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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

We investigate the transport properties of ballistic quantum wires in the presence of Zeeman spin splittings and a spatially inhomogeneous Rashba interaction. The Zeeman interaction is extended along the wire and produces gaps in the energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 David Sanchez , Llorens Serra , Mahn-Soo Choi

We propose a method to determine the relative strength of Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interaction from transport measurements without the need of fitting parameters. To this end, we make use of the conductance anisotropy in narrow…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-01-22 Matthias Scheid , Makoto Kohda , Yoji Kunihashi , Klaus Richter , Junsaku Nitta

We study the electrical transport properties of a two-dimensional electron gas with the Rashba spin-orbit interaction in presence of a constant perpendicular magnetic field $(B_0 \hat z)$ which is weakly modulated by ${\bf B_1} = B_1 \cos…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 SK Firoz Islam , Tarun Kanti Ghosh

It was recently shown that a spatially modulated Rashba spin-orbit coupling in a quantum wire drives a transition from a metallic to an insulating state when the wave number of the modulation becomes commensurate with the Fermi wave length…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-09-02 Mariana Malard , Inna Grusha , G. I. Japaridze , Henrik Johannesson

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 one-dimensional effective Hamiltonian for a planar curvilinear quantum wire with arbitrary shape is proposed in the presence of the Rashba spin-orbit interaction. Single electron propagation through a device of two straight lines…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 Erhu Zhang , Shengli Zhang , Qi Wang

We study the interplay of both Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit couplings (SOCs) and a uniform perpendicular magnetic field $\textbf{B}$ on the transport of a spin-polarized electron along a curved quantum wire. Eigenenergies and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-27 Carlos Baldo , Cristine Villagonzalo

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 investigate the bulk-boundary correspondence in two-dimensional type-I semi-Dirac materials with band inversion and Rashba spin-orbit coupling. Employing a dimensional reduction framework, we identify the Zak phase along the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-02 Marta García-Olmos , Yuriko Baba , Alexander López , Mario Amado , Rafael A. Molina

The paramount acumen for controlling spin transport properties in nonmagnetic materials is the usage of spin-orbit coupling (SOC). We propose a model to calculate the spin hall angle (SHA) for the elemental transition metal dichalcogenide…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-03 Swastik Sahoo , Satadeep Bhattacharjee , Bhaskaran Muralidharan

We develop a theory of designing slit experiments in two-dimensional electron systems with the Rashba spin-orbit interaction. By simulating the spatiotemporal dynamics of electrons passing through a single slit or a double slit, we find…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-22 Kotaro Shimizu , Masahito Mochizuki

Quantum interference effects in rings provide suitable means for controlling spin at mesoscopic scales. Here we apply such control mechanisms to coherent spin-dependent transport in one- and two-dimensional rings subject to Rashba…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Diego Frustaglia , Klaus Richter

We investigate numerically the spin polarization of the current in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit interaction in a T-shaped conductor proposed by A.A. Kiselev and K.W. Kim (Appl. Phys. Lett. {\bf 78} 775 (2001)). The recursive Green…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Yamamoto , T. Ohtsuki , B. Kramer

A recursive Green's function technique is developed to calculate the spin-dependent conductance in mesoscopic structures. Using this technique, we study the spin-dependent electronic transport of quantum point contacts in the presence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Shi-Liang Zhu , Z. D. Wang , Lian Hu

We devise an approach to measure the polarization of nuclear spins via conductance measurements. Specifically, we study the combined effect of external magnetic field, nuclear spin polarization, and Rashba spin-orbit interaction on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-12 James A. Nesteroff , Yuriy V. Pershin , Vladimir Privman

The Rashba Hamiltonian describes the splitting of the conduction band as a result of spin-orbit coupling in the presence of an asymmetric confinement potential and is commonly used to model the electronic structure of confined narrow-gap…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jun-ichiro Inoue , Gerrit E. W. Bauer , Laurens W. Molenkamp

Quantum transport in semiconductor nanostructures can be described theoretically in terms of the propagation and scattering of electron probability waves. Within this approach, elements of a phase-coherent electric circuit play a role…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-11-18 U. Zuelicke , A. I. Signal

We study effects of a gate-controlled Rashba spin-orbit coupling to quantum spin-Hall edge states in HgTe quantum wells. A uniform Rashba coupling can be employed in tuning the spin orientation of the edge states while preserving the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-21 Jukka I. Väyrynen , Teemu Ojanen

Based on kinetic equations for the density matrix, drift-diffusion equations are derived for a two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit coupling. Universal results are obtained for the weak coupling case. Most interesting is the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 V. V. Bryksin , P. Kleinert