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A design for a quantum gate performing transformations of a single electron spin is presented. The spin rotations are performed by the electron going around the closed loops in a gated semiconductor device. We demonstrate the operation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-11-25 S. Bednarek , B. Szafran

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

Spin-orbit torques (SOTs) have opened a novel way to manipulate the magnetization using in-plane current, with a great potential for the development of fast and low power information technologies. It has been recently shown that…

Recently experiments have shown very significant spin activity in biological molecules such as DNA, proteins, oligopeptides and aminoacids. Such molecules have in common their chiral structure, time reversal symmetry and the absence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-29 Juan Daniel Torres , Raul Hidalgo , Solmar Varela , Ernesto Medina

We evaluate the distribution of Hall conductances in magnetic subbands of two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit (SO) coupling placed in a periodic potential and perpendicular magnetic field. In this semiconductor structure the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 V. Ya. Demikhovskii , A. A. Perov

We study electron transport through a serial double quantum dot with Rashba spin-orbit interaction (SOI) and Zeeman field of amplitude B in presence of local Coulomb repulsion. The linear conductance as a function of a gate voltage Vg…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-03-15 S. Grap , S. Andergassen , J. Paaske , V. Meden

Holes confined in semiconductor nanostructures realize qubits where the quantum mechanical spin is strongly mixed with the quantum orbital angular momentum. The remarkable spin-orbit coupling allows for fast all electrical manipulation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-22 Vincent P. Michal , Benjamin Venitucci , Yann-Michel Niquet

We consider a single electron in a 1D quantum dot with a static slanting Zeeman field. By combining the spin and orbital degrees of freedom of the electron, an effective quantum two-level (qubit) system is defined. This pseudo-spin can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Yasuhiro Tokura , Wilfred G. van der Wiel , Toshiaki Obata , Seigo Tarucha

Spin dephasing via the spin-orbit interaction (SOI) is a major mechanism limiting the electron spin lifetime in III-V zincblende quantum wells. The dephasing can be suppressed in GaAs(111) quantum wells by applying an electric field. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-25 A. Hernández-Mínguez , K. Biermann , R. Hey , P. V. Santos

We show that the spin-orbit interaction (SOI) arising due to the in-plane electric field of the Coulomb repulsion between electrons in a two-dimensional quantum well produces an attractive component in the pair interaction Hamiltonian that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-02-12 Yasha Gindikin , Vladimir A. Sablikov

The relative strengths of Rashba and Dresselhaus terms describing the spin-orbit coupling in semiconductor quantum well (QW) structures are extracted from photocurrent measurements on n-type InAs QWs containing a two-dimensional electron…

Spin-orbit interactions which couple spin of a particle with its momentum degrees of freedom lie at the center of spintronic applications. Of special interest in semiconductor physics are Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling (SOC).…

We report on an experimental study of the spin-orbit interaction (SOI) in an epitaxially grown free-standing InAs nanosheet in a dual-gate field-effect device. Gate-transfer characteristic measurements show that independent tunings of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-22 Furong Fan , Yuanjie Chen , Dong Pan , Jianhua Zhao , H. Q. Xu

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

Spin relaxation of two-dimensional electrons in asymmetrical (001) AlGaAs quantum wells are measured by means of Hanle effect. Three different spin relaxation times for spins oriented along [110], [1-10] and [001] crystallographic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 N. S. Averkiev , L. E. Golub , A. S. Gurevich , V. P. Evtikhiev , V. P. Kochereshko , A. V. Platonov , A. S. Shkolnik , Yu. P. Efimov

The charge density relaxation propagator of a two dimensional electron system, which is the slope of the imaginary part of the polarization function, exhibits singularities for bosonic momenta having the order of the spin-orbit momentum and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-13 S. M. Badalyan , A. Matos-Abiague , J. Fabian , G. Vignale , F. M. Peeters

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

One of the major strategies to control magnetism in spintronics is to utilize the coupling between electron spin and its orbital motion. The Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit couplings induce magnetic textures of band electrons called spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-03-11 Masataka Kawano , Yoshinori Onose , Chisa Hotta

We show by spatially and time-resolved photoluminescence that the application of an electric field transverse to the plane of an intrinsic GaAs (111) quantum well (QW) allows the transport of photogenerated electron spins polarized along…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-13 A. Hernández-Mínguez , K. Biermann , R. Hey , P. V. Santos

By associating a spin-orbit interaction with a non-Abelian gauge potential, we theoretically present a spin polarization in a quite general form using an effective Yang-Mills field and a usual electromagnetic field. In this gauge invariant…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-18 Akihito Takeuchi , Naoto Nagaosa