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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

We investigate the non-equilibrium charge and spin-dependent currents in a quantum ring with a Rashba spin orbit interaction (SOI) driven by two asymmetric picosecond electromagnetic pulses. The equilibrium persistent charge and persistent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-12-01 Zhen-Gang Zhu , Jamal Berakdar

The spin-orbit (SO) interaction couples electron spin and momentum via a relativistic, effective magnetic field. While conveniently facilitating coherent spin manipulation in semiconductors, the SO interaction also inherently causes spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-17 F. Dettwiler , J. Fu , S. Mack , P. J. Weigele , J. C. Egues , D. D. Awschalom , D. M. Zumbühl

Electron transport through multi-terminal rectangular arrays of quantum rings is studied in the presence of Rashba-type spin-orbit interaction (SOI) and of a perpendicular magnetic field. Using the analytic expressions for the transmission…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Orsolya Kalman , Peter Foldi , Mihaly G. Benedict , Francois M. Peeters

We present analysis of the interacting quantum wire problem in the presence of magnetic field and spin-orbit interaction. We show that an interesting interplay of Zeeman and spin-orbit terms, facilitated by the electron-electron…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Jianmin Sun , Suhas Gangadharaiah , Oleg A. Starykh

Spin-orbit interaction (SOI) offers a nonferromagnetic scheme to realize spin polarization through utilizing an electric field. Electrically tunable SOI through electrostatic gates have been investigated, however, the relatively weak and…

A novel method and nanodevice are introduced that allows to rotate the single electron spin confined in a gated electrostatic InSb nanowire quantum dot. Proposed method does not require application of any (oscillating or static) external…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-22 J. Pawłowski , P. Szumniak , S. Bednarek

A scheme of spin diode is proposed that uses a step-like quantum wire with Rashba spin-orbit interaction, connected to two leads with different width. It is shown that a very large vertical spin-polarized current can be generated when…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Xianbo Xiao , Yuguang Chen

We study the implications of spin-orbit interaction (SOI) for two-qubit gates (TQGs) in semiconductor spin qubit platforms. SOI renders the exchange interaction governing qubit pairs anisotropic, posing a serious challenge for conventional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-11 Jiaan Qi , Zhi-Hai Liu , H. Q. Xu

A net circulating current may appear within a quantum ring under finite bias. We study the characteristic features of the circular current in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit interaction (RSOI). Both charge and spin currents appear within…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-29 Moumita Patra

We study electron transport through a serial double quantum dot with Rashba spin-orbit interaction (SOI) and Zeeman field of amplitude B in presence of local Coulomb repulsion. The linear conductance as a function of a gate voltage Vg…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-03-15 S. Grap , S. Andergassen , J. Paaske , V. Meden

When subjected to a linearly polarized terahertz pulse, a mesoscopic ring endowed with spin-orbit interaction (SOI) of the Rashba-Dresselhaus type exhibits nonuniform azimuthal charge and spin distributions. Both types of SOI couplings are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Marian Nita , D. C. Marinescu , Bogdan Ostahie , Andrei Manolescu , Vidar Gudmundsson

We investigate theoretically the effects of the Coulomb interaction and spin-orbit interactions (SOIs) on the anisotropic transport property of semiconductor quantum wires embedded in (110) plane. The anisotropy of the dc conductivity can…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-03 Fang Cheng , Kai Chang

We successfully demonstrated experimentally the electrical-field-mediated control of the spin of electrons confined in an SOI Quantum Dot (QD) device fabricated with a standard CMOS process flow. Furthermore, we show that the Back-Gate…

We develop a realistic and analytically tractable model to describe the spin current which arises in a quantum point contact (QPC) with spin-orbit interaction (SOI) upon a small voltage is applied. In the model, the QPC is considered as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-07 Vladimir A. Sablikov

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

We study the spin edge states, induced by the combined effect of spin-orbit interaction (SOI) and hard-wall confining potential, in a two-dimensional electron system, exposed to a perpendicular magnetic field. We find an exact solution of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-29 V. L. Grigoryan , A. Matos Abiague , S. M. Badalyan

Transport and thermodynamic properties of disordered conductors are considerably modified when the angle through which the electron spin precesses due to spin-orbit interaction (SOI) during the mean free time becomes significant. Cooperon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Yuli Lyanda-Geller

We investigate the electron transport through a mesoscopic ring side-coupled with a quantum dot(QD) in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit(SO) interaction. It is shown that both the Fano resonance and the spin interference effects play…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Guo-Hui Ding , Bing Dong

We propose a setup for universal and electrically controlled quantum information processing with hole spins in Ge/Si core/shell nanowire quantum dots (NW QDs). Single-qubit gates can be driven through electric-dipole-induced spin resonance,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-17 Christoph Kloeffel , Mircea Trif , Peter Stano , Daniel Loss