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We demonstrate that flow of longitudinal unpolarized current through a ballistic two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit coupling will induce nonequilibrium spin accumulation which has opposite sign for the two lateral edges and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Branislav K. Nikolic , Satofumi Souma , Liviu P. Zarbo , Jairo Sinova

In a two dimensional electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit coupling, the external electric field may cause a spin Hall current in the direction perpendicular to the electric field. This effect was called the intrinsic spin Hall effect. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Xiaohua Ma , Liangbin Hu , Ruibao Tao , Shun-Qing Shen

We have investigated the complex two-dimensional electron system with unequal Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interactions in the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field. The spin polarizations are obtained in a wide range of magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-06 Degang Zhang , C. S. Ting

We investigate the influence of a perpendicular magnetic field on the spectral and spin properties of a ballistic quasi-one-dimensional electron system with Rashba effect. The magnetic field strongly alters the spin-orbit induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Stefan Debald , Bernhard Kramer

We study transport properties of a two-dimensional electron system with Rashba spin-orbit coupling in a perpendicular magnetic field. The spin orbit coupling competes with Zeeman splitting to introduce additional degeneracies between…

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

The quantum spin Hall effect has been predicted theoretically and observed experimentally in InAs/GaSb quantum wells as a result of inverted band structures, for which electron bands in InAs layers are below heavy hole bands in GaSb layers…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-03 Lun-Hui Hu , Chao-Xing Liu , Dong-Hui Xu , Fu-Chun Zhang , Yi Zhou

The intrinsic spin-Hall effect on spin accumulation and electric conductance in a diffusive regime of a 2D electron gas has been studied for a 2D strip of a finite width. It is shown that the spin polarization near the flanks of the strip,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. G. Mal'shukov , L. Y. Wang , C. S. Chu , K. A. Chao

A nonequilibrium Green's function approach is employed to investigate the spin-Hall effect in diffusive two-dimensional electron systems with Rashba spin-orbit interaction. Considering a long-range electron-impurity scattering potential in…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Y. Liu , X. L. Lei

Here, we report a novel AuSb 2D superstructure on Au(111) that shows agreements and discrepancies to the expected electronic features of the ideal 2D surface alloys with $\sqrt{3}\times\sqrt{3}$ periodicity. Using spin- and angle-resolved…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-10-07 Jinbang Hu , Xiansi Wang , Anna Cecilie Åsland , Justin Wells

In a two-dimensional electron gas as realized by a semiconductor quantum well, the presence of spin-orbit coupling of both the Rashba and Dresselhaus type leads to anisotropic dispersion relations and Fermi contours. We study the effect of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 John Schliemann , Daniel Loss

Quasi--one dimensional edge channels are formed at the boundary of a two-dimensional electron system subject to a strong perpendicular magnetic field. We consider the effect of Rashba spin--orbit coupling, induced by structural inversion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Marco G. Pala , Michele Governale , Ulrich Zülicke , Giuseppe Iannaccone

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

Large Rashba effect efficiently tuned by an external electric field is highly desired for spintronic devices. Using first-principles calculations, we demonstrate that large Rashba splitting is locked at conduction band minimum in…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-09-10 Yan Song , Dong Zhang , Ben Xu , Kai Chang , Ce-Wen Nan

Two-dimensional electron systems with spin-orbit coupling in the proximity of a superconductor and a magnetic insulator have recently been considered as promising candidates to realize topological superconducting phases. Here we discuss…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Teemu Ojanen , Takuya Kitagawa

We measure simultaneously the in-plane electron g-factor and spin relaxation rate in a series of undoped inversion-asymmetric (001)-oriented GaAs/AlGaAs quantum wells by spin-quantum beat spectroscopy. In combination the two quantities…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-11 P. S. Eldridge , J. Hübner , S. Oertel , R. T. Harley , M. Henini , M. Oestreich

We discuss problem of Rashba field in bulk GaN and in GaN/AlGaN two-dimensional electron gas, basing on results of X-band microwave resonance experiments. We point at large difference in spin-orbit coupling between bulk material and…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-11-14 A. Wolos , Z. Wilamowski , C. Skierbiszewski , A. Drabinska , B. Lucznik , I. Grzegory , S. Porowski

We investigate theoretically the efficiency of the Rashba effect, i.e. the spin splitting resulting from an electric field. This is the mechanism behind the Datta-Das spin transistor. In the research efforts so far the carriers have usually…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 D. M. Gvozdic , U. Ekenberg

We present quantitative measurements and calculations of the spin-orbit induced zero-magnetic-field spin-splitting in two-dimensional (2D) hole systems in modulation-doped GaAs (311)A quantum wells. The results show that the splitting is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. J. Papadakis , E. P. De Poortere , M. Shayegan , R. Winkler

Hall effect of two-dimensional holes that are spin-polarized by a strong parallel magnetic field was explored with a small tilt angle. The Hall resistivity increases nonlinearly with the magnetic field and exhibits negative corrections. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-23 Hwayong Noh , S. Lee , S. H. Chun , H. C. Kim , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

The spin Hall effect in two dimensional hole systems is studied by using the four-terminal Landauer-B\"{u}ttiker formula with the help of Green functions. The spin Hall effect exists even when there are {\em not} any correlations between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. W. Wu , J. Zhou