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Graphene consists in a single-layer carbon crystal where 2$p_z$ electrons display a linear dispersion relation in the vicinity of the Fermi level, conveniently described by a massless Dirac equation in $2+1$ spacetime. Spin-orbit effects…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-04 B. Berche , F. Mireles , E. Medina

Using the method of superbosonization we consider a model of a random magnetic field (RMF) acting on both orbital motion and spin of electrons in two dimensions. The method is based on exact integration over one particle degrees of freedom…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 K. B. Efetov , V. R. Kogan

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 study the interaction between electron and acoustic phonon in a Rashba spin-orbit coupled two dimensional electron gas using Boltzmann transport theory. Both deformation potential and piezoelectric scattering mechanisms are considered in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-12-10 Tutul Biswas , Tarun Kanti Ghosh

Larmor's theorem holds for magnetic systems that are invariant under spin rotation. In the presence of spin-orbit coupling this invariance is lost and Larmor's theorem is broken: for systems of interacting electrons, this gives rise to a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-12 Shahrzad Karimi , Florent Baboux , Florent Perez , Carsten A. Ullrich , Grzegorz Karczewski , Tomasz Wojtowicz

Spin polarization induced by a temperature gradient (heat-current) in a magnetized two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) with Rashba spin-orbit interaction is considered theoretically within the linear response theory. Using the Matsubara…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-15 A. Dyrdal , J. Barnas , V. K. Dugaev , J. Berakdar

Entanglement of dipole-dipole interacting spins 1/2 is usually investigated when the energy of interaction with an external magnetic field (the Zeeman energy) is greater than the energy of dipole interactions by three orders. Under this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-17 G. B. Furman , V. M. Meerovich , V. L. Sokolovsky

We consider a single-level quantum dot coupled to two leads which are ferromagnetic in general. Apart from tunneling processes conserving electron spin, we also include processes associated with spin-flip of tunneling electrons, which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-22 Łukasz Karwacki , Józef Barnaś

In a two-dimensional ferromagnetic metal layer lacking inversion symmetry, the itinerant electrons mediate the interaction between the Rashba spin-orbit interaction and the ferromagnetic order parameter, leading to a Rashba spin torque…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-11-24 Xuhui Wang , Aurelien Manchon

We consider the effect of the Rashba spin-orbital interaction and space charge in a ferromagnet-insulator/semiconductor/insulator-ferromagnet junction where the spin current is severely affected by the doping, band structure and charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Wei Wu , Jinbin Li , Yue Yu , S. T. Chui

Thermoelectric coefficients of a two dimensional electron gas with the Rashba spin-orbit interaction are presented here. In absence of magnetic field, thermoelectric coefficients are enhanced due to the Rashba spin-orbit interaction. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-02 S. K. Firoz Islam , Tarun Kanti Ghosh

Spin-orbit coupling is a manifestation of special relativity. In the reference frame of a moving electron, electric fields transform into magnetic fields, which interact with the electron spin and lift the degeneracy of spin-up and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-09-18 Lorenz Meier , Gian Salis , Ivan Shorubalko , Emilio Gini , Silke Schoen , Klaus Ensslin

We study the spin-dependent electronic transport through a one-dimensional ballistic quantum wire in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit interaction. In particular, we consider the effect of the spin-orbit interaction resulting from the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. E. Birkholz , V. Meden

We study spin-resolved transport in a ballistic quantum dot with Rashba spin-orbit coupling, focusing on charge-to-spin conversion and spin Hall effect. In the regime where the dot size is comparable to the Fermi wavelength, we identify a…

We study the effect of the interplay between the Rashba and the Dresselhaus spin-orbit couplings on the transverse electron focusing in two-dimensional electron gases. Depending on their relative magnitude, the presence of both couplings…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-09-19 A. A. Reynoso , Gonzalo Usaj , C. A. Balseiro

We investigate theoretically the combined effects of the electron-electron and the Rashba spin-orbit interactions on two electrons confined in quasi-one-dimensional AlInSb-based double quantum dots. We calculate the two-electron wave…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 C. L. Romano , P. I. Tamborenea , S. E. Ulloa

We present semiclassical and quantum mechanical results for the effects of a strong magnetic field in Quantum Wires in the presence of Rashba Spin Orbit coupling. Analytical and numerical results show how the perturbation acts in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 S. Bellucci , P. Onorato

We present analysis of the interacting quantum wire problem in the presence of magnetic field and spin-orbital interaction. We show that an interesting interplay of Zeeman and spin-orbit terms, facilitated by the electron-electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-09-05 Suhas Gangadharaiah , Jianmin Sun , Oleg A. Starykh

In this article we study the spin and tunneling dynamics as a function of magnetic field in a one-dimensional GaAs double quantum dot with both the Dresselhaus and Rashba spin-orbit coupling. In particular we consider different spatial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-11 Madhav Singh , Pradeep K Jha , Aranya B Bhattacherjee

The Kubo formula is used to calculate the spin-Hall conductivity in a spin-polarized two-dimensional electron system with Rashba-type spin-orbit interaction. As in the case of the unpolarized electron system, spin Hall conductivity is…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 C. P. Moca , D. C. Marinescu