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We show that electron tunneling from edge states in two-dimensional topological insulator into a parallel electron waveguide leads to the appearance of spin-polarized current in the waveguide. The spin polarization $P$ can be very close to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-27 Aleksei A. Sukhanov , Vladimir A. Sablikov

The conventional definition of spin-current, namely spin density multiplied by the group velocity, is not a conserved quantity due to possible spin rotations caused by spin-orbit (SO) interaction. However, in a model with spin-spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jian Wang , Baigeng Wang , Wei Ren , Hong Guo

We investigate the properties of persistent charge current driven by magnetic flux in a quasi-periodic mesoscopic Fibonacci ring with Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interactions. Within a tight-binding framework we work out individual…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-11 Moumita Patra , Santanu K. Maiti

A formula of the spin current in mesoscopic superconductors is derived from the mean-field theory of superconductivity. The spin flow is generated by the spatial fluctuations of $\vec{d}$ which represents a spin state of spin-triplet…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-11 Y. Asano

We study a model of an electron on a cylindrical surface, which is coupled to the torsion field due to a dislocation along the axis of the cylinder. We discuss the effect of this torsion field on the energy spectrum of the electrons and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-23 Debabrata Sinha

We theoretically study spin transport in two-or three-dimensional Rashba systems dynamically distorted by surface acoustic waves. The spin currents in the linear response to lattice distortion dynamics are calculated on the basis of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-01 Takumi Funato , Mamoru Matsuo

The generation of spin current and spin polarization in 2DEG Rashba system is considered, in which the spin-orbital coupling (SOC) is modulated by an ac gate voltage. By using non-Abelian gauge field method, we show the presence of an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-18 Cong Son Ho , Mansoor B. A. Jalil , Seng Ghee Tan

We demonstrate that spin current can be generated by an ac voltage in a one-channel quantum wire with strong repulsive electron interactions in the presence of a non-magnetic impurity and uniform static magnetic field. In a certain range of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-08-28 Bernd Braunecker , D. E. Feldman , Feifei Li

In the present work we investigate the behavior of all three components of persistent spin current in a quasi-periodic Fibonacci ring subjected to Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interactions. Analogous to persistent charge current in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-03 Moumita Patra , Santanu K. Maiti

Account of an intrinsic spin-orbit coupling in the valence bands of common semiconductors yields the scalar spin-orbit-rotation term in the effective-mass Hamiltonian of the conduction-band electron. This result is obtained within the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yuri A. Serebrennikov

The lack of some spatial symmetries in planar devices with Rashba spin-orbit interaction opens the possibility of producing spin polarized electrical currents in absence of external magnetic field or magnetic impurities. We study how the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Leonor Chico , A. Latgé , Luis Brey

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

We investigate the electron transport through a two-dimensional semiconductor with a nonuniform Rashba spin-orbit interaction. Due to the combination of the coherence effect and the Rashba interaction, a spontaneous spin-polarized current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Qing-feng Sun , X. C. Xie

Using microscopic theory, we investigate the properties of a spin current driven by magnetization dynamics. In the limit of smooth magnetization texture, the dominant spin current induced by the spin pumping effect is shown to be the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-08 Akihito Takeuchi , Kazuhiro Hosono , Gen Tatara

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

Theory of spin-charge conversion effects in spintronics are presented in terms of correlation functions of physical observables, spin and electric current. Direct and inverse spin Hall effects and spin pumping effect are studied considering…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-28 Gen Tatara

We study spin-orbital coupling effect on the Josephson current through a superconductor (SC) heterojunction, consisting of two s-wave superconductors and a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) layer between them. The Rashba-type (RSOC)…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 Z. H. Yang , Y. H. Yang , J. Wang , K. S. Chan

The generation of spin current and spin polarization in a 2DEG structure is studied in the presence of Dresselhaus and Rashba spin-orbit couplings (SOC), the strength of the latter being modulated in time by an ac gate voltage. By means of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-11 Cong Son Ho , Mansoor B. A. Jalil , Seng Ghee Tan

For an electron, a spin-1/2 particle, the spin charge $\mathbf{s}$, a real pseudovector with constant length, could determine the spin polarization properties in quantum mechanics. Since spin density $\rho_{\mathbf{s}}$ could be expressed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-04-28 Xiang Zhou , Zhenyu Zhang , Cheng-Zheng Hu

The spin current $J_{S}$, orbit angular momentum current $J_{L}$ and total angular momentum current $J_{J}$ in a dyad form have been universally defined according to quantum electrodynamics. Their conservation quantities and the continuity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-30 Zhe An , Fuqing Liu , Chang Liu