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We study the spin polarization induced by a current flow in clean two dimensional electron gases with Rashba spin-orbit coupling. This geometric effect originates from special properties of the electron's scattering at the edges of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Reynoso , Gonzalo Usaj , C. A. Balseiro

We investigated the Rashba spin splittings in a compressive-strained SrTiO$_3$(001) ultra thin-film using first-principles calculations. The effect of the polarization due to the compressive strain leads to the 2DEG with large Rashba spin…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-08-07 Naoya Yamaguchi , Fumiyuki Ishii

We study the spatial distribution of spin torque induced by a strong Rashba spin-orbit coupling (RSOC) in a ferromagnetic (FM) metal layer, using the Keldysh non-equilibrium Green's function method. In the presence of the s-d interaction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-27 N. L. Chung , M. B. A. Jalil , S. G. Tan

Disorder scattering and spin-orbit coupling are together responsible for the diffusion and relaxation of spin-density in time-reversal invariant systems. We study spin-relaxation and diffusion in a two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-24 Yasufumi Araki , Guru Khalsa , Allan H. MacDonald

The two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) found in KTaO3-based interfaces has garnered attention due to its remarkable electronic properties. In this study, we investigated the conducting system embedded at the Si3N4/Al//KTO(110)…

Manipulating the electron spin with the aid of spin-orbit coupling (SOC) is an indispensable element of spintronics. Electrostatically gating a material with strong SOC results in an effective magnetic field which can in turn be used to…

The (001) surface of SrTiO3 were transformed from insulating to conducting after Ar+ irradiation, producing a quasi two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG). This conducting surface layer can introduce Rashba spin orbital coupling due to the…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-01-02 Wenxu Zhang , Qiuru Wang , Bin Peng , Huizhong Zeng , Wee Tee Soh , Chong Kim Ong , Wanli Zhang

We present a theoretical study of the elementary electronic excitation associated with plasmon modes in a two-dimensional hole gas (2DHG) in the presence of spin-orbit (SO) interaction induced by the Rashba effect. The calculation is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 W. Xu , L. B. Lin

A novel 2-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) system with high-mobility was discovered at the interface of two perovskite oxides, a polar orthorhombic perovskite LaScO3 (LSO) and a nonpolar cubic perovskite BaSnO3 (BSO). Upon depositing the LSO…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-10-13 Hyeongmin Cho , Dowon Song , Youjung Kim , Bongju Kim , Kookrin Char

In spintronic devices, the two main approaches to actively control the electrons' spin degree of freedom involve either static magnetic or electric fields. An alternative avenue relies on the application of optical fields to generate spin…

We review the effects of the pair spin-orbit interaction (PSOI) in Rashba materials. The PSOI is the electron-electron interaction component that depends on the spin and momentum of the electrons. Being produced by the Coulomb fields of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-02-06 Yasha Gindikin , Vladimir A. Sablikov

Spin-orbit coupling (SOC) is pivotal for various fundamental spin-dependent phenomena in solids and their technological applications. In semiconductors, these phenomena have been so far studied in relatively weak electron-electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-09 D. Maryenko , M. Kawamura , A. Ernst , V. K. Dugaev , E. Ya. Sherman , M. Kriener , M. S. Bahramy , Y. Kozuka , M. Kawasaki

First-principles calculations predict the existence of a spin-polarized two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) at the LaO/EuO interface in a LaAlO3/EuO (001) heterostructure. This polar interface favors electron doping into the Eu-5d…

Charge and spin density distributions are studied within a nano-ring structure endowed with Rashba and Dresselhaus spin orbit coupling (SOI). For a small number of interacting electrons, in the presence of an external magnetic field, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Csaba Daday , Andrei Manolescu , D. C. Marinescu , Vidar Gudmundsson

Carrier density and disorder are two crucial parameters that control the properties of correlated two-dimensional electron systems. In order to disentangle their individual contributions to quantum phenomena, independent tuning of these two…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-07-24 Zhuoyu Chen , Hongtao Yuan , Yanwu Xie , Di Lu , Hisashi Inoue , Yasuyuki Hikita , Christopher Bell , Harold Y. Hwang

The two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) at the LaAlO$_3$/SrTiO$_3$ interface exhibits gate tunable superconductivity with a domelike shape of $T_{\rm{C}}$ as a function of electron concentration. Here, we propose that the experimentally…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-08-26 M. Zegrodnik , P. Wójcik

In addition to charge plasmons, a 2D electron system with Rashba-type spin-orbit coupling (SOC) also supports three collective modes in the spin sector: the chiral-spin modes. We study the dispersions of the charge and spin modes and their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Saurabh Maiti , Vladimir Zyuzin , Dmitrii L. Maslov

We report a gradual suppression of the two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) at the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interface on substitution of chromium at the Al sites. The sheet carrier density at the interface (ns) drops monotonically from 2.2x10(14) cm-2…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-23 Pramod Kumar , Anjana Dogra , P. P. S. Bhadauria , Anurag Gupta , K. K. Maurya , R. C. Budhani

The Rashba physics has been intensively studied in the field of spin orbitronics, for the purpose of searching novel physical properties and the FM magnetization switching for technology applications. Here, we report the observation of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-21 Qi Song , Hongrui Zhang , Tang Su , Wei Yuan , Yangyang Chen , Wenyu Xing , Jing Shi , Ji Rong Sun , Wei Han

Recently, it was established that a two-dimensional electron system can arise at the interface between two oxide insulators LaAlO3 and SrTiO3. This paradigmatic example exhibits metallic behaviour and magnetic properties between…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-11-28 I. I. Piyanzina , Yu. V. Lysogorskiy , I. I. Varlamova , A. G. Kiiamov , T. Kopp , V. Eyert , O. V. Nedopekin , D. A. Tayurskii