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We present an elaborate and systematic study of the conductance properties of a zigzag bilayer graphene nanoribbon modeled by a Kane-Mele (KM) Hamiltonian. The interplay of the Rashba and the intrinsic spin-orbit couplings with the edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 Priyanka Sinha , Saurabh Basu

We study theoretically the minimal conductivity of monolayer graphene in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit coupling. The Rashba spin-orbit interaction causes the low-energy bands to undergo trigonal-warping deformation and for energies…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-30 P. Rakyta , L. Oroszlány , A. Kormányos , J. Cserti

We present a methodology to address, from first principles, charge-spin interconversion in two-dimensional materials with spin-orbit coupling. Our study relies on an implementation of density functional theory based quantum transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-05 Maedeh Rassekh , Hernán Santos , Andrea Latge , Leonor Chico , Saber Farjami Shayesteh , Juan Jose Palacios

We investigate the spin-orbit induced spin-interference pattern of ballistic electrons travelling along any regular polygon. It is found that the spin-interference depends strongly on the Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit constants as well…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Marc J. van Veenhuizen , Takaaki Koga , Junsaku Nitta

We provide a quantitative description of the structure of edge states in split-gate quantum wires in the integer quantum Hall regime. We develop an effective numerical approach based on the Green's function technique for the self-consistent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 S. Ihnatsenka , I. V. Zozoulenko

An electron within a mesoscopic (quantum-coherent) spintronic structure is described by a single wave function which, in the presence of both charge scattering and spin-orbit coupling, encodes an information about {\em entanglement} of its…

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

Electron transport through multi-terminal rectangular arrays of quantum rings is studied in the presence of Rashba-type spin-orbit interaction (SOI) and of a perpendicular magnetic field. Using the analytic expressions for the transmission…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Orsolya Kalman , Peter Foldi , Mihaly G. Benedict , Francois M. Peeters

We analytically evaluate charge and spin density response functions of the clean two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit coupling at finite momenta and frequencies. On the basis of our exact expressions we discuss the accuracy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Pletyukhov , S. Konschuh

Using four-terminal Landauer-B\"{u}ttiker formalism and Green's function technique, in this present paper, we calculate numerically spin Hall conductance (SHC) and longitudinal conductance of a finite size kagome lattice with Rashba…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-31 Moumita Dey , Santanu K. Maiti , S. N. Karmakar

Disorder scattering and spin-orbit coupling are together responsible for the diffusion and relaxation of spin-density in time-reversal invariant systems. We study spin-relaxation and diffusion in a two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-24 Yasufumi Araki , Guru Khalsa , Allan H. MacDonald

Transport by helical edge states of a quantum spin Hall insulator is experimentally characterized by a weakly temperature-dependent mean free path of a few microns and by reproducible conductance oscillations, challenging proposed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-09 Lukas Kimme , Bernd Rosenow , Arne Brataas

An influence of spin-orbit interaction on the tunneling between two 2D electron layers is considered. Particular attention is addressed to the relation between the contribution of Rashba and Dresselhaus types. It is shown that without…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 I. V. Rozhansky , N. S. Averkiev

The emergent induction of spiral magnets that was proposed [Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 58, 120909 (2019)] and recently demonstrated [Nature 586, 232 (2020)] is shown to be further extended by a comprehensive treatment of the Rashba spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-05 Jun'ichi Ieda , Yuta Yamane

A nonequilibrium Green's function approach is employed to investigate the spin-Hall effect in diffusive two-dimensional electron systems with Rashba spin-orbit interaction. Considering a long-range electron-impurity scattering potential in…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Y. Liu , X. L. Lei

We studied the spin-dependent quantum transport properties using a simple modelling of a Datta-Das spin transistor. We refine previous results by accounting the propagation medium changes of opacity felt by itinerant electrons, when the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-10 R. Cuan , J. J. González , L. Diago-Cisneros

We study the effect of the Rashba spin-orbit interaction in the quantum transport of carbon nanotubes with arbitrary chiralities. For certain spin directions, we find a strong spin-polarized electrical current that depends on the diameter…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-28 Hernán Santos , A. Latgé , J. E. Alvarellos , Leonor Chico

The spin relaxation rate $1/\tau_s (W)$ in disordered quantum wires with Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling is derived analytically as a function of wire width $W$. It is found to be diminished when $W$ is smaller than the bulk…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 S. Kettemann

A strong coupling between the electron spin and its motion is one of the prerequisites of spin-based data storage and electronics. A major obstacle is to find spin-orbit coupled materials where the electron spin can be probed and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-11 Christoph Kastl , Paul Seifert , Xiaoyue He , Kehui Wu , Yongqing Li , Alexander Holleitner

We present systematic quantitative description of the magnetoconductance of the split-gate quantum wires. Accounting for the exchange and correlation interactions within the spin density function theory (DFT) leads to the lifting of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-05-26 I. V. Zozoulenko , S. Ihnatsenko

Using response theory, we calculate the charge-current vortex generated by spin pumping at a point-like contact in a system with Rashba spin-orbit coupling. We discuss the spatial profile of the current density for finite temperature and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-01 Junji Fujimoto , Florian Lange , Satoshi Ejima , Tomonori Shirakawa , Holger Fehske , Seiji Yunoki , Sadamichi Maekawa