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We describe a new effect in semiconductor spintronics that leads to dissipationless spin-currents in paramagnetic spin-orbit coupled systems. We argue that in a high mobility two-dimensional electron system with substantial Rashba…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jairo Sinova , Dimitrie Culcer , Q. Niu , N. A. Sinitsyn , T. Jungwirth , A. H. MacDonald

Anomalous and spin Hall effects are investigated theoretically for a magnetic tunnel junction where the applied voltage produces a Rashba spin-or bit coupling within the tunneling barrier layer. The ferromagnetic electrodes are the source…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-16 A. V. Vedyayev , M. S. Titova , N. V. Ryzhanova , M. Ye. Zhuravlev , E. Y. Tsymbal

We study the ground-state properties of electrons confined to a quantum wire and subject to a smoothly modulated Rashba spin-orbit coupling. When the period of the modulation becomes commensurate with the band filling, the Rashba coupling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-28 G. I. Japaridze , Henrik Johannesson , Alvaro Ferraz

Effective spin-orbit (SO) Hamiltonians for conduction electrons in wurtzite heterostructures are lacking in the literature, in contrast to zincblende structures. Here we address this issue by deriving such an effective Hamiltonian valid for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 J. Y. Fu , P. H. Penteado , D. R. Candido , G. J. Ferreira , D. P. Pires , E. Bernardes , J. C. Egues

Using the recently proposed definition of a conserved spin-current operator [J. Shi et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 076604 (2006)] we explore the frequency dependent spin Hall conductivity for a two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Arturo Wong , Jesus A. Maytorena , Catalina Lopez-Bastidas , Francisco Mireles

We study the effect of the Dresselhaus spin-orbit interaction on the electronic states and spin relaxation rates of cylindrical quantum dots defined on quantum wires having wurtzite lattice structure. The linear and cubic contributions of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-12 Guido A. Intronati , Pablo I. Tamborenea , Dietmar Weinmann , Rodolfo A. Jalabert

We consider theoretically spin correlations in an 1D quantum wire with Rashba-Dresselhaus spin-orbit interaction (RDI). The correlations of non-interacting electrons display electron-spin resonance at a frequency proportional to the RDI…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-20 Chen Sun , Valery L. Pokrovsky

We study the effect of disorder on the intrinsic anomalous Hall (AH) conductivity in a spin-polarized two-dimensional electron gas with a Rashba-type spin-orbit interaction. We find that AH conductivity vanishes unless the lifetime is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Jun-ichiro Inoue , Takashi Kato , Yasuhito Ishikawa , Hiroyoshi Itoh , Gerrit E. W. Bauer , Laurens W. Molenkamp

We propose a mechanism of spin Hall effect in two-dimensional electron gas with spatially random Rashba spin-orbit interaction. The calculations based on the Kubo formalism and kinetic equation show that in contrast to the constant…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 V. K. Dugaev , M. Inglot , E. Ya. Sherman , J. Barnas

In this paper one deals with the theoretical derivation of spin precession effects in quasi 1D quantum wire models. Such models get characterized by equal coupling strength superpositions of Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interactions of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-05 E. Papp , C. Micu

We present the first findings of the spin transistor effect in the Rashba gate-controlled ring embedded in the p-type self-assembled silicon quantum well that is prepared on the n-type Si (100) surface. The coherence and phase sensitivity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 N. T. Bagraev , N. G. Galkin , W. Gehlhoff , L. E. Klyachkin , A. M. Malyarenko , I. A. Shelykh

The third-rank tensor of the static spin Hall conductivity is investigated for two-dimensional (2D) topological insulators by electronic structure calculations. Its seeming quantization is numerically demonstrated for highly symmetric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-01 Filipe Matusalem , Lars Matthes , Jürgen Furthmüller , Marcelo Marques , Lara K. Teles , Friedhelm Bechstedt

At very large tilt of the magnetic (B) field with respect to the plane of a two-dimensional electron system the transport in the integer quantum Hall regime at $\nu$ = 4, 6, and 8 becomes strongly anisotropic. At these filling factors the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 W. Pan , H. L. Stormer , D. C. Tsui , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. Baldwin , K. W. West

A theory of spin manipulation of quasi-two-dimensional (2D) electrons by a time-dependent gate voltage applied to a quantum well is developed. The Dresselhaus and Rashba spin-orbit coupling mechanisms are shown to be rather efficient for…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 E. I. Rashba , Al. L. Efros

We study the depolarization of optically oriented electrons in quantum wells subjected to an in-plane magnetic field and show that the Hanle curve drastically depends on the carrier mobility. In low-mobility structures, the Hanle curve is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 A. V. Poshakinskiy , S. A. Tarasenko

We investigate the effective Lande factor in semiconductor nanowires with strong Rashba spin-orbit coupling. Using the $\mathbf{k}\cdot\mathbf{p}$ theory and the envelope function approach we derive a conduction band Hamiltonian where the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-17 J. Czarnecki , A. Bertoni , G. Goldoni , P. Wójcik

In symmetric quantum dots (QDs), it is well known that the spin-hot spot (i.e., the cusp-like structure due to the presence of degeneracy near the level or anticrossing point) is present for the pure Rashba case but is absent for the pure…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-14 Sanjay Prabhakar , Roderick Melnik , Luis L. Bonilla

We have shown that the non-Abelian spin-orbit gauge field strength of the Rashba and Dresselhaus interactions, when split into two Abelian field strengths, the Hamiltonian of the system can be re-expressed as a Landau level problem with a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 B. Basu , P. Bandyopadhyay

We study intrinsic spin Hall effect in p-type GaAs quantum well structure described by Luttinger Hamiltonian and a Rashba spin-orbit coupling arising from the structural inversion symmetry breaking. The Rashba term induces an energy level…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Xi Dai , Zhong Fang , Yu-Gui Yao , Fu-Chun Zhang

The spin-Hall conductivity of a disordered 2D electron gas has been calculated for an arbitrary spin-orbit interaction. We have found that in the diffusive regime of electron transport, in accordance with previous calculations, the dc…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. G. Mal'shukov , K. A. Chao