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We study the scattering of an electron in a definite state of spin at an interface of an hybrid system with a Rashba spin-orbit coupling on one side. Out of the normal incidence the double refraction phenomenon appears, with one or two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Marigliano Ramaglia , V. Cataudella , G. De Filippis , C. A. Perroni , F. Ventriglia

Cosine-shaped bands that occur in DFT-based electronic band structures for MgB2 are further analyzed with calculations along reciprocal directions parallel to the high symmetry G-A direction at regular intervals along G-M. Band degeneracies…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-03-24 Jose A. Alarco , Ian D. R. Mackinnon

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

Two-dimensional hole gases (2DHGs) have strong intrinsic spin-orbit coupling and could be used to build spin filters by utilising transverse magnetic focusing (TMF). However, with an increase in the spin degree of freedom, holes demonstrate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-27 Yik K. Lee , Jackson S. Smith , Hong Liu , Dimitrie Culcer , Oleg P. Sushkov , Alexander R. Hamilton , Jared H. Cole

We demonstrate experimentally and theoretically that two-dimensional (2D) heavy hole systems in single heterostructures exhibit a \emph{decrease} in spin-orbit interaction-induced spin splitting with an increase in perpendicular electric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 B. Habib , E. Tutuc , S. Melinte , M. Shayegan , D. Wasserman , S. A. Lyon , R. Winkler

We report on the observation of quantum transport and interference in a graphene device that is attached with a pair of split gates to form an electrostatically-defined quantum point contact (QPC). In the low magnetic field regime, the…

We study the electronic band structure of monolayer graphene when Rashba spin-orbit coupling is present. We show that if the Rashba spin-orbit coupling is stronger than the intrinsic spin-orbit coupling, the low energy bands undergo…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-05 Peter Rakyta , Andor Kormanyos , Jozsef Cserti

A detailed theory of a phase diagram of a 2D surface superconductor in a parallel magnetic field is presented. A spin-orbital interaction of the Rashba type is known to produce at a high magnetic field $h$ (and in the absence of impurities)…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 Ol'ga Dimitrova , M. V. Feigel'man

Electronic Fabry-P{\'e}rot interferometry is a powerful method to probe quasiparticle charge and anyonic braiding statistics in the fractional quantum Hall regime. We extend this technique to the hierarchy $\nu = 2/5$ fractional quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-04-26 James Nakamura , Shuang Liang , Geoffrey C. Gardner , Michael J. Manfra

We demonstrate that a p-n junction created electrically in HgTe quantum wells with inverted band-structure exhibits interesting intraband and interband tunneling processes. We find a perfect intraband transmission for electrons injected…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 L. B. Zhang , Kai Chang , X. C. Xie , H. Buhmann , L. W. Molenkamp

Superconductivity in alkali-intercalated iron selenide, with T_c's of 30K and above, may have a different origin than that of the other Fe-based superconductors, since it appears that the Fermi surface does not have any holelike sheets…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-10-02 A. Kreisel , Y. Wang , T. A. Maier , P. J. Hirschfeld , D. J. Scalapino

Spin-orbit interaction (SOI) in low-dimensional systems results in the fascinating property of spin-momentum locking. In a Rashba system the inversion symmetry normal to the plane of a two-dimensional (2D) electron gas is broken, generating…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-02-22 Bartosz Slomski , Gabriel Landolt , Gustav Bihlmayer , Jürg Osterwalder , J. Hugo Dil

We present a bunch of novel phenomena stemming from the pair spin-orbit interaction (PSOI), which does not rely on structure inversion asymmetry but instead arises from Coulomb fields of interacting electrons in materials with a strong…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-01-03 Yasha Gindikin , Alex Kamenev

We theoretically study finite-momentum superconductivity in two-dimensional (2D) altermagnets with a Rashba-type spin-orbit coupling (RSOC). We show the phase diagrams obtained by solving a linearized gap equation, considering two…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-05-26 Kohei Mukasa , Yusuke Masaki

Three-dimensional topological insulator (3D TI) nanowires display various interesting magnetotransport properties that can be attributed to their spin-momentum-locked surface states such as quasiballistic transport and Aharonov-Bohm…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-07 Javier Osca , Kristof Moors , Bart Sorée , Llorenç Serra

Motivated by recent quantum oscillation observations in the underdoped high-temperature superconductors, the effect of the short-range antiferromagnetic correlations on the electronic properties of the short-ranged d-density wave state is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-03-02 Takao Morinari

We investigate the electronic structure of a two-dimensional electron gas created at the surface of the multi-valley semimetal 1T-PtSe$_2$. Using angle-resolved photoemission and first-principles-based surface space charge calculations, we…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-02-26 O. J. Clark , F. Mazzola , J. Feng , V. Sunko , I. Marković , L. Bawden , T. K. Kim , P. D. C. King , M. S. Bahramy

Spin-Hall effect in ballistic 2D electron gas with Rashba-type spin-orbit coupling and smooth edge confinement is studied. We predict that the interplay of semiclassical electron motion and quantum dynamics of spins leads to several…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-05-15 P. G. Silvestrov , V. A. Zyuzin , E. G. Mishchenko

Magneto-transport properties of a two-dimensional electron gas in a chain of planar quantum rings are investigated under the Rashba spin-orbit interaction and a transverse homogeneous magnetic field. A modulation potential function models…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-30 Armen Harutyunyan

We theoretically consider spin pumping in a junction between a ferromagnetic insulator (FI) and a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in which the Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interactions coexist. Using second-order perturbation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-10 M. Yama , M. Tatsuno , T. Kato , M. Matsuo