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The electronic properties of the novel two dimensional (2D) material silicene are strongly influenced by the application of a perpendicular electric field $E_z$ and of an exchange field $M$ due to adatoms positioned on the surface or a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-12 B. Van Duppen , P. Vasilopoulos , F. M. Peeters

We study the scattering of an electron in a definite state of spin at an interface of an hybrid system with a Rashba spin-orbit coupling on one side. Out of the normal incidence the double refraction phenomenon appears, with one or two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Marigliano Ramaglia , V. Cataudella , G. De Filippis , C. A. Perroni , F. Ventriglia

In systems with broken inversion symmetry spin-orbit coupling (SOC) yields a Rashba-type spin splitting of electronic states, manifested in a k-dependent splitting of the bands. While most research had previously focused on 2D electron…

We study the dielectric properties of graphene in the presence of Rashba and intrinsic spin-orbit interactions in their most general form, i.e., for arbitrary frequency, wave vector, doping, and spin-orbit coupling (SOC) parameters. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-26 Andreas Scholz , Tobias Stauber , John Schliemann

Rashba spin splitting in two-dimensional (2D) semiconductor systems is generally calculated in a ${\bf k} \cdot {\bf p}$ Luttinger-Kohn approach where the spin splitting due to asymmetry emerges naturally from the bulk band structure. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 L. W. van Heeringen , A. McCollam , G. A. de Wijs , A. Fasolino

We calculate the Coulomb scattering amplitude for two electrons injected with opposite momenta in an interacting 2DEG. We include the effect of the Fermi liquid background by solving the 2D Bethe-Salpeter equation for the two-particle Green…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. S. Saraga , B. L. Altshuler , Daniel Loss , R. M. Westervelt

The effects of Rashba interaction and electromagnetic field on the edge states of a two-dimensional topological insulator are investigated in a non-perturbative way. We show that the electron dynamics is equivalent to a problem of massless…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-01 Fabrizio Dolcini

The problem of scattering of the two-dimensional electron gas on the lateral one-dimensional superlattice both having different strengths of Rashba spin-orbit coupling is investigated. The scattering is considered for all the electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 D. V. Khomitsky

The pseudo-magnetic field generated by mechanical strain in graphene can have dramatic consequences on the behavior of electrons and holes. Here we show that pseudo-magnetic field fluctuations present in crumpled graphene can induce…

We study the effect of sublattice symmetry breaking on the electronic, magnetic and transport properties of two dimensional graphene as well as zigzag terminated one and zero dimensional graphene nanostructures. The systems are described…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 D. Soriano , J. Fernández-Rossier

We study the local density of states (LDOS) of two-dimensional electrons in the presence of spin-orbit (SO) coupling. Although SO coupling has no effect on the average density of states, it manifests itself in the correlations of the LDOS.…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 V. M. Apalkov , M. E. Raikh , B. Shapiro

Electrons most often organize into Fermi-liquid states in which electron-electron interactions play an inessential role. A well known exception is the case of one-dimensional (1D) electron systems (1DES). In 1D the electron Fermi-surface…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-01-09 Fan Zhang , Hongki Min , Marco Polini , A. H. MacDonald

The interference of the directly emitted photoelectron wave and the wave scattered coherently by neighboring atoms gives holographic fringes in the photoelectron emission intensity $I(\hat{\bf R})$. In the electron emission holography…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 Eddy Timmermans , G. T. Trammell , J. P. Hannon

We present theoretical aspects of spin polarized two dimensional electron gas (SP2DEG) which can be achieved in doped semimagnetic quantum wells. This original model system has been recently studied by magneto Raman scattering experiments…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. Perez

We propose an experimental scheme to study spin-orbit coupling effects in a of two-dimensional (2D) Fermi atomic gas cloud by coupling its internal electronic states (pseudospins) to radiation in a delta configuration. The induced…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Xiong-Jun Liu , Mario F. Borunda , Xin Liu , Jairo Sinova

Interaction between electrons and phonons in solids is a key effect defining physical properties of materials such as electrical and thermal conductivity. In transitional metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) the electron-phonon coupling results in…

We study screening properties of the two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit coupling. Calculating the dielectric function within the random phase approximation, we describe the new features of screening induced by spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Pletyukhov , V. Gritsev

Using the time-dependent-local-density-approximation (TDLDA) within a self-consistent linear response theory, we calculate the elementary excitation energies and the associated inelastic light-scattering spectra of a strongly coupled…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 P. I. Tamborenea , S. Das Sarma

We have studied experimentally and theoretically the influence of electron-electron collisions on the propagation of electron beams in a two-dimensional electron gas for excess injection energies ranging from zero up to the Fermi energy. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 H. Predel , H. Buhmann , L. W. Molenkamp , R. N. Gurzhi , A. N. Kalinenko , A. I. Kopeliovich , A. V. Yanovsky

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…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-22 Talieh S. Ghiasi , Alexey A. Kaverzin , Patrick J. Blah , Bart J. van Wees