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The Rashba-Dresselhaus effect is the splitting of doubly degenerate band extrema in semiconductors, accompanied by the emergence of counter-rotating spin textures and spin-momentum locking. Here we investigate how this effect is modified by…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-12-07 Martin Schlipf , Feliciano Giustino

We study the interplay of electron-electron interactions and Rashba spin-orbit coupling in one-dimensional ballistic wires. Using the renormalization group approach we construct the phase diagram in terms of Rashba coupling,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Gritsev , G. I. Japaridze , M. Pletyukhov , D. Baeriswyl

In the presence of Rashba-Dresselhaus coupling, strong spin-orbit interactions in liquid crystal optical cavities result in a distinctive spin-split entangled dispersion. Spin coherence between such modes give rise to an optical…

A weakly bound electron in a semiconductor quantum wire is shown to become entangled with an itinerant electron via the coulomb interaction. The degree of entanglement and its variation with energy of the injected electron, may be tuned by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 J. H. Jefferson , A. Ramsak , T. Rejec

Using canonical transformations we diagonalize approximately the Hamiltonian of a gaussian wire with Rashba spin-orbit interaction. This proceedure allows us to obtain the energy dispersion relations and the wavefunctions with good…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. I. Erlingsson , J. C. Egues , D. Loss

An influence of spin-orbit interaction on the tunneling between two 2D electron layers is considered. Particular attention is addressed to the relation between the contribution of Rashba and Dresselhaus types. It is shown that without…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 I. V. Rozhansky , N. S. Averkiev

We address the electromagnetic properties of two-dimensional electron gas confined by a dielectric environment in the presence of both Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interactions. It is demonstrated that off-diagonal components of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-04 Dmitry Yudin , Dmitry R. Gulevich , Ivan A. Shelykh

We propose a simple method to detect the relative strength of Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-obit interactions in quantum wells (QWs) without relying on the directional-dependent physical quantities. This method utilize the asymmetry of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Jun Li , Kai Chang

We discuss how electron-electron interactions renormalize the spin-orbit induced anticrossings between different subbands in ballistic quantum wires. Depending on the ratio of spin-orbit coupling and subband spacing, electron-electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-06-03 Tobias Meng , Jelena Klinovaja , Daniel Loss

In this paper we consider pairs of interacting electrons moving in a simple quantum wire, namely the half-line. In particular, we extend the results obtained in [arXiv:1708.03753] by allowing for contact interactions of the Lieb-Liniger…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-06-14 Joachim Kerner

We investigate the spin-current linear response conductivity tensor to an electric field in a paramagnetic two dimensonal electron gas with both Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling in the weak scattering regime. In the ususal case…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 N. A. Sinitsyn , E. M. Hankiewicz , W. Teizer , Jairo Sinova

A persistent spin helix (PSH) in spin-orbit-coupled two-dimensional electron systems was recently predicted to exist in two cases: [001] quantum wells (QWs) with equal coupling strengths of the Rashba and the Dresselhaus interactions (RD),…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ming-Hao Liu , Kuo-Wei Chen , Son-Hsien Chen , Ching-Ray Chang

We evaluate the low-temperature conductance of a weakly interacting one-dimensional helical liquid without axial spin symmetry. The lack of that symmetry allows for inelastic backscattering of a single electron, accompanied by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-07 Thomas L. Schmidt , Stephan Rachel , Felix von Oppen , Leonid I. Glazman

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

One-dimensional wires with Rashba spin-orbit coupling, magnetic field, and strong electron-electron interactions are described by a spiral Luttinger liquid model. We develop a theory to investigate the tunneling density of states into a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Dong E. Liu , Alex Levchenko

In semiconductors with inversion asymmetry, spin-orbit coupling gives rise to the well-known Dresselhaus and Rashba effects. If one considers quantum wells with two or more conduction subbands, an additional, intersubband-induced spin-orbit…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-10-16 F. V. Kyrychenko , C. A. Ullrich , I. D'Amico

The spin relaxation rate $1/\tau_s (W)$ in disordered quantum wires with Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling is derived analytically as a function of wire width $W$. It is found to be diminished when $W$ is smaller than the bulk…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 S. Kettemann

The edge states of the recently proposed quantum spin Hall systems constitute a new symmetry class of one-dimensional liquids dubbed the ``helical liquid'', where the spin orientation is determined by the direction of electron motion. We…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Congjun Wu , B. Andrei Bernevig , Shou-Cheng Zhang

The spin-galvanic effect and the circular photogalvanic effect induced by terahertz radiation are applied to determine the relative strengths of Rashba and Dresselhaus band spin-splitting in (001)-grown GaAs and InAs based two dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Giglberger , L. E. Golub , V. V. Bel'kov , S. N. Danilov , D. Schuh , Ch. Gerl , F. Rohlfing , J. Stahl , W. Wegscheider , D. Weiss , W. Prettl , S. D. Ganichev

We developed the theory of electronic properties of semiconductor quantum rings with the Rashba spin-orbit interaction irradiated by an off-resonant high-frequency electromagnetic field (dressing field). Within the Floquet theory of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-30 V. K. Kozin , I. V. Iorsh , O. V. Kibis , I. A. Shelykh