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Spin transfer torque in a two dimensional electron gas system without space inversion symmetry was theoretically investigated by solving the Pauli-Schr\"{o}dinger equation for the itinerant electrons inside magnetic domain walls. Due to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-02 D. Wang , Yan Zhou

We theoretically investigate spin transport in a junction system composed of a ferromagnetic insulator (FI) and a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) with both Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interactions. We briefly present our findings…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-12 Masaki Yama , Mamoru Matsuo , Takeo Kato

We report the observation of a spin-orbit torque (SOT) originating from the surface Rashba-Edelstein effect. We found that the SOT in a prototypical spin-orbitronic system, a Pt/Co bilayer, can be manipulated by molecular self-assembly on…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-04-22 Satoshi Haku , Atsushi Ishikawa , Akira Musha , Hiroyasu Nakayama , Takashi Yamamoto , Kazuya Ando

We consider the problem of spin relaxation in a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in a perpendicular magnetic field. We assume that the spin relaxation is induced by the Rashba spin-orbit (SO) interaction, which appears due to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. A. Burkov , Leon Balents

We report a theoretical description of novel spin-orbit torque components emerging in two-dimensional Dirac materials with broken inversion symmetry. In contrast to usual metallic interfaces where field-like and damping-like torque…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-11 Joaquín Medina Dueñas , José H. García , Stephan Roche

We report on the quantum interference and spin accumulation on double quantum dots with Rashba spin-orbit coupling and electron-electron interaction, based on the Keldysh nonequilibrium Green function formalism. It is shown that Rashba…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Kuo-Wei Chen , Ching-Ray Chang

In the context of orbitronics, the rising of the orbital angular momentum generated at light metal interfaces from orbital textures via orbital Rashba-Edelstein effects nowadays represent extraordinary alternatives to the usual heavy-metal…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-23 A. Pezo , N. Sebe , A. Manchon , V. Cros , H. Jaffrès

We derive an intrinsic contribution to the non-adiabatic spin torque for non-uniform magnetic textures. It differs from previously considered contributions in several ways and can be the dominant contribution in some models. It does not…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-22 Kyoung-Whan Kim , Kyung-Jin Lee , Hyun-Woo Lee , M. D. Stiles

We derive the Bloch equations for the spin dynamics of a two-dimensional electron gas in the presence of spin-orbit coupling. For the latter we consider both the intrinsic mechanisms of structure inversion asymmetry (Rashba) and bulk…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 Cosimo Gorini , Amin Maleki , Ka Shen , Ilya V. Tokatly , Giovanni Vignale , Roberto Raimondi

Motivated by recent discovery of strongly spin-orbit coupled two-dimensional (2D) electron gas near the surface of Rashba semiconductors BiTeX (X=Cl, Br, I), we calculate thermoelectric responses of spin polarization in 2D Rashba model…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-19 Cong Xiao , Dingping Li , Zhongshui Ma

Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are promising materials for efficient generation of current-induced spin-orbit torques on an adjacent ferromagnetic layer. Numerous effects, both interfacial and bulk, have been put forward to explain…

We present a microscopic theory of an atomic spin diode. Our proposed system consists of two magnetic adatoms deposited on the surface of a two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit coupling. A local s-d type coupling between the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-05 William J. Huddie , Rembert A. Duine

Motivated by recent observations of unconventional out-of-plane dampinglike torque in \ch{WTe2}/Permalloy bilayer systems, we calculate the spin-orbit torque generated in two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD)-ferromagnet…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-07 Fei Xue , Christoph Rohmann , Junwen Li , Vivek Amin , Paul Haney

We investigate the effect that Rashba spin-orbit coupling has on the low energy behaviour of a two dimensional magnetic impurity system. It is shown that the Kondo effect, the screening of the magnetic impurity at temperatures T < T_K, is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-11-01 Justin Malecki

We investigate theoretically the influence of the spin-orbit interaction of Rashba type on the magnetoresistance of a semiconducting ferromagnetic nanostructure with a laterally constrained domain wall. The domain wall is assumed sharp (on…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 V. K. Dugaev , J. Barnas , J. Berakdar , V. I. Ivanov , W. Dobrowolski , V. F. Mitin

In 1984, Bychkov and Rashba introduced a simple form of spin-orbit coupling to explain certain peculiarities in the electron spin resonance of two-dimensional semiconductors. Over the past thirty years, similar ideas have been leading to a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-02 A. Manchon , H. C. Koo , J. Nitta , S. M. Frolov , R. A. Duine

Strong spin-orbit coupling can have a profound effect on the electronic structure in a metal or semiconductor, particularly for low electron concentrations. We show how, for small values of the Fermi energy compared to the spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 E. Cappelluti , C. Grimaldi , F. Marsiglio

The ability of spin-orbit interactions to convert charge current into spin current, most often in the bulk of heavy metal thin films, has been the hallmark of spintronics in the last decade. In this study, we demonstrate how the insertion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-27 S. Krishnia , Y. Sassi , F. Ajejas , N. Reyren , S. Collin , A. Fert , J. -M. George , V. Cros , H. Jaffres

We introduce the general formalism to describe spin torques induced by the supercurrents injected from the adjacent superconducting electrodes into the spin-textured ferromagnets. By considering the adiabatic limit for the equal-spin…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-08-28 I. V. Bobkova , A. M. Bobkov , M. A. Silaev

Based on quantum-kinetic equations, coupled spin-charge drift-diffusion equations are derived for a two-dimensional electron gas on a cylindrical surface. Besides the Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interaction, the elastic scattering on…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-08-04 P. Kleinert