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We report on a theoretical study of spin dynamics of an ensemble of spin-polarized electrons injected in a diffusive microchannel with linear Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling. We explore the dependence of the spin-precession and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-23 Liviu P. Zarbo , Jairo Sinova , Irena Knezevic , J. Wunderlich , T. Jungwirth

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

In a semiconductor, collective excitations of spin textures usually decay rather fast due to D'yakonov-Perel' spin relaxation. The latter arises from spin-orbit coupling, which induces wave-vector-dependent spin rotations that, in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Daisuke Iizasa , Makoto Kohda , Ulrich Zülicke , Junsaku Nitta , Michael Kammermeier

We consider the spin-orbit-induced spin Hall effect and spin swapping in diffusive superconductors. By employing the non-equilibrium Keldysh Green's function technique in the quasiclassical approximation, we derive coupled transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-22 Camilla Espedal , Peter Lange , Severin Sadjina , A. G. Mal'shukov , Arne Brataas

We study the spin Hall effect (SHE) in graphene using a realistic multi-orbital tight-binding model that includes the atomic spin-orbit interaction. The SHE is found to be induced by the spin-dependent Aharonov-Bohm phase. In the metallic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Seiichiro Onari , Yasuhito Ishikawa , Hiroshi Kontani , Jun-ichiro Inoue

We theoretically report that, with \textit{in-plane} magnetization, the quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) can be realized in two-dimensional atomic crystal layers with preserved inversion symmetry but broken out-of-plane mirror…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-21 Yafei Ren , Junjie Zeng , Xinzhou Deng , Fei Yang , Hui Pan , Zhenhua Qiao

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

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

The spin-orbit interaction generally leads to spin splitting (SS) of electron and hole energy states in solids, a splitting that is characterized by a scaling with the wavevector $\bf k$. Whereas for {\it 3D bulk zincblende} solids the…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-11-18 Jun-Wei Luo , Athanasios N. Chantis , Mark van Schilfgaarde , Gabriel Bester , Alex Zunger

We investigate the spin-current linear response conductivity tensor to an electric field in a paramagnetic two dimensonal electron gas with both Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling in the weak scattering regime. In the ususal case…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 N. A. Sinitsyn , E. M. Hankiewicz , W. Teizer , Jairo Sinova

In multiferroic oxides with a transverse helical magnetic order, the magnetization exchange coupling is sinusoidally space-dependent. We theoretically investigate the spin-dependent electron grating effect in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-30 Rui Zhu

Spin-orbit coupling induced anisotropies of plasmon dynamics are investigated in two-dimensional semiconductor structures. The interplay of the linear Bychkov-Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interactions drastically affects the plasmon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 S. M. Badalyan , A. Matos-Abiague , G. Vignale , J. Fabian

The interplay between Rashba, Dresselhaus and Zeeman interactions in a quantum well submitted to an external magnetic field is studied by means of an accurate analytical solution of the Hamiltonian, including electron-electron interactions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-16 Enrico Lipparini , Manuel Barranco , Francesc Malet , Martí Pi , Llorenç Serra

We report an intriguing transition from the quantum spin Hall phase to the spin Hall effect upon segregation of thallium adatoms adsorbed onto a graphene surface. Landauer-B\"uttiker and Kubo-Greenwood simulations are used to access both…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-30 Alessandro Cresti , Dinh Van Tuan , David Soriano , Aron W. Cummings , Stephan Roche

The quantum Hall effect is generally understood for free electron gases, in which topologically protected edge states between Landau levels (LLs) form conducting channels at the edge of the sample. In periodic crystals, the LLs are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-03-26 Börge Göbel , Alexander Mook , Jürgen Henk , Ingrid Mertig

We study the role of spin-orbit interactions in the coupled magnetoelectric dynamics of a ferromagnetic film coated with an electrical conductor. While the main thrust of this work is phenomenological, several popular simple models are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Yaroslav Tserkovnyak , Scott A. Bender

The extended Hubbard Hamiltonian is a widely accepted model for uncovering the effects of strong correlations on the phase diagram of low-dimensional systems, and a variety of theoretical techniques have been applied to it. In this paper…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-09-07 H. A. Craig , C. N. Varney , W. E. Pickett , R. T. Scalettar

Transverse spin of surface waves is a universal phenomenon which has recently attracted significant attention in optics and acoustics. It appears in gravity water waves, surface plasmon-polaritons, surface acoustic waves, and exhibits…

The spin-orbit interaction of two-dimensional (2D) electrons in semiconductor quantum wells is usually considered to be determined by the band profile of a heterostructure. In the GaAs/AlGaAs type heterosystems, this interaction consists of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-19 P. S. Alekseev , M. O. Nestoklon

We construct a model of spin-Hall effect on a noncommutative 4 sphere with isospin degrees of freedom (coming from a noncommutative instanton) and invariance under a quantum orthogonal group. The corresponding representation theory allows…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Giovanni Landi