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We employ the method of the theory of open quantum systems to analyze spin relaxation and decoherence in semiconductors in the presence of a magnetic field. We derive a set of Bloch equations for electron spin with a fully microscopic…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Vadim I. Puller , Lev G. Mourokh , Norman J. M. Horing , Anatoly Yu. Smirnov

We report the direct observation of interband spin-orbit (SO) coupling in a two-dimensional (2D) surface electron system, in addition to the anticipated Rashba spin splitting. Using angle-resolved photoemission experiments and…

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We studied the edge states and transverse electron focusing in the presence of spin-orbit interaction in a two dimensional electron gas. Assuming strong spin-orbit coupling we derived semiclassical quantization conditions to describe the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Andor Kormanyos

Motivated by recent experiments, we investigate the system of isotropically-interacting bosons with Rashba spin-orbit coupling. At the non-interacting level, there is a macroscopic ground-state degeneracy due to the many ways bosons can…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-02-22 Ryan Barnett , Stephen Powell , Tobias Grass , Maciej Lewenstein , S. Das Sarma

We develop a semiclassical theory of superconducting quasiparticles for proximity-induced superconducting systems, where spin-orbit coupling plays a critical role in shaping the quasiparticle dynamics. We reveal the structure of…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-01-01 Zhen-Cheng Liao , Cong Xiao , Zhi Wang , Qian Niu

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

Motivated by the increasing number of systems featuring multiple bands at low energy, we address the Boltzmann approach to transport in a multiband weakly disordered noninteracting crystal subject to a small electric field. In general, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-01 Marco Marciani , Lara Benfatto

Semiclassical theories of electron and spin transport in metallic magnetic structures are reviewed with emphasis on the role of disorder and electronic band structures in the current perpendicular to the interface plane (CPP) transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gerrit E. W. Bauer , Yuli V. Nazarov , Daniel Huertas-Hernando , Arne Brataas , Ke Xia , Paul J. Kelly

Heavy metal/ferromagnet interfaces feature emergent spin-orbit effects absent in the bulk materials. Because of their inherent strong coupling between spin, charge and orbital degrees of freedom, such systems provide a platform for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-29 Frederico J. Sousa , Gen Tatara , Aires Ferreira

We present a semiclassical study of the spectrum of a few-body system consisting of two short-range interacting bosonic particles in one dimension, a particular case of a general class of integrable many-body systems where the energy…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-08-10 Benjamin Geiger , Juan-Diego Urbina , Quirin Hummel , Klaus Richter

We explore superconducting instability for a clean two-band layered superconductor with deep and shallow bands in the magnetic field applied perpendicular to the layers. In the shallow band, the quasiclassical approximation is not…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-06-29 Kok Wee Song , Alexei E. Koshelev

A semiclassical theory is developed for time-dependent current fluctuations in mesoscopic conductors. The theory is based on the Boltzmann-Langevin equation for a degenerate electron gas. The low-frequency shot-noise power is related to…

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Nonlinear charge transport in strongly coupled semiconductor superlattices is described by Wigner-Poisson kinetic equations involving one or two minibands. Electron-electron collisions are treated within the Hartree approximation whereas…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-11-16 L. L. Bonilla , L. Barletti , M. Alvaro

We present a semiclassical theory of shot noise in diffusive superconductor - normal metal contacts. At subgap voltages, we reproduce the doubling of shot noise with respect to conventional normal-metal contacts, which is interpreted in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 K. E. Nagaev , M. Buttiker

We consider the semiclassical theory in a joint phase space of spin and orbital degrees of freedom. The method is developed from the path integrals using the spin-coherent-state representation, and yields the trace formula for the density…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 Mikhail Pletyukhov , Oleg Zaitsev

We study disorder-induced spectral correlations and their effect on the magnetic susceptibility of mesoscopic quantum systems in the non-diffusive regime. By combining a diagrammatic perturbative approach with semiclassical techniques we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Edward McCann , Klaus Richter

Semiclassical solutions of two-dimensional Schrodinger equation with spin-orbit interaction and smooth potential are considered. In the leading order, spin polarization is in-plane and follows the evolution of the electron momentum for a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. G. Silvestrov , E. G. Mishchenko

The origins of the spin-orbit torque (SOT) at ferromagnet/topological insulator (FM/TI) interfaces are incompletely understood. Theory has overwhelmingly focussed on the Edelstein effect due to the surface states in the presence of a scalar…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-12-16 Mohsen Farokhnezhad , Reza Asgari , Dimitrie Culcer