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We develop the theory of quantum transport and magnetoconductivity for two-dimensional electrons with an arbitrary large (even exceeding the Fermi energy), linear-in-momentum Rashba or Dresselhaus spin-orbit splitting. For short-range…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-29 L. E. Golub , I. V. Gornyi , V. Yu. Kachorovskii

We propose an experimental scheme to determine the spin-transfer torque efficiency excited by the spin-orbit interaction in ferromagnetic bilayers from the measurement of the longitudinal magnetoresistace. Solving a diffusive spin-transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-04 Tomohiro Taniguchi , Julie Grollier , Mark D. Stiles

We investigate theoretically the effect of a time dependent oscillating potential on the transport property of the Dirac Fermion through a monolayer graphene electrostatic barrier under the influence of the Rashba spin orbit interaction.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-13 R. Biswas , C. Sinha

We study the spin polarization induced by a current flow in clean two dimensional electron gases with Rashba spin-orbit coupling. This geometric effect originates from special properties of the electron's scattering at the edges of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Reynoso , Gonzalo Usaj , C. A. Balseiro

Recent studies using Terahertz Time-Domain Spectroscopy (THz-TDS) with spintronic emitters as a source have revealed distinct signatures of the Rashba effect. This effect, which arises from the breaking of inversion symmetry in…

Intrinsic and Rashba spin-orbit interactions in strained graphene is studied within the tight-binding (TB) approach. Dependence of Slater-Koster (SK) parameters of graphene on strain are extracted by fitting the \emph{ab initio} band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-08 H. Rezaei , A. Phirouznia

Theory of Rashba spin-orbit coupling in magnetic metals is worked out from microscopic Hamiltonian describing d-orbitals. When structural inversion symmetry is broken, electron hopping between $d$-orbitals generates chiral ordering of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-07 Jin-Hong Park , Choong H. Kim , Hyun-Woo Lee , Jung Hoon Han

Rashba precession of spins moving along a one-dimensional quantum channel is calculated, accounting for Coulomb interactions. The Tomonaga--Luttinger model is formulated in the presence of spin-orbit scattering and solved by Bosonization.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Wolfgang Häusler

Terahertz spintronics offers the prospect of devices which are both faster and more energy-efficient. A promising route to achieve this goal is to exploit current-induced spin-orbit torques. However, the high-frequency properties of these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-21 Filipe S. M. Guimarães , Juba Bouaziz , Manuel dos Santos Dias , Samir Lounis

We report the observation of a spin-orbit torque (SOT) originating from the surface Rashba-Edelstein effect. We found that the SOT in a prototypical spin-orbitronic system, a Pt/Co bilayer, can be manipulated by molecular self-assembly on…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-04-22 Satoshi Haku , Atsushi Ishikawa , Akira Musha , Hiroyasu Nakayama , Takashi Yamamoto , Kazuya Ando

Spin-orbit torque in magnetic domain walls was investigated by solving the Pauli-Schr\"{o}dinger equation for the itinerant electrons. The Rashba interaction considered is derived from the violation of inversion symmetry at interfaces…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-21 D. Wang , Yan Zhou

Quantum wires with periodic local Rashba spin-orbit couplings are proposed for a higher performance of spin field-effect transistor. Fano-Rashba quantum interference due to the spin-dependent modulated structure gives rise to a broad energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-12-20 L. Wang , K. Shen , S. Y. Cho , M. W. Wu

The electrical generation of spin signals is of central interest for spintronics, where graphene stands as a relevant platform as its spin-orbit coupling (SOC) is tuned by proximity effects. Here, we propose an enhancement of spin-charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-27 Joaquín Medina Dueñas , Santiago Giménez de Castro , Jose H. Garcia , Stephan Roche

We establish a general Rashba Hamiltonian for trilayer graphene (TLG) by introducing an extrinsic layer-dependent Rashba spin-orbit coupling (SOC) arising from the off-plane inversion symmetry breaking. Our results indicate that the band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-14 Xinjuan Cheng , Liangyao Xiao , Xuechao Zhai

Efficient spin/charge interconversion is desired to develop innovative spin-based devices. So far, the interconversion has been performed by using heavy atomic elements, strong spin-orbit interaction of which realizes the interconversion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-20 Junyeon Kim , Dongwook Go , Hanshen Tsai , Daegeun Jo , Kouta Kondou , Hyun-Woo Lee , YoshiChika Otani

The Rashba interaction induced when inversion symmetry is broken in solids is a key interaction connecting spin and charge for realizing novel magnetoelectric cross-correlation effects. Here, we theoretically explore the optical properties…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-15 Junya Shibata , Akihito Takeuchi , Hiroshi Kohno , Gen Tatara

We theoretically investigate the supercurrent-induced magnetization dynamics of a two-dimensional lattice of ferromagnetically ordered spins placed on a conventional superconductor with broken spatial inversion symmetry and strong…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-29 Kjetil M. D. Hals

Spin-orbit torques offer a promising mechanism for electrically controlling magnetization dynamics in nanoscale heterostructures. While spin-orbit torques occur predominately at interfaces, the physical mechanisms underlying these torques…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-02 Vivek P. Amin , Paul M. Haney , Mark D. Stiles

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

Motivated by the remarkable experimental control of synthetic gauge fields in ultracold atomic systems, we investigate the effect of an artificial Rashba spin-orbit coupling on the spin polarization of a two-dimensional repulsive Fermi gas.…