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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 spin dephasing due to the Rashba spin-orbit coupling, especially its dependence on the direction of the electric field is studied in InAs quantum wire. We find that the spin dephasing is strongly affected by the angle of Rashba…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 J. L. Cheng , M. Q. Weng , M. W. Wu

Using canonical transformations we diagonalize approximately the Hamiltonian of a gaussian wire with Rashba spin-orbit interaction. This proceedure allows us to obtain the energy dispersion relations and the wavefunctions with good…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. I. Erlingsson , J. C. Egues , D. Loss

We discuss the calculation of evanescent states in quasi-one-dimensional quantum wires in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit interaction. We suggest a computational algorithm devised for cases in which longitudinal and transverse motions are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Llorens Serra , David Sanchez , Rosa Lopez

We show that spin-flip rotation in a semiconductor quantum wire, caused by the Rashba and the Dresselhaus interactions (both of arbitrary strengths), can be suppressed by dint of an in-plane magnetic field. We found a new type of symmetry,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-05-07 R. G. Nazmitdinov , K. N. Pichugin , M. Valin-Rodriguez

We study ballistic transport of spin-polarized electrons through quantum wires in which the strength of the Rashba spin-orbit interaction (SOI) is spatially modulated. Subband mixing, due to SOI, between the two lowest subbands is taken…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 X. F. Wang

Ballistic electrons confined to a billiard and subject to spin--orbit coupling of the Rashba type are investigated, using both approximate semiclassical and exact quantum--mechanical methods. We focus on the low--energy part of the spectrum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 József Cserti , András Csordás , Ulrich Zülicke

We report on a theoretical study of spin dynamics of an ensemble of spin-polarized electrons injected in a diffusive microchannel with linear Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling. We explore the dependence of the spin-precession and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-23 Liviu P. Zarbo , Jairo Sinova , Irena Knezevic , J. Wunderlich , T. Jungwirth

Spin-orbit interaction (SOI) in low-dimensional systems results in the fascinating property of spin-momentum locking. In a Rashba system the inversion symmetry normal to the plane of a two-dimensional (2D) electron gas is broken, generating…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-02-22 Bartosz Slomski , Gabriel Landolt , Gustav Bihlmayer , Jürg Osterwalder , J. Hugo Dil

A scheme for a spin polarization direction switch is investigated by studying the spin-dependent electron transport of an asymmetrical quantum wire (QW) with Rashba spin-orbit coupling (SOC). It is found that the magnitude of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Zhonghui Xu , Xianbo Xiao , Yuguang Chen

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 perform a numerical study on the spin-resolved transport in a quantum wire (QW) under the modulation of both Rashba spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and a perpendicular magnetic field (MF) by adopting the developed Usuki transfer-matrix method…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-06-13 Xianbo Xiao , Zhaoxia Chen , Wenjie Nie , Guanghui Zhou , Fei Li

We study the interplay of electron-electron interactions and Rashba spin-orbit coupling in one-dimensional ballistic wires. Using the renormalization group approach we construct the phase diagram in terms of Rashba coupling,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Gritsev , G. I. Japaridze , M. Pletyukhov , D. Baeriswyl

We present the analytical result of the expectation value of spin resulting from an injected spin polarized electron into a semi-infinitely extended 2DEG plane with [001] growth geometry via ideal quantum point contact. Both the Rashba and…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Ming-Hao Liu , Ching-Ray Chang , Son-Hsien Chen

In a ferromagnetic metal layer, the coupled charge and spin diffusion equations are obtained in the presence of both Rashba spin-orbit interaction and magnetism. The mis-alignment between the magnetization and the non-equilibrium spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-14 Xuhui Wang , Aurelien Manchon

Quantum interference effects in rings provide suitable means for controlling spin at mesoscopic scales. Here we apply such control mechanisms to coherent spin-dependent transport in one- and two-dimensional rings subject to Rashba…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Diego Frustaglia , Klaus Richter

A novel method and nanodevice are introduced that allows to rotate the single electron spin confined in a gated electrostatic InSb nanowire quantum dot. Proposed method does not require application of any (oscillating or static) external…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-22 J. Pawłowski , P. Szumniak , S. Bednarek

The gate-controlled electron spin interference was observed in nanolithographically defined square loop (SL) arrays fabricated using In$_{0.52}$Al$_{0.48}$As/In$_{0.53}$Ga$_{0.47}$As/In$_{0.52}$Al$_{0.48}$As quantum wells. In this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Takaaki Koga , Yoshiaki Sekine , Junsaku Nitta

We predict the occurrence of Fano lineshapes in a semiconductor quantum wire with local spin-orbit (Rashba) coupling. We show that the Rashba interaction acts in a strictly one dimensional channel as an attractive impurity, leading to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 David Sanchez , Llorens Serra

Electron transport properties in a parallel double-quantum-dot structure with three-terminals are theoretically studied. By introducing a local Rashba spin-orbit coupling, we find that an incident electron from one terminal can select a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Weijiang Gong , Yisong Zheng