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During the last years there has been much interest, and theoretical discussion, about the possibility to use spin-orbit coupling to control the carriers spins in two-dimensional semiconducting heterostructures. Spin polarization at the…

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Scattering theory is employed to derive a Landauer-type formula for the spin and the charge currents, through a finite region where spin-orbit interactions are effective. It is shown that the transmission matrix yields the spatial direction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 O. Entin-Wohlman , A. Aharony , Y. Tokura , Y. Avishai

The spin-orbit interaction is a key tool for manipulating and functionalizing spin-dependent electron transport. However, the precise value of the spin-orbit coupling constant is hard to determine and control. Here we propose a measurement…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-19 R. I. Shekhter , O. Entin-Wohlman , M. Jonson , A. Aharony

We describe theoretically the process of multi-beam reflection in a two-dimensional electron system with a lateral potential barrier. Due to spin-orbital interaction, the reflection process leads to the formation of three beams with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. O. Govorov , A. V. Kalameitsev , J. P. Dulka

We study coherent spin transport through helical edge states of topological insulator tunnel-coupled to metallic leads. We demonstrate that unpolarized incoming electron beam acquires finite polarization after transmission through such a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-10 R. A. Niyazov , D. N. Aristov , V. Yu. Kachorovskii

Due to the spin-orbital coupling in a semiconductor quantum dot, a freely precessing electron spin produces a time-dependent charge density. This creates a sizeable electric field outside the dot, leading to promising applications in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-04-12 L. S. Levitov , E. I. Rashba

One-dimensional quantum rings with Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit couplings are studied analytically and are in perfect agreement with the numerical results. The topological charge of the spin field defined by the winding number along…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-06 Shenglin Peng , Wenchen Luo , Fangping Ouyang , Tapash Chakraborty

We model the electron and hole spin dynamics in an undoped double quantum dot structure, considering the carrier tunneling between quantum dots. Taking into account also the presence of an in-plane or tilted magnetic field, we provide the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-15 Michał Gawełczyk , Paweł Machnikowski

After obtaining an exact analytical time-varying solution for the Aharonov-Casher conducting ring embedded in a textured static/dynamic electric field, we investigate the spin-resolved quantum transport in the structure. It is shown that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-10 Can Li , Yaojin Li , Dongxing Yu , Chenglong Jia

We present an exact, analytic solution of the spin dependent quantum transport problem with spin-orbit interaction in a one-dimensional mesoscopic ring with one input and two output leads. We demonstrate that for appropriate parameters…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-01-24 Orsolya Kalman , Peter Foldi , Mihaly G. Benedict , F. M. Peeters

We present a theory of magnetotransport through a system of two coupled electronic orbitals, where the electron spin interacts with a (large) local magnetic moment via an exchange interaction. For the physical realization of such a set-up…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-06 Klemens Mosshammer , Gerold Kiesslich , Tobias Brandes

Electron transport phenomena in disordered electron systems with spin-orbit coupling in two dimensions and below are studied numerically. The scaling hypothesis is checked by analyzing the scaling of the quasi-1D localization length. A…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yoichi Asada , Keith Slevin , Tomi Ohtsuki

We theoretically study the renormalization of inertial effects on the spin dependent transport of conduction electrons in a semiconductor by taking into account the interband mixing on the basis of k.p perturbation theory. In our analysis,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-06 B. Basu , Debashree Chowdhury

Resonant behavior involving spin-orbit entangled states occurs for spin transport along a narrow channel defined in a two-dimensional electron gas, including an apparent rapid relaxation of the spin polarization for special values of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-02 D. H. Berman , M. Khodas , M. E. Flatté

We consider the full driven quantum dynamics of a qubit realized as spin of electron in a one-dimensional double quantum dot with spin-orbit coupling. The driving perturbation is taken in the form of a single half-period pulse of electric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-28 D. V. Khomitsky , E. Ya. Sherman

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 review several proposed spintronic devices that can provide new functionality or improve available functions of electronic devices. In particular, we discuss a high mobility field effect spin transistor, an all-metal spin transistor, and…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Das Sarma , Jaroslav Fabian , Xuedong Hu , Igor Zutic

Using the semiclassical theory of electron dynamics, we derive a gauge-invariant expression for the spin toroidization in a periodical crystal. We show that the spin toroidization is comprised of two contributions: one is due to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-02 Yang Gao , David Vanderbilt , Di Xiao

We determine theoretically the effect of spin-orbit coupling on the magnetic excitation spectrum of itinerant multi-orbital systems, with specific application to iron-based superconductors. Our microscopic model includes a realistic…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-07-24 Daniel D. Scherer , Brian M. Andersen

All-electrical control of spin transport in nanostructures has been the central interest and chal- lenge of spin physics and spintronics. Here we demonstrate on-chip spin polarizing/filtering actions by driving the gate-defined one…

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