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We investigate double finger gate (DFG) controlled spin-resolved resonant transport properties in an n-type quantum channel with a Rashba-Zeeman (RZ) subband energy gap. By appropriately tuning the DFG in the strong Rashba coupling regime,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-12 Chi-Shung Tang , Shu-Ting Tseng , Vidar Gudmundsson , Shun-Jen Cheng

In this work, we show that a gate electric field, applied in the base of the field-effect devices, leads to inducing spin-orbit interactions (Rashba and linear Dresselhauss) and confines the transport electrons in a two-dimensional electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-03 J. L. Cardoso , H. Hernández-Saldaña

The spin-orbit (SO) interaction couples electron spin and momentum via a relativistic, effective magnetic field. While conveniently facilitating coherent spin manipulation in semiconductors, the SO interaction also inherently causes spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-17 F. Dettwiler , J. Fu , S. Mack , P. J. Weigele , J. C. Egues , D. D. Awschalom , D. M. Zumbühl

The authors investigate quantum transport in a narrow constriction fabricated by narrow band gap semiconductor materials with spin-orbit (SO) couplings. We consider the Rashba-Dresselhaus (RD) spin-orbit interactions (SOIs) and the Zeeman…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-27 Chi-Shung Tang , Shu-Yu Chang , Shun-Jen Cheng

We study electron transport through waveguides (WGs) in which the strengths of the Rashba ($\alpha$) and Dresselhaus ($\beta$) terms of the spin-orbit interaction (SOI) vary in space. Subband mixing, due to lateral confinement, is taken…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 P. M. Krstajic , E. Rezasoltani , P. Vasilopoulos

The spin of a single electron in an electrically defined quantum dot in a 2DEG can be manipulated by moving the quantum dot adiabatically in a closed loop in the 2D plane under the influence of applied gate potentials. In this paper we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-26 Sanjay Prabhakar , James Raynolds , Akira Inomata , Roderick Melnik

Electron spins in a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) can be manipulated by spin-orbit (SO) fields originating from either Rashba or Dresselhaus interactions with independent isotropic characteristics. Together, though, they produce…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-26 Henri Saarikoski , Andrés Reynoso , José Pablo Baltanás , Diego Frustaglia , Junsaku Nitta

In situ control of spin-orbit coupling in coherent transport using a clean GaAs/AlGaAs 2DEG is realized, leading to a gate-tunable crossover from weak localization to antilocalization. The necessary theory of 2D magnetotransport in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. B. Miller , D. M. Zumbuhl , C. M. Marcus , Y. B. Lyanda-Geller , D. Goldhaber-Gordon , K. Campman , A. C. Gossard

We show that spin-flip rotation in a semiconductor quantum wire, caused by the Rashba and the Dresselhaus interactions (both of arbitrary strengths), can be suppressed by dint of an in-plane magnetic field. We found a new type of symmetry,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-05-07 R. G. Nazmitdinov , K. N. Pichugin , M. Valin-Rodriguez

We propose a theoretical scheme to realize arbitrary single-qubit gates through two simple device units: one-dimensional semiconductor wires with Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and Rashba SOC, separately. Qubit information coded by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. J. Gong , Z. Q. Yang

Electronic transport in a one-dimensional mesoscopic ring threaded by a magnetic flux is studied in presence of Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interactions. A completely analytical technique within a tight-binding formalism unveils the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-30 Santanu K. Maiti , Moumita Dey , Shreekantha Sil , Arunava Chakrabarti , S. N. Karmakar

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…

The Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit (SO) interactions in 2D electron gases act as effective magnetic fields with momentum-dependent directions, which cause spin decay as the spins undergo arbitrary precessions about these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-26 Florian Dettwiler , Jiyong Fu , Shawn Mack , Pirmin J. Weigele , J. Carlos Egues , David D. Awschalom , Dominik M. Zumbühl

Electronic transport in closed loop structures is addressed within a tight-binding formalism and in the presence of both the Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interactions. It has been shown that any one of the spin-orbit fields can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-30 Shreekantha Sil , Santanu K. Maiti , Arunava Chakrabarti

Spin properties of single electron states in laterally coupled quantum dots in the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field are studied by exact numerical diagonalization. Dresselhaus (linear and cubic) and Bychkov-Rashba spin-orbit…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter Stano , Jaroslav Fabian

Spin-orbit interaction is investigated in a dual gated InAs/GaSb quantum well. Using an electric field the quantum well can be tuned between a single carrier regime with exclusively electrons as carriers and a two-carriers regime where…

Utilizing dispersive gate sensing (DGS), we investigate the spin-orbit field ($\textbf{B}_{SO}$) orientation in a many-electron double quantum dot (DQD) defined in an InSb nanowire. While characterizing the inter-dot tunnel couplings, the…

Spin drag measurements were performed in a two-dimensional electron system set close to the crossed spin helix regime and coupled by strong intersubband scattering. In a sample with uncommon combination of long spin lifetime and high charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-05 M. Luengo-Kovac , F. C. D. Moraes , G. J. Ferreira , A. S. L. Ribeiro , G. M. Gusev , A. K. Bakarov , V. Sih , F. G. G. Hernandez

Due to the recent experimental progress, tunable spin-orbit (SO) interactions represent ideal candidates for the control of polarization and dynamical spin properties in both quantum wells and cold atomic systems. A detailed understanding…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-09-05 Alberto Ambrosetti , Luca Salasnich , Pier Luigi Silvestrelli

We investigate the relationship between the Zeeman interaction and the inversion asymmetry induced spin orbit interactions (Rashba and Dresselhaus SOIs) in GaAs hole quantum point contacts. The presence of a strong SOI results in crossing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-12 A. Srinivasan , D. S. Miserev , K. L. Hudson , O. Klochan , K. Muraki , Y. Hirayama , D. Reuter , A. D. Wieck , O. P. Sushkov , A. R. Hamilton
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