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Nonequilibrium electronic transport through a quantum dot coupled to ferromagnetic leads (electrodes) is studied theoretically by the nonequilibrium Green function technique. The system is described by the Anderson model with arbitrary…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 R. Swirkowicz , M. Wilczynski , J. Barnas

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

Motivated by emergent phenomena at oxide surfaces and interfaces, particularly those involving transition metal oxides with perovskite crystal structure such as LaTiO3/SrTiO3, we examine the ferromagnetic Kondo lattice model (FKLM) in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-19 Giovany A. Meza , Jose A. Riera

We propose a method to determine the relative strength of Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interaction from transport measurements without the need of fitting parameters. To this end, we make use of the conductance anisotropy in narrow…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-01-22 Matthias Scheid , Makoto Kohda , Yoji Kunihashi , Klaus Richter , Junsaku Nitta

We use a perturbative approach to study the effects of interfacial spin-orbit coupling in magnetic multilayers by treating the two-dimensional Rashba model in a fully three-dimensional description of electron transport near an interface.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-04 Kyoung-Whan Kim , Kyung-Jin Lee , Jairo Sinova , Hyun-Woo Lee , M. D. Stiles

The spin Hall effect in a two-dimensional electron system on honeycomb lattice with both intrinsic and Rashba spin-orbit couplings is studied numerically. Integer quantized spin Hall conductance is obtained at zero Rashba coupling limit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 L. Sheng , D. N. Sheng , C. S. Ting , F. D. M. Haldane

Magnetotunnelling spectroscopy of resonant tunnelling structures provides information on the nature of the two-dimensional electron gas in the well. We describe a model based on nonequilibrium Green's functions that allows for a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Goran Isić , Dragan Indjin , Vitomir Milanović , Jelena Radovanović , Zoran Ikonić , Paul Harrison

We present the study of transport properties of a superconducting wire with strong Rashba spin-orbit coupling for different orientations of an external magnetic field. Using the nonequilibrium Green's functions in the tight-binding approach…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-30 V. V. Val'kov , S. V. Aksenov

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

Spin polarization induced by a temperature gradient (heat-current) in a magnetized two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) with Rashba spin-orbit interaction is considered theoretically within the linear response theory. Using the Matsubara…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-15 A. Dyrdal , J. Barnas , V. K. Dugaev , J. Berakdar

We investigate the influence of spin-orbit interaction on ballistic transport through chaotic cavities by using semiclassical methods. Our approach is based on the Landauer formalism and the Fisher-Lee relations, appropriately generalized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-02-25 Jens Bolte , Daniel Waltner

We study analytically and numerically spin effects in MoS_2 monolayer armchair quantum wires and quantum dots. The interplay between intrinsic and Rashba spin orbit interactions induced by an electric field leads to helical modes, giving…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-07 Jelena Klinovaja , Daniel Loss

We report a thorough theoretical investigation on the quantum transport of a disordered four terminal device in the presence of Rashba spin orbit coupling (RSOC) in two dimensions. Specifically we compute the behaviour of the longitudinal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 Sudin Ganguly , Saurabh Basu

We study the effect of spin-orbit interaction and in-plane effective magnetic field on the conductance of a quasi-one-dimensional ballistic electron system. The effective magnetic field includes the externally applied field, as well as the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-12 Yuriy V. Pershin , James A. Nesteroff , Vladimir Privman

We study the spin current induced spin-Hall effect that a longitudinal spin dependent chemical potential $qV_{s=x,y,z}$ induces a transverse spin conductances $G^{ss'}$. A four terminal system with Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yanxia Xing , Qing-feng Sun , Jian Wang

We predict that unpolarized charge current driven through the longitudinal leads attached to ballistic quantum-coherent two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in semiconductor heterostructure will induce a {\em pure} spin current, which is not…

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

We consider a single-level quantum dot coupled to two leads which are ferromagnetic in general. Apart from tunneling processes conserving electron spin, we also include processes associated with spin-flip of tunneling electrons, which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-22 Łukasz Karwacki , Józef Barnaś

We investigate the transmission properties of a spin transistor coupled to two quantum point contacts acting as spin injector and detector. In the Fabry-Perot regime, transport is mediated by quasibound states formed between tunnel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-10 M. I. Alomar , Llorenç Serra , David Sanchez

We investigate the transport properties of ballistic quantum wires in the presence of Zeeman spin splittings and a spatially inhomogeneous Rashba interaction. The Zeeman interaction is extended along the wire and produces gaps in the energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 David Sanchez , Llorens Serra , Mahn-Soo Choi

We study the in-plane transport of spin-polarized electrons in III-V semiconductor quantum wells. The spin dynamics is controlled by the spin-orbit interaction, which arises via the Dresselhaus (bulk asymmetry) and Rashba (well asymmetry)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-12 Semion Saikin , Min Shen , Ming-C. Cheng , Vladimir Privman