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Electron transport through multi-terminal rectangular arrays of quantum rings is studied in the presence of Rashba-type spin-orbit interaction (SOI) and of a perpendicular magnetic field. Using the analytic expressions for the transmission…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Orsolya Kalman , Peter Foldi , Mihaly G. Benedict , Francois M. Peeters

Quantum interference effects in rings provide suitable means for controlling spin at mesoscopic scales. Here we apply such control mechanisms to coherent spin-dependent transport in one- and two-dimensional rings subject to Rashba…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Diego Frustaglia , Klaus Richter

Current-induced magnetic domain wall motion, induced by transfer of spin transfer effect due to exchange interaction, is expected to be useful for next generation high-density storages. We here show that efficient domain wall manipulation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Katsunori Obata , Gen Tatara

We map electron spin dynamics from time to space in quantum wires with spatially uniform and oscillating Rashba spin-orbit coupling. The presence of the spin-orbit interaction introduces pseudo-Zeeman couplings of the electron spins to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-23 Vanita Srinivasa , Jeremy Levy

Suspended nanowires are shown to provide mechanically-controlled coherent mixing/splitting of the spin states of transmitted electrons, caused by the Rashba spin-orbit interaction. The sensitivity of the latter to mechanical bending makes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-30 R. I. Shekhter , O. Entin-Wohlman , A. Aharony

We perform a numerical study on the spin-resolved transport in a quantum wire (QW) under the modulation of both Rashba spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and a perpendicular magnetic field (MF) by adopting the developed Usuki transfer-matrix method…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-06-13 Xianbo Xiao , Zhaoxia Chen , Wenjie Nie , Guanghui Zhou , Fei Li

We show that the interaction between a superconducting order parameter and the magnetic moment of an atomic cluster in a two-dimensional s-wave superconductor with Rashba spin-orbit coupling generates magnetic anisotropy that can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-24 Eugene M. Chudnovsky

We investigate theoretically the spin-dependent electron transport in a Rashba quantum wire with rough edges. The charge and spin conductances are calculated as function of the electron energy or the wire length by adopting the spinresolved…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-06 Xianbo Xiao , Huili Li , Guanghui Zhou , Nianhua Liu

We present analysis of the interacting quantum wire problem in the presence of magnetic field and spin-orbital interaction. We show that an interesting interplay of Zeeman and spin-orbit terms, facilitated by the electron-electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-09-05 Suhas Gangadharaiah , Jianmin Sun , Oleg A. Starykh

In this work, we show that in a four-quantum-dot ring, via introducing a local Rashba spin-orbit interaction the spin bias in the transverse terminals can be detected by observing the charge currents in the longitudinal probes. It is found…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Weijiang Gong , Hui Li , Sha Zhang , Yu Han , Guozhu Wei

The spin-orbit coupling (SOC) can mediate electric-dipole spin resonance (EDSR) in an a.c. electric field. In this letter, the EDSR is essentially understood as an spin precession under an effective a.c. magnetic field induced by the SOC in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-03 Li-Ping Yang , C. P. Sun

We propose an all-electrical nanoscopic structure where {\em pure} spin current is induced in the transverse voltage probes attached to {\em quantum-coherent} one-dimensional ring when conventional unpolarized charge current is injected…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Satofumi Souma , Branislav K. Nikolic

We present two theoretical schemes for spin filters in one-dimensional semiconductor quantum wires with spatially modulated Rashba spin-orbit coupling (SOC) as well as weak magnetic potential. For case I, the SOC is periodic and the weak…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. J. Gong , Z. Q. Yang

A novel method and nanodevice are introduced that allows to rotate the single electron spin confined in a gated electrostatic InSb nanowire quantum dot. Proposed method does not require application of any (oscillating or static) external…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-22 J. Pawłowski , P. Szumniak , S. Bednarek

We present analytical and numerical results for the effect of Rashba spin-orbit coupling on band structure, transport, and interaction effects in quantum wires when the spin precession length is comparable to the wire width. In contrast to…

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

Pumping of charge current by spin dynamics in the presence of the Rashba spin-orbit interaction is theoretically studied. Considering disordered electron, the exchange coupling and spin-orbit interactions are treated perturbatively. It is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jun-ichiro Ohe , Akihito Takeuchi , Gen Tatara

We investigate the transport properties of narrow quantum wires realized in disordered two-dimensional electron gases in the presence of k-linear Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interaction (SOI), and an applied in-plane magnetic field.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-05-27 Matthias Scheid , Inanc Adagideli , Junsaku Nitta , Klaus Richter

We study analytically and numerically spin effects in MoS_2 monolayer armchair quantum wires and quantum dots. The interplay between intrinsic and Rashba spin orbit interactions induced by an electric field leads to helical modes, giving…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-07 Jelena Klinovaja , Daniel Loss

We propose purely electric manipulation of spin qubits by means of the spin-orbit interaction (SOI) {\it without magnetic field or magnets} in a double-quantum dot. All the unitary transformations can be constructed by the time-dependent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-08 Atsuo Shitade , Motohiko Ezawa , Naoto Nagaosa

Because of the peculiar coupling of spatial and spin degrees of freedom effected by the Rashba spin-orbit interaction, lateral confinement of a two dimensional electronic system leads to a finite transverse spin polarization near the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Chesi , G. F. Giuliani