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The theory of spin drift and diffusion in two-dimensional electron gases is developed in terms of a random walk model incorporating Rashba, linear and cubic Dresselhaus, and intersubband spin-orbit couplings. The additional subband degree…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-20 Gerson J. Ferreira , Felix G. G. Hernandez , Patrick Altmann , Gian Salis

Intrinsic and extrinsic spin Hall effects are considered together on an equal theoretical footing for the Rashba spin-orbit coupling in two-dimensional (2D) electron and hole systems, using the diagrammatic method for calculating the spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Wang-Kong Tse , S. Das Sarma

Based on a rigorous quantum-kinetic approach, spin-charge coupled drift-diffusion equations are derived for a strongly confined two-dimensional hole gas. An electric field leads to a coupling between the spin and charge degrees of freedom.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Kleinert , V. V. Bryksin

In 2D systems with a spin-orbit interaction, magnetic focussing can be used to create a spatial separation of particles with different spin. Here we measure hole magnetic focussing for two different magnitudes of the Rashba spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-25 M. J. Rendell , S. D. Liles , A. Srinivasan , O. Klochan , I. Farrer , D. A. Ritchie , A. R. Hamilton

We study transport properties of a two-dimensional electron system with Rashba spin-orbit coupling in a perpendicular magnetic field. The spin orbit coupling competes with Zeeman splitting to introduce additional degeneracies between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Shun-Qing Shen , Michael Ma , X. C. Xie , Fu Chun Zhang

We report the experimental observation of the spin-Hall effect in a two-dimensional (2D) hole system with Rashba spin-orbit coupling. The 2D hole layer is a part of a p-n junction light-emitting diode with a specially designed co-planar…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Joerg Wunderlich , Bernd Kaestner , Jairo Sinova , Tomas Jungwirth

Spin-Hall effect in ballistic 2D electron gas with Rashba-type spin-orbit coupling and smooth edge confinement is studied. We predict that the interplay of semiclassical electron motion and quantum dynamics of spins leads to several…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-05-15 P. G. Silvestrov , V. A. Zyuzin , E. G. Mishchenko

We consider a two-dimensional system of harmonically trapped particles with pseudo-spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ degree of freedom. This degree of freedom is coupled to the particle's momentum via the so-called Rashba spin-orbit interaction. We…

We discuss by analytic means the theory of the high-density limit of the unpolarized two-dimensional electron liquid in the presence of Rashba or Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling. A generalization of the ring-diagram expansion is performed.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Stefano Chesi , Gabriele F. Giuliani

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 develop a drift-diffusion equation that describes electron spin polarization density in two-dimensional electron systems. In our approach, superpositions of spin-up and spin-down states are taken into account, what distinguishes our…

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

The Rashba Hamiltonian describes the splitting of the conduction band as a result of spin-orbit coupling in the presence of an asymmetric confinement potential and is commonly used to model the electronic structure of confined narrow-gap…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jun-ichiro Inoue , Gerrit E. W. Bauer , Laurens W. Molenkamp

We present a methodology to address, from first principles, charge-spin interconversion in two-dimensional materials with spin-orbit coupling. Our study relies on an implementation of density functional theory based quantum transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-05 Maedeh Rassekh , Hernán Santos , Andrea Latge , Leonor Chico , Saber Farjami Shayesteh , Juan Jose Palacios

We demonstrate that flow of longitudinal unpolarized current through a ballistic two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit coupling will induce nonequilibrium spin accumulation which has opposite sign for the two lateral edges and…

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

Spin transport was studied in a two-dimensional electron gas hosted in a wide GaAs quantum well occupying two subbands. Using space and time Kerr rotation microscopy to image drifting spin packets under an in-plane accelerating electric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 N. M . Kawahala , F. C. D. Moraes , G. M. Gusev , A. K. Bakarov , F. G. G. Hernandez

Spin Hall effects are a collection of phenomena, resulting from spin-orbit coupling, in which an electrical current flowing through a sample can lead to spin transport in a perpendicular direction and spin accumulation at lateral…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-09-18 Hans-Andreas Engel , Emmanuel I. Rashba , Bertrand I. Halperin

We have studied transport properties in a two-dimensional electron gas with equal Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interactions under a perpendicular magnetic field. By employing the exact solution for this system, we found resonant charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Degang Zhang , Yao-Ming Mu , C. S. Ting

With a view to electrical spin manipulation and quantum computing applications, recent significant attention has been devoted to semiconductor hole systems, which have very strong spin-orbit interactions. However, experimentally measuring,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-08 Hong Liu , Elizabeth Marcellina , Alexander R. Hamilton , Dimitrie Culcer

Based on the spin-density-matrix approach, both the electric-field-induced spin accumulation and the spin current are systematically studied for the two-dimensional Rashba model. Eigenmodes of spin excitations give rise to resonances in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 V. V. Bryksin , P. Kleinert

A nonequilibrium Green's functions approach to spin-Hall effect is developed in a diffusive two-dimensional electron system with Rashba spin-orbit interaction. In the presence of long-range impurities, the coupled quantum kinetic equations…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Y. Liu , X. L. Lei