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Persistent, oscillatory charge and spin currents are shown to be driven by a two-component terahertz laser pulse in a one-dimensional mesoscopic ring with Rashba-Dresselhaus spin orbit interactions (SOI) linear in the electron momentum. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Marian Nita , Bogdan Ostahie , D. C. Marinescu , Andrei Manolescu , Vidar Gudmundsson

We present a formalism to study quantum networks made up by single-channel quantum wires in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit coupling and magnetic field. In particular, linear transport through one-dimensional and two-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dario Bercioux , Michele Governale , Vittorio Cataudella , Vincenzo Marigliano Ramaglia

The paper studies spin-orbit interaction (i.e. the effect the spin has on the particle's trajectory in a magnetic field) as a model of quantum computation. The two-level spin quantum system is examined using the stochastic mechanics…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-02-11 Gerasimos G. Rigatos

We have shown that the non-Abelian spin-orbit gauge field strength of the Rashba and Dresselhaus interactions, when split into two Abelian field strengths, the Hamiltonian of the system can be re-expressed as a Landau level problem with a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 B. Basu , P. Bandyopadhyay

Few-electron systems confined in a quantum dot laterally coupled to a surrounding quantum ring in the presence of an external magnetic field are studied by exact diagonalization. The distribution of electrons between the dot and the ring is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 B. Szafran , F. M. Peeters , S. Bednarek

We present a new model for the study of spin-orbit coupling in interacting quasi-one-dimensional systems and solve it exactly to find the spectral properties of such systems. We show that the combination of spin-orbit coupling and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. V. Moroz , K. V. Samokhin , C. H. W. Barnes

We study the time-dependent transport of charge and spin through a ring-shaped region sequentially coupled to a weakly interacting quantum dot in the presence of an Aharonov-Bohm flux and spin-orbit interaction. The time-dependent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-01-09 F. Romeo , R. Citro , M. Marinaro

Quantum interference effects in rings provide suitable means to control spins at the mesoscopic scale. In this chapter we present the theory underlying spin-induced modulations of unpolarized currents in quantum rings subject to the Rashba…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-10 Carmine Ortix

We investigate the persistent currents and magnetization of a mesoscopic system consisting of two clean metallic rings sharing a single contact point in a magnetic field. Many novel features with respect to the single-ring geometry are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Y. Avishai , J. M. Luck

Lack of inversion symmetry at a metallic surface can lead to an observable spin-orbit interaction. For certain metal surfaces, such as the Au(111) surface, the experimentally observed spin-orbit coupling results in spin rotation lengths on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Jamie D. Walls , Eric J. Heller

We theoretically investigate the spin-dependent Seebeck effect in an Aharonov-Bohm mesoscopic ring in the presence of both Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interactions under magnetic flux perpendicular to the ring. We apply the Green's…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Bin Liu , Yunyun Li , Jun Zhou , Tsuneyoshi Nakayama , Baowen Li

A theory of spin manipulation of quasi-two-dimensional (2D) electrons by a time-dependent gate voltage applied to a quantum well is developed. The Dresselhaus and Rashba spin-orbit coupling mechanisms are shown to be rather efficient for…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 E. I. Rashba , Al. L. Efros

In this work we investigate magneto-optical properties of two-dimensional semiconductor quantum-ring excitons with Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interactions threaded by a magnetic flux perpendicular to the plane of the ring. By…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-08 Wen-Hsuan Kuan , Vidar Gudmundsson

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 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 present results on the effects of spin-orbit coupling on the electronic structure of few-electron interacting quantum dots. The ground-state properties as a function of the number of electrons in the dot $N$ are calculated by means of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Governale

We analyze theoretically the bound state spectrum of an Aharonov Bohm (AB) ring in a two-dimensional topological insulator using the four-band model of HgTe-quantum wells as a concrete example. We calculate analytically the circular helical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Paolo Michetti , Patrik Recher

Determination of Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interaction strengths in a particular sample remains a challenge even today. In this article we investigate the possibilities of measuring the absolute values of these interaction strengths…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-09-20 Santanu K. Maiti

We describe the simultaneous effects of the spin-orbit (SO) perturbation and a magnetic field $B$ on a disk shaped quantum dot (QD). {As it is known the} combination of electrostatic forces among the $N$ electrons confined in the QD and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Bellucci , P. Onorato

Solutions of the Schr\"odinger equation are obtained for an electron in a two-dimensional circular semiconductor quantum ring in the presence of both external uniform constant magnetic field and the Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-12-21 V. V. Kudryashov , A. V. Baran