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In this work we study interacting electrons on square lattice in the presence of strong Rashba spin-orbit interaction. The spin-orbit term forces the time-reversal electron states to be paired in even Cooper channels. For concreteness, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-03-27 Rasoul Ghadimi , Mehdi Kargarian , S. Akbar Jafari

We study the electronic band structure of monolayer graphene when Rashba spin-orbit coupling is present. We show that if the Rashba spin-orbit coupling is stronger than the intrinsic spin-orbit coupling, the low energy bands undergo…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-05 Peter Rakyta , Andor Kormanyos , Jozsef Cserti

We study a one-dimensional interacting electron gas with the strong Rashba spin-orbit coupling and Zeeman splitting in a quantum well. A bosonization theory is developed for this system. The tunneling current may deviate from a simple power…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-06-22 Yue Yu , Yuchuan Wen , Jinbin Li , Zhaobin Su , S. T. Chui

We derive the theoretical and numerical framework for investigating nonequilibrium properties of spin-orbit coupled wires with Zeeman splitting proximized by a superconductor in the non-linear diffusive regime. We demonstrate that the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2017-10-17 Sol H. Jacobsen , Jacob Linder

We derive an effective continuum model for describing the propagation of electrons in ballistic one-dimensional curved nanostructure which are marked by a strong interplay of spin-orbital degrees of freedom due to local electronic states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-19 G. Francica , P. Gentile , M. Cuoco

We theoretically explore the possibility of creating spin quantum entanglement in a system of two electrons confined respectively in two vertically coupled quantum dots in the presence of Rashba type spin-orbit coupling. We find that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Nan Zhao , L. Zhong , Jia-Lin Zhu , C. P. Sun

We study the effect of electron-electron backscattering interactions on spin transport in a quantum wire. Even if these interactions have no significant effect on charge transport, they strongly influence the transport of spin. We use the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 Cristina Bena , Leon Balents

The paper reviews the interplay of Rashba/Dresselhaus spin splittings in various two dimensional systems made of III-V, wurtzite and SiGe. We discuss the symmetry aspects of the linear and cubic in electron wavevector spin splitting in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-16 S. D. Ganichev , L. E. Golub

Composite quantum compounds (CQCs) have become an important avenue for the investigation of inter-correlation between two distinct phenomenon in physics. Topological superconductors, axion insulators etc. are few such CQCs which have…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-08-18 Chiranjit Mondal , Chanchal K. Barman , Aftab Alam , Biswarup Pathak

During the last years there has been much interest, and theoretical discussion, about the possibility to use spin-orbit coupling to control the carriers spins in two-dimensional semiconducting heterostructures. Spin polarization at the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-31 A. A. Reynoso , G. Usaj , C. A. Balseiro

The quasi-two-dimensional electron gas found at the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interface offers exciting new functionalities, such as tunable superconductivity, and has been proposed as a new nanoelectronics fabrication platform. Here we lay out a new…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-14 A. D. Caviglia , M. Gabay , S. Gariglio , N. Reyren , C. Cancellieri , J. -M. Triscone

Surface states in Tl/Si(111) and Bi/Si(111) show non-Rashba-type spin splitting. We study spin-transport properties in these surface states. First we construct tight-binding Hamiltonians for Tl/Si and Bi/Si surfaces, which respect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-01 Kokin Nakajin , Shuichi Murakami

We analyze the dynamics of the helical edge modes of a quantum spin Hall state in the presence of a spatially non-uniform Rashba spin-orbit (SO) interaction. A randomly fluctuating Rashba SO coupling is found to open a scattering channel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-07-01 Anders Ström , Henrik Johannesson , G. I. Japaridze

We describe the transport properties of a 5 $\mu$m long one-dimensional (1D) quantum wire. Reduction of conductance plateaux due to the introduction of weakly disorder scattering are observed. In an in-plane magnetic field, we observe…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 C. -T. Liang , M. Pepper , M. Y. Simmons , C. G. Smith , D. A. Ritchie

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 recursive Green's function technique is developed to calculate the spin-dependent conductance in mesoscopic structures. Using this technique, we study the spin-dependent electronic transport of quantum point contacts in the presence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Shi-Liang Zhu , Z. D. Wang , Lian Hu

The spin-orbit -induced spin splitting of energy bands in low symmetry compounds (the Rashba Effect) has a long-standing relevance to spintronic applications and to the fundamental understanding of symmetry breaking in solids, yet the…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-09-01 Carlos Mera Acosta , Elton Ogoshi , Adalberto Fazzio , Gustavo Dalpian , Alex Zunger

We review recent theoretical developments about the role of spins, electron-electron interactions, and spin-orbit coupling in metal nanoparticles and semiconductor quantum dots. For a closed system, in the absence of spin-orbit coupling or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yuval Oreg , P. W. Brouwer , X. Waintal , Bertrand I. Halperin

The spatial separation of electron spins followed by the control of their individual spin dynamics has recently emerged as an essential ingredient in many proposals for spin-based technologies because it would enable both of the two spin…

We describe the simultaneous effects of the spin-orbit (SO) perturbation and a magnetic field $B$ on a disk shaped quantum dot (QD). {As it is known the} combination of electrostatic forces among the $N$ electrons confined in the QD and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Bellucci , P. Onorato