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We present a detailed analysis of the Aharonov-Bohm (AB) interference oscillations manifested through transmission of an electron in a mesoscopic ring with a magnetic impurity atom inserted in one of its arms. The spin polarization…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Sandeep K. Joshi , Debendranath Sahoo , A. M. Jayannavar

We study the quantum interference effects induced by the Aharonov-Casher phase in a ring structure in a two-dimensional heavy hole (HH) system with spin-orbit interaction realizable in narrow asymmetric quantum wells. The influence of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 Alexey A. Kovalev , Mario F. Borunda , T. Jungwirth , L. W. Molenkamp , Jairo Sinova

Electrical control of spin dynamics in Bi$_{\rm 2}$Se$_{\rm 3}$ was investigated in ring-type interferometers. Aharonov-Bohm and Altshuler-Aronov-Spivak resistance oscillations against magnetic field, and Aharorov-Casher resistance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-02 Fanming Qu , Fan Yang , Jun Chen , Jie Shen , Yue Ding , Jiangbo Lu , Yuanjun Song , Huaixin Yang , Guangtong Liu , Jie Fan , Yongqing Li , Zhongqing Ji , Changli Yang , Li Lu

We demonstrate the time reversal Aharonov-Casher (AC) effect in small arrays of mesoscopic semiconductor rings. By using an electrostatic gate we can control the spin precession rate and follow the AC phase over several interference…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Tobias Bergsten , Toshiyuki Kobayashi , Yoshiaki Sekine , Junsaku Nitta

We study the time-dependent transport of charge and spin through a ring-shaped region sequentially coupled to a weakly interacting quantum dot in the presence of an Aharonov-Bohm flux and spin-orbit interaction. The time-dependent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-01-09 F. Romeo , R. Citro , M. Marinaro

The spin-orbit interaction is a key tool for manipulating and functionalizing spin-dependent electron transport. However, the precise value of the spin-orbit coupling constant is hard to determine and control. Here we propose a measurement…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-19 R. I. Shekhter , O. Entin-Wohlman , M. Jonson , A. Aharony

This article reviews spin-dependent transport of carriers in homogenous three-dimensional and two-dimensional semiconductors. We begin with a discussion of optical orientation of electron spins, which allows both the creation and detection…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Winkler

Using singly connected rings with a collimating contact to current leads, we have observed the spin quantum beating in the Aharonov-Bohm conductance oscillations. We demonstrate that the beating is a result of the superposition of two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. J. Yang , C. H. Yang , K. A. Cheng , Y. B. Lyanda-Geller

We study theoretically the spin transport of a Quantum Spin Hall round disk. When an electron traverses the disk in virtue of the edge states, its spin's in-plane component can be rotated by a magnetic flux through the disk. The spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-08-07 Zhan-Feng Jiang , Wen-Yu Shan

We study spin-dependent diffusive transport in the presence of a tunable spin-orbit (SO) interaction in a two-dimensional electron system. The spin precession of an electron in the SO coupling field is expressed in terms of a covariant…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yaroslav Tserkovnyak , Shimul Akhanjee

We show that electrons recolliding with the ionic core upon tunnel ionization of noble gas atoms driven by a strong circularly polarized laser field in combination with a counter-rotating second harmonic are spin polarized and that their…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 David Ayuso , Álvaro Jiménez-Galán , Felipe Morales , Misha Ivanov , Olga Smirnova

We analytically calculate the spin-dependent electronic conductance through a one-dimensional ballistic ring in the presence of an inhomogeneous magnetic field and identify signatures of geometric and Berry phases in the general…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Martina Hentschel , Henning Schomerus , Diego Frustaglia , Klaus Richter

We present a simple model of transmission across a metallic mesoscopic ring. In one of its arm an electron interacts with a single magnetic impurity via an exchange coupling. We show that entanglement between electron and spin impurity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. M. Jayannavar

We discuss transport through an interferometer formed by helical edge states of the quantum spin Hall insulator. Focusing on effects induced by a strong magnetic impurity placed in one of the arms of interferometer, we consider the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-31 R. A. Niyazov , D. N. Aristov , V. Yu. Kachorovskii

Electron transport through a spin-orbit-coupled quantum ring is investigated within linear response theory. We show that the finite width of the ring results in the appearance of Fano resonances in the conductance. This turns out to be a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-30 M. P. Nowak , B. Szafran , F. M. Peeters

The goal of this work is to show how the thermospin polarization current in a quantum ring changes in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit coupling and a quantized single photon mode of a cavity the ring is placed in. Employing the reduced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-10 Nzar Rauf Abdullah , Thorsten Arnold , Chi-Shung Tang , Andrei Manolescu , Vidar Gudmundsson

We identify theoretically the geometric phases of the electrons' spin that can be detected in measurements of charge and spin transport through Aharonov-Bohm interferometers threaded by a magnetic flux $\Phi$ (in units of the flux quantum)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-27 O. Entin-Wohlman , A. Aharony

Quantum interference effects in rings provide suitable means to control spins at the mesoscopic scale. In this chapter we present the theory underlying spin-induced modulations of unpolarized currents in quantum rings subject to the Rashba…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-10 Carmine Ortix

We considered the circulating current induced by the current magnification and the persistent current induced by Aharonov-Casher flux. The persistent currents have directional dependence on the direct current flow, but the circulating…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Taeseung Choi , Chang-Mo Ryu , A. M. Jayannavar

Polarization, the precession direction with respect to the background magnetization, is an intrinsic degree of freedom of spin wave. Introducing symmetry breaking mechanisms lies in the heart of lifting the degeneracy between polarized spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-31 Hongbin Wu , Jin Lan