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We report on $\vec{k}\cdot\vec{p}$ calculations of Rashba spin-orbit coupling controlled by external gates in InAs/InAsP core-shell nanowires. We show that charge spilling in the barrier material allows for a stronger symmetry breaking than…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 P. Wójcik , A. Bertoni , G. Goldoni

Rashba spin-orbit coupling appears in 2D systems lacking inversion symmetry, and causes the spin-splitting of otherwise degenerate energy bands into an upper and lower helicity band. In this paper, we explore how impurity scattering affects…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-26 Joel Hutchinson , Joseph Maciejko

Spin-orbit coupling (SOC) emerging at the interfaces of superconducting magnetic tunnel junctions is at the heart of multiple unprecedented physical phenomena, covering triplet proximity effects induced by unconventional (spin-flip) Andreev…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-02-19 Andreas Costa , Jaroslav Fabian

We investigate theoretically the electronic structure and transport for a two-level quantum wire with Rashba spin-orbit coupling (SOC) under the irradiation of an external laser field at low temperatures. The photon-induced transitions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Guanghui Zhou , Wenhu Liao

We study finite system properties of the canonical low energy model for a semiconducting nanowire with Rashba spin-orbit coupling. The case of an isolated wire as well as of one proximitized by an s-wave superconductor are considered.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Nico Leumer , Harald Schmid , Milena Grifoni , Magdalena Marganska

We study the interference of two tunable Rashba regions in a quantum wire with one propagating mode. The transmission dips (Fano-Rashba dips) of the two regions either cross or anti cross depending on the distance between the two regions.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-18 A. Renart , M. M. Gelabert , L. Serra

We study the effect of spin-orbit interaction and in-plane effective magnetic field on the conductance of a quasi-one-dimensional ballistic electron system. The effective magnetic field includes the externally applied field, as well as the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-12 Yuriy V. Pershin , James A. Nesteroff , Vladimir Privman

Electronic transport in closed loop structures is addressed within a tight-binding formalism and in the presence of both the Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interactions. It has been shown that any one of the spin-orbit fields can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-30 Shreekantha Sil , Santanu K. Maiti , Arunava Chakrabarti

Using an exact diagonalization approach we show that one- and two-electron InAs quantum dots exhibit avoided crossing in the energy spectra that are induced by the spin-orbit coupling in the presence of an in-plane external magnetic field.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-01 M. P. Nowak , B. Szafran , F. M. Peeters , B. Partoens , W. Pasek

We present the effective low-energy theory for interacting 1D quantum wires subject to Rashba spin-orbit coupling. Under a one-loop renormalization group scheme including all allowed interaction processes for not too weak Rashba coupling,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-06-03 Andreas Schulz , Alessandro De Martino , Philip Ingenhoven , Reinhold Egger

We investigate theoretically the spin-dependent electron transport in a Rashba quantum wire with rough edges. The charge and spin conductances are calculated as function of the electron energy or the wire length by adopting the spinresolved…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-06 Xianbo Xiao , Huili Li , Guanghui Zhou , Nianhua Liu

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

We study the electrical conductance in single-mode quantum wires with Rashba spin-orbit interaction subjected to externally applied magnetic fields in the regime in which the ratio of spin-orbit momentum to the Fermi momentum is close to an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-17 Pavel P. Aseev , Daniel Loss , Jelena Klinovaja

We use spin- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (SARPES) combined with polarization-variable laser and investigate the spin-orbit coupling effect under interband hybridization of Rashba spin-split states for the surface alloys…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-01-26 Ryo Noguchi , Kenta Kuroda , K. Yaji , K. Kobayashi , M. Sakano , A. Harasawa , Takeshi Kondo , F. Komori , S. Shin

We study a proximity junction between a conventional s-wave superconductor and a conductor with Rashba spin-orbit coupling, with a specific focus on the spin structure of the induced pairing amplitude. We find that spin-triplet pairing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-23 Christopher R. Reeg , Dmitrii L. Maslov

The effect of Rashba spin-orbit (SO) interaction on the hole states in a quantum dot is studied in the presence of an external magnetic field. We demonstrate here that the Rashba SO coupling has a profound effect on the energy spectrum of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-27 Aram Manaselyan , Tapash Chakraborty

We consider a model of spin-gapped chains weakly coupled by Josephson and Coulomb interactions. Combining such non-perturbative methods as bosonization and Bethe ansatz to treat the intra-chain interactions with the Random Phase…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 Sam T. Carr , Alexei M. Tsvelik

We report on numerical simulations of the intrinsic spin Hall effect in semiconductor quantum wires as a function of the Rashba spin-orbit coupling strength, the electron density, and the width of the wire. We find that the strength of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-18 A. W. Cummings , R. Akis , D. K. Ferry

The spin dynamics in a quantum wire with a Rashba spin orbit interaction (SOI) is shown to be controllable via sub-picosecond electromagnetic pulses shaped appropriately. If the light polarization vector is along the wire's direction, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Zhen-Gang Zhu , Cheng-Long Jia , Jamal Berakdar

The presence of spin-orbit coupling affects the spontaneously flowing persistent currents in mesoscopic conducting rings. Here we analyze their dependence on magnetic flux with emphasis on identifying possibilities to prove the presence and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Janine Splettstoesser , Michele Governale , Ulrich Zuelicke