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The momentum-dependent Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-splitting has gained much attention for its highly promising applications in spintronics. In the present work, ab initio density functional theory calculations are performed to study the…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-08-02 Sajjan Sheoran , Manish Kumar , Preeti Bhumla , Saswata Bhattacharya

We investigate theoretically the electronic structure and transport for a two-level quantum wire with Rashba spin-orbit coupling (SOC) under the irradiation of an external laser field at low temperatures. The photon-induced transitions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Guanghui Zhou , Wenhu Liao

We have found a manifestation of spin-orbit Berry phase in the conductance of a mesoscopic loop with Rashba spin-orbit coupling placed in an external magnetic field perpendicular to the loop plane. In detail, the transmission probabilities…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Maxim P. Trushin , Alexander L. Chudnovskiy

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

We calculate the finite-temperature conductance of clean, weakly interacting one-dimensional quantum wires subject to Rashba spin-orbit coupling and a magnetic field. For chemical potentials near the center of the Zeeman gap ($\mu = 0$),…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-07 Thomas L. Schmidt

A microscopic picture of electron-electron pair scattering in single mode quantum wires is introduced which includes electron spin. A new source of `excess' noise for hot carriers is presented. We show that zero magnetic field `spin'…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Gerhard Fasol , Hiroyuki Sakaki

We use numerical simulations to investigate the spin Hall effect in quantum wires in the presence of both Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling. We find that the intrinsic spin Hall effect is highly anisotropic with respect to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-18 A. W. Cummings , R. Akis , D. K. Ferry

The presence of spin-orbit coupling affects the spontaneously flowing persistent currents in mesoscopic conducting rings. Here we analyze their dependence on magnetic flux with emphasis on identifying possibilities to prove the presence and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Janine Splettstoesser , Michele Governale , Ulrich Zuelicke

Spin splitting of Rashba states in two-dimensional electron system provides a promising mechanism of spin manipulation for spintronics applications. However, Rashba states realized experimentally to date are often outnumbered by…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-12-22 Wenmei Ming , Z. F. Wang , Miao Zhou , Mina Yoon , Feng Liu

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

The electronic transport in a system of two quantum rings side-coupled to a quantum wire is studied via a single-band tunneling tight-binding Hamiltonian. We derived analytical expressions for the conductance and spin polarization when the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-03-31 V. M. Apel , P. A. Orellana , M. Pacheco

We study the interplay of both Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit couplings (SOCs) and a uniform perpendicular magnetic field $\textbf{B}$ on the transport of a spin-polarized electron along a curved quantum wire. Eigenenergies and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-27 Carlos Baldo , Cristine Villagonzalo

We consider quasiballistic electron transmission in a one-dimensional quantum wire subject to both time-independent and periodic potentials of a finger gate that results in a coordinate- and time-dependent Rashba-type spin-orbit coupling. A…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-11 Almas F. Sadreev , E. Ya. Sherman

We study the transport properties for a Luttinger-liquid (LL) quantum wire in the presence of both Rashba spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and a weak external in-plane magnetic field. The bosonized Hamiltonian of the system with an externally…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-25 Fang Cheng , Guanghui Zhou

We consider the electronic transport through a Rashba quantum dot coupled to ferromagnetic leads. We show that the interference of localized electron states with resonant electron states leads to the appearance of the Fano-Rashba effect.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. A. Orellana , M. Amado , F. Dominguez-Adame

The quantum correction to the conductivity in disordered quantum wires with linear Rashba spin-orbit coupling is obtained. For quantum wires with spin-conserving boundary conditions, we find a crossover from weak anti- to weak localization…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-06-25 P. Wenk , S. Kettemann

We have obtained numerically exact results for the spin-related geometric quantum phases that arise in p-type semiconductor ring structures. The interplay between gate-controllable (Rashba) spin splitting and quantum-confinement-induced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-03 M. Jaaskelainen , U. Zuelicke

In this paper one deals with the theoretical derivation of spin precession effects in quasi 1D quantum wire models. Such models get characterized by equal coupling strength superpositions of Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interactions of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-05 E. Papp , C. Micu

The spin dynamics in a quantum wire with a Rashba spin orbit interaction (SOI) is shown to be controllable via sub-picosecond electromagnetic pulses shaped appropriately. If the light polarization vector is along the wire's direction, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Zhen-Gang Zhu , Cheng-Long Jia , Jamal Berakdar

The Rashba spin-orbit coupling effect, primarily arising from structural-inversion asymmetry in periodic crystals, has garnered considerable attention due to its tunability and potential applications in spintronics. Its capability to…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-04-24 Arjyama Bordoloi , A. C. Garcia-Castro , Zachary Romestan , Aldo H. Romero , Sobhit Singh
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