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The quantum interference corrections to the conductivity are calculated for an electron gas in asymmetric quantum wells in a magnetic field. The theory takes into account two different types of the spin splitting of the conduction band: the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 F. G. Pikus , G. E. Pikus

Recently large Rashba-like spin splitting has been observed in certain bulk ferroelectrics. In contrast with the relativistic Rashba effect, the chiral spin texture and large spin-splitting of the electronic bands depend strongly on the…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-11-14 Louis Ponet , Sergey Artyukhin

We consider a single electron confined within a quantum wire in a system of two electrostatically-induced QDs defined by nearby gates. The time-varying electric field, of single GHz frequency, perpendicular to the quantum wire, is used to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-19 J. Pawłowski , G. Skowron , P. Szumniak , S. Bednarek

We study the effects of Rashba spin-orbit coupling on the spin torque induced by spin waves, which are the plane wave dynamics of magnetization. The spin torque is derived from linear response theory, and we calculate the dynamic spin…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-12-21 Nobuyuki Umetsu , Daisuke Miura , Akimasa Sakuma

In this study, we investigate the spin susceptibility in the superconducting state of a multilayer system with a layer-dependent Rashba spin-orbit coupling, representing a locally non-centrosymmetric superconductor. We show that the charge…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-03-07 Daisuke Maruyama , Manfred Sigrist , Youichi Yanase

The Rashba spin-orbit coupling arising from structure inversion asymmetry couples spin and momentum degrees of freedom providing a suitable (and very intensively investigated) environment for spintronic effects and devices. Here we show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 Goetz Seibold , Sergio Caprara , Marco Grilli , Roberto Raimondi

In this work, we show that in a four-quantum-dot ring, via introducing a local Rashba spin-orbit interaction the spin bias in the transverse terminals can be detected by observing the charge currents in the longitudinal probes. It is found…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Weijiang Gong , Hui Li , Sha Zhang , Yu Han , Guozhu Wei

Quantum oscillations of the spin conductance through regular and chaotic 2D quantum dots under the varying Rashba spin orbit interaction and at zero magnetic field have been numerically calculated by summing up the spin evolution matrices…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Cheng-Hung Chang , Anatoly G. Mal'shukov , Koung-An Chao

We present a calculation of the wavevector-dependent subband level splitting from spin-orbit coupling in Si/SiGe quantum wells. We first use the effective-mass approach, where the splittings are parameterized by separating contributions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-08-18 M. Prada , G. Klimeck , R. Joynt

We show that Rashba spin-orbit coupling may result in an energy gap in the spectrum of electrons in a two-mode quantum wire if a suitable confining potential is chosen. This leads to a dip in the conductance and a spike in the spin current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-03 K. E. Nagaev , A. S. Goremykina

The influence of Rashba spin-orbit interaction on the spin dynamics of a topologically disordered hopping system is studied in this paper. This is a significant generalization of a previous investigation, where an ordered (polaronic)…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 U. Beckmann , T. Damker , H. Boettger

We present a theoretical study of the interplay between cyclotron motion and spin splitting of charge carriers in solids. While many of our results apply more generally, we focus especially on discussing the Rashba model describing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-09-30 U. Zuelicke , J. Bolte , R. Winkler

We study a spin structure that arises in a one-dimensional quantum dot with zero total spin under the action of a charged tip of a scanning probe microscope in the presence of a weak magnetic field. The evolution of the spin structure with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-09 Yasha Gindikin , Vladimir A. Sablikov

Theory of Rashba spin-orbit coupling in magnetic metals is worked out from microscopic Hamiltonian describing d-orbitals. When structural inversion symmetry is broken, electron hopping between $d$-orbitals generates chiral ordering of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-07 Jin-Hong Park , Choong H. Kim , Hyun-Woo Lee , Jung Hoon Han

We study the performance of a quantum wire spin filter that is based on the Rashba spin-orbit interaction in the presence of the electron-electron interaction. The finite length wire is attached to two semi-infinite nonmagnetic leads.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 J. E. Birkholz , V. Meden

We study the spin dynamics of carriers due to the Rashba interaction in semiconductor quantum disks and wells after excitation with light with orbital angular momentum. We find that although twisted light transfers orbital angular momentum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-30 M. Cygorek , P. I. Tamborenea , V. M. Axt

Intensive theoretical studies have recently predicted that a Bose-Einstein condensate will exhibit a variety of novel properties if spin-orbit coupling is present. However, an unambiguous fact has also been pointed out: Rashba coupling…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-11 Qi Zhou , Xiaoling Cui

Electric weak links, the term used for those parts of an electrical circuit that provide most of the resistance against the flow of an electrical current, are important elements of many nanodevices. Quantum dots, nanowires and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 R. I. Shekhter , O. Entin-Wohlman , M. Jonson , A. Aharony

Full expressions for finite frequency spin and charge conductivity in Rashba and Luttinger type systems are given. Whereas in the Rashba Hamiltonian the spin conductivity has the same frequency dependence as the dielectric polarizability,…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 B. A. Bernevig

The spin-degeneracy of Bloch bands in a crystal can be lifted when spin-orbit (SO) coupling is present and inversion symmetry is absent. In two-dimensional electron systems (2DES) spin-degeneracy is lifted by Rashba interaction terms -…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-07-16 Guru Khalsa , Byounghak Lee , A. H. MacDonald