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The spin polarized charge transport is systematically analyzed as a thermally driven stochastic process. The approach is based on Kramers' equation describing the semiclassical motion under the inclusion of stochastic and damping forces.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Michael Schulz , Steffen Trimper

While the helical character of the edge channels responsible for charge transport in the quantum spin Hall regime of a two-dimensional topological insulator is by now well established, an experimental confirmation that the transport in the…

The Aharonov-Casher (AC) oscillations of spin current through a 2D ballistic ring in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit interaction and external magnetic field has been calculated using the semiclassical path integral method. For classically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-21 V. V. Shlyapin , A. G. Mal'shukov

A double quantum dot inserted in parallel between two metallic leads allows to entangle the electron spin with the orbital (dot index) degree of freedom. An Aharonov-Bohm orbital phase can then be transferred to the spinor wavefunction,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Pascal Simon , Denis Feinberg

The effects of spin-orbit coupling on the two-electron spectra in lateral coupled quantum dots are investigated analytically and numerically. It is demonstrated that in the absence of magnetic field the exchange interaction is practically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-12 Fabio Baruffa , Peter Stano , Jaroslav Fabian

We consider the phase-coherent transport of electrons passing through an Aharonov-Bohm ring while interacting with a tunnel charge in a double quantum dot (representing a charge qubit) which couples symmetrically to both arms of the ring.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-10-31 Henning Schomerus , John P. Robinson

We consider theoretically transport in a spinfull one-channel interacting quantum wire placed in an external magnetic field. For the case of two point-like impurities embedded in the wire, under a small voltage bias the spin-polarized…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-02-17 Zoran Ristivojevic , George I. Japaridze , Thomas Nattermann

The one-dimensional effective Hamiltonian for a planar curvilinear quantum wire with arbitrary shape is proposed in the presence of the Rashba spin-orbit interaction. Single electron propagation through a device of two straight lines…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 Erhu Zhang , Shengli Zhang , Qi Wang

We study the spin-dependent transport of spin-1/2 electrons through an interferometer made of two elongated quantum dots or quantum nanowires, which are subject to both an Aharonov-Bohm flux and (Rashba and Dresselhaus) spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-17 Shlomi Matityahu , Amnon Aharony , Ora Entin-Wohlman , Seigo Tarucha

Spin polarized transport through a quantum dot coupled to ferromagnetic electrodes with noncollinear magnetizations is discussed in terms of nonequilibrium Green functions formalism in the finite-U slave boson mean field approximation. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-10 D. Krychowski , S. Lipiński

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

Recent achievements in semiconductor spintronics are discussed. Special attention is paid to spin-orbit interaction, coupling of electron spins to external electric fields, and spin transport in media with spin-orbit coupling, including the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Emmanuel I. Rashba

The manner in which spin-polarized electrons interact with a magnetized thin film is currently described by a semi-classical approach. This in turn provides our present understanding of the spin transfer, or spin torque phenomenon. However,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-04-17 Wonkee Kim , L. Covaci , F. Dogan , F. Marsiglio

We consider spin-vorticity coupling - the generation of spin polarization by vorticity - in viscous two-dimensional electron systems with spin-orbit coupling. We first derive hydrodynamic equations for spin and momentum densities in which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-18 Ruben J. Doornenbal , Marco Polini , R. A. Duine

Spin-polarized electron transport driven by inhomogeneous magnetic dynamics is discussed in the limit of a large exchange coupling. Electron spins rigidly following the time-dependent magnetic profile experience spin-dependent fictitious…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yaroslav Tserkovnyak , Matthew Mecklenburg

We review the theoretical description of spin-orbit scattering and electron spin resonance in carbon nanotubes. Particular emphasis is laid on the effects of electron-electron interactions. The spin-orbit coupling is derived, and the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-09-27 A. De Martino , R. Egger , F. Murphy-Armando , K. Hallberg

Spin-orbit coupling is a single-particle phenomenon known to generate topological order, and electron-electron interactions cause ordered many-body phases to exist. The rich interplay of these two mechanisms is present in a broad range of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-20 Weizhe Edward Liu , Stefano Chesi , David Webb , U. Zuelicke , R. Winkler , Robert Joynt , Dimitrie Culcer

We theoretically study the single electron transfer through two-terminal quantum ring capacitively coupled to charged dot placed in its center. For this purpose we solve time-dependent Schrodinger equation for fully correlated two-particle…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 T. Chwiej , K. Kutorasinski

We study electron transport through multiply-connected mesoscopic geometries containing interacting quantum dots. Our formulation covers both equilibrium and non-equilibrium physics. We discuss the relation of coherent transport channels…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jürgen König , Yuval Gefen

We investigate effects of spin-orbit splitting on electronic transport in a spin valve consisting of a large quantum dot defined on a two-dimensional electron gas with two ferromagnetic contacts. In the presence of both structure inversion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Saarikoski , W. Wetzels , G. E. W. Bauer