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We investigate intersubband mixing effects in multichannel quantum wires in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit coupling and attached to two terminals. When the contacts are ferromagnetic and their magnetization direction is perpendicular to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-29 M. M. Gelabert , Llorens Serra , David Sanchez , Rosa Lopez

Quantum wires with periodic local Rashba spin-orbit couplings are proposed for a higher performance of spin field-effect transistor. Fano-Rashba quantum interference due to the spin-dependent modulated structure gives rise to a broad energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-12-20 L. Wang , K. Shen , S. Y. Cho , M. W. Wu

It has recently been recognized that the strong spin-orbit interaction present in solids can lead to new phenomena, such as materials with non-trivial topological order. Although the atomic spin-orbit coupling in carbon is weak, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-04-12 G. A. Steele , F. Pei , E. A. Laird , J. M. Jol , H. B. Meerwaldt , L. P. Kouwenhoven

Interaction-induced magnetism at the ends of carbon nanotubes is studied theoretically, with a special focus on magnetic anisotropies. Spin-orbit coupling, generally weak in ordinary graphene, is strongly enhanced in nanotubes. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-26 Manuel J. Schmidt

We derive an effective low-energy theory for metallic (armchair and non-armchair) single-wall nanotubes in the presence of an electric field perpendicular to the nanotube axis, and in the presence of magnetic fields, taking into account…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-15 Jelena Klinovaja , Manuel J. Schmidt , Bernd Braunecker , Daniel Loss

We demonstrate single electron addition to different strands of a carbon nanotube rope. Anticrossings of anomalous conductance peaks occur in quantum transport measurements through the parallel quantum dots forming on the individual…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-02 Karin Goß , Sebastian Smerat , Martin Leijnse , Maarten R. Wegewijs , Claus M. Schneider , Carola Meyer

Electronic transport through a single-wall metallic carbon nanotube weakly coupled to one ferromagnetic and one nonmagnetic lead is analyzed in the sequential tunneling limit. It is shown that both the spin and charge currents flowing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 I. Weymann , J. Barnas

We study theoretically the current-induced spin polarization effect in a two-terminal mesoscopic structure which is composed of a semiconductor two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) bar with Rashba spin-orbit (SO) interaction and two attached…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 Yongjin Jiang

We demonstrate how the Rashba spin-orbit coupling in semiconductor heterostructures can produce and control a spin-polarized current without ferromagnetic leads. Key idea is to use spin-double refraction of an electronic beam with a nonzero…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Marigliano Ramaglia , D. Bercioux , V. Cataudella , G. De Filippis , C. A. Perroni

In this letter, we demonstrate a strong dependence of the electrostatic deformation of doubly-clamped single-walled carbon nanotubes on both the field strength and the tube length, using molecular simulations. Metallic nanotubes are found…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Zhao Wang , Laetitia Philippe

Motivated by the possibility of combining spintronics with molecular structures, we investigate the conditions for the appearance of spin-polarization in low-dimensional tubular systems by contacting them to a magnetic substrate. We derive…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Mauro S. Ferreira , Stefano Sanvito

Nitrogen-doped carbon nanotubes can provide reactive sites on the porphyrin-like defects. It's well known that many porphyrins have transition metal atoms, and we have explored transition metal atoms bonded to those porphyrin-like defects…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-27 J. M. de Almeida , A. R. Rocha , A. J. R. da Silva , A. Fazzio

A rope of carbon nanotubes is constituted of an array of parallel single wall nanotubes with nearly identical diameters. In most cases the individual nanotubes within a rope have different helicities and 1/3 of them are metallic. In the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-02-19 M. Ferrier , A. Chepelianskii , S. Guéron , H. Bouchiat

We investigated spin-resolved electronic transport through a junction composed of a nonmagnetic metal electrode and a zigzag carbon nanotube by means of self-consistent Green's function method in the tight binding approximation and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-09-12 Zhan-Feng Jiang , Jian Li , Shun-Qing Shen , W. M. Liu

Three-dimensional topological insulators protected by both the time reversal (TR) and mirror symmetries were recently predicted and observed. Two-dimensional materials featuring this property and their potential for device applications have…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-30 Carlos Mera Acosta , Adalberto Fazzio

We propose a concept of surface plasmon-polariton amplification in the structure comprising interface between dielectric, metal and asymmetric quantum well. Due to the Rashba spin-orbit interaction, mimina of dispersion relation for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-15 I. V. Iorsh , V. M. Kovalev , M. A. Kaliteevski , I. G. Savenko

We describe an approach to electrically control the strong interaction between a single electron spin and the vibrational motion of a suspended carbon nanotube resonator. The strength of the deflection-induced spin-phonon coupling is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-20 Fang-Yu Hong , Jing-Li Fu , Yan Wu , Zhi-Yan Zhu

We study spin-dependent transport in a suspended carbon nanotube quantum dot in contact with two ferromagnetic leads and with the dot's spin coupled to the flexural mechanical modes. The spin-vibration interaction induces spin-flip…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-03 Pascal Stadler , Wolfgang Belzig , Gianluca Rastelli

We present both theory and numerical-computation results for the transmission and reflection probability currents of a charged particle across a potential step in the presence of a Rashba spin-orbit interaction. By varying kinetic energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-22 Po-Hsin Shih , Godfrey Gumbs , Danhong Huang , Andrii Iurov , Yonatan Abranyos

The generation of spin current and spin polarization in 2DEG Rashba system is considered, in which the spin-orbital coupling (SOC) is modulated by an ac gate voltage. By using non-Abelian gauge field method, we show the presence of an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-18 Cong Son Ho , Mansoor B. A. Jalil , Seng Ghee Tan