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We demonstrate theoretically all-electric control of the superconducting transition temperature using a device comprised of a conventional superconductor, a ferromagnetic insulator, and semiconducting layers with intrinsic spin-orbit…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-08-25 Jabir Ali Ouassou , Angelo Di Bernardo , Jason W. A. Robinson , Jacob Linder

Spin-orbit interaction is investigated in a dual gated InAs/GaSb quantum well. Using an electric field the quantum well can be tuned between a single carrier regime with exclusively electrons as carriers and a two-carriers regime where…

We consider stationary spin current in a (110)-oriented GaAs-based symmetric quantum well due to a nonlinear response to an external periodic electric field. The model assumed includes the Dresselhaus spin-orbit interaction and the random…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-30 V. I. Ivanov , V. K. Dugaev , E. Ya. Sherman , J. Barnas

We have investigated the electronic properties of elliptical quantum dots in a perpendicular external magnetic field, and in the presence of the Rashba spin-orbit interaction. Our work indicates that the Fock-Darwin spectra display strong…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Siranush Avetisyan , Pekka Pietiläinen , Tapash Chakraborty

The Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interactions are both shown to yield the low temperature spin-Hall effect for strongly localized electrons coupled to phonons. A frequency-dependent electric field ${\bf E}(\omega)$ generates a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 O. Entin-Wohlman , A. Aharony , Y. M. Galperin , V. I. Kozub , V. Vinokur

Highly accurate numerical results of phonon-induced two-electron spin relaxation in silicon double quantum dots are presented. The relaxation, enabled by spin-orbit coupling and the nuclei of $^{29}$Si (natural or purified abundance), are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-01 Martin Raith , Peter Stano , Jaroslav Fabian

We investigate the existence of linear-in-momentum spin-orbit interactions in the valence band of Ge/GeSi heterostructures using an atomistic tight-binding method. We show that symmetry breaking at the Ge/GeSi interfaces gives rise to a…

The strong spin-orbit coupling in hole spin qubits enables fast and electrically tunable gates, but at the same time enhances the susceptibility of the qubit to charge noise. Suppressing this noise is a significant challenge in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-31 Stefano Bosco , Bence Hetényi , Daniel Loss

We explore the impact of a Rashba-type spin-orbit interaction in the conduction band on the spin dynamics of hot excitons in diluted magnetic semiconductor quantum wells. In materials with strong spin-orbit coupling, we identify parameter…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-30 Florian Ungar , Pablo Ignacio Tamborenea , Vollrath Martin Axt

Spin-orbit coupling effects are studied in quantum dots in InSb, a narrow-gap material. Competition between different Rashba and Dresselhaus terms is shown to produce wholesale changes in the spectrum. The large (and negative) $g$-factor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. F. Destefani , S. E. Ulloa , G. E. Marques

We determine the finite temperature phase diagram of two dimensional bosons with two hyperfine (pseudo-spin) states coupled via Rashba-Dresselhaus spin-orbit interaction using classical field Monte Carlo calculations. For anisotropic…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-05-17 Eiji Kawasaki , Markus Holzmann

The Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit (SO) interactions in 2D electron gases act as effective magnetic fields with momentum-dependent directions, which cause spin decay as the spins undergo arbitrary precessions about these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-26 Florian Dettwiler , Jiyong Fu , Shawn Mack , Pirmin J. Weigele , J. Carlos Egues , David D. Awschalom , Dominik M. Zumbühl

We study spin control for an electron confined in a flake of silicene. We find that the lowest-energy conduction-band levels are split by the diagonal intrinsic spin-orbit coupling into Kramers doublets with a definite projection of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-30 Bartlomiej Szafran , Alina Mrenca-Kolasinska , Bartlomiej Rzeszotarski , Dariusz Zebrowski

We calculate the electrically induced spin accumulation in diffusive systems due to both Rashba (with strength $\alpha)$ and Dresselhaus (with strength $\beta)$ spin-orbit interaction. Using a diffusion equation approach we find that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-02-03 Mathias Duckheim , Daniel Loss , Matthias Scheid , Klaus Richter , Inanc Adagideli , Philippe Jacquod

When subjected to a linearly polarized terahertz pulse, a mesoscopic ring endowed with spin-orbit interaction (SOI) of the Rashba-Dresselhaus type exhibits nonuniform azimuthal charge and spin distributions. Both types of SOI couplings are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Marian Nita , D. C. Marinescu , Bogdan Ostahie , Andrei Manolescu , Vidar Gudmundsson

We utilize the kinetic spin Bloch equation approach to investigate the steady-state spin diffusion in $n$-type (111) GaAs quantum wells, where the in-plane components of the Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling term and the Rashba term can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-16 B. Y. Sun , K. Shen

We have studied the dissipative dynamics of a driven electronic spin trapped in a quantum dot. We consider the dissipative mechanism as due to the indirect coupling of the electronic spin to acoustic phonons via the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Frederico Brito , Harry Westfahl , Amir O. Caldeira , Gilberto Medeiros-Ribeiro

A propagation matrix method is proposed to investigate spin-resolved electronic transport in single finger-gate (SFG) and double finger-gate (DFG) controlled split-gate quantum devices. We show how the interplay of the Rashba and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-12 Chi-Shung Tang , Jia-An Keng , Nzar Rauf Abdullah , Vidar Gudmundsson

Electronic transport in a one-dimensional mesoscopic ring threaded by a magnetic flux is studied in presence of Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interactions. A completely analytical technique within a tight-binding formalism unveils the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-30 Santanu K. Maiti , Moumita Dey , Shreekantha Sil , Arunava Chakrabarti , S. N. Karmakar

Spin-noise measurements can serve as direct probe for the microscopic decoherence mechanism of an electronic spin in semiconductor quantum dots (QD).We have calculated the spin-noise spectrum in the anisotropic central spin model using a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-20 Johannes Hackmann , Frithjof B. Anders