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Novel spin transport behavior is theoretically shown to result from replacing the usual metal (or poly-silicon) gate in a silicon field-effect transistor with a ferromagnet, separated from the semiconductor by an ultra-thin oxide. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. P. McGuire , C. Ciuti , L. J. Sham

We study potential scattering in a two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit coupling in the limit that the energy of the scattering electron approaches the bottom of the lower spin-split band. Focusing on two spin-independent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 Joel Hutchinson , Joseph Maciejko

We study a one-dimensional helical system with random Rashba spin-orbit coupling. Using renor- malization group methods, we derive a consistent set of flow equations governing the important con- trol parameters of the backscattering…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-10 Florian Geissler , Francois Crépin , Björn Trauzettel

Isolated spins in semiconductors provide a promising platform to explore quantum mechanical coherence and develop engineered quantum systems. Silicon has attracted great interest as a host material for developing spin qubits because of its…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-29 Dohun Kim , D. R. Ward , C. B. Simmons , D. E. Savage , M. G. Lagally , Mark Friesen , S. N. Coppersmith , Mark A. Eriksson

Spin currents can be obtained through adiabatic pumping by means of electrical gating only. This is possible by making use of the tunability of the Rashba spin-orbit coupling in semiconductor heterostructures. We demonstrate the principles…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Governale , F. Taddei , Rosario Fazio

In this work, we study the BCS-BEC crossover and quantum phase transition in a Fermi gas under Rashba spin-orbit coupling close to a Feshbach resonance. By adopting a two-channel model, we take into account of the closed channel molecules,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-06-18 Fan Wu , Ren Zhang , Tian-Shu Deng , Wei Zhang , Wei Yi , Guang-Can Guo

We study the entanglement production in a quantum spin Hall ring geometry where electrons of opposite spins are emitted in pairs from a source and collected in two different detectors. Postselection of coincidence detector events gives rise…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Anders Ström , Henrik Johannesson , Patrik Recher

We present a novel scheme for performing a conditional phase gate between two spin qubits in adjacent semiconductor quantum dots through delocalized single exciton states, formed through the inter-dot Foerster interaction. We consider two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Nazir , B. W. Lovett , S. D. Barrett , T. P. Spiller , G. A. D. Briggs

We propose a photoexcitation scheme for pure spin current generation in graphene subject to a Rashba spinorbit coupling. Although excitation using circularly-polarized light does not result in optical orientation of spins in graphene unless…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-29 Julien Rioux , Guido Burkard

Motivated by recent experiments [Nat. Phys. $\textbf{16}$, 1227 (2020)], we present here a theoretical study of the DC Josephson effect in a system comprising two magnetic impurities coupled to their respective superconducting electrodes…

Persistent, oscillatory charge and spin currents are shown to be driven by a two-component terahertz laser pulse in a one-dimensional mesoscopic ring with Rashba-Dresselhaus spin orbit interactions (SOI) linear in the electron momentum. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Marian Nita , Bogdan Ostahie , D. C. Marinescu , Andrei Manolescu , Vidar Gudmundsson

We show that the interaction between a superconducting order parameter and the magnetic moment of an atomic cluster in a two-dimensional s-wave superconductor with Rashba spin-orbit coupling generates magnetic anisotropy that can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-24 Eugene M. Chudnovsky

The covariant Dirac equation and its solutions show that rotation and acceleration can be used to generate and control spin currents.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Giorgio Papini

We study theoretically the dynamics of a Shiba state forming around precessing classical spin in an s-wave superconductor. Utilizing a rotating wave description for the precessing magnetic impurity, we find the resulting Shiba bound state…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-10 V. Kaladzhyan , S. Hoffman , M. Trif

An unpolarized charge current passing through a chaotic quantum dot with spin-orbit coupling can produce a spin polarized exit current without magnetic fields or ferromagnets. We use random matrix theory to estimate the typical spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jacob J. Krich , Bertrand I. Halperin

The Rashba-Edelstein effect stems from the interaction between the electron's spin and its momentum induced by spin-orbit interaction at an interface or a surface. It was shown that the inverse Rashba-Edelstein effect can be used to convert…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-27 M. B. Jungfleisch , W. Zhang , J. Sklenar , W. Jiang , J. E. Pearson , J. B. Ketterson , A. Hoffmann

We study theoretically spin current generation from a band insulator with PT symmetry, which is associated with Zener tunneling in strong dc electric fields. Each band in this system is doubly degenerate with opposite spins, but spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-16 Yuta Suzuki

We investigate the spin dynamics of a quantum dot with a spin-1/2 ground state in the Coulomb blockade regime and in the presence of a magnetic rf field leading to electron spin resonances (ESR). We show that by coupling the dot to leads,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Hans-Andreas Engel , Daniel Loss

The aim of presented research is to design a nanodevice based on a gate-defined quantum dot within a MoS$_2$ monolayer in which we confine a single electron. By applying control voltages to the device gates we modulate the confinement…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-18 J. Pawłowski