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We consider the motion of electrons through a mesoscopic ring in the presence of spin-orbit interaction, Zeeman coupling, and magnetic flux. The coupling between the spin and the orbital degrees of freedom results in the geometric and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Ya-Sha Yi , Tie-Zheng Qian , Zhao-Bin Su

We address the subject of transport in one-dimensional ballistic polygon loops subject to Rashba spin-orbit coupling. We identify the role played by the polygon vertices in the accumulation of spin-related phases by studying interference…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Dario Bercioux , Diego Frustaglia , Michele Governale

We consider a Rashba nanowire with proximity gap which can be brought into the topological phase by tuning external magnetic field or chemical potential. We study spin and charge of the bulk quasiparticle states when passing through the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-19 Paweł Szumniak , Denis Chevallier , Daniel Loss , Jelena Klinovaja

Non-equilibrium transport in hybrid semiconductor-superconductor nanowires is crucial for many quantum phenomena such as generating entangled states via cross Andreev reflection (CAR) processes, detecting topological superconductivity,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-11 Paweł Szumniak , Daniel Loss , Jelena Klinovaja

Sharp localization transitions of chiral edge states in disordered quantum wires, subject to strong magnetic field, are shown to be driven by crossovers from two- to one-dimensional localization of bulk states. As a result, the two-terminal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Kettemann , B. Kramer , T. Ohtsuki

This article is a brief review of Zeeman spin-orbit coupling, arising in a low-carrier commensurate N\'eel antiferromagnet subject to magnetic field. The field tends to lift the degeneracy of the electron spectrum. However, a hidden…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-06-13 Revaz Ramazashvili

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

We have numerically solved the Hamiltonian of an electron in a semiconductor double ring subjected to the magnetic flux and Rashba spin-orbit interaction. It is found that the Aharonov-Bohm energy spectrum reveals multi-zigzag periodic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Wen-Hsuan Kuan , Chi-Shung Tang , Cheng-Hung Chang

In altermagnets, time-reversal symmetry breaking spin-polarizes electronic states, while total magnetization remains zero. In addition, at altermagnetic surfaces Rashba-spin orbit coupling is activated due to broken inversion symmetry,…

The Rashba Hamiltonian describes the splitting of the conduction band as a result of spin-orbit coupling in the presence of an external field and is commonly used to model the electronic structure of confined narrow-gap semiconductors. Due…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Laurens W. Molenkamp , Georg Schmidt , Gerrit E. W. Bauer

The recent discovery of topological flat bands in twisted transition metal dichalcogenide homobilayers and multilayer graphene has sparked significant research interest. We propose a new platform for realizing tunable topological moire flat…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-08 Xilong Xu , Haonan Wang , Li Yang

Recently, topological superconductors have emerged as a pivotal frontier in condensed matter physics, owing to the exotic properties of Majorana quasiparticles residing on edges, surfaces, and vortex cores. In this work, we investigate a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-01-16 Huan-Wen Lai , Meng-Chien Wang , Ching-Ray Chang , Seng-Ghee Tan

The holonomic manipulation of spin-orbital degenerate states, encoded in the Kramers doublet of narrow semiconducting channels with spin-orbit interaction, is shown to be intimately intertwined with the geometrical shape of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-11 G. Francica , P. Gentile , M. Cuoco

Spin polarized two-dimensional electronic states have been previously observed on metallic surface alloys with giant Rashba splitting and on the surface of topological insulators. We study the surface band structure of these systems, in a…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-12-07 Emmanouil Frantzeskakis , Marco Grioni

Spin-split Rashba bands have been exploited to efficiently control the spin degree of freedom of moving electrons, which possesses a great potential in frontier applications of designing spintronic devices and processing spin-based…

Altermagnets exhibit spin-split electronic bandstructures despite having zero net magnetization, making them attractive for field-free spintronic applications. In this work, we show that a finite rectangular altermagnetic sample can acquire…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-27 Abhiram Soori

A strong coupling between the electron spin and its motion is one of the prerequisites of spin-based data storage and electronics. A major obstacle is to find spin-orbit coupled materials where the electron spin can be probed and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-11 Christoph Kastl , Paul Seifert , Xiaoyue He , Kehui Wu , Yongqing Li , Alexander Holleitner

We investigate localization and spectral topology in a non Hermitian quasiperiodic Su Schrieffer Heeger lattice with Rashba spin orbit coupling and spin-dependent hopping. By analyzing the inverse participation ratio, complex energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-15 Hemant K Sharma

Quantum oscillations of the spin conductance through regular and chaotic 2D quantum dots under the varying Rashba spin orbit interaction and at zero magnetic field have been numerically calculated by summing up the spin evolution matrices…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Cheng-Hung Chang , Anatoly G. Mal'shukov , Koung-An Chao

We calculate the current-voltage characteristic of a one-dimensional band insulator with magnetic field and Rashba spin-orbit coupling which is connected to nonmagnetic leads. Without spin-orbit coupling we find a complete spin-filtering…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-02 Thibaut Jonckheere , George Japaridze , Thierry Martin , Roland Hayn