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We study the interplay between electron-electron interaction and Rashba spin-orbit coupling in the two-dimensional electron gas. Using the random phase approximation we predict new screening properties of the electron gas which result in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Pletyukhov , V. Gritsev

We investigate the linear conductance of a stripe of spin-orbit interaction in a 2D electron gas; that is, a 2D region of length $\ell$ along the transport direction and infinite in the transverse one in which a spin-orbit interaction of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 M. M. Gelabert , Ll. Serra

We investigate the spin-Hall effect in a two-dimensional heavy-hole system with Rashba spin-orbit coupling using a nonequilibrium Green's function approach. Both the short- and long-range disorder scatterings are considered in the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Y. Liu , X. L. Lei

The ac conductance of a finite tubular two-dimensional electron gas is studied in the presence of the Rashba spin-orbit interaction. When the tube is coupled to two reservoirs, that interaction splits the steps in the dc current,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-24 E. A. Rothstein , B. Horovitz , O. Entin-Wohlman , A. Aharony

We study the parity-mixed superconductivity in locally non-centrosymmetric systems. In multilayer systems an inhomogeneous Rashba spin-orbit coupling is induced by the local violation of inversion symmetry. Our previous study revealed that…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-06-17 Tomohiro Yoshida , Manfred Sigrist , Youichi Yanase

We have for the first time experimentally investigated the weak localisation magnetoresistance in a AlGaAs/GaAs p-type quantum well. The peculiarity of such systems is that spin-orbit interaction is strong. On the theoretical side it is not…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Pedersen , C. B. Sorensen , A. Kristensen , P. E. Lindelof , L. E. Golub , N. S. Averkiev

Recent studies using Terahertz Time-Domain Spectroscopy (THz-TDS) with spintronic emitters as a source have revealed distinct signatures of the Rashba effect. This effect, which arises from the breaking of inversion symmetry in…

We investigate theoretically the spin-dependent electron transport in a Rashba quantum wire with rough edges. The charge and spin conductances are calculated as function of the electron energy or the wire length by adopting the spinresolved…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-06 Xianbo Xiao , Huili Li , Guanghui Zhou , Nianhua Liu

Spin drag measurements were performed in a two-dimensional electron system set close to the crossed spin helix regime and coupled by strong intersubband scattering. In a sample with uncommon combination of long spin lifetime and high charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-05 M. Luengo-Kovac , F. C. D. Moraes , G. J. Ferreira , A. S. L. Ribeiro , G. M. Gusev , A. K. Bakarov , V. Sih , F. G. G. Hernandez

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

Coupled spin-charge drift-diffusion equations are derived for a biased two-dimensional electron gas with weak Rashba spin-orbit interaction. The basic equations formally agree with recent results obtained for spin-orbit coupled small…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. V. Bryksin , P. Kleinert

The strength of the (Rashba-type) spin-orbit coupling in mesoscopic semiconductor rings can be tuned with external gate voltages. Here we consider the case of a periodically changing spin-orbit interaction strength as induced by sinusoidal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Peter Foldi , Mihaly G. Benedict , Orsolya Kalman , F. M. Peeters

We investigate the single and multiple defects embedded in a superconducting host, studying interplay between the proximity induced pairing and interactions. We explore influence of the spin-orbit coupling on energies, polarization and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-08 S. Glodzik , A. Kobialka , A. Gorczyca-Goraj , A. Ptok , G. Gorski , M. M. Maska , T. Domanski

We consider Rashba spin-orbit effects on spin transport driven by an electric field in semiconductor quantum wells. We derive spin diffusion equations that are valid when the mean free path and the Rashba spin-orbit interaction vary on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Arne Brataas , A. G. Mal'shukov , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

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

We study the effects of spin-orbit coupling on the magnetoconductivity in diffusive cylindrical semiconductor nanowires. Following up on our former study on tubular semiconductor nanowires, we focus in this paper on nanowire systems where…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-07 Michael Kammermeier , Paul Wenk , John Schliemann , Sebastian Heedt , Thomas Gerster , Thomas Schäpers

In this paper we use a spin kinetic equation to study spin polarization dynamics in 1D wires and 2D channels. This approach is valid in both diffusive and ballistic spin transport regimes and, therefore, more general than the usual spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-17 V. A. Slipko , Y. V. Pershin

We present both theory and numerical-computation results for the transmission and reflection probability currents of a charged particle across a potential step in the presence of a Rashba spin-orbit interaction. By varying kinetic energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-22 Po-Hsin Shih , Godfrey Gumbs , Danhong Huang , Andrii Iurov , Yonatan Abranyos

The Rashba spin-orbit coupling (SOC) is a well-known mechanism for the spin-charge interconversion via the inverse and direct spin galvanic effects. The lack of a full inversion symmetry allows the coupling of the charge current and spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-08 Alessandro Veneri , Francesco Quintavalle , Thierry Valet , Roberto Raimondi

Quantum transport and spintronics regimes are studied in p- and n-doped atomic layers of hexagonal transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs), subject to the interplay between the valley structure and spin-orbit coupling. We find how spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-23 Hector Ochoa , Francesca Finocchiaro , Francisco Guinea , Vladimir I. Fal'ko