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Spin dependent transport in a multi-terminal mesoscopic ring is investigated in presence of Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interactions. Within a tight-binding framework we use a general spin density matrix formalism to evaluate all…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-31 Moumita Dey , Santanu K. Maiti , Sreekantha Sil , S. N. Karmakar

We study electronic transport in two-dimensional spin-orbit coupled electron gas subjected to an in-plane magnetic field. The interplay of the spin-orbit interaction and the magnetic field leads to the Van Hove singularity of the density of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-31 Vladimir A. Sablikov , Yurii Ya. Tkach

Identifying orbital textures and their effects on the electronic properties of quantum materials is a critical element in developing orbitronic devices. However, orbital effects are often entangled with the spin degree of freedom, making it…

The control of the magnetism of ultra-thin ferromagnetic layers using an electric field rather than a current, if large enough, would lead to many technologically important applications. To date, while it is usually assumed the changes in…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-12-05 Stewart E. Barnes , Jun'ichi Ieda , Sadamichi Maekawa

The spin splitting of conduction band electrons in inversion-asymmetric InGaAs/InP quantum wells is studied by Shubnikov-de Haas measurements combining the analysis of beating patterns and coincidence measurements in doubly tilted magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-25 F. Herzog , H. Hardtdegen , Th. Schaepers , D. Grundler , M. A. Wilde

We analyse the interplay between Dresselhaus, Bychkov-Rashba, and Zeeman interactions in a two-dimensional semiconductor quantum system under the action of a magnetic field. When a vertical magnetic field is considered, we predict that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 Manuel Valin-Rodriguez , Rashid G. Nazmitdinov

Transport measurements on the two dimensional electron system in Al2O3 SrTiO3 heterostructures indicate significant noncrystalline anisotropic behavior below T = 30 K. Lattice dislocations in SrTiO3 and interfacial steps are suggested to be…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-08-02 K. Wolff , R. Schäfer , M. Meffert , D. Gerthsen , R. Schneider , D. Fuchs

We theoretically investigate the magnetic and crystalline anisotropies of the superconducting diode effect (SDE) in proximitized planar Josephson junctions (JJs) with coexisting Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit couplings (SOCs) under an…

We investigate the spin-orbit induced spin-interference pattern of ballistic electrons travelling along any regular polygon. It is found that the spin-interference depends strongly on the Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit constants as well…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Marc J. van Veenhuizen , Takaaki Koga , Junsaku Nitta

Interferometry is a powerful technique used to extract valuable information about the wave function of a system. In this work, we study the response of spin carriers to the effective field textures developed in curved one-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-25 Alberto Hijano , Eusebio J. Rodríguez , Dario Bercioux , Diego Frustaglia

In a one-dimensional weak-link wire the spin-orbit interaction (SOI) alone cannot generate a nonzero spin current. We show that a Zeeman field acting in the wire in conjunction with the Rashba SOI there does yield such a current, whose…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-20 A. Aharony , O. Entin-Wohlman , M. Jonson , R. I. Shekhter

We discuss the combined effect of Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interactions in polygonal loops formed by quantum wires, when the electron are injected in a node and collected at the opposite one. The conditions that allow perfect…

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

We report a systematic study of the spin relaxation anisotropy between single electron Zeeman sublevels in cuboidal GaAs quantum dots (QDs). The QDs are subject to an in-plane magnetic field. As the field orientation varies, the relaxation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-10 C. Segarra , J. Planelles , J. I. Climente , F. Rajadell

Due to the recent experimental progress, tunable spin-orbit (SO) interactions represent ideal candidates for the control of polarization and dynamical spin properties in both quantum wells and cold atomic systems. A detailed understanding…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-09-05 Alberto Ambrosetti , Luca Salasnich , Pier Luigi Silvestrelli

Anisotropic electronic transport is a possible route towards nanoscale circuitry design, particularly in two-dimensional materials. Proposals to introduce such a feature in patterned graphene have to date relied on large-scale structural…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-07 Soren Schou Gregersen , Jose H. Garcia , Antti-Pekka Jauho , Stephan Roche , Stephen R. Power

In past few decades, Rashba spin-orbit coupling (SOC) has been successfully employed for the emergence of exotic phenomena at the quantum oxide interfaces. In these systems, the combined effect of charge transfer, broken symmetries and SOC…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-05-24 Megha Vagadia , Jaya Prakash Sahoo , Ankit Kumar , Suman Sardar , Tejas Tank , D. S. Rana

We explain how Rashba spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG), or in a conventional $s$-wave superconductor, can lead to a large magnetoresistance even with one ferromagnet. However, such enhanced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-15 Chenghao Shen , Ranran Cai , Alex Matos-Abiague , Wei Han , Jong E. Han , Igor Zutic

We investigate effects of spin-orbit splitting on electronic transport in a spin valve consisting of a large quantum dot defined on a two-dimensional electron gas with two ferromagnetic contacts. In the presence of both structure inversion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Saarikoski , W. Wetzels , G. E. W. Bauer

We study the out-of-equilibrium current through a multilevel quantum dot contacted to two superconducting leads and in the presence of Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit couplings, in the regime of strong dot-lead coupling. The multiple…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-10-22 Fabrizio Dolcini , Luca Dell'Anna

An influence of spin-orbit interaction on the tunneling between two 2D electron layers is considered. Particular attention is addressed to the relation between the contribution of Rashba and Dresselhaus types. It is shown that without…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 I. V. Rozhansky , N. S. Averkiev