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An analytical approach to calculation of the conductivity tensor, $\sigma$, of a two-dimensional (2D) electron system with Rashba spin-orbit interaction (SOI) in an orthogonal magnetic field is proposed. The electron momentum relaxation is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. G. Novokshonov , A. G. Groshev

The Rashba spin-orbit coupling effect, primarily arising from structural-inversion asymmetry in periodic crystals, has garnered considerable attention due to its tunability and potential applications in spintronics. Its capability to…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-04-24 Arjyama Bordoloi , A. C. Garcia-Castro , Zachary Romestan , Aldo H. Romero , Sobhit Singh

Electrons with spin-orbit coupling moving in mesoscopic structures can often exhibit local spin polarization. In this paper, we study the influence of the Rashba coupling on the scattering of two-dimensional electrons from a circular disk.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jr-Yu Yeh , Chung-Yu Mou , Ming-Che Chang

In this paper the relativistic quantum dynamics of a spin-1/2 neutral particle with a magnetic moment $\mu$ in the cosmic string spacetime is reexamined by applying the von Neumann theory of self--adjoint extensions. Contrary to previous…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-02-01 Fabiano M. Andrade , Cleverson Filgueiras , Edilberto O. Silva

Recently a new propagating mode of coupled charge and spin oscillations was predicted in a two dimensional electron gas with a sufficiently strong Rashba interaction. We show that Coulomb interactions qualitatively modifies the spectrum and…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Ya. B. Bazaliy , B. V. Bazaliy , G. Guntherodt , S. S. P. Parkin

Recent claims of an experimental demonstration of spontaneous spin polarisation in dilute electron gases \cite{young99} revived long standing theoretical discussions \cite{ceper99,bloch}. In two dimensions, the stabilisation of a…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 P. Giudici , A. R. Goñi , P. G. Bolcatto , C. R. Proetto , K. Eberl , M. Hauser , C. Thomsen

We obtain analytic formulas for the frequency-dependent spin-Hall conductivity of a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in the presence of impurities, linear spin-orbit Rashba interaction, and external magnetic field perpendicular to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. M. Hankiewicz , G. Vignale

We present a theoretical study of elastic spin-dependent electron scattering caused by a nonuniform Rashba spin-orbit coupling strength. Using the spin-generalized method of partial waves the scattering amplitude is exactly derived for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 András Pályi , Csaba Péterfalvi , József Cserti

We study potential scattering in a two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit coupling in the limit that the energy of the scattering electron approaches the bottom of the lower spin-split band. Focusing on two spin-independent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 Joel Hutchinson , Joseph Maciejko

We study the temperature scale of the Kondo screening of a magnetic impurity which hybridizes with a two-dimensional electron gas in the presence of the Rashba spin-orbit interaction. The problem is mapped to an effective single-band…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-02-24 Rok Zitko , Janez Bonca

We investigate systematically how the interplay between Rashba spin-orbit interaction and Zeeman coupling affects the electron transport and the spin dynamics in InGaAs-based 2D electron gases. From the quantitative analysis of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 F. E. Meijer , A. F. Morpurgo , T. M. Klapwijk , T. Koga , J. Nitta

The aim of the paper is to study the electron spin direction dependence on momentum due to the presence of Rashba spin-orbit coupling in the pseudo-gap phase of Bi2212 bilayer. The non-trivial spin texture in k-space is found tuneable by…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-05-25 Udai Prakash Tyagi , Partha Goswami

The Edelstein effect provides the purely electrical generation and control of a homogeneous magnetization in primarily nonmagnetic materials with broken inversion symmetry. Usually, only the spin density response to an external electric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-31 Annika Johansson , Börge Göbel , Jürgen Henk , Manuel Bibes , Ingrid Mertig

A microscopic expression of the residual electrical resistivity tensor is derived in linear response theory for Rashba electrons scattering at a magnetic impurity with cylindrical or non-cylindrical potential. The behavior of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-29 Juba Bouaziz , Samir Lounis , Stefan Blügel , Hiroshi Ishida

We investigate the new physics that arises when a correlated quantum impurity hybridizes with Fermi gas with a generalized Rashba spin-orbit coupling produced via a uniform synthetic non-Abelian gauge field. We show that the impurity…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-06-29 Adhip Agarwala , Vijay B. Shenoy

Magnetotunnelling spectroscopy of resonant tunnelling structures provides information on the nature of the two-dimensional electron gas in the well. We describe a model based on nonequilibrium Green's functions that allows for a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Goran Isić , Dragan Indjin , Vitomir Milanović , Jelena Radovanović , Zoran Ikonić , Paul Harrison

We discuss an exactly solvable model Hamiltonian for describing the interacting electron gas in a quantum dot. Results for a spherical square well confining potential are presented. The ground state is found to exhibit striking oscillations…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Saniz , B. Barbiellini , A. B. Denison , A. Bansil

Spin-orbit interaction (SOI) in low-dimensional systems results in the fascinating property of spin-momentum locking. In a Rashba system the inversion symmetry normal to the plane of a two-dimensional (2D) electron gas is broken, generating…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-02-22 Bartosz Slomski , Gabriel Landolt , Gustav Bihlmayer , Jürg Osterwalder , J. Hugo Dil

We investigate the spin relaxation due to the random Rashba spin-orbit coupling in symmetric GaAs (110) quantum wells from the fully microscopic kinetic spin Bloch equation approach. All relevant scatterings, such as the electron-impurity,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-03-17 Y. Zhou , M. W. Wu

We present calculations of the frequency-dependent spin susceptibility tensor of a two-dimensional electron gas with competing Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interaction. It is shown that the interplay between both types of spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Catalina López-Bastidas , Jesús A. Maytorena , Francisco Mireles