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To an electron moving in free space an electric field appears as a magnetic field which interacts with and can reorient the electron spin. In semiconductor quantum wells this spin-orbit interaction seems to offer the possibility of…

Millikelvin magnetotransport studies are carried out on heavily $n$-doped wurtzite GaN:Si films grown on semi-insulating GaN:Mn buffer layers by metal-organic vapor phase epitaxy. The dependency of the conductivity on magnetic field and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-06 W. Stefanowicz , R. Adhikari , T. Andrearczyk , B. Faina , M. Sawicki , J. A. Majewski , T. Dietl , A. Bonanni

Confinement asymmetry effects on the photoabsorption of a quantum well are discussed by means of a sum-rules approach using a Hamiltonian including a Rashba spin-orbt coupling. We show that while the strength of the excitation is zero when…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-18 A. Ambrosetti , J. M Escartin , E. Lipparini , F. Pederiva

We develop a non-perturbative numerical method to study tunneling of a single electron through an Aharonov-Bohm ring where several strongly interacting electrons are bound. Inelastic processes and spin-flip scattering are taken into…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-08-31 R. Zitko , J. Bonca

A single-mode microcavity with an embedded Aharonov-Bohm quantum ring, which is pierced by a magnetic flux and subjected to a lateral electric field, is studied theoretically. It is shown that external electric and magnetic fields provide…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-02 A. M. Alexeev , I. A. Shelykh , M. E. Portnoi

The time dependent Schr\"odinger equation for an electron passing through a semiconductor quantum ring of nonzero width is solved in the presence of a perpendicular homogenous magnetic field. We study the effects of the Lorentz force on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Szafran , F. M. Peeters

The spin transfer effect in ferromagnet-quantum dot (insulator)-ferromagnet Aharonov-Bohm (AB) ring system with Rashba spin-orbit (SO) interactions is investigated by means of Keldysh nonequilibrium Green function method. It is found that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-27 Xi Chen , Qing-Rong Zheng , Gang Su

Spin interference due to Rashba spin-orbit interaction (SOI) in a ballistic two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) ring conductor submitted to a bias voltage is investigated theoretically. We calculate the scattering matrices and differential…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Xuhui Wang , Aurelien Manchon

We theoretically explore the possibility of creating spin quantum entanglement in a system of two electrons confined respectively in two vertically coupled quantum dots in the presence of Rashba type spin-orbit coupling. We find that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Nan Zhao , L. Zhong , Jia-Lin Zhu , C. P. Sun

We present a theoretical study of Coulomb exchange interaction for electrons confined in a cylindrical quantum wire and subject to a Rashba-type spin-orbit coupling with radial electric field. The effect of spin splitting on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-16 F. S. Gray , T. Kernreiter , M. Governale , U. Zuelicke

We study the effect of the electron-electron interaction on the amplitude of mesoscopic Aharonov-Bohm oscillations in quasi-one-dimensional (Q1D) diffusive rings. We show that the dephasing length L_phi^AB governing the damping factor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 T. Ludwig , A. D. Mirlin

In this work, we theoretically study transverse magnetic focusing in a two-dimensional electron gas with strong Rashba spin-orbit interaction when proximitized along its edge with a superconducting contact. The presence of superconducting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-05 Lucila Peralta Gavensky , Gonzalo Usaj , C. A. Balseiro

We investigate intersubband mixing effects in multichannel quantum wires in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit coupling and attached to two terminals. When the contacts are ferromagnetic and their magnetization direction is perpendicular to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-29 M. M. Gelabert , Llorens Serra , David Sanchez , Rosa Lopez

We investigate the linear conductance of a stripe of spin-orbit interaction in a 2D electron gas; that is, a 2D region of length $\ell$ along the transport direction and infinite in the transverse one in which a spin-orbit interaction of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 M. M. Gelabert , Ll. Serra

We report an unconventional behavior of electron transport in the limit of zero magnetic flux in a one-dimensional disordered ring, be it completely random or any correlated one, subjected to Rashba spin-orbit (SO) coupling. It exhibits…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-20 Moumita Patra , Santanu K. Maiti

A combination of spin-orbit coupling and electron-electron interaction gives rise to a new type of collective spin modes, which correspond to oscillations of magnetization even in the absence of the external magnetic field. We review recent…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-12-14 Dmitrii L. Maslov , Abhishek Kumar , Saurabh Maiti

We study nonequilibrium generation of spin-dependent transport through a single-level quantum dot embedded in a ring with the Rashba spin-orbit coupling. We consider nonmagnetic systems, involving no magnetic field nor ferromagnetic leads.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-23 Nobuhiko Taniguchi , Kenta Isozaki

We present a theory of conducting quantum networks that accounts for Abelian and non-Abelian fields acting on spin carriers. We apply this approach to model the conductance of mesoscopic spin interferometers of different geometry (such as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-28 A. Hijano , T. van den Berg , D. Frustaglia , D. Bercioux

We show that the pair spin-orbit interaction (PSOI) created by the Coulomb fields of interacting electrons leads to the appearance of an unconventional correlated electronic state in two-dimensional materials with the large Rashba effect.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-02-06 Yasha Gindikin , Vladimir A. Sablikov

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