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We investigate the existence of the pure spin ratchet effect in a dissipative quasi-one-dimensional system with Rashba spin-orbit interaction. The system is additionally placed into a transverse uniform stationary in-plane magnetic field.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-01-14 Sergey Smirnov , Dario Bercioux , Milena Grifoni , Klaus Richter

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

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

We present a detailed theory of induced persistent current produced by hyperfine interaction in mesoscopic rings based on a 2D-electron (hole) gas in the absence of external magnetic field. The persistent current emerges due to combined…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-26 V. A. Cherkaskiy , S. N. Shevchenko , A. S. Rozhavsky , I. D. Vagner

Associated with spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and inversion symmetry breaking, Rashba spin polarization opens a new avenue for spintronic applications that was previously limited to ordinary magnets. However, spin polarization effects in actual…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-10-12 Qihang Liu , Xiuwen Zhang , J. A. Waugh , D. S. Dessau , Alex Zunger

We study the effect of Rashba spin-orbit interaction on the Josephson current through a double quantum dot in presence of Coulomb repulsion. In particular, we describe the characteristic effects on the magnetic-field induced singlet-triplet…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-27 Stephanie Droste , Sabine Andergassen , Janine Splettstoesser

We have calculated the spin-polarization effects of a current in a two dimensional electron gas which is contacted by two ferromagnetic metals. In the purely diffusive regime, the current may indeed be spin-polarized. However, for a typical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 G. Schmidt , L. W. Molenkamp , A. T. Filip , B. J. van Wees

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

The spin Edelstein effect has proven to be a promising phenomenon to generate spin polarization from a charge current in systems without inversion symmetry. In recent years, a current-induced orbital magnetization, called orbital Edelstein…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-17 Sergio Leiva M. , Jürgen Henk , Ingrid Mertig , Annika Johansson

This work reports the theoretical investigation into the mechanism underpinning the anomalous Josephson effect. The prototypical system we study is a ballistic two-dimensional junction containing a two-dimensional Rashba spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-11 Ross D. Monaghan , Giuseppe C. Tettamanzi

Anomalous and spin Hall effects are investigated theoretically for a magnetic tunnel junction where the applied voltage produces a Rashba spin-or bit coupling within the tunneling barrier layer. The ferromagnetic electrodes are the source…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-16 A. V. Vedyayev , M. S. Titova , N. V. Ryzhanova , M. Ye. Zhuravlev , E. Y. Tsymbal

In order to model the phase-coherent scattering of electrons in two-dimensional electron gases in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit coupling, a general partial-wave expansion is developed for scattering from a cylindrically symmetric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Jamie D. Walls , Jian Huang , Robert M. Westervelt , Eric J. Heller

The quantum transmission problem for a particle moving in a quantum point contact in the presence of a Rashba spin-orbit interaction and applied magnetic field is solved semiclassically. A strong Rashba interaction and parallel magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-19 Tommy Li

Using the Green function formalism we calculate a current-induced spin polarization of weakly magnetized graphene with Rashba spin-orbit interaction. In a general case, all components of the current-induced spin polarization are nonzero,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-13 A. Dyrdal , J. Barnas

In 1984, Bychkov and Rashba introduced a simple form of spin-orbit coupling to explain certain peculiarities in the electron spin resonance of two-dimensional semiconductors. Over the past thirty years, similar ideas have been leading to a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-02 A. Manchon , H. C. Koo , J. Nitta , S. M. Frolov , R. A. Duine

Spin accumulation in a 2D electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit interaction subject to an electric field can take place without bulk spin currents (edge spin Hall effect). This is demonstrated for the collisional regime using the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 E. B. Sonin

We consider a thin-film normal metal/superconductor junction in the presence of an externally applied in-plane magnetic field for several symmetries of the superconducting order parameter. For p-wave superconductors, a strongly…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 Jacob Linder , Takehito Yokoyama , Yukio Tanaka , Asle Sudbø

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

Efficient manipulation of magnetic order with electric current pulses is desirable for achieving fast spintronic devices. The Rashba-Edelstein effect, wherein a spin polarization is electrically induced in noncentrosymmetric systems,…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-01 Leandro Salemi , Marco Berritta , Ashis K. Nandy , Peter M. Oppeneer

We report on the quantum interference and spin accumulation on double quantum dots with Rashba spin-orbit coupling and electron-electron interaction, based on the Keldysh nonequilibrium Green function formalism. It is shown that Rashba…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Kuo-Wei Chen , Ching-Ray Chang