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The Edelstein effect is a promising mechanism for generating spin and orbital polarization from charge currents in systems without inversion symmetry. In ferroelectric materials, such as Germanium Telluride (GeTe), the combination of bulk…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-08 Sergio Leiva-Montecinos , Libor Vojáček , Jing Li , Mairbek Chshiev , Laurent Vila , Ingrid Mertig , Annika Johansson

We study spin-resolved transport in a ballistic quantum dot with Rashba spin-orbit coupling, focusing on charge-to-spin conversion and spin Hall effect. In the regime where the dot size is comparable to the Fermi wavelength, we identify a…

We theoretically investigate spin transport in a junction system composed of a ferromagnetic insulator (FI) and a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) with both Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interactions. We briefly present our findings…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-12 Masaki Yama , Mamoru Matsuo , Takeo Kato

The spin phenomena observed at a clean metall-insulator interface are typically reduced to Rashba-Edelstein effect, that leads to spin accumulation over a few monolayers. We demonstrate that the presence of interface disorder significantly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-08 A. V. Shumilin , V. V. Kabanov

We theoretically consider a junction composed of a ferromagnetic insulator (FI) and a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) with Rashba- and Dresselhaus-type spin-orbit interactions. Using the Boltzmann equation, we calculate an electric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-04 Kaiji Hosokawa , Masaki Yama , Mamoru Matsuo , Takeo Kato

Altermagnets have zero net magnetization yet feature spin-split bands. Here, we investigate how slow lattice vibrations (phonons) influence both the intrinsic and externally induced spin polarizations in two-dimensional $d$-wave…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-04 Mohsen Yarmohammadi , Jacob Linder , James K. Freericks

We study theoretically the current-induced spin polarization effect in a two-terminal mesoscopic structure which is composed of a semiconductor two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) bar with Rashba spin-orbit (SO) interaction and two attached…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 Yongjin Jiang

Efficient manipulation of magnetic order with electric current pulses is desirable for achieving fast spintronic devices. The Rashba-Edelstein effect, wherein a spin polarization is electrically induced in noncentrosymmetric systems,…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-01 Leandro Salemi , Marco Berritta , Ashis K. Nandy , Peter M. Oppeneer

The Rashba-Edelstein effect (REE), which generates interfacial spin polarization and subsequent spin current, is a compelling spin-charge conversion mechanism for spintronics applications, since it is not limited by the elemental spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-13 Jing Li , Andrew H. Comstock , Aeron McConnell , Dali Sun , Xiaoshan Xu

Generating and controlling spin current (SC) are of central interest in spin physics and applications. To date, the spin-orbit interaction (SOI) is an established pathway to generate SC through the spin-charge current conversion. We predict…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-03-12 Ruixiang Fei , Shuaiqin Yu , Yan Lu , Linghan Zhu , Li Yang

Strontium titanate (SrTiO$_3$) two-dimensional electron gases (2DEGs) have broken spatial inversion symmetry and possess a finite Rashba spin-orbit coupling. This enables the interconversion of charge and spin currents through the direct…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-06 Gabriel Lazrak , Börge Göbel , Agnès Barthélémy , Ingrid Mertig , Annika Johansson , Manuel Bibes

We examine the bound-state and free-state contributions to the density of states in a three-dimensional electron gas with a two-dimensional interface with Rashba spin-orbit coupling. Confinement of electrons to the interface is achieved…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 A. C. Zulkoskey , R. Dick , K. Tanaka

We consider the magnetic response of a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) with both Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling to a microwave excitation. We generalize the results of [A. Shnirman and I. Martin, Europhys. Lett. 78, 27001…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-01-22 Mikhail Pletyukhov , Alexander Shnirman

We derive the Bloch equations for the spin dynamics of a two-dimensional electron gas in the presence of spin-orbit coupling. For the latter we consider both the intrinsic mechanisms of structure inversion asymmetry (Rashba) and bulk…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 Cosimo Gorini , Amin Maleki , Ka Shen , Ilya V. Tokatly , Giovanni Vignale , Roberto Raimondi

Recent experimental work on Au thin films demonstrated signs of charge current-induced spin polarization through open circuit voltage measurements. In this study, we are investigating the underlying mechanism(s) that induces this measured…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-10 Christos Tengeris

We report the observation of a spin-orbit torque (SOT) originating from the surface Rashba-Edelstein effect. We found that the SOT in a prototypical spin-orbitronic system, a Pt/Co bilayer, can be manipulated by molecular self-assembly on…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-04-22 Satoshi Haku , Atsushi Ishikawa , Akira Musha , Hiroyasu Nakayama , Takashi Yamamoto , Kazuya Ando

Spin electromagnetic fields driven by the Rashba spin-orbit interaction, or Rashba-induced spin Berry's phase, in ferromagnetic metals is theoretically studied based on the Keldysh Green's function method. Considering a limit of strong sd…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Noriyuki Nakabayashi , Gen Tatara

We study the effects of Rashba spin-orbit coupling on the spin torque induced by spin waves, which are the plane wave dynamics of magnetization. The spin torque is derived from linear response theory, and we calculate the dynamic spin…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-12-21 Nobuyuki Umetsu , Daisuke Miura , Akimasa Sakuma

Coupling between charge and spin, and magnetoelectric effects more generally, have been an area of great interest for several years, with the sought-after ability to control magnetic degrees of freedom via charge currents serving as an…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-08-21 Geremia Massarelli , Bryce Wu , Arun Paramekanti

We propose that the hybridization between two sets of Rashba bands can lead to an unconventional topology where the two Fermi circles from different bands own in-plane helical spin textures with the same chiralities, and possess group…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-10-04 Rui Song , Ning Hao , Ping Zhang