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We investigate intersubband mixing effects in multichannel quantum wires in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit coupling and attached to two terminals. When the contacts are ferromagnetic and their magnetization direction is perpendicular to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-29 M. M. Gelabert , Llorens Serra , David Sanchez , Rosa Lopez

We report an unconventional behavior of electron transport in the limit of zero magnetic flux in a one-dimensional disordered ring, be it completely random or any correlated one, subjected to Rashba spin-orbit (SO) coupling. It exhibits…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-20 Moumita Patra , Santanu K. Maiti

We investigate the production of spin-polarized currents in corrugated graphene nanoribbons. Such corrugations are modeled as multiple regions with Rashba spin-orbit interactions, where concave and convex curvatures are treated as Rashba…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-08 Hernán Santos , A. Latgé , L. Brey , Leonor Chico

Spin-orbit coupling is increasingly seen as a rich source of novel phenomena, as shown by the recent excitement around topological insulators and Rashba effects. We here show that the addition of ferroelectric degrees of freedom to a…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-11-03 Evgeny Plekhanov , Paolo Barone , Domenico Di Sante , Silvia Picozzi

We use $\vec{k}\cdot\vec{p}$ theory to estimate the Rashba spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in large semiconductor nanowires. We specifically investigate GaAs- and InSb-based devices with different gate configurations to control symmetry and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-11 Paweł Wójcik , Andrea Bertoni , Guido Goldoni

We derive the eigenenergies and eigenstates of electrons in a quantum wire subjected to an external magnetic field. These are calculated in the presence of spin orbit interactions arising from the Rashba (structural inversion asymmetry) and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Bandyopadhyay , S. Pramanik , M. Cahay

We perform a numerical study on the spin-resolved transport in a quantum wire (QW) under the modulation of both Rashba spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and a perpendicular magnetic field (MF) by adopting the developed Usuki transfer-matrix method…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-06-13 Xianbo Xiao , Zhaoxia Chen , Wenjie Nie , Guanghui Zhou , Fei Li

We study theoretically the spin relaxation rate in quasi-one-dimensional coupled double semiconductor quantum dots. We consider InSb and GaAs-based systems in the presence of the Rashba spin-orbit interaction, which causes mixing of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 C. L. Romano , P. I. Tamborenea , S. E. Ulloa

Ferromagnetic materials are the widely used source of spin-polarized electrons in spintronic devices, which are controlled by external magnetic fields or spin-transfer torque methods. However, with increasing demand for smaller and faster…

Ballistic electrons confined to a billiard and subject to spin--orbit coupling of the Rashba type are investigated, using both approximate semiclassical and exact quantum--mechanical methods. We focus on the low--energy part of the spectrum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 József Cserti , András Csordás , Ulrich Zülicke

There is controversy as to whether a one-dimensional (1D) electron gas can spin polarise in the absence of a magnetic field. Together with a simple model, we present conductance measurements on ultra low-disorder quantum wires supportive of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 D. J. Reilly , T. M. Buehler , J. L. O'Brien , A. R. Hamilton , A. S. Dzurak , R. G. Clark , B. E. Kane , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West

We propose a scheme of spin transistor using a $T$-shaped structure with local Rashba interaction. A wide antiresonance energy gap appears due to the interplay of two types of interference, the Fano-Rashba interference and the structure…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-05-08 K. Shen , M. W. Wu

We investigate a novel way to manipulate the spin polarized transmission in a two terminal zigzag graphene nanoribbon in presence of Rashba spin-orbit (SO) interaction with circular shaped cavity engraved into it. A usual technique to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-13 Sudin Ganguly , Saurabh Basu , Santanu K. Maiti

We theoretically studied the in-plane tunneling spectroscopy of the hybrid structure composed of a metal and a semiconductor with Rashba spin-orbit coupling. We found that the energy spacing between two distinct features in the conductance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-05-28 B Srisongmuang , P Pairor , M Berciu

We investigate a possibility of pair electron-electron e-e collisions in a ballistic wire with spin-orbit coupling and only one populated mode. Unlike in a spin-degenerate system, a combination of spin-splitting in momentum space with a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-12 V. S. Khrapai , K. E. Nagaev

We investigate the effect of Rashba spin-orbit coupling and of a tunnel barrier on the zero conduc- tance resonances appearing in a one-dimensional conducting Aharonov-Bohm (AB) ring symmet- rically coupled to two leads. The transmission…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Citro , F. Romeo , M. Marinaro

We report conductance measurements of a ballistic one-dimensional (1D) wire defined in the lower two-dimensional electron gas of a GaAs/AlGaAs double quantum well. At low temperatures there is an additional structure at $0.7(2e^2/h)$ in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 K. J. Thomas , J. T. Nicholls , M. Pepper , W. R. Tribe , M. Y. Simmons , D. A. Ritchie

The manipulation of Rashba-type spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in molecular beam epitaxy-grown Al$_x$In$_{1-x}$Sb/InSb/CdTe quantum well heterostructures is reported. The effective band bending provides robust two-dimensional quantum…

We examine spin-dependent displacement of a single electron, resulting in separation and relocation of the electron wavefunction components, and thus charge parts, corresponding to opposite spins. This separation is induced by a pulse of an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-26 J. Pawłowski , G. Skowron , M. Górski , S. Bednarek

We study the energy levels of non-interacting electrons confined to move in two-dimensional billiard regions and having a spin-dependent dynamics due to a finite Rashba spin splitting. The Green's function for such Rashba billiards is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 András Csordás , József Cserti , András Pályi , Ulrich Zülicke