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The presence of edge channels in the quantum Hall regime leads to dissipationless charge transport over long distances. When graphene is interfaced with a magnetic material, the exchange interaction lifts the Landau levels spin degeneracy.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 Maxen Cosset-Chéneau , Boxuan Yang , Bart J. van Wees

We study the influence of the phase relaxation process on Hall resistance and spin Hall current of a mesoscopic two-dimensional (2D) four-terminal Hall cross-bar with or without Rashba spin-orbit interaction (SOI) in a perpendicular uniform…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yanxia Xing , Qing-feng Sun , Jian Wang

We investigate the spin-polarized transport properties of a two-dimensional electron gas in a n-type diluted magnetic narrow gap semiconductor quantum well subjected to a perpendicular magnetic and electric field. Interesting beating…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. Yang , Kai Chang , X. G. Wu , H. Z. Zheng , F. M. Peeters

Strong interest has arisen recently on low-dimensional systems with strong spin-orbit interaction due to their peculiar properties of interest for some spintronic applications. Here, the time evolution of the electron spin polarization of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 C. Grimaldi

We analyze the dynamics of the helical edge modes of a quantum spin Hall state in the presence of a spatially non-uniform Rashba spin-orbit (SO) interaction. A randomly fluctuating Rashba SO coupling is found to open a scattering channel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-07-01 Anders Ström , Henrik Johannesson , G. I. Japaridze

We show that a spin-polarized Landau level in a two-dimensional electron gas can carry a spin-triplet supercurrent between two spin-singlet superconductors. The supercurrent results from the interplay of Andreev reflection and Rashba…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-06-02 J. A. M. van Ostaay , A. R. Akhmerov , C. W. J. Beenakker

We analyze the contribution of the inhomogeneous magnetic field induced by an electrical current to the spin Hall effect in metals. The Zeeman coupling between the field and the electron spin leads to a spin dependent force, and to spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-18 A. Hernando , F. Guinea , M. A. Garcia

A useful experimental signature of the ordinary spin Hall effect is the spin accumulation it produces at the sample edges. The superspin Hall current [Phys. Rev. B 96, 094512 (2017)] is a transverse equilibrium spin current which is induced…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-05-15 Vetle Risinggård , Jacob Linder

We provide a theoretical framework for the electric field control of the electron spin in systems with diffusive electron motion. The approach is valid in the experimentally important case where both intrinsic and extrinsic spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-10 R. Raimondi , P. Schwab

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

It is shown that the interplay of long-range disorder and in-plane magnetic field gives rise to an out-of-plane spin polarization and a finite spin Hall conductivity of the two-dimensional electron gas in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Milletari' , R. Raimondi , P. Schwab

We demonstrate that flow of longitudinal unpolarized current through a ballistic two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit coupling will induce nonequilibrium spin accumulation which has opposite sign for the two lateral edges and…

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

We investigate the spin-current linear response conductivity tensor to an electric field in a paramagnetic two dimensonal electron gas with both Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling in the weak scattering regime. In the ususal case…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 N. A. Sinitsyn , E. M. Hankiewicz , W. Teizer , Jairo Sinova

Equilibrium spin-current is calculated in a quasi-two-dimensional electron gas with finite thickness under in-plane magnetic field and in the presence of Rashba- and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interactions. The transverse confinement is modeled…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 E. Nakhmedov , O. Alekperov

We calculate the persistent spin current inside a quantum ring as a function of the strength of the Rashba or Dresselhaus spin-orbit interaction. We provide analytical results for the spin current of a one-dimensional (1D) ring of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-21 Thorsten Arnold , Chi-Shung Tang , Andrei Manolescu , Vidar Gudmundsson

We apply polarization resolved photoluminescence spectroscopy to measure the spin polarization of a two dimensional electron gas in perpendicular magnetic field. In the vicinity of filling factor nu=5/2, we observe a sharp discontinuity in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 M. Stern , P. Plochocka , V. Umansky , D. K. Maude , M. Potemski , I. Bar-Joseph

We consider the magnetic response of a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) with a spin-orbit interaction to a long-wave-length electromagnetic excitation. We observe that the transverse electric field creates spin polarization perpendicular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander Shnirman , Ivar Martin

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

We study dynamics of electrons in a magnetic field using a network model with two channels per link with random mixing in a random intrachannel potential; the channels represent either two Landau levels or two spin states. We consider…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-28 V. Kagalovsky , B. Horovitz , Y. Avishai

Based on spin-charge coupled drift-diffusion equations, which are derived from kinetic equations for the spin-density matrix in a rigorous manner, the electric-field-induced nonequilibrium spin polarization is treated for a two-dimensional…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Kleinert , V. V. Bryksin