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We study a two-dimensional electron system in the presence of both Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interactions in a perpendicular magnetic field. Defining two suitable boson operators and using the unitary transformations we are able to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Degang Zhang

We consider the magnetic response of a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) with both Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling to a microwave excitation. We generalize the results of [A. Shnirman and I. Martin, Europhys. Lett. 78, 27001…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-01-22 Mikhail Pletyukhov , Alexander Shnirman

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 discuss by analytic means the theory of the high-density limit of the unpolarized two-dimensional electron liquid in the presence of Rashba or Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling. A generalization of the ring-diagram expansion is performed.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Stefano Chesi , Gabriele F. Giuliani

Spin-orbit coupling plays an important role in various properties of very different materials. Moreover efforts are underway to control the degree and quality of spin-orbit coupling in materials with a concomitant control of transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-17 Zhou Li , F. Marsiglio , J. P. Carbotte

The Dresselhaus spin-orbit interaction (SOI) of a series of two-dimensional electron gases (2DEGs) hosted in GaAs/AlGaAs and InGaAs/GaAs (001) quantum wells (QWs) is measured by monitoring the precession frequency of the spins as a function…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-12-23 M. Studer , M. P. Walser , S. Baer , H. Rusterholz , S. Schön , D. Schuh , W. Wegscheider , K. Ensslin , G. Salis

We show that the bulk-inversion-asymmetry-type strain-induced spin-orbit coupling can be used to effectively modify the Dresselhaus spin splitting in (001) GaAs quantum wells with small well width and the resulting spin lifetime can be…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Jiang , M. W. Wu

The spin-orbit interaction of 2D electrons in the quantum wells grown from the III-V semiconductors consists of the two parts with different symmetry: the Bychkov-Rashba and the Dresselhaus terms. The last term is usually attributed to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-07 P. S. Alekseev , M. O. Nestoklon

We study theoretically the spin and orbital angular momentum (OAM) Hall effect in a high mobility two-dimensional electron system with Rashba and Dresselhuas spin-orbit coupling by introducing both the spin and OAM torque corrections,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Tsung-Wei Chen , Chih-Meng Huang , G. Y. Guo

We study theoretically the spin-orbit interaction of low-energy electrons in semiconducting nanowires with a zinc-blende lattice. The effective Dresselhaus term is derived for various growth directions, including <11(-2)>-oriented…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-02 Miguel J. Carballido , Christoph Kloeffel , Dominik M. Zumbühl , Daniel Loss

Using spin and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy we investigate a momentum region in Pb quantum well states on Si(111) where hybridization between Rashba-split bands alters the band structure significantly. Starting from the Rashba…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-03-24 Bartosz Slomski , Gabriel Landolt , Stefan Muff , Fabian Meier , Jürg Osterwalder , J. Hugo Dil

Controlling the spin dynamics and spin lifetimes is one of the main challenges in spintronics. To this end, the study of the spin diffusion in two-dimensional electron gases (2DEGs) shows that when the Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-14 I. R. de Assis , R. Raimondi , G. J. Ferreira

We exploit the high-symmetry spin state obtained for equal Rashba and linear Dresselhaus interactions to derive a closed-form expression for the weak localization magnetoconductivity -- the paradigmatic signature of spin-orbit coupling in…

An asymmetric triangular potential well provides the simplest model for the confinement of mobile electrons at the interface between two insulating oxides, such as LaAlO_3 and SrTiO_3 (LAO/STO). These electrons have been recently shown to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-13 Lorien H. Hayden , R. Raimondi , M. E. Flatte' , G. Vignale

Magneto-transport properties of a two-dimensional electron gas in a chain of planar quantum rings are investigated under the Rashba spin-orbit interaction and a transverse homogeneous magnetic field. A modulation potential function models…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-30 Armen Harutyunyan

We investigate the nu=1 quantum Hall ferromagnet in the presence of spin-orbit coupling of the Rashba or Dresselhaus type by means of Hartree-Fock-typed variational states. In the presence of Rashba (Dresselhaus) spin-orbit coupling the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 John Schliemann , J. Carlos Egues , Daniel Loss

The electron spin dynamics in (111)-oriented GaAs/AlGaAs quantum wells is studied by timeresolved photoluminescence spectroscopy. By applying an external field of 50 kV/cm a two-order of magnitude increase of the spin relaxation time can be…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-28 A. Balocchi , Q. H. Duong , P. Renucci , B. Liu , C. Fontaine , T. Amand , D. Lagarde , X. Marie

We use numerical simulations to investigate the spin Hall effect in quantum wires in the presence of both Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling. We find that the intrinsic spin Hall effect is highly anisotropic with respect to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-18 A. W. Cummings , R. Akis , D. K. Ferry

We investigate theoretically the Rashba spin-orbit interaction in InAs/GaSb quantum wells(QWs). We find that the Rashba spin-splitting (RSS) depends sensitively on the thickness of the InAs layer. The RSS exhibits nonlinear behavior for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Li , Kai Chang , G. Q. Hai , K. S. Chan

Spin-orbit interaction in semiconductor structures with broken space inversion symmetry leads to spin splitting of electron and hole states even in the absence of magnetic field. We discover that, beyond the Rashba and Dresselhaus…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-04-20 G. V. Budkin , S. A. Tarasenko