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Non-reciprocal charge transport that is strongly associated with the structural or magnetic chirality of the quantum materials system is one of the most exotic properties of condensed matter physics. Here, using magnetic alloys film…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-06-20 K. K. Meng , K. Wang , N. N. Zhang , Z. G. Fu , J. K. Chen , Y. Wu , X. G. Xu , J. Miao , Y. Jiang

We study the effects of spin orbit interactions on the low energy electronic structure of a single plane of graphene. We find that in an experimentally accessible low temperature regime the symmetry allowed spin orbit potential converts…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. L. Kane , E. J. Mele

Strong spin-orbit coupling can have a profound effect on the electronic structure in a metal or semiconductor, particularly for low electron concentrations. We show how, for small values of the Fermi energy compared to the spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 E. Cappelluti , C. Grimaldi , F. Marsiglio

Magnetic impurities affect the transport properties of the helical edge states of quantum spin Hall insulators by causing single-electron backscattering. We study such a system in the presence of a Rashba spin-orbit interaction induced by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-12 Erik Eriksson , Anders Ström , Gargee Sharma , Henrik Johannesson

We study the effect of the Rashba spin-orbit interaction in the quantum transport of carbon nanotubes with arbitrary chiralities. For certain spin directions, we find a strong spin-polarized electrical current that depends on the diameter…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-28 Hernán Santos , A. Latgé , J. E. Alvarellos , Leonor Chico

Nonreciprocal charge transport in solids, where resistance is different between rightward and leftward currents, is a key function of rectifying devices in the modern electronics, as exemplified by $p$-$n$ semiconductor junctions. Recently,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-01-14 M. Kondo , M. Kimata , M. Ochi , T. Kaneko , K. Kuroki , K. Sudo , S. Sakaguchi , H. Murakawa , N. Hanasaki , H. Sakai

Non-reciprocal transport, where the left to right flowing current differs from the right to left flowing one, is an unexpected phenomenon in bulk crystals. BiTeBr is a non-centrosymmetric material, with a giant Rashba spin-orbit coupling…

We suggest a long-lived spin polarization structure, a radial spin helix, and study its relaxation dynamics. For this purpose, starting with a simple and physically clear consideration of spin transport, we derive a system of equations for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-01 Yuriy V. Pershin , Valeriy A. Slipko

The many-body Monte Carlo method is used to evaluate the frequency dependent conductivity and the average mobility of a system of hopping charges, electronic or ionic on a one-dimensional chain or channel of finite length. Two cases are…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Lazaros K. Gallos , Bijan Movaghar , Laurens D. A. Siebbeles

Confinement and edge structures are known to play significant roles in electronic and transport properties of two-dimensional materials. Here, we report on low-temperature magnetotransport measurements of lithographically patterned graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-18 G. Q. Zhang , N. Kang , J. Y. Li , Li Lin , Hailin Peng , Zhongfan Liu , H. Q. Xu

Larmor's theorem holds for magnetic systems that are invariant under spin rotation. In the presence of spin-orbit coupling this invariance is lost and Larmor's theorem is broken: for systems of interacting electrons, this gives rise to a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-12 Shahrzad Karimi , Florent Baboux , Florent Perez , Carsten A. Ullrich , Grzegorz Karczewski , Tomasz Wojtowicz

We investigate the existence of the pure spin ratchet effect in a dissipative quasi-one-dimensional system with Rashba spin-orbit interaction. The system is additionally placed into a transverse uniform stationary in-plane magnetic field.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-01-14 Sergey Smirnov , Dario Bercioux , Milena Grifoni , Klaus Richter

Hot carriers in a doped graphene under dc electric field is described taking into account the intraband energy relaxation due to acoustic phonon scattering and the interband generation-recombination transitions caused by thermal radiation.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-08-04 Oleg G. Balev , Fedir T. Vasko

We study the fate of a two-dimensional system of interacting fermions with Rashba spin-orbit coupling in the dilute limit. The interactions are strongly renormalized at low densities, and give rise to various fermionic liquid crystalline…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-12-12 Jonathan Ruhman , Erez Berg

Millikelvin magnetotransport studies are carried out on heavily $n$-doped wurtzite GaN:Si films grown on semi-insulating GaN:Mn buffer layers by metal-organic vapor phase epitaxy. The dependency of the conductivity on magnetic field and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-06 W. Stefanowicz , R. Adhikari , T. Andrearczyk , B. Faina , M. Sawicki , J. A. Majewski , T. Dietl , A. Bonanni

Recent developments have led to an explosion of activity on skyrmions in three-dimensional (3D) chiral magnets. Experiments have directly probed these topological spin textures, revealed their nontrivial properties, and led to suggestions…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-09-11 Sumilan Banerjee , James Rowland , Onur Erten , Mohit Randeria

We present a systematic study on the influence of Rashba spin-orbit coupling, interlayer potential difference and exchange field on the topological properties of bilayer graphene. In the presence of only Rashba spin-orbit coupling and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-08 Zhenhua Qiao , Xiao Li , Wang-Kong Tse , Hua Jiang , Yugui Yao , Qian Niu

The non-equilibrium relaxational properties of a three dimensional Coulomb glass model are investigated by kinetic Monte Carlo simulations. Our results suggest a transition from stationary to non-stationary dynamics at the equilibrium glass…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Alejandro B. Kolton , D. R. Grempel , Daniel Dominguez

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 calculate the transport relaxation time $\tau _{\rm tr}$ and spin transport relaxation time $\tau _{s,{\rm tr}}$ for a two-dimensional electron gas with spatially fluctuating Rashba spin-orbit interaction. These relaxation times…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-27 S. Kudla , A. Dyrdal , V. K. Dugaev , E. Ya. Sherman , J. Barnas