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We theoretically demonstrate that a rotating electric-field component of circularly polarized microwave or terahertz light can induce electron-spin polarization within a few picoseconds in a two-dimensional electron system with the Rashba…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-09-21 Masahito Mochizuki , Keisuke Ihara , Jun-ichiro Ohe , Akihito Takeuchi

In the presence of spin-orbit interactions, the steady state established for spin distributions in an electric field is qualitatively different from the steady state for charge distributions. This is primarily because the steady state…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Dimitrie Culcer , Roland Winkler

We show that the parallel magnetic field-induced increase in the critical electron density for the Anderson transition in a strongly interacting two-dimensional electron system is caused by the effects of exchange and correlations. If the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-08-21 V. T. Dolgopolov , A. A. Shashkin , S. V. Kravchenko

We study the spin-dependent electronic transport through a one-dimensional ballistic quantum wire in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit interaction. In particular, we consider the effect of the spin-orbit interaction resulting from the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. E. Birkholz , V. Meden

We discuss the combined effect of Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interactions in polygonal loops formed by quantum wires, when the electron are injected in a node and collected at the opposite one. The conditions that allow perfect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Marigliano Ramaglia , V. Cataudella , G. De Filippis , C. A. Perroni

We investigate the spin-polarized transport properties of a two-dimensional electron gas in a n-type diluted magnetic narrow gap semiconductor quantum well subjected to a perpendicular magnetic and electric field. Interesting beating…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. Yang , Kai Chang , X. G. Wu , H. Z. Zheng , F. M. Peeters

This article reviews steady-state spin densities and spin currents in materials with strong spin-orbit interactions. These phenomena are intimately related to spin precession due to spin-orbit coupling which has no equivalent in the steady…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Dimitrie Culcer

The competition between on-site Coulomb repulsion and Rashba spin-orbit coupling (RSOC) is studied on two-leg ladders by numerical techniques. By studying persistent currents in closed rings by exact diagonalization, it is found that the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-15 José A. Riera

Basic questions on the nature of spin polarization in two terminal systems and the way in which decoherence breaks Time-Reversal Symmetry (TRS) are analyzed. We exactly solve several one-dimensional models of tunneling electrons and show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-04 S. Varela , M. Peralta , V. Mujica , B. Berche , E. Medina

We study spin dependent phonomena in superconducting junctions in both ballistic and diffusive regimes. For ballistic junctions we study both ferromagnet / $s$- and d-wave superconductor junctions and two dimensional electron gas / s-wave…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 T. Yokoyama , Y. Tanaka

In a thin strip of a two-dimensional semiconductor electronic system, spin-orbit coupling may be induced near both edges of the strip due to the substantial spatial variation of the confining potential in the boundary regions. In this paper…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Yongjin Jiang , Liangbin Hu

Spin transport was studied in a two-dimensional electron gas hosted in a wide GaAs quantum well occupying two subbands. Using space and time Kerr rotation microscopy to image drifting spin packets under an in-plane accelerating electric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 N. M . Kawahala , F. C. D. Moraes , G. M. Gusev , A. K. Bakarov , F. G. G. Hernandez

We use spin- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (SARPES) combined with polarization-variable laser and investigate the spin-orbit coupling effect under interband hybridization of Rashba spin-split states for the surface alloys…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-01-26 Ryo Noguchi , Kenta Kuroda , K. Yaji , K. Kobayashi , M. Sakano , A. Harasawa , Takeshi Kondo , F. Komori , S. Shin

Spin polarization of a two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit interaction, induced by a thermo-current, is considered theoretically. It is shown that a temperature gradient gives rise to an in-plane spin polarization of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-27 A. Dyrdał , M. Inglot , V. K. Dugaev , J. Barnaś

Non-magnetic materials without inversion symmetry typically exhibit strong Rashba spin-orbit coupling (SOC), enabling the well-known Rashba Edelstein effect where an external electrical current induces transverse spin polarisation. In this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-28 Akash Dey , Ashis K. Nandy , Kush Saha

We use microscopic linear response theory to derive a set of equations that provide a complete description of coupled spin and charge diffusive transport in a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) with the Rashba spin-orbit (SO) interaction.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. A. Burkov , Alvaro S. Nunez , A. H. MacDonald

Altermagnets exhibit momentum-dependent spin splitting despite having zero net magnetization. This enables a spin-splitter effect in which an external electric field generates transverse spin currents by separating oppositely polarized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-27 Sanjay Sarkar , Sayan Sarkar , Amit Agarwal

In this review, we describe in detail two important spin-transport phenomena: the extrinsic spin-Hall effect (coming from spin-orbit interactions between electrons and impurities) and the spin-Coulomb drag. The interplay of these two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 E. M. Hankiewicz , G. Vignale

Spin accumulation and spin current profiles are calculated for a disordered Pt film subjected to an in-plane electric current within the nonequilibrium Green function approach. In the bulklike region of the sample, this approach captures…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-31 K. D. Belashchenko , G. G. Baez Flores , W. Fang , A. A. Kovalev , M. van Schilfgaarde , P. M. Haney , M. D. Stiles

Spontaneous spin polarization of the electrical current flowing through nonmagnetic semiconductor junctions can be generated by carrier scattering processes that are independent of the carrier spin. The two required elements for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yunong Qi , Michael E. Flatté