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The spin-orbit interaction (SOI) of the two-dimensional hole gas in the inversion symmetric semiconductor Ge is studied in a strained-Ge/SiGe quantum well structure. We observed weak anti-localization (WAL) in the magnetoconductivity…

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 develop a theory of spin orientation by electric current in (110)-grown semiconductor quantum wells. The controversy in the factor of two from two existed approaches is resolved by pointing out the importance of energy relaxation in this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 L. E. Golub , E. L. Ivchenko

We observed magnetocapacitance oscillations in InAs/GaSb quantum wells separated by a $20$\,nm AlSb middle barrier. By realizing independent ohmic contacts for electrons in InAs and holes in the GaSb layer, we found an out-of-plane…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-26 A. S. L. Ribeiro , R. Schott , C. Reichl , W. Dietsche , W. Wegscheider

The experimental results obtained for the magneto-transport in the InGaAs/InAlAs double quantum wells (DQW) structures of two different shapes of wells are reported. The beating-effect occurred in the Shubnikov-de Haas (SdH) oscillations…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Marchewka , E. M. Sheregii , I. Tralle , D. Ploch , G. Tomaka , M. Furdak , A. Kolek , A. Stadler , K. Mleczko , D. Zak , W. Strupinski , A. Jasik , R. Jakiela

Composite quantum compounds (CQCs) have become an important avenue for the investigation of inter-correlation between two distinct phenomenon in physics. Topological superconductors, axion insulators etc. are few such CQCs which have…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-08-18 Chiranjit Mondal , Chanchal K. Barman , Aftab Alam , Biswarup Pathak

We demonstrate that the flow of a longitudinal spin current with different spin polarization will induce different patterns of charge accumulation in a two-terminal strip, or electric current distribution in a four-terminal Hall-bar…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jian Li , Shun-Qing Shen

A design of the resonance spin finter is suggested in form of a quantum well with three quantum wires attached. Explicit formula is suggested for transmission coefficients accross the well in terms of the resonance eigenfunction of the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Pavlov , A. Yafyasov

We study analytically and numerically spin effects in MoS_2 monolayer armchair quantum wires and quantum dots. The interplay between intrinsic and Rashba spin orbit interactions induced by an electric field leads to helical modes, giving…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-07 Jelena Klinovaja , Daniel Loss

Rashba spin splitting (RSS) in biased semiconductor quantum wells is investigated theoretically based on the eight-band envelope function model. We find that at large wave vectors, RSS is both nonmonotonic and anisotropic as a function of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Wen Yang , Kai Chang

We perform a many-body investigation of the spin dephasing in $n$-typed InAs quantum wells under moderate magnetic fields in the Voigt configuration by constructing and numerically solving the kinetic Bloch equations. We obtain the spin…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Q. Weng , M. W. Wu

We study effects of a gate-controlled Rashba spin-orbit coupling to quantum spin-Hall edge states in HgTe quantum wells. A uniform Rashba coupling can be employed in tuning the spin orientation of the edge states while preserving the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-21 Jukka I. Väyrynen , Teemu Ojanen

We present both theory and numerical-computation results for the transmission and reflection probability currents of a charged particle across a potential step in the presence of a Rashba spin-orbit interaction. By varying kinetic energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-22 Po-Hsin Shih , Godfrey Gumbs , Danhong Huang , Andrii Iurov , Yonatan Abranyos

We study theoretically the nonlinear optical properties of a semiconductor quantum well (QW) irradiated by a two-mode electromagnetic wave consisting of a strong resonant dressing field and a weak off-resonant driving field. In the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-30 S. Mandal , T. C. H. Liew , O. V. Kibis

The Rashba spin-orbit coupling effect, primarily arising from structural-inversion asymmetry in periodic crystals, has garnered considerable attention due to its tunability and potential applications in spintronics. Its capability to…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-04-24 Arjyama Bordoloi , A. C. Garcia-Castro , Zachary Romestan , Aldo H. Romero , Sobhit Singh

We investigate the transport properties of ballistic quantum wires in the presence of Zeeman spin splittings and a spatially inhomogeneous Rashba interaction. The Zeeman interaction is extended along the wire and produces gaps in the energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 David Sanchez , Llorens Serra , Mahn-Soo Choi

A spin filtering device using quantum spin interference is theoretically proposed in a GaAs/AlGaAs electron gas that has both Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit couplings. The device achieves polarized electron currents by separating spin up…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 Benjamin Santos , Ernesto Medina , Alexander López , Bertrand Berche

We investigate the possibility of spin-preserving symmetries due to the interplay of Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling in n-doped zinc-blende semiconductor quantum wells of general crystal orientation. It is shown that a conserved…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-02 Michael Kammermeier , Paul Wenk , John Schliemann

We derive boundary conditions for the coupled spin-charge diffusion equations at a transmitting interface between two-dimensional electron systems with different strengths of the Rashba spin-orbit (SO) coupling $\alpha$, and an electric…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Yaroslav Tserkovnyak , Bertrand I. Halperin , Alexey A. Kovalev , Arne Brataas

Spin-1/2 electrons are scattered through one or two diamond-like loops, made of quantum dots connected by one-dimensional wires, and subject to both an Aharonov-Bohm flux and (Rashba and Dresselhaus) spin-orbit interactions. With some…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Amnon Aharony , Yasuhiro Tokura , Guy Z. Cohen , Ora Entin-Wohlman , Shingo Katsumoto