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The upper critical field in type II superconductors is limited by the Pauli paramagnetic limit. In superconductors with strong Rashba spin-orbit coupling this limit can be overcome by forming a helical state. Here we quantitatively study…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-01-27 L. A. B. Olde Olthof , J. R. Weggemans , G. Kimbell , J. W. A. Robinson , X. Montiel

Our recent study [Phys. Rev. B 103, 085309 (2021)] verified the existence of $\bf{k}$-linear Rashba spin-orbit coupling (SOC) of two-dimensional hole gases in quantum wells (QWs) which originates from a combination of heavy-hole-light-hole…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-17 Jia-Xin Xiong , Shan-Guan , Jun-Wei Luo , Shu-Shen Li

We propose a mechanism for spin polarized photocurrent generation in quantum wires. The effect is due to the combined effect of Rashba spin-orbit interaction, external magnetic field and microwave radiation. The time-independent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yuriy V. Pershin , Carlo Piermarocchi

The Rashba effect as an electrically tunable spin-orbit interaction is the base for a multitude of possible applications such as spin filters, spin transistors, and quantum computing using Majorana states in nanowires. Moreover, this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-13 Jan Raphael Bindel , Mike Pezzotta , Jascha Ulrich , Marcus Liebmann , Eugene Sherman , Markus Morgenstern

Coupling of spin states and space motion of conduction electrons due to spin-orbit interaction opens up possibilities for manipulation of the electron spins by electrical means. It is shown here that spin orientation of a two-dimensional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. A. Tarasenko

We report on numerical simulations of the intrinsic spin Hall effect in semiconductor quantum wires as a function of the Rashba spin-orbit coupling strength, the electron density, and the width of the wire. We find that the strength of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-18 A. W. Cummings , R. Akis , D. K. Ferry

Spin-orbit coupling in semiconductors relates the spin of an electron to its momentum and provides a pathway for electrically initializing and manipulating electron spins for applications in spintronics and spin-based quantum information…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 V. Sih , R. C. Myers , Y. K. Kato , W. H. Lau , A. C. Gossard , D. D. Awschalom

We illuminate the superconducting phases in [001]-grown-noncentrosymmetric quantum wells with an anisotropic spin-orbit coupling in the presence of on-site Hubbard interaction. Within the random phase approximation, we investigate the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-06-20 Mehdi Biderang , Mohammad-Hossein Zare , Alireza Akbari

Two-level quantum systems with strong spin-orbit coupling allow for all-electrical qubit control and long-distance qubit coupling via microwave and phonon cavities, making them of particular interest for scalable quantum information…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-11 J. van der Heijden , T. Kobayashi , M. G. House , J. Salfi , S. Barraud , R. Lavieville , M. Y. Simmons , S. Rogge

We use magnetoconductance measurements in dual-gated InSb nanowire devices together with a theoretical analysis of weak antilocalization to accurately extract spin-orbit strength. In particular, we show that magnetoconductance in our…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-12 I. van Weperen , B. Tarasinski , D. Eeltink , V. S. Pribiag , S. R. Plissard , E. P. A. M. Bakkers , L. P. Kouwenhoven , M. Wimmer

We show that a two-dimensional semiconductor with Rashba spin-orbit coupling could be driven into the second-order topological superconducting phase when a mixed-pairing state is introduced. The superconducting order we consider involves…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-18 Xiaoyu Zhu

Rashba spin-orbit interactions generated by time-dependent electric fields acting on weak links (that couple together non-magnetic macroscopic leads) can magnetize the junction. The Rashba spin-orbit interaction that affects the spins of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-23 Debashree Chowdhury , O. Entin-Wohlman , A. Aharony , R. I. Shekhter , M. Jonson

We investigate the ballistic motion of electrons in III-V semiconductor quantum wells with Rashba spin-orbit coupling in a perpendicular magnetic field. Taking into account the full quantum dynamics of the problem, we explore the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-03-06 John Schliemann

We investigate the effect of strong spin-orbit interaction on the electronic transport through non-magnetic impurities in one-dimensional systems. When a perpendicular magnetic field is applied, the electron spin polarization becomes…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 R. G. Pereira , E. Miranda

We develop a theory of designing slit experiments in two-dimensional electron systems with the Rashba spin-orbit interaction. By simulating the spatiotemporal dynamics of electrons passing through a single slit or a double slit, we find…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-22 Kotaro Shimizu , Masahito Mochizuki

We investigate the spin-polarized transport properties of a two-dimensional electron gas in a n-type diluted magnetic narrow gap semiconductor quantum well subjected to a perpendicular magnetic and electric field. Interesting beating…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. Yang , Kai Chang , X. G. Wu , H. Z. Zheng , F. M. Peeters

We study spin-dependent interband resonant tunneling in double-barrier InAs/AlSb/ GaMnSb heterostructures. We demonstrate that these structures can be used as spin filters utilizing spin-selective tunneling of electrons through the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 A. G. Petukhov , D. O. Demchenko , A. N. Chantis

We study the spin transport theoretically in heterostructures consisting of a ferromagnetic metallic thin film sandwiched between heavy-metal and oxide layers. The spin current in the heavy metal layer is generated via the spin Hall effect,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-30 L. Chotorlishvili , Z. Toklikishvili , X. -G. Wang , V. K. Dugaev , J. Barnas , J. Berakdar

We consider a new kind of superconducting proximity effect created by the tunneling of "spin split" Cooper pairs between two conventional superconductors connected by a normal conductor containing a quantum dot. The difference compared to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-10 O. Entin-Wohlman , R. I. Shekhter , M. Jonson , A. Aharony

Because of the peculiar coupling of spatial and spin degrees of freedom effected by the Rashba spin-orbit interaction, lateral confinement of a two dimensional electronic system leads to a finite transverse spin polarization near the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Chesi , G. F. Giuliani