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During the last years there has been much interest, and theoretical discussion, about the possibility to use spin-orbit coupling to control the carriers spins in two-dimensional semiconducting heterostructures. Spin polarization at the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-31 A. A. Reynoso , G. Usaj , C. A. Balseiro

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

Flexible control of magnetization switching by electrical manners is crucial for applications of spin-orbitronics. Besides of a switching current that is parallel to an applied field, a bias current that is normal to the switching current…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-11-30 X. Zhang , C. H. Wan , Z. H. Yuan , Q. T. Zhang , H. Wu , L. Huang , W. J. Kong , C. Fang , U. Khan , X. F. Han

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

Quantum interference effects in rings provide suitable means for controlling spin at mesoscopic scales. Here we apply such a control mechanism to the spin-dependent transport in a ballistic quasi one dimensional ring patterned in two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Bellucci , P. Onorato

We consider theoretically transport in a spinfull one-channel interacting quantum wire placed in an external magnetic field. For the case of two point-like impurities embedded in the wire, under a small voltage bias the spin-polarized…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-02-17 Zoran Ristivojevic , George I. Japaridze , Thomas Nattermann

We examine electron transport through semiconductor quantum dot subject to a continuous circularly polarized optical irradiation resonant to the electron - heavy hole transition. Electrons having certain spin polarization experience Rabi…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Yu. Smirnov , L. G. Mourokh

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 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

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

We propose a quantum processor based upon single-molecule magnets and spin transfer torque described by PT-symmetric quantum mechanics. In recent years PT-symmetric Hamiltonians have been used to obtain stability thresholds of various…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 Aleix Bou Comas , Eugene M. Chudnovsky , Javier Tejada

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 demonstrate how the Rashba spin-orbit coupling in semiconductor heterostructures can produce and control a spin-polarized current without ferromagnetic leads. Key idea is to use spin-double refraction of an electronic beam with a nonzero…

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

We investigate theoretically the electronic structure and transport for a two-level quantum wire with Rashba spin-orbit coupling (SOC) under the irradiation of an external laser field at low temperatures. The photon-induced transitions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Guanghui Zhou , Wenhu Liao

It was proposed that a double quantum dot can be used to be a detector of spin bias. Electron transport through a double quantum dot is investigated theoretically when a pure spin bias is applied on two conducting leads contacted to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Qing-feng Sun , Yanxia Xing , Shun-Qing Shen

We have studied the current through a carbon nanotube quantum dot with one ferromagnetic and one normal-metal lead. For the values of gate voltage at which the normal lead is resonant with the single available non-degenerate energy level on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-08-20 Christopher A. Merchant , Nina Markovic

Altermagnets host intrinsically chirality-splitting spin waves, which offer an ideal platform for chirality-based computing with low energy consumption and fast dynamics. However, achieving precise and efficient control over spin-wave…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-29 Wen-Tong Li , Yu-Biao Wu , Lin Zhuang , Jian-Tao Wang , Wu-Ming Liu

The spin-dependent electron transmission through a helical membrane with account of linear spin-orbit interaction has been investigated by numerically solving the Schr\"odinger equation in cylindrical coordinates . It is shown that the spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-07 Guo-Hua Liang , Yong-Long Wang , Hua Jiang , Meng-Yun Lai , Hong-Shi Zong

Electron transport in a new low-dimensional structure - the nuclear spin polarization induced quantum wire (NSPI QW) is theoretically studied. In the proposed system the local nuclear spin polarization creates the effective hyperfine field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Yu. V. Pershin , S. N. Shevchenko , I. D. Vagner , P. Wyder

The quantum correction to the conductivity in disordered quantum wires with linear Rashba spin-orbit coupling is obtained. For quantum wires with spin-conserving boundary conditions, we find a crossover from weak anti- to weak localization…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-06-25 P. Wenk , S. Kettemann