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The one-dimensional effective Hamiltonian for a planar curvilinear quantum wire with arbitrary shape is proposed in the presence of the Rashba spin-orbit interaction. Single electron propagation through a device of two straight lines…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 Erhu Zhang , Shengli Zhang , Qi Wang

Spin-orbit interaction (SOI) in low-dimensional systems, namely Rashba systems and the edge states of topological materials, is extensively studied in this decade as a promising source to realize various fascinating spintronic phenomena,…

Two dimensional electron systems at oxide interfaces are often influenced by a Rashba type spin- orbit coupling (SOC), which is tunable by a transverse electric field. Ferromagnetism at the interface can simultaneously induce strong local…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-08-23 Florian Loder , Arno P. Kampf , Thilo Kopp

We study the effect of Coulomb interactions on the conductance of a single-mode quantum wire connecting two bulk leads. When the density of electrons in the wire is very low, they arrange in a finite-length Wigner crystal. In this regime…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-07-23 K. A. Matveev

We theoretically demonstrate that screw dislocation (SD), a 1D topological defect widely present in semiconductors, exhibits ubiquitously a new form of spin-orbit coupling (SOC) effect. Differing from the widely known conventional 2D…

Spin-orbit coupling (SOC) can induce spin polarization in nonmagnetic 3D crystals when the inversion symmetry is broken, as manifested by the bulk Rashba (R-1) and Dresselhaus (D-1) effects. We determine that these spin polarization effects…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-02-18 Xiuwen Zhang , Qihang Liu , Jun-Wei Luo , Arthur. J. Freeman , Alex Zunger

Spin-orbit coupling (SOC) is one of the crucial factors that affect the chiral symmetry of matter by causing the spatial symmetry breaking of the system. We find that Raman-induced SOC can induce a chiral supersolid phase with a helical…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-10-07 Xianghua Su , Xiping Fu , Yang He , Ying Shang , Kaiyuan Ji , Linghua Wen

We present an in-depth study of the spin-orbit (SO) interactions occurring in inversion-asymmetric two-dimensional hole gases at semiconductor heterointerfaces. We focus on common semiconductors such as GaAs, InAs, InSb, Ge, and Si. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-21 E. Marcellina , A. R. Hamilton , R. Winkler , Dimitrie Culcer

We theoretically study the effects of spin-orbit coupling on spin exchange in a low-density Wigner crystal. In addition to the familiar antiferromagnetic Heisenberg exchange, we find general anisotropic interactions in spin space if the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-03-23 Yaroslav Tserkovnyak , Markus Kindermann

When floating on a two-dimensional (2D) surface of superfluid $^{4}$He, electrons arrange themselves in 2D crystalline structure known as Wigner crystal. In channels, the boundaries interfere the crystalline order and in case of very narrow…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-03 A. A. Vasylenko , V. R. Misko

The Rashba spin-orbit coupling arising from structure inversion asymmetry couples spin and momentum degrees of freedom providing a suitable (and very intensively investigated) environment for spintronic effects and devices. Here we show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 Goetz Seibold , Sergio Caprara , Marco Grilli , Roberto Raimondi

The manipulation of Rashba-type spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in molecular beam epitaxy-grown Al$_x$In$_{1-x}$Sb/InSb/CdTe quantum well heterostructures is reported. The effective band bending provides robust two-dimensional quantum…

We theoretically study the spin-orbit interaction in the outer regions of core-shell nanowires that can act as tubular, prismatic conductors. The polygonal cross section of these wires induces non-uniform electron localization along the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-17 Anna Sitek , Sigurdur I. Erlingsson , Andrei Manolescu

We consider the cubic nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger system with Rashba type Spin-Orbit coupling (SOC) on $\mathbb{R}^2$, which is also called the Gross--Pitaevskii equation with SOC. The system describes SO-coupled spinor BEC in physics. In the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-22 Takahisa Inui

We investigate the possibility of trapping quasi-particles possessing spin degree of freedom in hybrid structures. The hybrid system we are considering here is composed of a semi-magnetic quantum well placed a few nanometers below a…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 P. Redlinski , T. Wojtowicz , T. G. Rappoport , A. Libal , J. K. Furdyna , B. Janko

Spin-dependent partial conductances are evaluated in a tight-binding description of electron transport in the presence of spin-orbit (SO) couplings, using transfer-matrix methods. As the magnitude of SO interactions increases, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-03-06 S. L. A. de Queiroz

The two-dimensional Rashba-Hubbard model is investigated in order to clarify the electron correlation effects in non-centrosymmetric metals. The renormalization effect on Rashba spin-orbit coupling (RSOC) is calculated on the basis of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-12 Daisuke Maruyama , Youichi Yanase

Spin-orbit coupling (SOC) is a fundamental interaction in solids which can induce a broad spectrum of unusual physical properties from topologically non-trivial insulating states to unconventional pairing in superconductors. In iron-based…

During the last years there has been much interest, and theoretical discussion, about the possibility to use spin-orbit coupling to control the carriers spins in two-dimensional semiconducting heterostructures. Spin polarization at the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-31 A. A. Reynoso , G. Usaj , C. A. Balseiro

Spin-momentum locking is essential to the spin-split Fermi surfaces of inversion-symmetry broken materials, which are caused by either Rashba-type or Zeeman-type spin-orbit coupling (SOC). While the effect of Zeeman-type SOC on…