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The theory of spin drift and diffusion in two-dimensional electron gases is developed in terms of a random walk model incorporating Rashba, linear and cubic Dresselhaus, and intersubband spin-orbit couplings. The additional subband degree…

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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…

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Spin distribution in the diffraction pattern of two-dimensional electron gas by a split gate and a quantum point contact is computed in the presence of the spin-orbit coupling. After diffracted, the component of spin perpendicular to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Cheng-Ju Lin , Chyh-Hong Chern

We study spin-dependent transport in a two-dimensional electron gas subject to an external step-like potential $V(x)$ and irradiated by an electromagnetic field (EF). In the absence of EF the electronic spectrum splits into spin sub-bands…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. V. Fistul , K. B. Efetov

A drift-diffusion model of miniband transport in strongly coupled superlattices is derived from the single-miniband Boltzmann-Poisson transport equation with a BGK (Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook) collision term. We use a consistent Chapman-Enskog…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 L. L. Bonilla , R. Escobedo , A. Perales

A Wigner-Poisson kinetic equation describing charge transport in doped semiconductor superlattices is proposed. Electrons are supposed to occupy the lowest miniband, exchange of lateral momentum is ignored and the electron-electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. L. Bonilla , R. Escobedo

Fast long-range interactions between distant quantum dots in arrays remains an unsolved issue, which can be key to solve scalability issues in quantum simulation and computation processes, particularly related to the overhead associated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Mikel Olano , Geza Giedke

We derive a four-component Vlasov equation for a system composed of spin-1/2 fermions (typically electrons). The orbital part of the motion is classical, whereas the spin degrees of freedom are treated in a completely quantum-mechanical…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Jerome Hurst , Omar Morandi , Giovanni Manfredi , Paul-Antoine Hervieux

The quanta of electrical conductance is derived for a one-dimensional electron gas both by making use of the quasi-classical motion of a quantum fluid and by using arguments related to the uncertainty principle. The result is extended to a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Apostol

Recently a new propagating mode of coupled charge and spin oscillations was predicted in a two dimensional electron gas with a sufficiently strong Rashba interaction. We show that Coulomb interactions qualitatively modifies the spectrum and…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Ya. B. Bazaliy , B. V. Bazaliy , G. Guntherodt , S. S. P. Parkin

We study the spin-dependent electronic transport through a one-dimensional ballistic quantum wire in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit interaction. In particular, we consider the effect of the spin-orbit interaction resulting from the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. E. Birkholz , V. Meden

We study the spin-charge coupled transport in a two-dimensional electron system using the method of quasiclassical ($\xi$-integrated) Green's functions. In particular we derive the Eilenberger equation in the presence of a generic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Roberto Raimondi , Cosimo Gorini , Peter Schwab , Michael Dzierzawa

The master equation describing non-equilibrium one-dimensional problems like diffusion limited reactions or critical dynamics of classical spin systems can be written as a Schr\"odinger equation in which the wave function is the probability…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 Francisco C. Alcaraz , Michel Droz , Malte Henkel , Vladimir Rittenberg

A nonequilibrium Green's functions approach to spin-Hall effect is developed in a diffusive two-dimensional electron system with Rashba spin-orbit interaction. In the presence of long-range impurities, the coupled quantum kinetic equations…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Y. Liu , X. L. Lei

We present the generalization of the two-dimensional quantum scattering formalism to systems with Rashba spin-orbit coupling. Using symmetry considerations, we show that the differential scattering cross section depends on the spin state of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-07-26 Andras Palyi , Jozsef Cserti

We study spin dynamics in a two-dimensional electron gas with a pure gauge non-Abelian spin-orbit field, for which systems with balanced Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit couplings, and the (110)-axis grown GaAs quantum wells are typical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-20 I. V. Tokatly , E. Ya. Sherman

Spin currents in a two dimensional electron gas with Rashba-type spin orbit coupling are derived from a spin connection. Using a functional integral method, we recover the result derived by Sinova {\em et al.}$[ \mathrm{Phys.Rev. Lett. 92,…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Rebei O. Heinonen

We develop the kinetic theory of the flux-carrying Brownian motion recently introduced in the context of open quantum systems. This model constitutes an effective description of two-dimensional dissipative particles violating both…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-07-27 Antonio A. Valido

We discuss the transport properties of a disordered two-dimensional electron gas with strong Rashba spin-orbit coupling. We show that in the high-density regime where the Fermi energy overcomes the energy associated with spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-28 Valentina Brosco , Lara Benfatto , Emmanuele Cappelluti , Claudio Grimaldi

In a two-dimensional electron gas as realized by a semiconductor quantum well, the presence of spin-orbit coupling of both the Rashba and Dresselhaus type leads to anisotropic dispersion relations and Fermi contours. We study the effect of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 John Schliemann , Daniel Loss