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The Rashba-Edelstein effect stems from the interaction between the electron's spin and its momentum induced by spin-orbit interaction at an interface or a surface. It was shown that the inverse Rashba-Edelstein effect can be used to convert…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-27 M. B. Jungfleisch , W. Zhang , J. Sklenar , W. Jiang , J. E. Pearson , J. B. Ketterson , A. Hoffmann

When subjected to a linearly polarized terahertz pulse, a mesoscopic ring endowed with spin-orbit interaction (SOI) of the Rashba-Dresselhaus type exhibits nonuniform azimuthal charge and spin distributions. Both types of SOI couplings are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Marian Nita , D. C. Marinescu , Bogdan Ostahie , Andrei Manolescu , Vidar Gudmundsson

Materials with large unidirectional Rashba spin-orbit coupling (SOC), resulting in persistent-spin helix states with small spin-precession length, are critical for advancing spintronics. We demonstrate a design principle achieving it…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-10-22 Sunny Gupta , Manoj N. Mattur , Boris I. Yakobson

We investigate the spin accumulation effect in eccentric semiconductor multichannel rings with Rashba spin-orbit interaction and threaded by a magnetic flux. Due to the finite eccentricity, the spin polarization induced at the borders of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 L. E. Segura , M. J. Sánchez

We report the realization of intrinsic Rashba spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in a two-dimensional photonic crystal composed of staggered-gyromagnetic cylinders in a modified honeycomb lattice. The system exhibits a Mexican-hat-like band…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-11 Yao-Ting Wang , Wenlong Gao

Symmetry formulated by group theory plays an essential role with respect to the laws of nature, from fundamental particles to condensed matter systems. Here, by combining symmetry analysis and tight-binding model calculations, we elucidate…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-11-04 Pengfei Liu , Jiayu Li , Jingzhi Han , Xiangang Wan , Qihang Liu

Using standard quantum network method, we analytically investigate the effect of Rashba spin-orbit coupling (RSOC) and a magnetic field on the spin transport properties of a polygonal quantum ring. Using Landauer-Buttiker formula, we have…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Han-Zhao Tang , Li-Xue Zhai , Man Shen , Jian-Jun Liu

Inversion asymmetry, combined with spin-orbit interaction, leads to Rashba or Dresselhaus effects, or combinations of them that are promising for technologies based on antiferromagnetic spintronics. Since understanding the exact nature of…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-12 Nirmal Ganguli , Avishek Singh , Vivek Kumar , Jayita Chakraborty

The DC charge current, field-induced spin polarization and spin textures are studied in the 1D gated superlattice with both fixed and varying Rashba and Dresselhaus contributions to spin-orbit coupling. It is found that a spin component…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 D. V. Khomitsky

Spin splitting of energy bands can be induced by relativistic spin-orbit interactions in materials without inversion symmetry. Whereas polar space group symmetries permit Rashba (R-1) spin splitting with helical spin textures in momentum…

Converse effect of spin photocurrent and current induced spin polarization are experimentally demonstrated in the same two-dimensional electron gas system with Rashba spin splitting. Their consistency with the strength of the Rashba…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 C. L. Yang , H. T. He , Lu Ding , L. J. Cui , Y. P. Zeng , J. N. Wang , W. K. Ge

We consider a two-dimensional electron gas in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit coupling, and study the effects of magnetic s-wave impurities and long-range non-magnetic disorder on the spin-charge dynamics of the system. We focus on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-10-30 C. Gorini , P. Schwab , M. Dzierzawa , R. Raimondi

We investigate spin- and orbital-to-charge conversion phenomena in nonmagnetic materials with broken inversion symmetry, treating the contributions from the Hall effect and the Rashba-Edelstein effect on an equal footing. We develop a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 Diego Garcia Ovalle , Aurelien Manchon

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

Altermagnets host intrinsically chirality-splitting spin waves, which offer an ideal platform for chirality-based computing with low energy consumption and fast dynamics. However, achieving precise and efficient control over spin-wave…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-29 Wen-Tong Li , Yu-Biao Wu , Lin Zhuang , Jian-Tao Wang , Wu-Ming Liu

The Rashba effect, i.e., the splitting of electronic spin-polarized bands in the momentum space of a crystal with broken inversion symmetry, has enabled the realization of spin-orbitronic devices, in which spins are manipulated by…

The lack of some spatial symmetries in planar devices with Rashba spin-orbit interaction opens the possibility of producing spin polarized electrical currents in absence of external magnetic field or magnetic impurities. We study how the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Leonor Chico , A. Latgé , Luis Brey

Spin-orbit coupling is a manifestation of special relativity. In the reference frame of a moving electron, electric fields transform into magnetic fields, which interact with the electron spin and lift the degeneracy of spin-up and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-09-18 Lorenz Meier , Gian Salis , Ivan Shorubalko , Emilio Gini , Silke Schoen , Klaus Ensslin

We study the spin relaxation torque in nonmagnetic or ferromagnetic metals with nonuniform spin-orbit coupling within the Keldysh Green's function formalism. In non-magnet, the relaxation torque is shown to arise when the spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Kazuhiro Tsutsui , Akihito Takeuchi , Gen Tatara , Shuichi Murakami

Spin splitting underpins a vast range of spin-dependent phenomena. Traditionally, two primary mechanisms generate such splitting: relativistic spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and nonrelativistic magnetic exchange coupling (MEC). Governed by…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-08 Xiao-Jiao Wang , Dongling Liu , Di Zhu , Zheng-Yang Zhuang , Zhongbo Yan