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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

We have described the electron spin dynamics in the presence of Rashba spin- orbit interaction and disorder using the spin-density matrix method. We showed that in the Born approximation in the scattering amplitude the spin current is zero…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Alexander Khaetskii

In order to model the phase-coherent scattering of electrons in two-dimensional electron gases in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit coupling, a general partial-wave expansion is developed for scattering from a cylindrically symmetric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Jamie D. Walls , Jian Huang , Robert M. Westervelt , Eric J. Heller

In this paper the relativistic quantum dynamics of a spin-1/2 neutral particle with a magnetic moment $\mu$ in the cosmic string spacetime is reexamined by applying the von Neumann theory of self--adjoint extensions. Contrary to previous…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-02-01 Fabiano M. Andrade , Cleverson Filgueiras , Edilberto O. Silva

Spin-charge interconversion is currently the focus of intensive experimental and theoretical research both for its intrinsic interest and for its potential exploitation in the realization of new spintronic functionalities. Spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-04 Amin Maleki , Roberto Raimondi

We study shot noise for spin-polarized currents and entangled electron pairs in a four-probe (beam splitter) geometry with a local Rashba spin-orbit (s-o) interaction in the incoming leads. Within the scattering formalism we find that shot…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Carlos Egues , Guido Burkard , Daniel Loss

We study theoretically the current-induced spin polarization effect in a two-terminal mesoscopic structure which is composed of a semiconductor two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) bar with Rashba spin-orbit (SO) interaction and two attached…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 Yongjin Jiang

We study spin conductance in a ballistic and quasi-ballistic two dimensional electron system with Rasbha spin-orbit coupling. The system has a four-terminal geometry with round corners at the connection to the leads. It is found that by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-08 Gunnar Thorgilsson , Sigurdur I. Erlingsson

An electron within a mesoscopic (quantum-coherent) spintronic structure is described by a single wave function which, in the presence of both charge scattering and spin-orbit coupling, encodes an information about {\em entanglement} of its…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Branislav K. Nikolic

In the review article the influence of the Rashba spin-orbit coupling on the two-dimensional electrons and holes in a strong perpendicular magnetic field is described in Landau gauge using the spinor-type two-component wave functions with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-09-05 S. A. Moskalenko , I. V. Podlesny , E. V. Dumanov , A. A. Kiselyov

We consider a 2D ballistic and quasi-ballistic structures with spin-orbit-related splitting of the electron spectrum. The ballistic region is attached to the leads with a voltage applied between them. We calculate the edge spin density…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Alexander Khaetskii , Eugene Sukhorukov

Current-induced spin polarization (CISP) is rederived in ballistic spin-orbit-coupled electron systems, based on equilibrium statistical mechanics. A simple and useful picture is correspondingly proposed to help understand the CISP and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-10-24 Ming-Hao Liu , Son-Hsien Chen , Ching-Ray Chang

Spin-dependent electron transport in a periodically stubbed quantum wire in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit interaction (SOI) is studied via the nonequilibrium Green's function method combined with the Landauer-Buttiker formalism. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-20 Xianbo Xiao , Zhaoxia Chen , Zhiming Rao , Wenjie Nie , Guanghui Zhou

We obtain explicit expressions for the correlation functions of transmission and reflection coefficients of coherent electronic waves propagating through a disordered quasi-one-dimensional medium with purely elastic diffusive scattering in…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 A. M. S. Macedo

Using response theory, we calculate the charge-current vortex generated by spin pumping at a point-like contact in a system with Rashba spin-orbit coupling. We discuss the spatial profile of the current density for finite temperature and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-01 Junji Fujimoto , Florian Lange , Satoshi Ejima , Tomonori Shirakawa , Holger Fehske , Seiji Yunoki , Sadamichi Maekawa

Using standard quantum network method, we analytically investigate the effect of Rashba spin-orbit coupling (RSOC) and a magnetic field on the spin transport properties of a polygonal quantum ring. Using Landauer-Buttiker formula, we have…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Han-Zhao Tang , Li-Xue Zhai , Man Shen , Jian-Jun Liu

The coupling between the spin degrees of freedom and the orbital angular momentum has a profound effect on the properties of nuclei, atoms and condensed matter systems. Recently, synthetic gauge fields have been realized experimentally in…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-18 X. Y. Yin , S. Gopalakrishnan , D. Blume

In this communication we apply the Landauer method and transfer matrix formalism to the calculation of spin current in magnetic multilayered structures within a ballistic quantum-mechanical regime. The method provides an elegant and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-17 Valentin Fadeev , Andrey Umerski

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 study the spin-dependent electronic transport through a one-dimensional ballistic quantum wire in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit interaction. In particular, we consider the effect of the spin-orbit interaction resulting from the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. E. Birkholz , V. Meden