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We study spin relaxation in a two-electron quantum dot in the vicinity of the singlet-triplet crossing. The spin relaxation occurs due to a combined effect of the spin-orbit, Zeeman, and electron-phonon interactions. The singlet-triplet…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Vitaly N. Golovach , Alexander Khaetskii , Daniel Loss

We investigate theoretically how the proximity effect in superconductor/ferromagnet hybrid structures with intrinsic spin-orbit coupling manifests in the density of states and critical temperature. To describe a general scenario, we allow…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-08-04 Sol H. Jacobsen , Jabir Ali Ouassou , Jacob Linder

The time evolution of a local spin excitation in a (001)-confined two-dimensional electron gas subjected to Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interactions of similar strength is investigated theoretically and compared with experimental…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 G. Salis , M. P. Walser , P. Altmann , C. Reichl , W. Wegscheider

We present a theoretical method to calculate the expectation value of spin in an inversion-asymmetric two-dimensional (2D) system with respect to an arbitrarily spin-polarized electron state, injected via an ideal point contact. The 2D…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ming-Hao Liu , Ching-Ray Chang

Electron spins in a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) can be manipulated by spin-orbit (SO) fields originating from either Rashba or Dresselhaus interactions with independent isotropic characteristics. Together, though, they produce…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-26 Henri Saarikoski , Andrés Reynoso , José Pablo Baltanás , Diego Frustaglia , Junsaku Nitta

In this work, we probe the sensitivity of hole-spin properties to hole occupation number in a planar silicon double-quantum dot device fabricated on a 300 mm integrated platform. Using DC transport measurements, we investigate the g-tensor…

We demonstrate in theory that it is possible to all-electrically manipulate the RKKY interaction in a quasi-one-dimensional electron gas embedded in a semiconductor heterostructure, in the presence of Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-07 Jia-Ji Zhu , Kai Chang , Ren-Bao Liu , Hai-Qing Lin

Extending a previous work on spin precession in GaAs/AlGaAs quantum dots with spin-orbit coupling, we study the role of deformation in the external confinement. Small elliptical deformations are enough to alter the precessional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Manuel Valin-Rodriguez , Antonio Puente , Llorens Serra

There is significant current interest in spintronic devices fashioned after a spin analog of the electro-optic modulator proposed by Datta and Das [Appl. Phys. Lett., \underline{56}, 665 (1990)]. In their modulator, the ``modulation'' of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Bandyopadhyay , M. Cahay

The intrinsic spin-Hall effect on spin accumulation and electric conductance in a diffusive regime of a 2D electron gas has been studied for a 2D strip of a finite width. It is shown that the spin polarization near the flanks of the strip,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. G. Mal'shukov , L. Y. Wang , C. S. Chu , K. A. Chao

We discuss the combined effect of Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interactions in polygonal loops formed by quantum wires, when the electron are injected in a node and collected at the opposite one. The conditions that allow perfect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Marigliano Ramaglia , V. Cataudella , G. De Filippis , C. A. Perroni

We theoretically study the interplay of spin-orbit and hyperfine interactions in dynamical nuclear polarization in two-electron semiconductor double quantum dots near the singlet $(S)$ - triplet $(T_+)$ anticrossing. The goal of the scheme…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Marko J. Rančić , Guido Burkard

We study theoretically the effect of spin-orbit coupling on quantum well excitons in a strong magnetic field. We show that, in the presence of an in-plane field component, the excitonic absorption spectrum develops a double-peak structure…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-18 O. Olendski , Q. L. Williams , T. V. Shahbazyan

We investigate intersubband polaritons formed in the asymmetric quantum well (AQW) embedded into the semiconductor microcavity and study the effects of spin-orbit interaction (SOI) acting on intersubband excitations. The spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-05 O. Kyriienko , I. A. Shelykh

We demonstrate how the Rashba spin-orbit coupling in semiconductor heterostructures can produce and control a spin-polarized current without ferromagnetic leads. Key idea is to use spin-double refraction of an electronic beam with a nonzero…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Marigliano Ramaglia , D. Bercioux , V. Cataudella , G. De Filippis , C. A. Perroni

We investigate the spin relaxation induced by acoustic phonons in the presence of spin-orbit interactions in single electron Si/SiGe lateral coupled quantum dots. The relaxation rates are computed numerically in single and double quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Martin Raith , Peter Stano , Jaroslav Fabian

In this article we study the spin and tunneling dynamics as a function of magnetic field in a one-dimensional GaAs double quantum dot with both the Dresselhaus and Rashba spin-orbit coupling. In particular we consider different spatial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-11 Madhav Singh , Pradeep K Jha , Aranya B Bhattacherjee

We compute analytically the weak (anti)localization correction to the Drude conductivity for electrons in tubular semiconductor systems of zinc blende type. We include linear Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and compare…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-09 Michael Kammermeier , Paul Wenk , John Schliemann , Sebastian Heedt , Thomas Schäpers

We consider a finite range ac-biased front gate acting upon a quantum channel with Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interaction effects. The ac-biased gate, giving rise to a dynamical Rashba coupling, causes spin-resolved coherent resonant…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Chi-Shung Tang , Yia-Chung Chang

The spin relaxation time $T_{1}$ in zinc blende GaN quantum dot is investigated for different magnetic field, well width and quantum dot diameter. The spin relaxation caused by the two most important spin relaxation mechanisms in zinc…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-04-11 M. Q. Weng , Y. Y. Wang , M. W. Wu