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We study theoretically the ground states of topological defects in a spinor four-component condensate of cold indirect excitons. We analyze possible ground state solutions for different configurations of vortices and half-vortices. We show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-15 H. Sigurdsson , T. C. H. Liew , O. Kyriienko , I. A. Shelykh

Controlling electron spins strongly coupled to magnetic and nuclear spins in solid state systems is an important challenege in the field of spintronics and quantum computation. We show here that electron droplets with no net spin in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Ramin M. Abolfath , Marek Korkusinski , Thomas Brabec , Pawel Hawrylak

We derive an effective continuum model for describing the propagation of electrons in ballistic one-dimensional curved nanostructure which are marked by a strong interplay of spin-orbital degrees of freedom due to local electronic states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-19 G. Francica , P. Gentile , M. Cuoco

Electron transport properties in a parallel double-quantum-dot structure with three-terminals are theoretically studied. By introducing a local Rashba spin-orbit coupling, we find that an incident electron from one terminal can select a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Weijiang Gong , Yisong Zheng

The Rashba spin-orbit coupling is equivalent to the finite Yang-Mills flux of a static SU(2) gauge field. It gives rise to the protected edge states in two-dimensional topological band-insulators, much like magnetic field yields the integer…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-08-27 Predrag Nikolić

We study the scattering of an electron in a definite state of spin at an interface of an hybrid system with a Rashba spin-orbit coupling on one side. Out of the normal incidence the double refraction phenomenon appears, with one or two…

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

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

We probe for statistical and Coulomb induced spin textures among the low-lying states of repulsively-interacting particles confined to potentials that are both rotationally and time-reversal invariant. In particular, we focus on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-03-08 Catherine J. Stevenson , Jordan Kyriakidis

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

In this article we study the spin and tunneling dynamics as a function of magnetic field in a one-dimensional GaAs double quantum dot with both the Dresselhaus and Rashba spin-orbit coupling. In particular we consider different spatial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-11 Madhav Singh , Pradeep K Jha , Aranya B Bhattacherjee

We study the effects caused by Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling over the thermoelectric transport properties of a single-electron transistor, viz., a quantum dot connected to one-dimensional leads. Using linear response theory and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-04 M. A. Manya , G. B. Martins , M. S. Figueira

We study spin dynamics in a two-dimensional electron gas with a pure gauge non-Abelian spin-orbit field, for which systems with balanced Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit couplings, and the (110)-axis grown GaAs quantum wells are typical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-20 I. V. Tokatly , E. Ya. Sherman

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

Topological superconductors are foreseen as good candidates for the search of Majorana zero modes, where they appear as edge states and can be used for quantum computation. In this context, it becomes necessary to study the robustness and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-14 Dunkan Martínez , Álvaro Díaz-Fernández , Pedro A Orellana , Francisco Domínguez-Adame

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

Spin-orbit coupling is a manifestation of special relativity. In the reference frame of a moving electron, electric fields transform into magnetic fields, which interact with the electron spin and lift the degeneracy of spin-up and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-09-18 Lorenz Meier , Gian Salis , Ivan Shorubalko , Emilio Gini , Silke Schoen , Klaus Ensslin

The effects of spin-orbit (SO) coupling arising from the confinement potential in single and two vertically-coupled quantum dots have been investigated. Our work indicates that a dot containing a single electron shows the lifting of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Anjana Bagga , Pekka Pietilainen , Tapash Chakraborty

Due to the spin-orbital coupling in a semiconductor quantum dot, a freely precessing electron spin produces a time-dependent charge density. This creates a sizeable electric field outside the dot, leading to promising applications in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-04-12 L. S. Levitov , E. I. Rashba

Electrons in atoms possess both spin and orbital degrees of freedom. In non-relativistic quantum mechanics, these are independent, resulting in large degeneracies in atomic spectra. However, relativistic effects couple the spin and orbital…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-04-07 F. Kuemmeth , S. Ilani , D. C. Ralph , P. L. McEuen

We demonstrate exotic stable quasi-two-dimensional solitons in a Rashba or a Dresselhaus spin-orbit (SO) coupled hyperfine spin-1 ($F=1$) trap-less antiferromagnetic Bose-Einstein condensate using the mean-field Gross-Pitaevskii equation.…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-01-08 S. K. Adhikari