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Graphene nanoribbons with armchair edges are studied for externally enhanced, but realistic parameter values: enhanced Rashba spin-orbit coupling due to proximity to a transition metal dichalcogenide like WS$_{2}$, and enhanced Zeeman field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-27 Zhen-Hua Wang , Eduardo V. Castro , Hai-Qing Lin

Accessing intrinsic properties of a graphene device can be hindered by the influence of contact electrodes. Here, we capacitively couple graphene devices to superconducting resonant circuits and observe clear changes in the resonance-…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-07 V. Ranjan , S. Zihlmann , P. Makk , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , C. Schönenberger

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

Electrons in graphene follow unconventional trajectories at PN junctions, driven by their pseudospintronic degree of freedom. Significant is the prominent angular dependence of transmission, capturing the chiral nature of the electrons and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Redwan N. Sajjad , S. Sutar , J. U. Lee , Avik W. Ghosh

We fabricate superconductor-graphene-superconductor Josephson junctions with superconducting regions made of lead (Pb). The critical current through grapehene may be modulated by external magnetic field; the resulting Fraunhofer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 I. V. Borzenets , U. C. Coskun , H. Mebrahtu , G. Finkelstein

We analyze the role of ac-driven Rashba spin-orbit coupling in monolayer graphene including a spin-dependent mass term. Using the Magnus expansion as a semi-analytical approximation scheme a full account of the quasienergie spectrum of spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-17 A. López , A. Scholz , Z. Z. Sun , J. Schliemann

Spin currents which allow for a dissipationless transport of information can be generated by electric fields in semiconductor heterostructures in the presence of a Rashba-type spin-orbit coupling. The largest Rashba effects occur for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-07 A. Varykhalov , D. Marchenko , M. R. Scholz , E. Rienks , T. K. Kim , O. Rader

The peculiar nature of electron scattering in graphene is among many exciting theoretical predictions for the physical properties of this material. To investigate electron scattering properties in a graphene plane, we have created a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-06-19 B. Huard , J. A. Sulpizio , N. Stander , K. Todd , B. Yang , D. Goldhaber-Gordon

Spin-orbit (SO) coupling is the crucial parameter to drive topological insulating phases in electronic band models. In particular, the generic emergence of SO coupling involves the Rashba term which fully breaks the SU(2) spin symmetry. As…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-18 Manuel Laubach , Johannes Reuther , Ronny Thomale , Stephan Rachel

We analyze spin scattering in ballistic transport of electrons through a ripple at a normal incidence of an electron flow. The model of a ripple consists of a curved graphene surface in the form of an arc of a circle connected from the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-08 M. Pudlak , K. N. Pichugin , R. G. Nazmitdinov

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

There is an increasing amount of literature concerning electronic properties of graphene close to the neutrality point. Many experiments continue using the two-probe geometry or invasive contacts or do not control samples' macroscopic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-08-27 P. Blake , R. Yang , S. V. Morozov , F. Schedin , L. A. Ponomarenko , A. A. Zhukov , I. V. Grigorieva , K. S. Novoselov , A. K. Geim

The ground-state and the transport properties of graphene subject to the potential of in-plane charged impurities are studied. The screening of the impurity potential is shown to be nonlinear, producing a fractal structure of electron and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-12-02 M. M. Fogler

We study quasi-particle transmission through an $n $-$p$ junction in a graphene irradiated by an electromagnetic field (EF). In the absence of EF the electronic spectrum of undoped graphene is gapless, and one may expect the perfect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. V. Fistul , K. B. Efetov

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

We investigate a novel way to manipulate the spin polarized transmission in a two terminal zigzag graphene nanoribbon in presence of Rashba spin-orbit (SO) interaction with circular shaped cavity engraved into it. A usual technique to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-13 Sudin Ganguly , Saurabh Basu , Santanu K. Maiti

We numerically investigate finite-momentum superconductivity in noncentrosymmetric metallic altermagnets with $d$-wave spin-splitting and strong Rashba-type spin-orbit coupling. Focusing on a stripe phase in which Cooper pairs acquire…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-04-21 Kohei Mukasa , Yusuke Masaki

The aim of this work is to describe the spin magnetization of graphene with Rashba spinorbit coupling and Zeeman effect. It is shown that the magnetization depends critically on the spin-orbit coupling l that is controlled with an external…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-08-28 Federico Escudero , Lucas Sourrouille , Juan Sebastián Ardenghi , Paula Jasen

We analyze the spectral and transport properties of ballistic quasi one-dimensional systems in the presence of spin-orbit coupling and in-plane agnetic fields. Our results demonstrate that Rashba precession and intersubband coupling must be…

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

We consider a straight one-dimensional potential step created across a graphene flake. Charge and spin transport through such a potential step are studied in the presence of both intrinsic and extrinsic (Rashba) spin-orbit coupling (SOC).…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Ai Yamakage , Ken-Ichiro Imura , Jérôme Cayssol , Yoshio Kuramoto