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We study the effect of anisotropy of the Rashba coupling on the extrinsic spin Hall effect due to spin-orbit active adatoms on graphene. In addition to the intrinsic spin-orbit coupling, a generalized anisotropic Rashba coupling arising…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-01 H-Y. Yang , Chunli Huang , Hector Ochoa , Miguel A. Cazalilla

We identify a sizable non-linear anomalous Hall effect in the electrical response of spin-3/2 heavy holes in zincblende semiconductor nanostructures. The response is driven by a quadrupole interaction with the electric field enabled by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-25 Sina Gholizadeh , Dimitrie Culcer

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

By associating a spin-orbit interaction with a non-Abelian gauge potential, we theoretically present a spin polarization in a quite general form using an effective Yang-Mills field and a usual electromagnetic field. In this gauge invariant…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-18 Akihito Takeuchi , Naoto Nagaosa

We consider a spin-orbit coupled system of particles in an external trap that is represented by a deformed harmonic oscillator potential. The spin-orbit interaction is a Rashba interaction that does not commute with the trapping potential…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-06-25 O. V. Marchukov , A. G. Volosniev , D. V. Fedorov , A. S. Jensen , N. T. Zinner

Quasi--one dimensional edge channels are formed at the boundary of a two-dimensional electron system subject to a strong perpendicular magnetic field. We consider the effect of Rashba spin--orbit coupling, induced by structural inversion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Marco G. Pala , Michele Governale , Ulrich Zülicke , Giuseppe Iannaccone

We study the effects of Rashba spin-orbit coupling on two-dimensional Rydberg exciton systems. Using analytical and numerical arguments we demonstrate that this coupling considerably modifies the wave functions and leads to a level…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-23 V. A. Stephanovich , E. Ya. Sherman , N. T. Zinner , O. V. Marchukov

We study the effect of the interplay between the Rashba and the Dresselhaus spin-orbit couplings on the transverse electron focusing in two-dimensional electron gases. Depending on their relative magnitude, the presence of both couplings…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-09-19 A. A. Reynoso , Gonzalo Usaj , C. A. Balseiro

We investigate the spin accumulation effect in eccentric semiconductor multichannel rings with Rashba spin-orbit interaction and threaded by a magnetic flux. Due to the finite eccentricity, the spin polarization induced at the borders of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 L. E. Segura , M. J. Sánchez

A Rashba type spin-orbit splitting is found for quantum well states formed in ultrathin Pb films on Si(111). The resulting momentum splitting is comparable to what is found for semiconductor heterostructures. The splitting shows no coverage…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-07-01 Hugo Dil , Fabian Meier , Jorge Lobo-Checa , Luc Patthey , Gustav Bihlmayer , Juerg Osterwalder

We report direct measurements of the spin-orbit interaction induced spin-splitting in a modulation-doped GaAs two-dimensional hole system as a function of anisotropic, in-plane strain. The change in spin-subband densities reveals a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 B. Habib , J. Shabani , E. P. De Poortere , M. Shayegan , R. Winkler

A theory of the circular photogalvanic effect caused by spin splitting in quantum wells is developed. Direct interband transitions between the hole and electron size-quantized subbands are considered. The photocurrent excitation spectrum is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 L. E. Golub

The inverse Faraday effect (IFE) refers to the generation of a DC magnetization by circularly polarized light through the transfer of optical angular momentum to electronic degrees of freedom. In conducting systems, this response can arise…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-16 Jaglul Hasan , Chandan Setty

Magneto-transport properties of a two-dimensional electron gas in a chain of planar quantum rings are investigated under the Rashba spin-orbit interaction and a transverse homogeneous magnetic field. A modulation potential function models…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-30 Armen Harutyunyan

We study the effect of splitting and zitterbewegung of 1D and 2D electron wave packets in the semiconductor quantum well under the influence of the Rashba spin orbit coupling. Results of our investigations show that the spin orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 V. Ya. Demikhovskii , G. M. Maksimova , E. V. Frolova

One of the exciting features of two-dimensional (2D) materials is their electronic and optical tunability through strain engineering. Previously, we found a class of 2D ferroelectric Rashba semiconductors PbX (X = S, Se, Te) with tunable…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-06-29 Paul Z. Hanakata , A. S. Rodin , Harold S. Park , David K. Campbell , A. H. Castro Neto

Theory of Rashba spin-orbit coupling in magnetic metals is worked out from microscopic Hamiltonian describing d-orbitals. When structural inversion symmetry is broken, electron hopping between $d$-orbitals generates chiral ordering of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-07 Jin-Hong Park , Choong H. Kim , Hyun-Woo Lee , Jung Hoon Han

We discuss problem of Rashba field in bulk GaN and in GaN/AlGaN two-dimensional electron gas, basing on results of X-band microwave resonance experiments. We point at large difference in spin-orbit coupling between bulk material and…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-11-14 A. Wolos , Z. Wilamowski , C. Skierbiszewski , A. Drabinska , B. Lucznik , I. Grzegory , S. Porowski

We show that pure spin Hall current, flowing out of a four-terminal phase-coherent two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) within inversion asymmetric semiconductor heterostructure, contains contributions from both the extrinsic mechanisms…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Branislav K. Nikolic , Liviu P. Zarbo

In this letter, we investigated the Rashba effect of the CsPbBr$_3$ bilayers under the external electric field (EEF), with the first-principles calculations. For the PbBr$_2$ terminated bilayer, we found that only electrons experience the…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-07-04 Xue-Jiao Chen , Lei Liu , De-Zhen Shen