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A two dimensional hopping system with Rashba spin-orbit interaction is considered. Our main interest is concerned with the evolution of the spin degree of freedom of the electrons. We derive the rate equations governing the evolution of the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 T. Damker , H. Boettger , V. V. Bryksin

Spin-Hall effect in ballistic 2D electron gas with Rashba-type spin-orbit coupling and smooth edge confinement is studied. We predict that the interplay of semiclassical electron motion and quantum dynamics of spins leads to several…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-05-15 P. G. Silvestrov , V. A. Zyuzin , E. G. Mishchenko

We show that Rashba spin-orbit coupling may result in an energy gap in the spectrum of electrons in a two-mode quantum wire if a suitable confining potential is chosen. This leads to a dip in the conductance and a spike in the spin current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-03 K. E. Nagaev , A. S. Goremykina

A nonequilibrium Green's functions approach to spin-Hall effect is developed in a diffusive two-dimensional electron system with Rashba spin-orbit interaction. In the presence of long-range impurities, the coupled quantum kinetic equations…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Y. Liu , X. L. Lei

Changes dopant ion concentrations in the sides of a symmetric quantum well are known to create a random Rashba-type spin-orbit coupling. Here we demonstrate that, as a consequence, a finite size spin-Hall effect is also present. Our…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. P. Moca , D. C. Marinescu , S. Filip

We study transport properties of a two-dimensional electron system with Rashba spin-orbit coupling in a perpendicular magnetic field. The spin orbit coupling competes with Zeeman splitting to introduce additional degeneracies between…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Shun-Qing Shen , Michael Ma , X. C. Xie , Fu Chun Zhang

We study the local equilibrium properties of two-dimensional electron gases at high magnetic fields in the presence of random smooth electrostatic disorder, Rashba spin-orbit coupling, and the Zeeman interaction. Using a systematic magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-29 Daniel Hernangomez-Perez , Serge Florens , Thierry Champel

Within the Kubo formalism, we estimate the spin-Hall conductivity in a two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit interaction and study its variation as a function of disorder strength and system size. The numerical algorithm…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. P. Moca , D. C. Marinescu

We calculate the spin-Hall conductivity of a disordered two-dimensional Rashba electron gas within the self-consistent Born approximation and for arbitrary values of the electron density, parametrized by the ratio $E_F /E_0$, where $E_F$ is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 C. Grimaldi , E. Cappelluti , F. Marsiglio

The intrinsic spin-Hall effect on spin accumulation and electric conductance in a diffusive regime of a 2D electron gas has been studied for a 2D strip of a finite width. It is shown that the spin polarization near the flanks of the strip,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. G. Mal'shukov , L. Y. Wang , C. S. Chu , K. A. Chao

We investigate the intrinsic spin Hall effect in two-dimensional electron gases in quantum wells with two subbands, where a new intersubband-induced spin-orbit coupling is operative. The bulk spin Hall conductivity $\sigma^z_{xy}$ is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-15 Minchul Lee , Marco O. Hachiya , E. Bernardes , J. Carlos Egues , Daniel Loss

The spin Hall effect is investigated in a two-orbital tight-binding model on a honeycomb lattice. We show that the model exhibits three topologically-different insulating phases at half filling, which are distinguished by different…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-04-15 Satoru Hayami , Hiroaki Kusunose , Yukitoshi Motome

We use numerical simulations to investigate the spin Hall effect in quantum wires in the presence of both Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling. We find that the intrinsic spin Hall effect is highly anisotropic with respect to the…

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

Quasi--one dimensional edge channels are formed at the boundary of a two-dimensional electron system subject to a strong perpendicular magnetic field. We consider the effect of Rashba spin--orbit coupling, induced by structural inversion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Marco G. Pala , Michele Governale , Ulrich Zülicke , Giuseppe Iannaccone

We consider spin Hall effect in a system of massless Dirac fermions in a graphene lattice. Two types of spin-orbit interaction, pertinent to the graphene lattice, are taken into account - the intrinsic and Rashba terms. Assuming perfect…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-14 A. Dyrdal , V. K. Dugaev , J. Barnas

We study the spin-dependent electronic transport through a one-dimensional ballistic quantum wire in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit interaction. In particular, we consider the effect of the spin-orbit interaction resulting from the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. E. Birkholz , V. Meden

We study the star lattice with Rashba spin-orbit coupling and exchange field and find that there exists the quantum anomalous Hall effect in this system and there are five energy gaps at Dirac points and quadratic band crossing points. We…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-07-24 Mengsu Chen , Shaolong Wan

We investigate the ballistic electron transport in a two dimensional Quantum Wire under the action of an electric field ($E_y$). We demonstrate how the presence of a Spin Orbit coupling, due to the uniform electric confinement field gives a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Bellucci , P. Onorato

We study the effect of disorder on the intrinsic anomalous Hall (AH) conductivity in a spin-polarized two-dimensional electron gas with a Rashba-type spin-orbit interaction. We find that AH conductivity vanishes unless the lifetime is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Jun-ichiro Inoue , Takashi Kato , Yasuhito Ishikawa , Hiroyoshi Itoh , Gerrit E. W. Bauer , Laurens W. Molenkamp

The Kubo formula is used to calculate the spin-Hall conductivity in a spin-polarized two-dimensional electron system with Rashba-type spin-orbit interaction. As in the case of the unpolarized electron system, spin Hall conductivity is…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 C. P. Moca , D. C. Marinescu