlattices (SLs). Our study shows that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-14 Sanjay Prabhakar , Roderick Melnik , Luis L. Bonilla

We present a formalism to study quantum networks made up by single-channel quantum wires in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit coupling and magnetic field. In particular, linear transport through one-dimensional and two-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dario Bercioux , Michele Governale , Vittorio Cataudella , Vincenzo Marigliano Ramaglia

The band structure of two-dimensional artificial superlattices in the presence of (Rashba-type) spin-orbit interaction (SOI) is presented. The position and shape of the energy bands in these spintronic crystals depend on the geometry as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 Peter Foldi , Viktor Szaszko-Bogar , F. M. Peeters

We study the symmetry of Cooper pair in a two-dimensional Hubbard model with the Rashba-type spin-orbit interaction as a minimal model of electron gas generated at a heterointerface of SrTiO$_3$/LaAlO$_3$. Solving the Eliashberg equation…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-02-17 Keiji Yada , Seiichiro Onari , Yukio Tanaka , Jun-ichiro Inoue

We present the effective low-energy theory for interacting 1D quantum wires subject to Rashba spin-orbit coupling. Under a one-loop renormalization group scheme including all allowed interaction processes for not too weak Rashba coupling,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-06-03 Andreas Schulz , Alessandro De Martino , Philip Ingenhoven , Reinhold Egger

In this work, we show that in a four-quantum-dot ring, via introducing a local Rashba spin-orbit interaction the spin bias in the transverse terminals can be detected by observing the charge currents in the longitudinal probes. It is found…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Weijiang Gong , Hui Li , Sha Zhang , Yu Han , Guozhu Wei

The weak-coupling renormalization group method is an asymptotically exact method to find superconducting instabilities of a lattice model of correlated electrons. Here we extend it to spin-orbit coupled lattice systems and study the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-12-02 Sebastian Wolf , Stephan Rachel