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Spin-dependent heat and thermoelectric currents in a quantum ring with Rashba spin-orbit interaction placed in a photon cavity are theoretically calculated. The quantum ring is coupled to two external leads with different temperatures. In a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-13 Nzar Rauf Abdullah , Chi-Shung Tang , Andrei Manolescu , Vidar Gudmundsson

We study the local equilibrium properties of two-dimensional electron gases at high magnetic fields in the presence of random smooth electrostatic disorder, Rashba spin-orbit coupling, and the Zeeman interaction. Using a systematic magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-29 Daniel Hernangomez-Perez , Serge Florens , Thierry Champel

We study nonequilibrium generation of spin-dependent transport through a single-level quantum dot embedded in a ring with the Rashba spin-orbit coupling. We consider nonmagnetic systems, involving no magnetic field nor ferromagnetic leads.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-23 Nobuhiko Taniguchi , Kenta Isozaki

We study the effects of Rashba spin-orbit coupling on the spin torque induced by spin waves, which are the plane wave dynamics of magnetization. The spin torque is derived from linear response theory, and we calculate the dynamic spin…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-12-21 Nobuyuki Umetsu , Daisuke Miura , Akimasa Sakuma

Based on the Keldysh formalism, the Boltzmann kinetic equation and the drift diffusion equation have been derived for studying spin polarization flow and spin accumulation under effect of the time dependent Rashba spin-orbit interaction in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. S. Tang , A. G. Mal'shukov , K. A. Chao

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

Spin current is a central theme in spintronics, and its generation is a keen issue. The spin-polarized current injection from the ferromagnet, spin battery, and spin Hall effect have been used to generate spin current, but Ohmic currents in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-11-05 James Jun He , Kanta Hiroki , Keita Hamamoto , Naoto Nagaosa

We theoretically explore the possibility of creating spin quantum entanglement in a system of two electrons confined respectively in two vertically coupled quantum dots in the presence of Rashba type spin-orbit coupling. We find that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Nan Zhao , L. Zhong , Jia-Lin Zhu , C. P. Sun

We investigated the magnetotransport properties of mesoscopic platinum nanostructures (wires and rings) with sub-100 nm lateral dimensions at very low temperatures. Despite the strong spin-orbit interaction in platinum, oscillations of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 R. Ramos , T. Makiuchi , T. Kikkawa , S. Daimon , K. Oyanagi , E. Saitoh

Magnetization dynamics in a ferromagnet can induce a spin-dependent electric field through spin motive force. Spin current generated by the spin-dependent electric field can in turn modify the magnetization dynamics through spin-transfer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-29 Kyoung-Whan Kim , Jung-Hwan Moon , Kyung-Jin Lee , Hyun-Woo Lee

We show that resonant coupling and entanglement between a mechanical resonator and majorana bound states can be achieved via spin currents in a 1D quantum wire with strong spin-orbit interactions. The bound states induced by vibrating and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-20 Alexey A. Kovalev , Amrit De , Kirill Shtengel

The interplay between spin and charge degrees of freedom in low-dimensional systems is a cornerstone of modern spintronics, where achieving all-electrical control of spin currents is a major goal. Spin-orbit interactions provide a promising…

We demonstrate how the term describing interaction between a single two-level atom and two cavity field modes may attain a Rashba form. As an outcome, cavity QED provides a testbed for studies of phenomena reminiscent of the spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-28 Jonas Larson

Using a tight-biding model, we elaborate that the previously discovered out-of-plane polarized helical edge spin current caused by Rashba spin-orbit coupling can be attributed to the fact that in a strip geometry, a positive momentum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-10 Wei Chen , Manfred Sigrist

The Rashba spin-orbit coupling arising from structure inversion asymmetry couples spin and momentum degrees of freedom providing a suitable (and very intensively investigated) environment for spintronic effects and devices. Here we show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 Goetz Seibold , Sergio Caprara , Marco Grilli , Roberto Raimondi

Following a previous paper [Haozhao Liang \textit{et al.}, Phys. Rev. C \textbf{87}, 014334 (2013)], we discuss the spin-orbit effects on the pseudospin symmetry (PSS) within the framework of supersymmetric quantum mechanics. By using the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-09-04 Shihang Shen , Haozhao Liang , Pengwei Zhao , Shuangquan Zhang , Jie Meng

Here, we study diffusive spin transport in two dimensions and demonstrate that an intrinsic analog to a previously predicted extrinsic spin swapping effect, where the spin polarization and the direction of flow are interchanged due to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 Severin Sadjina , Arne Brataas , A. G. Mal'shukov

In this paper, I present a simple method of obtaining spin-polarised current from a QPC with a large Rashba interaction. The origin of this spin polarisation is the adiabatic evolution of spin "up" of the first QPC sub-band, into spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-29 Samuel Bladwell

We describe a new effect in semiconductor spintronics that leads to dissipationless spin-currents in paramagnetic spin-orbit coupled systems. We argue that in a high mobility two-dimensional electron system with substantial Rashba…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jairo Sinova , Dimitrie Culcer , Q. Niu , N. A. Sinitsyn , T. Jungwirth , A. H. MacDonald

We study the spin transport theoretically in heterostructures consisting of a ferromagnetic metallic thin film sandwiched between heavy-metal and oxide layers. The spin current in the heavy metal layer is generated via the spin Hall effect,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-30 L. Chotorlishvili , Z. Toklikishvili , X. -G. Wang , V. K. Dugaev , J. Barnas , J. Berakdar