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While the helical character of the edge channels responsible for charge transport in the quantum spin Hall regime of a two-dimensional topological insulator is by now well established, an experimental confirmation that the transport in the…

We show that a two-dimensional spin-orbit-coupled system in the presence of a charge/spin-density wave with a wave-vector perpendicular to an applied electric field supports bulk manifestations of the direct/inverse spin-Hall effect. We…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-03-15 Brandon Anderson , Tudor D. Stanescu , Victor Galitski

We study the spin edge states, induced by the combined effect of spin-orbit interaction (SOI) and hard-wall confining potential, in a two-dimensional electron system, exposed to a perpendicular magnetic field. We find an exact solution of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-29 V. L. Grigoryan , A. Matos Abiague , S. M. Badalyan

We propose a mechanism of spin Hall effect in two-dimensional electron gas with spatially random Rashba spin-orbit interaction. The calculations based on the Kubo formalism and kinetic equation show that in contrast to the constant…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 V. K. Dugaev , M. Inglot , E. Ya. Sherman , J. Barnas

We consider stationary spin current in a (110)-oriented GaAs-based symmetric quantum well due to a nonlinear response to an external periodic electric field. The model assumed includes the Dresselhaus spin-orbit interaction and the random…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-30 V. I. Ivanov , V. K. Dugaev , E. Ya. Sherman , J. Barnas

The spin filtering effect of the electron current in a double-barrier resonant-tunneling diode (RTD) consisting of ZnMnSe semimagnetic layers has been studied theoretically. The influence of the distribution of the magnesium ions on the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 N. N. Beletskii , G. P. Berman , S. A. Borysenko

Current-induced spin polarization in a two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit interaction is considered theoretically in terms of the Matsubara Green functions. This formalism allows to describe temperature dependence of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-06-14 A. Dyrdal , J. Barnas , V. K. Dugaev

We study the dynamics of a quantum spin Hall edge coupled to a magnet with its own dynamics. Using spin transfer torque principles, we analyze the interplay between spin currents in the edge state and dynamics of the axis of the magnet, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-11 Qinglei Meng , Smitha Vishveshwara , Taylor L. Hughes

We investigate the local spin polarization texture of Landau levels under Rashba spin-orbit coupling in bulk two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) systems. In order to analyze the spin polarization as a function of two-dimensional coordinates…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-06-25 T. Fujita , M. B. A. Jalil , S. G. Tan , F. Wan

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

We consider a disordered two-dimensional electron gas with spin-orbit coupling placed in a perpendicular magnetic field and calculate the magnitude and direction of the electric-field-induced spin polarization. We find that in strong…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 M. G. Vavilov

With recent advances in simulating quantum phenomena in cold atoms, the higher-rank spin tensor Hall effect was discovered in larger spin systems with spin-tensor-momentum coupling, which is an extension of the celebrated spin Hall effects…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-05 Xiaoru He , Ling-Zheng Meng , Junpeng Hou , Xi-Wang Luo , Ya-Jie Wu

We consider a mesoscopic {\it ballistic} structure with Rashba spin-orbit splitting of the electron spectrum. The ballistic region is attached to the leads with a voltage applied between them. We calculate the edge spin density which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Alexander Khaetskii , Eugene Sukhorukov

The current-induced spin polarization and momentum-dependent spin-orbit field were measured in In$_{x}$Ga$_{1-x}$As epilayers with varying indium concentrations and silicon doping densities. Samples with higher indium concentrations and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 M. Luengo-Kovac , S. Huang , D. Del Gaudio , J. Occena , R. S. Goldman , R. Raimondi , V. Sih

We consider the effect of contact interaction in a prototypical quantum spin Hall system of pseudo-spin-1/2 particles. A strong effective magnetic field with opposite directions for the two spin states restricts two-dimensional particle…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-02-18 O. Fialko , J. Brand , U. Zuelicke

We present a general theory for the equilibrium current distribution in an interacting two-dimensional electron gas subjected to a perpendicular magnetic field, and confined by a potential that varies slowly on the scale of the magnetic…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 Michael R. Geller , Giovanni Vignale

The understanding of the fundamentals of spin and charge densities and currents interconversion by spin-orbit coupling can enable efficient applications beyond the possibilities offered by conventional electronics. For this purpose we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 Amin Maleki Sheikhabadi , Iryna Miatka , E. Ya. Sherman , Roberto Raimondi

For the spin Hall effect arising from strong band-structure spin-orbit coupling, a semiclassical Boltzmann theory reasonably addressing the intriguing disorder effect called side-jump is still absent. In this paper we describe such a theory…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-27 Cong Xiao

We observe a dramatic reduction in the degree of spin-polarization of a two-dimensional electron gas in a magnetic field when the Fermi energy moves off the mid-point of the spin-gap of the lowest Landau level, $\nu=1$. This rapid decay of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 E. H. Aifer , B. B. Goldberg , D. A. Broido

The non-linear transport of charge and spin due to the emergence of band geometric effects has garnered much interest in recent years. In this work, we show that a linear in-plane spin current vanishes, whereas a non-linear (second-order)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Srijan Chatterjee , Tarun Kanti Ghosh