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We study an effective one-dimensional quantum model that includes friction and spin-orbit coupling (SOC), and show that the model exhibits spin polarization when both terms are finite. Most important, strong spin polarization can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-29 Artem G. Volosniev , Hen Alpern , Yossi Paltiel , Oded Millo , Mikhail Lemeshko , Areg Ghazaryan

We obtain explicit expressions for the correlation functions of transmission and reflection coefficients of coherent electronic waves propagating through a disordered quasi-one-dimensional medium with purely elastic diffusive scattering in…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 A. M. S. Macedo

The spin-sensitive charge oscillation, controlled by an external magnetic field, was recently proposed as a mechanism of transformations of qubits, defined as two-electron spin-charge Wannier molecules in a square quantum dot. The paper…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-30 Ambroz Kregar , Anton Ramsak

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

Here we propose an isotropic all electrical spin analyzer in a quantum ring with spin-orbit coupling by analytically and numerically modeling how the charge transmission rates depend on the polarization of the incident spin. The formalism…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 Shenglin Peng , Wenchen Luo , Jian Sun , Ai-Min Guo , Fangping Ouyang , Tapash Chakraborty

Diffusion of electrons in a two-dimensional system with time-dependent random potentials is investigated numerically. In the absence of spin-orbit scattering, the conductivity shows universal weak localization correction. In the presence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Takeshi Nakanishi , Tomi Ohtsuki

The tunability of the Rashba spin-orbit coupling allows to build semiconductor heterostructures with space modulated coupling intensities. We show that a wire-shaped spin-orbit modulation in a quantum well can support propagating electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Manuel Valin-Rodriguez , Antonio Puente , Llorens Serra

We consider a two-dimensional electron gas in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit coupling, and study the effects of magnetic s-wave impurities and long-range non-magnetic disorder on the spin-charge dynamics of the system. We focus on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-10-30 C. Gorini , P. Schwab , M. Dzierzawa , R. Raimondi

We propose a spin polarizer device composed of a quantum dot connected to the spin polarized leads. The spin control of the current flowing through the device is entirely due to the Coulomb interactions present inside the dot. We show that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Piotr Stefanski

The competition between on-site Coulomb repulsion and Rashba spin-orbit coupling (RSOC) is studied on two-leg ladders by numerical techniques. By studying persistent currents in closed rings by exact diagonalization, it is found that the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-15 José A. Riera

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

We consider a helical system of fermions with a generic spin (or pseudospin) orbit coupling. Using the equation of motion approach for the single-particle distribution functions, and a mean-field decoupling of the higher order distribution…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-12-13 Moslem Mir , Saeed H. Abedinpour

Coherent two-level systems, or qubits, based on electron spins in GaAs quantum dots are strongly coupled to the nuclear spins of the host lattice via the hyperfine interaction. Realizing nuclear spin control would likely improve electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-06-15 D. J. Reilly , J. M. Taylor , J. R. Petta , C. M. Marcus , M. P. Hanson , A. C. Gossard

A planar ballistic structure is predicted to be highly effective in filtering electron spin from an unpolarized source into two output fluxes with the opposite and practically pure spin polarizations. The operability of the proposed device…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. A. Kiselev , K. W. Kim

Semiconductor point contacts can be a useful tool for producing spin-polarized currents in the presence of spin-orbit (SO) interaction. Neither magnetic fields nor magnetic materials are required. By numerical studies, we show that (i) the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Mikio Eto , Tetsuya Hayashi , Yuji Kurotani

Motivated by the remarkable experimental control of synthetic gauge fields in ultracold atomic systems, we investigate the effect of an artificial Rashba spin-orbit coupling on the spin polarization of a two-dimensional repulsive Fermi gas.…

Spin filtering is an essential operation in spintronics that allows creation and detection of spin polarized carriers. Transition metal ferromagnets are used as spin filters in most cases, though their spin filtering efficiency is only…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-27 K. M. Alam , Sandipan Pramanik

Spin-charge coupling is studied for a strongly confined two-dimensional hole gas subject to a perpendicular magnetic field. The study is based on spin-charge coupled drift-diffusion equations derived from quantum-kinetic equations in an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Kleinert , V. V. Bryksin

Scattering theory is employed to derive a Landauer-type formula for the spin and the charge currents, through a finite region where spin-orbit interactions are effective. It is shown that the transmission matrix yields the spatial direction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 O. Entin-Wohlman , A. Aharony , Y. Tokura , Y. Avishai

We extend our previous work on shot noise for entangled and spin polarized electrons in a beam-splitter geometry with spin-orbit (\textit{s-o}) interaction in one of the incoming leads (lead 1). Besides accounting for both the Dresselhaus…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 J. Carlos Egues , Guido Burkard , D. Saraga , John Schliemann , Daniel Loss