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We show that a two-dimensional spin-orbit-coupled system in the presence of a charge/spin-density wave with a wave-vector perpendicular to an applied electric field supports bulk manifestations of the direct/inverse spin-Hall effect. We…

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5$d$ transition metal oxides host a variety of exotic phases due to the comparable strength of Coulomb repulsion and spin-orbit coupling. Herein, by pursuing density-functional studies on a delta-doped quasi-two-dimensional iridate…

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Electric response of spin polarization in two-dimensional electron gas with structural inversion asymmetry subjected to a magnetic field was studied by means of the linear and non-linear theory and numerical simulation with the disorder…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-09-05 Yun-Juan Bao , Shun-Qing Shen

The ac conductance of a finite tubular two-dimensional electron gas is studied in the presence of the Rashba spin-orbit interaction. When the tube is coupled to two reservoirs, that interaction splits the steps in the dc current,…

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The Dirac equation is used to describe oblique spin-conserving and spin-flip reflections of relativistic electrons from a one-dimensional potential barrier in a vacuum. When an electron hits the barrier from an oblique direction, its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-03-28 Wlodek Zawadzki , Pawel Pfeffer

Spin-orbit interaction established itself as a major role player for emergent phenomena in modern condensed matter including a topological insulator, spin liquid and spin-dependent transports. However, its function is rather limited to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-02-16 Hiroki Nakai , Chisa Hotta

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

Universal properties of spin-Hall effect in ballistic 2D electron systems are addressed. The net spin polarization across the edge of the conductor is second order, ~\lambda^2, in spin-orbit coupling constant independent of the form of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 V. A. Zyuzin , P. G. Silvestrov , E. G. Mishchenko

We demonstrate theoretically that a coherent manipulation of electron spins in low-dimensional semiconductor structures with spin-orbit coupling by infrared radiation is possible. The proposed approach is based on using a dipole force…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-28 E. Ya. Sherman , J. G. Muga , V. K. Dugaev , A. Ruschhaupt

We investigate spin transport by thermally excited spin waves in an antiferromagnetic insulator. Starting from a stochastic Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert phenomenology, we obtain the out-of-equilibrium spin-wave properties. In linear response to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-05 Scott A. Bender , Hans Skarsvåg , Arne Brataas , Rembert A. Duine

The anomalous spin transport coefficients of gapped Dirac electrons are studied with application to a quasi-two-dimensional organic conductor $\alpha$-(BETS)$_2$I$_3$ in mind. In the presence of a gap induced by spin-orbit interaction, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-04 Masao Ogata , Soshun Ozaki , Hiroyasu Matsuura

The magnetoresistance of a low carrier density, disordered GaAs based two-dimensional (2D) electron gas has been measured in parallel magnetic fields up to 32 T. The feature in the resistance associated with the complete spin polarization…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-09 B. A. Piot , D. K. Maude , U. Gennser , A. Cavanna , D. Mailly

We present an exact, analytic solution of the spin dependent quantum transport problem with spin-orbit interaction in a one-dimensional mesoscopic ring with one input and two output leads. We demonstrate that for appropriate parameters…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-01-24 Orsolya Kalman , Peter Foldi , Mihaly G. Benedict , F. M. Peeters

This work elucidates the novel behavior found in a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) under a tilted magnetic field in which the field's angle becomes the dominant factor in tuning the spin-splitting rather than the strength of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-01 Rayda Gammag , Cristine Villagonzalo

The absorption of bulk acoustic phonons in a two-dimensional (2D) GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructure is studied (in the clean limit) where the 2D electron-gas (2DEG), being in an odd-integer quantum-Hall state, is in fact a spin dielectric. Of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Dickmann

The Rashba Hamiltonian describes the splitting of the conduction band as a result of spin-orbit coupling in the presence of an asymmetric confinement potential and is commonly used to model the electronic structure of confined narrow-gap…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jun-ichiro Inoue , Gerrit E. W. Bauer , Laurens W. Molenkamp

We study the spin polarization induced by a current flow in clean two dimensional electron gases with Rashba spin-orbit coupling. This geometric effect originates from special properties of the electron's scattering at the edges of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Reynoso , Gonzalo Usaj , C. A. Balseiro

We report measurements of the spin susceptibility in dilute (rs up to 10) AlAs two-dimensional (2D) electrons occupying a single conduction-band valley with an anisotropic in-plane Fermi contour, characterized by longitudinal and transverse…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 T. Gokmen , Medini Padmanabhan , E. Tutuc , M. Shayegan , S. De Palo , S. Moroni , Gaetano Senatore

We consider the possibility to extract spins that are generated by an electric current in a two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba-Dresselhaus spin-orbit interaction (R2DEG) in the Hall geometry. To this end, we discuss boundary…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-11-28 I. Adagideli , M. Scheid , M. Wimmer , G. E. W. Bauer , K. Richter

We propose and formulate an interaction induced staggered spin-orbit order as a new emergent phase of two-dimensional Fermi gases. We show that when some form of inherent spin-splitting via Rashba-type spin-orbit coupling renders two…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-01-30 Tanmoy Das