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We investigate topological phase transitions in a two-dimensional electron system with cubic Rashba spin-orbit coupling driven by circularly polarized light. Within the Floquet framework, we demonstrate that light-matter interaction induces…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-20 Debabrata Sinha

The wave nature of electrons in semiconductor nanostructures results in spatial interference effects similar to those exhibited by coherent light. The presence of spin-orbit coupling renders interference in spin space and in real space…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 U. Zuelicke

We investigate the electrical switching of charge and spin transport in a topological insulator nanoconstriction in a four terminal device. The switch of the edge channels is caused by the coupling between edge states which overlap in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-12 F. Romeo , R. Citro , D. Ferraro , M. Sassetti

We propose a method to flip the spin completely by an adiabatic transport of quantum dots. We show that it is possible to flip the spin by inducing a geometric phase on the spin state of a quantum dot. We estimate the geometric spin flip…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-15 Sanjay Prabhakar , Roderick Melnik , Akira Inomata

Associated with spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and inversion symmetry breaking, Rashba spin polarization opens a new avenue for spintronic applications that was previously limited to ordinary magnets. However, spin polarization effects in actual…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-10-12 Qihang Liu , Xiuwen Zhang , J. A. Waugh , D. S. Dessau , Alex Zunger

Altermagnetism has recently emerged as a third fundamental branch of magnetism, combining the vanishing net magnetization of antiferromagnets with the high-momentum-dependent spin splitting of ferromagnets. This study provides a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Manuel Calixto

In a two-dimensional ferromagnetic metal layer lacking inversion symmetry, the itinerant electrons mediate the interaction between the Rashba spin-orbit interaction and the ferromagnetic order parameter, leading to a Rashba spin torque…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-11-24 Xuhui Wang , Aurelien Manchon

The coexistence of Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interactions (SOIs) in semiconductor quantum wells leads to an anisotropic effective field coupled to carriers' spins. We demonstrate a gate-controlled anisotropy in Aharonov-Casher (AC)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-12 Fumiya Nagasawa , Andres A. Reynoso , José Pablo Baltanás , Diego Frustaglia , Henri Saarikoski , Junsaku Nitta

Fermi-surface spin splitting generated by non-relativistic exchange fields provides a new route to topological superconductivity without relying on strong spin-orbit coupling. Here, we study superconducting instabilities of a square-lattice…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-05 Kyoung-Min Kim , Gibaik Sim , Moon Jip Park

A recursive Green's function technique is developed to calculate the spin-dependent conductance in mesoscopic structures. Using this technique, we study the spin-dependent electronic transport of quantum point contacts in the presence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Shi-Liang Zhu , Z. D. Wang , Lian Hu

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 consider a Rashba spin-orbit coupled nanowire with anisotropic spin-singlet superconducting pairing and time-reversal-invariant symmetry. We explore the evolution of the topological superconducting phases of this system due to geometric…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-03-11 Gianluca Francica , Mario Cuoco , Paola Gentile

We study the coupled dynamics of spin and charge currents in a two-dimensional electron gas in the transport diffusive regime. For systems with inversion symmetry there are established relations between the spin Hall effect, the anomalous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-11 P. Schwab , R. Raimondi , C. Gorini

We study spin torques induced by Rashba spin-orbit coupling in two-dimensional ferromagnets under the good-metal condition $\epsilon_{F}\tau/\hbar\gg1$ ($\epsilon_{F}$ the Fermi energy, $\tau$ the electron lifetime) by employing the Kubo…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-21 Cong Xiao , Qian Niu

Spin electromagnetic fields driven by the Rashba spin-orbit interaction, or Rashba-induced spin Berry's phase, in ferromagnetic metals is theoretically studied based on the Keldysh Green's function method. Considering a limit of strong sd…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Noriyuki Nakabayashi , Gen Tatara

The aim of the paper is to study the electron spin direction dependence on momentum due to the presence of Rashba spin-orbit coupling in the pseudo-gap phase of Bi2212 bilayer. The non-trivial spin texture in k-space is found tuneable by…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-05-25 Udai Prakash Tyagi , Partha Goswami

We investigate the electron transport through a mesoscopic ring side-coupled with a quantum dot(QD) in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit(SO) interaction. It is shown that both the Fano resonance and the spin interference effects play…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Guo-Hui Ding , Bing Dong

We demonstrate that the combination of an external magnetic field and the intrinsic spin-orbit interaction results in nonadiabatic precession of the electron spin after transmission through a quantum point contact (QPC). We suggest that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 T. Li , O. P. Sushkov

The manipulation of Rashba-type spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in molecular beam epitaxy-grown Al$_x$In$_{1-x}$Sb/InSb/CdTe quantum well heterostructures is reported. The effective band bending provides robust two-dimensional quantum…

We compute analytically the weak (anti)localization correction to the Drude conductivity for electrons in tubular semiconductor systems of zinc blende type. We include linear Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and compare…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-09 Michael Kammermeier , Paul Wenk , John Schliemann , Sebastian Heedt , Thomas Schäpers