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We consider DC supercurrents in SNS junctions. Spin-orbit coupling in combination with Zeeman fields can induce an effective vector potential in the normal conductor. As a consequence, an out-of-plane spin-density varying along the…

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The anomalous Hall and Nernst effects are considered theoretically within Matsubara-Green's function formalism. The effective Hamiltonian of a magnetized two-dimensional electron gas with cubic Rashba spin-orbit interaction may describe…

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The Edelstein effect is a promising mechanism for generating spin and orbital polarization from charge currents in systems without inversion symmetry. In ferroelectric materials, such as Germanium Telluride (GeTe), the combination of bulk…

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We investigate the effect of strong spin-orbit interaction on the electronic transport through non-magnetic impurities in one-dimensional systems. When a perpendicular magnetic field is applied, the electron spin polarization becomes…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 R. G. Pereira , E. Miranda

The proximity of a transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) to graphene imprints a rich spin texture in graphene and complements its high quality charge/spin transport by inducing spin-orbit coupling (SOC). Rashba and valley-Zeeman SOCs are…

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The presence of spin-orbit coupling affects the spontaneously flowing persistent currents in mesoscopic conducting rings. Here we analyze their dependence on magnetic flux with emphasis on identifying possibilities to prove the presence and…

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We study effects of a gate-controlled Rashba spin-orbit coupling to quantum spin-Hall edge states in HgTe quantum wells. A uniform Rashba coupling can be employed in tuning the spin orientation of the edge states while preserving the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-21 Jukka I. Väyrynen , Teemu Ojanen

Magnetization switching using spin-orbit torque offers a promising route to developing non-volatile memory technologies. The prerequisite, however, is the charge-to-spin current conversion, which has been achieved traditionally by…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-04-07 Saikat Das , Satoshi Sugimoto , Varun Kumar Kushwaha , Yusuke Kozuka , Shinya Kasai

In this work, we study the spin Hall effect and Rashba-Edelstein effect of a 2D Weyl fermion system in the clean limit using the Kubo formalism. Spin transport is solely due to the spin-torque current in this strongly spin-orbit coupled…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-15 T. Tzen Ong , Naoto Nagaosa

The Rashba spin-orbit coupling arising from structure inversion asymmetry couples spin and momentum degrees of freedom providing a suitable (and very intensively investigated) environment for spintronic effects and devices. Here we show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 Goetz Seibold , Sergio Caprara , Marco Grilli , Roberto Raimondi

We calculate spin Hall conductivities in the two dimensional electron systems with Rashba spin-orbit interaction. The salient feature is that, apart from the usual spin-Hall conductivity \sigma^z_{xy} which corresponds to the induction of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ankur Sensharma , Sudhansu S. Mandal

Spintronic logic devices require efficient spin-charge interconversion: converting charge current to spin current and spin current to charge current. In spin-orbit materials that are regarded as the most promising candidate for spintronic…

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Hybrid structures of quantum spin-Hall insulators (QSHIs) and superconductors (Ss) present a unique opportunity to access dissipationless topological states of matter, which, however, is frequently hindered by the lack of control over the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-13 G. Tkachov

We present a quantum Boltzmann equation analysis of the spin-Hall effect in a diffusive Rashba two-dimensional electron system. Within the framework of the self-consistent Born approximation, we consider the roles of disorder-induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Y. Liu , X. L. Lei , Norman J. M. Horing

Electron spins in a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) can be manipulated by spin-orbit (SO) fields originating from either Rashba or Dresselhaus interactions with independent isotropic characteristics. Together, though, they produce…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-26 Henri Saarikoski , Andrés Reynoso , José Pablo Baltanás , Diego Frustaglia , Junsaku Nitta

The effect of Rashba spin-orbit (SO) interaction on the hole states in a quantum dot is studied in the presence of an external magnetic field. We demonstrate here that the Rashba SO coupling has a profound effect on the energy spectrum of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-27 Aram Manaselyan , Tapash Chakraborty

Altermagnets have zero net magnetization yet feature spin-split bands. Here, we investigate how slow lattice vibrations (phonons) influence both the intrinsic and externally induced spin polarizations in two-dimensional $d$-wave…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-04 Mohsen Yarmohammadi , Jacob Linder , James K. Freericks

The well-known experimentally observed \textit{sp}-derived Au(111) Shockley surface states with Rashba spin splitting are perfectly fit by an effective tight-binding model, considering a two-dimensional hexagonal lattice with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-11-15 Ming-Hao Liu , Son-Hsien Chen , Ching-Ray Chang

We theoretically investigate spin transport in a junction system composed of a ferromagnetic insulator (FI) and a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) with both Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interactions. We briefly present our findings…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-12 Masaki Yama , Mamoru Matsuo , Takeo Kato