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Spin-dependent electron transport in a periodically stubbed quantum wire in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit interaction (SOI) is studied via the nonequilibrium Green's function method combined with the Landauer-Buttiker formalism. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-20 Xianbo Xiao , Zhaoxia Chen , Zhiming Rao , Wenjie Nie , Guanghui Zhou

We predict two spin-dependent transport phenomena in two-dimensional electron systems, which are induced by spatially fluctuating Rashba spin-orbit interaction. When the electron gas is magnetized, the random Rashba interaction leads to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-26 V. K. Dugaev , M. Inglot , E. Ya. Sherman , J. Berakdar , J. Barnas

We investigate the induced orbital magnetization density in a Rashba electron gas with magnetic impurities. Relying on classical electrodynamics, we obtain this quantity through the bound currents composed of a paramagnetic and a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-03 Juba Bouaziz , Manuel dos Santos Dias , Filipe Souza Mendes Guimarães , Stefan Blügel , Samir Lounis

We study the performance of a quantum wire spin filter that is based on the Rashba spin-orbit interaction in the presence of the electron-electron interaction. The finite length wire is attached to two semi-infinite nonmagnetic leads.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 J. E. Birkholz , V. Meden

We study the effect of the Rashba spin-orbit coupling on the Fermi arcs of topological Dirac semimetals. The Rashba coupling is induced by breaking the inversion symmetry at the surface. Remarkably, this coupling could be enhanced by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-12 Yuriko Baba , Francisco Domínguez-Adame , Gloria Platero , Rafael A. Molina

Using the Kubo formalism, the magnetic properties of the system in the linear regime have been investigated. Mainly the effect of non-magnetic substrate on the spin susceptibility is calculated. Results show that the Rashba coupling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-20 Fatemeh Delkhosh , A. Phirouznia

Using standard quantum network method, we analytically investigate the effect of Rashba spin-orbit coupling (RSOC) and a magnetic field on the spin transport properties of a polygonal quantum ring. Using Landauer-Buttiker formula, we have…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Han-Zhao Tang , Li-Xue Zhai , Man Shen , Jian-Jun Liu

The control of the magnetism of ultra-thin ferromagnetic layers using an electric field rather than a current, if large enough, would lead to many technologically important applications. To date, while it is usually assumed the changes in…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-12-05 Stewart E. Barnes , Jun'ichi Ieda , Sadamichi Maekawa

We investigate the effect of strong interactions on the spectral properties of quantum wires with strong Rashba spin-orbit interaction in a magnetic field, using a combination of Matrix Product State and bosonization techniques. Quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-06-07 Georg W. Winkler , Martin Ganahl , Dirk Schuricht , Hans Gerd Evertz , Sabine Andergassen

We study how the Rashba spin-orbit interaction influences unconventional superconductivity in a two dimensional electron gas partially spin-polarized by a magnetic field. Somewhat surprisingly, we find that for all field orientations, only…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-07-01 Ethan Lake , Caleb Webb , D. A. Pesin , O. A. Starykh

We discuss the effects of a strong magnetic field in Quantum Wires. We show how the presence of a magnetic field modifies the role played by % which %coefficients corresponding to electron electron interaction % and the Fermi velocity…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Bellucci , P. Onorato

We study the entanglement of magnetic impurities in an environment of electrons through successive scattering while an external magnetic field is applied. We show that the dynamics of the problem can be approximately described by a reduced…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-12-10 Alexandros Metavitsiadis , Raoul Dillenschneider , Sebastian Eggert

The spin Hall effect in a two-dimensional electron system on honeycomb lattice with both intrinsic and Rashba spin-orbit couplings is studied numerically. Integer quantized spin Hall conductance is obtained at zero Rashba coupling limit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 L. Sheng , D. N. Sheng , C. S. Ting , F. D. M. Haldane

The band structure of a quantum wire with the Rashba spin-orbit coupling develops a pseudogap in the presence of a magnetic field along the wire. In such a system spin mixing at the Fermi wavevectors $-k_F$ and $k_F$ can be different. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 Hyun C. Lee , S. -R. Eric Yang

Rashba spin-orbit interactions generated by time-dependent electric fields acting on weak links (that couple together non-magnetic macroscopic leads) can magnetize the junction. The Rashba spin-orbit interaction that affects the spins of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-23 Debashree Chowdhury , O. Entin-Wohlman , A. Aharony , R. I. Shekhter , M. Jonson

We investigate theoretically the influence of the spin-orbit interaction of Rashba type on the magnetoresistance of a semiconducting ferromagnetic nanostructure with a laterally constrained domain wall. The domain wall is assumed sharp (on…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 V. K. Dugaev , J. Barnas , J. Berakdar , V. I. Ivanov , W. Dobrowolski , V. F. Mitin

Because of the peculiar coupling of spatial and spin degrees of freedom effected by the Rashba spin-orbit interaction, lateral confinement of a two dimensional electronic system leads to a finite transverse spin polarization near the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Chesi , G. F. Giuliani

Magnetic impurities affect the transport properties of the helical edge states of quantum spin Hall insulators by causing single-electron backscattering. We study such a system in the presence of a Rashba spin-orbit interaction induced by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-12 Erik Eriksson , Anders Ström , Gargee Sharma , Henrik Johannesson

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

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