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A novel method and nanodevice are introduced that allows to rotate the single electron spin confined in a gated electrostatic InSb nanowire quantum dot. Proposed method does not require application of any (oscillating or static) external…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-22 J. Pawłowski , P. Szumniak , S. Bednarek

A fully microscopic theory of electron spin relaxation by the D'yakonov-Perel' type spin-orbit coupling is developed for a semiconductor quantum well with a magnetic field applied in the growth direction of the well. We derive the Bloch…

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Spin-charge interconversion is currently the focus of intensive experimental and theoretical research both for its intrinsic interest and for its potential exploitation in the realization of new spintronic functionalities. Spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-04 Amin Maleki , Roberto Raimondi

In these lecture notes we study the disordered two-dimensional electron gas in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit coupling, by using the Keldysh non-equilibrium Green function technique. We describe the effects of the spin-orbit coupling in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-23 Roberto Raimondi , Cosimo Gorini , Sebastian Tölle

Motivated by the remarkable experimental control of synthetic gauge fields in ultracold atomic systems, we investigate the effect of an artificial Rashba spin-orbit coupling on the spin polarization of a two-dimensional repulsive Fermi gas.…

In this work we study interacting electrons on square lattice in the presence of strong Rashba spin-orbit interaction. The spin-orbit term forces the time-reversal electron states to be paired in even Cooper channels. For concreteness, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-03-27 Rasoul Ghadimi , Mehdi Kargarian , S. Akbar Jafari

How does an initially homogeneous spin-polarization in a confined two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit coupling evolve in time? How does the relaxation time depend on system size? We study these questions for systems of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter Schwab , Michael Dzierzawa , Cosimo Gorini , Roberto Raimondi

We develop a theory of designing slit experiments in two-dimensional electron systems with the Rashba spin-orbit interaction. By simulating the spatiotemporal dynamics of electrons passing through a single slit or a double slit, we find…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-22 Kotaro Shimizu , Masahito Mochizuki

We evaluate the charge and longitudinal spin response functions of a two-dimensional electron gas with $e^2/r$ interactions in an arbitrary state of spin polarization, using a structurally self-consistent approach to treat exchange and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-24 B. Davoudi , M. P. Tosi

We performed path integral simulations of spin evolution controlled by the Rashba spin-orbit interaction in the semiclassical regime for chaotic and regular quantum dots. The spin polarization dynamics have been found to be strikingly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Cheng-Hung Chang , A. G. Mal'shukov , K. A. Chao

We report a large and unexpected suppression of the free electron spin relaxation in lightly-doped n-GaAs bulk crystals. The spin relaxation rate shows weak mobility dependence and saturates at a level 30 times less then that predicted by…

We investigate the magnetoelectric (or inverse spin-galvanic) effect in the two dimensional electron gases with both Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling using an exact solution of the Boltzmann equation for electron spin and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Maxim Trushin , John Schliemann

We investigate mesoscopic fluctuations in the spin polarization generated by a static electric field and by Rashba spin-orbit interaction in a disordered 2D electron gas. In a diagrammatic approach we find that the out-of-plane polarization…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-12-08 Mathias Duckheim , Daniel Loss

We investigate systematically how the interplay between Rashba spin-orbit interaction and Zeeman coupling affects the electron transport and the spin dynamics in InGaAs-based 2D electron gases. From the quantitative analysis of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 F. E. Meijer , A. F. Morpurgo , T. M. Klapwijk , T. Koga , J. Nitta

The influence of the Rashba spin-orbit coupling on the electron spin dynamics is investigated for a ballistic semiconductor quantum wire with a finite width. We monitor the spin evolution using the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Manuel Valin-Rodriguez , Antonio Puente , Llorens Serra

We calculate orbital spin-dependent magnetization in a two-dimensional electron gas with spin-orbit interaction of Rashba type. Such an orbital magnetization is admitted by the time-reversal symmetry of the system, and gives rise to spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-09 A. Dyrdał , V. K. Dugaev , J. Barnaś

An alternating electric field, applied to a quantum dot, couples to the electron spin via the spin-orbit interaction. We analyze different types of spin-orbit coupling known in the literature and find two efficient mechanisms of spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Vitaly N. Golovach , Massoud Borhani , Daniel Loss

We investigate the effect of strong spin-orbit interaction on the electronic transport through non-magnetic impurities in one-dimensional systems. When a perpendicular magnetic field is applied, the electron spin polarization becomes…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 R. G. Pereira , E. Miranda

We theoretically investigate photoinduced phenomena induced by time-periodic driving fields in two-dimensional electron gases under perpendicular magnetic fields with Rashba spin-orbit coupling. Using perturbation theory, we provide…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-23 Daniel Hernangómez-Pérez , Juan Daniel Torres , Alexander López