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Intrinsic and extrinsic spin Hall effects are considered together on an equal theoretical footing for the Rashba spin-orbit coupling in two-dimensional (2D) electron and hole systems, using the diagrammatic method for calculating the spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Wang-Kong Tse , S. Das Sarma

We have studied the tunneling conductance in two dimensional electron gas / insulator / superconductor junctions in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit coupling (RSOC). It is found that for low insulating barrier the tunneling conductance is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 T. Yokoyama , Y. Tanaka , J. Inoue

In semiconductors with inversion asymmetry, spin-orbit coupling gives rise to the well-known Dresselhaus and Rashba effects. If one considers quantum wells with two or more conduction subbands, an additional, intersubband-induced spin-orbit…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-10-16 F. V. Kyrychenko , C. A. Ullrich , I. D'Amico

We study a one-dimensional helical system with random Rashba spin-orbit coupling. Using renor- malization group methods, we derive a consistent set of flow equations governing the important con- trol parameters of the backscattering…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-10 Florian Geissler , Francois Crépin , Björn Trauzettel

By using the momentum-space Lanczos recursive method which considers rigorously all multiple-scattering events, we unveil that the non-perturbative disorder effect has dramatic impact on the charge transport of a two-dimensional electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-05 Weiwei Chen , Cong Xiao , Qinwei Shi , Qunxiang Li

We study the effects of Rashba spin-orbit coupling on two-dimensional Rydberg exciton systems. Using analytical and numerical arguments we demonstrate that this coupling considerably modifies the wave functions and leads to a level…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-23 V. A. Stephanovich , E. Ya. Sherman , N. T. Zinner , O. V. Marchukov

In non-magnetic bulk materials, inversion symmetry protects the spin degeneracy. If the bulk crystal structure lacks a centre of inversion, however, spin-orbit interactions lift the spin degeneracy, leading to a Rashba metal whose Fermi…

We show that a result equivalent to Overhauser's famous Hartree-Fock instability theorem can be established for the case of a two-dimensional electron gas in the presence of Rashba spin-obit coupling. In this case it is the spatially…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-08-12 George E. Simion , Gabriele F. Giuliani

The combination of strong spin orbit coupling and strong correlations holds tremendous potential for interesting physical phenomena as well as applications in spintronics and quantum computation. In this context, we here study the interplay…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-05-01 Yoshihiro Michishita , Robert Peters

We consider singular self-adjoint extensions for the Schr\"{o}dinger operator of spin-$1/2$ particle in one dimension. The corresponding boundary conditions at a singular point are obtained. There are boundary conditions with the spin-flip…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-12-18 Vladimir Kulinskii , Dmitry Panchenko

Spin transport phenomena in solid materials suffer limitations from spin relaxation associated to disorder or lack of translational invariance. Ultracold atoms, free of that disorder, can provide a platform to observe phenomena beyond the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-06-26 Iryna Miatka , Marco Barbieri , Roberto Raimondi

Electrons with spin-orbit coupling moving in mesoscopic structures can often exhibit local spin polarization. In this paper, we study the influence of the Rashba coupling on the scattering of two-dimensional electrons from a circular disk.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jr-Yu Yeh , Chung-Yu Mou , Ming-Che Chang

Silicon is a leading candidate material for spin-based devices, and two-dimensional electron gases (2DEGs) formed in silicon heterostructures have been proposed for both spin transport and quantum dot quantum computing applications. The key…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Charles Tahan , Robert Joynt

We study the spin-dependent electronic transport through a one-dimensional ballistic quantum wire in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit interaction. In particular, we consider the effect of the spin-orbit interaction resulting from the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. E. Birkholz , V. Meden

In commensurate twisted homobilayers, purely radial Rashba spin-orbit fields can emerge. We employ first-principles calculations to investigate the band structures and the spin-orbit fields close to the high-symmetry points $K$ and $\Gamma$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-30 Thomas Naimer , Paulo E. Faria Junior , Klaus Zollner , Jaroslav Fabian

We present numerical calculations of the ballistic spin-transport properties of quasi-one-dimensional wires in the presence of the spin-orbit (Rashba) interaction. A tight-binding analog of the Rashba Hamiltonian which models the Rashba…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Francisco Mireles , George Kirczenow

Based on first-principles calculations and k .p effective models, we report physical properties of ferroelectric-like hexagonal polar metals with P63mc symmetry, which are distinct from those of conventional metals with spatial inversion…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-06-05 Hu Zhang , Wei Huang , Jia-Wei Mei , Xing-Qiang Shi

We investigated effects of a Rashba-type spin-orbit coupling (SOC) on the condensed density and superfluid density tensor of a two-component Fermi gas in the BCS-BEC crossover at zero temperature. In anisotropic three dimensions (3D), we…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-30 Kezhao Zhou , Zhidong Zhang

We study theoretically the manifestation of the spin-Hall effect in a two-dimensional electronic system with Rashba spin-orbit coupling via dc-transport measurements in realistic mesoscopic H-shape structures. The Landauer-Buttiker…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. M. Hankiewicz , L. W. Molenkamp , T. Jungwirth , Jairo Sinova

The orientation of the local electron spin quantization axis in momentum space is identified as the most significant physical variable in determining the states of a two-dimensional electron liquid in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Chesi , G. Simion , G. F. Giuliani