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The spin Hall and longitudinal conductivity of a 2D heavy-hole gas with {\it k}-cubic Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interaction is studied in the ac frequency domain. Using Kubo linear-response theory and a recently proposed definition…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Arturo Wong , Francisco Mireles

We exploit the high-symmetry spin state obtained for equal Rashba and linear Dresselhaus interactions to derive a closed-form expression for the weak localization magnetoconductivity -- the paradigmatic signature of spin-orbit coupling in…

Spin-orbit (SO) coupling is the crucial parameter to drive topological insulating phases in electronic band models. In particular, the generic emergence of SO coupling involves the Rashba term which fully breaks the SU(2) spin symmetry. As…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-18 Manuel Laubach , Johannes Reuther , Ronny Thomale , Stephan Rachel

Spin-orbit interactions which couple spin of a particle with its momentum degrees of freedom lie at the center of spintronic applications. Of special interest in semiconductor physics are Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling (SOC).…

The article shows a simple model that computes the magnetoconduction and the integer quantum Hall effect (IQHE) in a two-dimensional electron system (2DES) where the spin is other degree of freedom in the system. The 2DES is confined in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-13 M. A. Hidalgo , R. Cangas

The spin-sensitive charge oscillation, controlled by an external magnetic field, was recently proposed as a mechanism of transformations of qubits, defined as two-electron spin-charge Wannier molecules in a square quantum dot. The paper…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-30 Ambroz Kregar , Anton Ramsak

Spin-orbit coupled electronic structure of two representative non-polar half-Heusler alloys, namely 18 electron compound CoZrBi and 8 electron compound SiLiIn have been studied in details. An excursion through the Brillouin zone of these…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-11-02 Kunal Dutta , Subhadeep Bandyopadhyay , Indra Dasgupta

The paramount acumen for controlling spin transport properties in nonmagnetic materials is the usage of spin-orbit coupling (SOC). We propose a model to calculate the spin hall angle (SHA) for the elemental transition metal dichalcogenide…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-03 Swastik Sahoo , Satadeep Bhattacharjee , Bhaskaran Muralidharan

Two-dimensional hole gases in semiconductor quantum wells are promising platforms for spintronics and quantum computation but suffer from the lack of the $\bf{k}$-linear term in the Rashba spin-orbit coupling (SOC), which is essential for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-03 Jia-Xin Xiong , Shan Guan , Jun-Wei Luo , Shu-Shen Li

We develop a strong coupling approach towards quantum magnetism in Mott insulators for Wannier obstructed bands. Despite the lack of Wannier orbitals, electrons can still singly occupy a set of exponentially-localized but nonorthogonal…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-03 Xiao-Yang Huang , Taige Wang , Shang Liu , Hong-Ye Hu , Yi-Zhuang You

Rashba and linear Dresselhaus interactions are believed to yield dominant contribution to the spin splitting of two-dimensional electrons in the quantum wells based on A$_3$B$_5$ compounds. We show that the interfacial spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-12 Zh. A. Devizorova , V. A. Volkov

We consider the spin-Hall current in a disordered two-dimensional electron gas in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit interaction. We derive a generalized Kubo-Greenwood formula for the spin-Hall conductivity $\sigma$ and evaluate it in an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Oleg Chalaev , Daniel Loss

We demonstrate the formation of stable spatially-ordered states in a {\it uniform} and also {\it trapped} quasi-two-dimensional (quasi-2D) Rashba or Dresselhaus spin-orbit (SO) coupled pseudo spin-1/2 Bose-Einstein condensate using the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-08-11 S. K. Adhikari

We investigate the nu=1 quantum Hall ferromagnet in the presence of spin-orbit coupling of the Rashba or Dresselhaus type by means of Hartree-Fock-typed variational states. In the presence of Rashba (Dresselhaus) spin-orbit coupling the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 John Schliemann , J. Carlos Egues , Daniel Loss

Using the four-terminal Landauer-B\"{u}ttiker formula and Green's function approach, we calculate numerically the spin-Hall conductance in a two-dimensional junction system with the Rashba spin-orbit (SO) coupling and disorder. We find that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 L. Sheng , D. N. Sheng , C. S. Ting

This article presents an overview of results pertaining to electronic structure, transport properties, and interaction effects in ballistic quantum wires with Rashba spin splitting. Limits of weak and strong spin--orbit coupling are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Governale , U. Zuelicke

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 present a method to solve the problem of Rashba spin-orbit coupling in semiconductor quantum dots, within the context of quasi-exactly solvable spectral problems. We show that the problem possesses a hidden osp(2,2) superalgebra. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Hayriye Tutunculer , Ramazan Koc , Eser Olgar

We discuss by analytic means the theory of the high-density limit of the unpolarized two-dimensional electron liquid in the presence of Rashba or Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling. A generalization of the ring-diagram expansion is performed.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Stefano Chesi , Gabriele F. Giuliani

We use the method of invariants to derive one- and two-band effective Hamiltonians of a noncentrosymmetric two-dimensional electron gas, in the presence of magnetic field. A complete classification of the antisymmetric spin-orbit and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-24 K. V. Samokhin