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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 explore the spin density and charge currents arising on the surface of a topological insulator and in a 2D Rashba metal due to magnetization gradients. For topological insulators a single interconversion coefficient controls the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-01 Panagiotis Kotetes , Hano O. M. Sura , Brian M. Andersen

We investigate the twist angle dependence of spin-orbit coupling (SOC) proximity effects and charge-to-spin conversion (CSC) in graphene/WSe$_2$ heterostructures from first principles. The CSC is shown to strongly depend on the twist angle,…

We report distinct nonanalytic signatures in the spin-orbit entanglement of a 2D electron gas with Rashba interactions at integer values of the filling factor and at certain level crossings. The accompanying sharp changes in the bulk…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-05-16 Rona F. Barbarona , Francis N. C. Paraan

We present the first findings of the spin transistor effect in the Rashba gate-controlled ring embedded in the p-type self-assembled silicon quantum well that is prepared on the n-type Si (100) surface. The coherence and phase sensitivity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 N. T. Bagraev , N. G. Galkin , W. Gehlhoff , L. E. Klyachkin , A. M. Malyarenko , I. A. Shelykh

We consider a two-dimensional electron system subjected to a short-ranged nonmagnetic disorder potential, Coulomb interactions, and Rashba spin-orbit coupling. The path-integral approach incorporated within the Keldysh formalism is used to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-07 Maxim Dzero , Alex Levchenko

At interfaces with inversion symmetry breaking, Rashba effect couples the motion of electrons to their spin; as a result, spin-charge interconversion mechanism can occur. These interconversion mechanisms commonly exploit Rashba spin…

As an alternative to conventional magnetic field, the effective spin-orbit field in transition metals, derived from the Rashba field experienced by itinerant electrons confined in a spatial inversion asymmetric plane through the s-d…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-16 D. Wang

Following a previous work [Shen, Ma, Xie and Zhang, Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 256603 (2004)] on the resonant spin Hall effect, we present detailed calculations of the spin Hall conductance in two-dimensional quantum wells in a strong…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Shun-Qing Shen , Yun-Juan Bao , Michael Ma , X. C. Xie , Fu Chun Zhang

Anomalous and spin Hall effects are investigated theoretically for a magnetic tunnel junction where the applied voltage produces a Rashba spin-or bit coupling within the tunneling barrier layer. The ferromagnetic electrodes are the source…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-16 A. V. Vedyayev , M. S. Titova , N. V. Ryzhanova , M. Ye. Zhuravlev , E. Y. Tsymbal

We study the spin transport theoretically in heterostructures consisting of a ferromagnetic metallic thin film sandwiched between heavy-metal and oxide layers. The spin current in the heavy metal layer is generated via the spin Hall effect,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-30 L. Chotorlishvili , Z. Toklikishvili , X. -G. Wang , V. K. Dugaev , J. Barnas , J. Berakdar

Motivated by recent experiments on all-optical magnetization reversal in conductive ferromagnetic thin films we use nonequilibrium formalism to calculate the effective magnetic field induced in a Rashba ferromagnet by a short laser pulse.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-25 Alireza Qaiumzadeh , Mikhail Titov

In a two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit couplings, there are two spin-split energy surfaces connected with a degenerate point. Both the energy surfaces and the topology of the Fermi surfaces can be varied by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Ming-Che Chang

The broken inversion symmetry at interfaces of complex oxides gives rise to emergent phenomena, including ferromagnetism and Rashba spin-orbit coupling (SOC), which profoundly influence the electronic structure by entangling spin and…

Altermagnets constitute an emerging class of collinear magnets that exhibit zero net magnetization yet host spin-split electronic bands arising from non-relativistic spin-space-group symmetries. Realization of altermagnetism in the…

The spin-orbit -induced spin splitting of energy bands in low symmetry compounds (the Rashba Effect) has a long-standing relevance to spintronic applications and to the fundamental understanding of symmetry breaking in solids, yet the…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-09-01 Carlos Mera Acosta , Elton Ogoshi , Adalberto Fazzio , Gustavo Dalpian , Alex Zunger

Spin-mechanical coupling is vital in diverse fields including spintronics, sensing and quantum transduction. Two-dimensional (2D) magnetic materials provide a unique platform for investigating spin-mechanical coupling, attributed to their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-07 Fan Fei , Yulu Mao , Wuzhang Fang , Wenhao Liu , Jack P. Rollins , Aswin L. N. Kondusamy , Bing Lv , Yuan Ping , Ying Wang , Jun Xiao

The interrelation between spin and charge in semiconductors leads to interesting effects, e.g., the Rashba-type spin-orbit splitting or the exchange enhancement. These properties are proposed to be used in applications such as spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-18 M. Morgenstern , A. Georgi , C. Straßer , C. R. Ast , S. Becker , M. Liebmann

Spin Hall effect due to random Rashba spin-orbit coupling in the two-dimensional honeycomb lattice of carbon atoms (graphene) is considered theoretically. Using the Green function method and diagrammatic technique we show that fluctuations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-26 A. Dyrdal , J. Barnas

We consider the effect of the Rashba spin-orbital interaction and space charge in a ferromagnet-insulator/semiconductor/insulator-ferromagnet junction where the spin current is severely affected by the doping, band structure and charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Wei Wu , Jinbin Li , Yue Yu , S. T. Chui