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The coupling between Zeeman spin splitting and Rashba spin-orbit terms has been studied experimentally in a gated InGaAs/InP quantum well structure by means of simultaneous measurements of the weak antilocalization (WAL) effect and beating…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. A. Studenikin , P. T. Coleridge , G. Yu , P. J. Poole

By associating a spin-orbit interaction with a non-Abelian gauge potential, we theoretically present a spin polarization in a quite general form using an effective Yang-Mills field and a usual electromagnetic field. In this gauge invariant…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-18 Akihito Takeuchi , Naoto Nagaosa

Using the non-equilibrium Green\noindent 's function method and the Keldysh formalism, we study the effects of spin-orbit interactions and time-reversal symmetry breaking exchange fields on non-equilibrium quantum transport in graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-19 Nezhat Pournaghavi , Cecilia Holmqvist , Anna Pertsova , Carlo Canali

We derive boundary conditions for the coupled spin-charge diffusion equations at a transmitting interface between two-dimensional electron systems with different strengths of the Rashba spin-orbit (SO) coupling $\alpha$, and an electric…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Yaroslav Tserkovnyak , Bertrand I. Halperin , Alexey A. Kovalev , Arne Brataas

Understanding the mechanism driving magnetization switching in spin-orbit-torque-assisted devices remains a subject of debate. While originally attributed to the spin Hall effect and spin Rashba-Edelstein effect, recent discoveries related…

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

Superconductor--semiconductor hybrid devices are currently attracting much attention, fueled by the fact that strong spin--orbit interaction in combination with induced superconductivity can lead to exotic physics with potential…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-22 Jonas Lidal , Jeroen Danon

The spin-orbit splitting of the electron levels in a two-dimensional quantum dot in a perpendicular magnetic field is studied. It is shown that at the point of an accidental degeneracy of the two lowest levels above the ground state the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Denis V. Bulaev , Daniel Loss

The spin Hall and longitudinal conductivity of a 2D heavy-hole gas with {\it k}-cubic Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interaction is studied in the ac frequency domain. Using Kubo linear-response theory and a recently proposed definition…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Arturo Wong , Francisco Mireles

We present analytical and numerical results for the effect of Rashba spin-orbit coupling on band structure, transport, and interaction effects in quantum wires when the spin precession length is comparable to the wire width. In contrast to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Governale , U. Zuelicke

We develop a semiclassical theory for spin-dependent quantum transport to describe weak (anti)localization in quantum dots with spin-orbit coupling. This allows us to distinguish different types of spin relaxation in systems with chaotic,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Oleg Zaitsev , Diego Frustaglia , Klaus Richter

The interconversion between charge and spin degrees of freedom is of both fundamental and technological relevance in spintronics. While a non-equilibrium spin density and a charge current are related by the well known Rashba-Edelstein…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-17 Marc Vila , Joel E. Moore

We propose an analytic model to study intrinsic spin polarization effect in a ballistic Rashba bar with two semi-infinite leads. The wave functions expanded with plane waves in Rashba bar are required to satisfy boundary conditions at both…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Yao , Z. Yang

We present a formalism to study quantum networks made up by single-channel quantum wires in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit coupling and magnetic field. In particular, linear transport through one-dimensional and two-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dario Bercioux , Michele Governale , Vittorio Cataudella , Vincenzo Marigliano Ramaglia

In this work, we show that a gate electric field, applied in the base of the field-effect devices, leads to inducing spin-orbit interactions (Rashba and linear Dresselhauss) and confines the transport electrons in a two-dimensional electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-03 J. L. Cardoso , H. Hernández-Saldaña

We demonstrate how the term describing interaction between a single two-level atom and two cavity field modes may attain a Rashba form. As an outcome, cavity QED provides a testbed for studies of phenomena reminiscent of the spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-28 Jonas Larson

Non-magnetic materials without inversion symmetry typically exhibit strong Rashba spin-orbit coupling (SOC), enabling the well-known Rashba Edelstein effect where an external electrical current induces transverse spin polarisation. In this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-28 Akash Dey , Ashis K. Nandy , Kush Saha

We study how the Rashba spin-orbit interaction influences unconventional superconductivity in a two dimensional electron gas partially spin-polarized by a magnetic field. Somewhat surprisingly, we find that for all field orientations, only…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-07-01 Ethan Lake , Caleb Webb , D. A. Pesin , O. A. Starykh

Far infrared radiation absorption of a quantum dot with few electrons in an orthogonal magnetic field could monitor the crossover to the fully spin polarized state. A Rashba spin-orbit coupling can tune the energy and the spin density of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 P. Lucignano , B. Jouault , A. Tagliacozzo , B. L. Altshuler

Spin electromagnetic fields driven by the Rashba spin-orbit interaction, or Rashba-induced spin Berry's phase, in ferromagnetic metals is theoretically studied based on the Keldysh Green's function method. Considering a limit of strong sd…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Noriyuki Nakabayashi , Gen Tatara