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The generation of spin current and spin polarization in 2DEG Rashba system is considered, in which the spin-orbital coupling (SOC) is modulated by an ac gate voltage. By using non-Abelian gauge field method, we show the presence of an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-18 Cong Son Ho , Mansoor B. A. Jalil , Seng Ghee Tan

Indium arsenide (InAs) nanowires (NWs) are a promising platform to fabricate quantum electronic devices, among others they have strong spin-orbit interaction (SOI). The controlled tuning of the SOI is desired in spin based quantum devices.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-03 Zoltán Scherübl , Gergő Fülöp , Morten Hannibal Madsen , Jesper Nygård , Szabolcs Csonka

We evaluate the transport coefficients of a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field and of the spin-orbit interaction (SOI) described only by the Rashba term. The SOI mixes the spin-up and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 X. F. Wang , P. Vasilopoulos

We study the effects of spin-orbit interaction (SOI) on the current-induced motion of a magnetic (Bloch) domain wall in ultrathin ferromagnetic nanowires. The conspiracy of spin relaxation and SOI is shown to generate a novel strong…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Martin Stier , Reinhold Egger , Michael Thorwart

Understanding the flow of spins in magnetic layered structures has enabled an increase in data storage density in hard drives over the past decade of more than two orders of magnitude1. Following this remarkable success, the field of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-20 C. H. L. Quay , T. L. Hughes , J. A. Sulpizio , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. Baldwin , K. W. West , D. Goldhaber-Gordon , R. de Picciotto

We investigate two closely related subjects: (i) existence of a pure persistent spin current in semiconducting mesoscopic device with a spin-orbit interaction's (SOI), and (ii) the definition of the spin current in the presence of SOI.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Qing-feng Sun , X. C. Xie , Jian Wang

We report on an experimental study of the spin-orbit interaction (SOI) in an epitaxially grown free-standing InAs nanosheet in a dual-gate field-effect device. Gate-transfer characteristic measurements show that independent tunings of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-22 Furong Fan , Yuanjie Chen , Dong Pan , Jianhua Zhao , H. Q. Xu

The band structure of two-dimensional artificial superlattices in the presence of (Rashba-type) spin-orbit interaction (SOI) is presented. The position and shape of the energy bands in these spintronic crystals depend on the geometry as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 Peter Foldi , Viktor Szaszko-Bogar , F. M. Peeters

We present calculations of the conductivity tensor \sigma of a 2D-system with the Rashba spin-orbit interaction (SOI) in an orthogonal magnetic field, with allowance for electron elastic scattering by a Gaussian \delta-correlated random…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. G. Novokshonov , A. G. Groshev

We propose a spin current diode which can work even in a small applied bias condition (the linear-response regime). The prototypal device consists of a hornlike electron waveguide with Rashba spin-orbit interaction, which is connected to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. Zhai , K. Chang , H. Q. Xu

Spin-orbit interaction (SOI) plays a key role in creating Majorana zero modes in semiconductor nanowires proximity coupled to a superconductor. We track the evolution of the induced superconducting gap in InSb nanowires coupled to a NbTiN…

The electron transmission $T$ is evaluated through waveguides, in which the strength of the spin-orbit interaction(SOI) $\alpha$ is varied periodically, using the transfer-matrix technique. It is shown that $T$ exhibits a {\it…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 X. F. Wang , P. Vasilopoulos

We introduce the concept of bond spin current, which describes the spin transport between two sites of the lattice model of a multiterminal spin-orbit (SO) coupled semiconductor nanostructure, and express it in terms of the spin-dependent…

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

We study the implications of spin-orbit interaction (SOI) for two-qubit gates (TQGs) in semiconductor spin qubit platforms. SOI renders the exchange interaction governing qubit pairs anisotropic, posing a serious challenge for conventional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-11 Jiaan Qi , Zhi-Hai Liu , H. Q. 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

The generation of spin current and spin polarization in a 2DEG structure is studied in the presence of Dresselhaus and Rashba spin-orbit couplings (SOC), the strength of the latter being modulated in time by an ac gate voltage. By means of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-11 Cong Son Ho , Mansoor B. A. Jalil , Seng Ghee Tan

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

The spin currents generated by spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in the nonmagnetic metal layer or at the interface with broken inversion symmetry are of particular interest and importance. Here, we have explored the spin current generation…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-03-02 Q. B. Liu , K. K. Meng , S. Q. Zheng , Y. C. Wu , J. Miao , X. G. Xu , Y. Jiang

We predict that in a narrow gap III-V semiconductor quantum well or a wire an observable spin current can be generated with a time dependent gate to modify the Rashba spin-orbit coupling constant. Methods to rectify the so generated AC…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. G. Mal'shukov , C. S. Tang , C. S. Chu , K. A. Chao

We study the spin dynamics in a high-mobility two dimensional electron gas (2DEG) with generic spin-orbit interactions (SOIs). We derive a set of spin dynamic equations which capture the purely exponential to the damped oscillatory spin…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-27 Xin Liu , Xiong-Jun Liu , Jairo Sinova