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We have found a manifestation of spin-orbit Berry phase in the conductance of a mesoscopic loop with Rashba spin-orbit coupling placed in an external magnetic field perpendicular to the loop plane. In detail, the transmission probabilities…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Maxim P. Trushin , Alexander L. Chudnovskiy

We consider the effect of the Rashba spin-orbital interaction and space charge in a ferromagnet-insulator/semiconductor/insulator-ferromagnet junction where the spin current is severely affected by the doping, band structure and charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Wei Wu , Jinbin Li , Yue Yu , S. T. Chui

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

At interfaces with inversion symmetry breaking, Rashba effect couples the motion of electrons to their spin; as a result, spin-charge interconversion mechanism can occur. These interconversion mechanisms commonly exploit Rashba spin…

We study the topological properties of Rashba spin-orbit coupling and exchange coupling induced pseudospin-$1$ system Dice lattice under the influence of a staggered electric potential and magnetization. The band structure and topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-05 Puspita Parui , Bheema Lingam Chittari

We use a perturbative approach to study the effects of interfacial spin-orbit coupling in magnetic multilayers by treating the two-dimensional Rashba model in a fully three-dimensional description of electron transport near an interface.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-04 Kyoung-Whan Kim , Kyung-Jin Lee , Jairo Sinova , Hyun-Woo Lee , M. D. Stiles

In this work we study the effects of a longitudinal periodic potential on a parabolic quantum wire defined in a two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit interaction. For an infinite wire superlattice we find, by direct…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-01 Gunnar Thorgilsson , J. Carlos Egues , Daniel Loss , Sigurdur I. Erlingsson

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

We report the experimental observation of the spin-Hall effect in a two-dimensional (2D) hole system with Rashba spin-orbit coupling. The 2D hole layer is a part of a p-n junction light-emitting diode with a specially designed co-planar…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Joerg Wunderlich , Bernd Kaestner , Jairo Sinova , Tomas Jungwirth

We study the formation of local moments in quantum dots arising in quasi-one dimensional electron wires due to localized spin-orbit (Rashba) interaction. Using an Anderson-like model to describe the occurrence of the magnetic moments in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 Mircea Crisan , David Sanchez , Rosa Lopez , Llorens Serra , Ioan Grosu

In this work, we explore the intriguing spin-momentum locking phenomenon within the Rashba states of antimony (Sb) films. By combining spin pumping with the flow of an external charge current, we reveal the topological properties of surface…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-24 J. E. Abrão , E. Gomes da Silva , G. Rodrigues-Junior , J. B. S. Mendes , A. Azevedo

We study theoretically the manifestation of the spin-Hall effect in a two-dimensional electronic system with Rashba spin-orbit coupling via dc-transport measurements in realistic mesoscopic H-shape structures. The Landauer-Buttiker…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. M. Hankiewicz , L. W. Molenkamp , T. Jungwirth , Jairo Sinova

We show that the bound electron pairs (BEPs) emerge in two-dimensional gated Rashba materials owing to the interplay of the pair spin-orbit interaction, produced by the Coulomb fields of interacting electrons, and the peculiarities of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 Yasha Gindikin , Igor Rozhansky , Vladimir A. Sablikov

It is well known that a current driven through a two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit coupling induces a spin polarization in the perpendicular direction (Edelstein effect). This phenomenon has been extensively studied in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-30 Giovanni Vignale , I. V. Tokatly

Solutions of the Schr\"odinger equation are obtained for an electron in a two-dimensional circular semiconductor quantum ring in the presence of both external uniform constant magnetic field and the Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-12-21 V. V. Kudryashov , A. V. Baran

We study the effects of electrostatic gating on the current-induced phenomena in ultrathin ferromagnet/heavy metal heterostructures. We utilize heterodyne detection and analysis of symmetry with respect to the direction of the magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-16 Ronghua Liu , WengLee Lim , Sergei Urazhdin

Large Rashba effect efficiently tuned by an external electric field is highly desired for spintronic devices. Using first-principles calculations, we demonstrate that large Rashba splitting is locked at conduction band minimum in…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-09-10 Yan Song , Dong Zhang , Ben Xu , Kai Chang , Ce-Wen Nan

The well-known experimentally observed \textit{sp}-derived Au(111) Shockley surface states with Rashba spin splitting are perfectly fit by an effective tight-binding model, considering a two-dimensional hexagonal lattice with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-11-15 Ming-Hao Liu , Son-Hsien Chen , Ching-Ray Chang

We investigate spin-to-charge conversion via the Edelstein effect in a 2D Rashba electron gas using the semiclassical Boltzmann approach. We analyze the magnetization arising from the direct Edelstein effect, taking into account an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-27 Irene Gaiardoni , Mattia Trama , Alfonso Maiellaro , Claudio Guarcello , Francesco Romeo , Roberta Citro

We investigate the bulk-boundary correspondence in two-dimensional type-I semi-Dirac materials with band inversion and Rashba spin-orbit coupling. Employing a dimensional reduction framework, we identify the Zak phase along the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-02 Marta García-Olmos , Yuriko Baba , Alexander López , Mario Amado , Rafael A. Molina