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We generalize a Landauer-type formula, using a real$\otimes$spin-space Green function technique, to treat spin-dependent transport in quantum-coherent conductors attached to two ferromagnetic contacts. The formalism is employed to study the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Branislav K. Nikolic , J. K. Freericks

The article shows a simple model that computes the magnetoconduction and the integer quantum Hall effect (IQHE) in a two-dimensional electron system (2DES) where the spin is other degree of freedom in the system. The 2DES is confined in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-13 M. A. Hidalgo , R. Cangas

We study theoretically the quantum transport properties of the Dirac fermions with spin-orbit interactions (SOIs) in graphene by using the method of Schwinger proper time together with decomposition over Landau level poles and Kubo formula.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-08-09 Kai-He Ding , Guanghui Zhou , Zhen-Gang Zhu

The quantum oscillatory magnetization M of a two-dimensional electron system in a magnetic field B is found to provide quantitative information on both the Rashba- and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interaction (SOI). This is shown by first…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-26 Marc A. Wilde , Dirk Grundler

We present a detailed microscopic theory of the conserved spin current which is introduced by us [Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{96}, 196602 (2006)] and satisfies the spin continuity equation even for spin-orbit coupled systems. The spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ping Zhang , Zhigang Wang , Junren Shi , Di Xiao , Qian Niu

We explain how Rashba spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG), or in a conventional $s$-wave superconductor, can lead to a large magnetoresistance even with one ferromagnet. However, such enhanced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-15 Chenghao Shen , Ranran Cai , Alex Matos-Abiague , Wei Han , Jong E. Han , Igor Zutic

It is well known that the Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in semiconductor two dimensional electron gases (2DEGs) possesses both linear and cubic in momentum contributions. Nevertheless, the latter is usually neglected in most…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-06 E. Santana-Suárez , F. Mireles

Rashba spin splitting in two-dimensional (2D) semiconductor systems is generally calculated in a ${\bf k} \cdot {\bf p}$ Luttinger-Kohn approach where the spin splitting due to asymmetry emerges naturally from the bulk band structure. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 L. W. van Heeringen , A. McCollam , G. A. de Wijs , A. Fasolino

We introduce a variant to the Diffusion Monte Carlo algorithm that can be employed to study the effects of the Rashba interaction in a many electron systems. Because of the spin--orbit nature of Rashba interaction a standard algorithm…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 A. Ambrosetti , F. Pederiva , E. Lipparini , S. Gandolfi

Explicit dependencies of the local density of states and the magnetization local density of states have been obtained around magnetic point defects in a two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit interaction . The expressions are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-14 N. V. Khotkevych , Yu. A. Kolesnichenko , J. M. van Ruitenbeek

Graphene-based van der Waals heterostructures take advantage of tailoring spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in the graphene layer by proximity effect. At long-wavelength -- saddled by the electronic states near the Dirac points -- the proximitized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-22 Wun-Hao Kang , Michael Barth , Aitor Garcia-Ruiz , Alina Mreńca-Kolasińska , Ming-Hao Liu , Denis Kochan

New exact and asymptotical results for the one particle Green's function of 2D electrons with combined Rashba - Dresselhaus spin - orbit interaction in the presence of in-plane uniform magnetic field are presented. A special case that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-01 I. V. Kozlov , Yu. A. Kolesnichenko

The response of a 2D electron system to a DC measurement electric field has been investigated in the case when the system is driven out of the equilibrium by the magnetic ultra-high frequency field that leads to combined transitions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 I. I. Lyapilin , A. E. Patrakov

We study a tight binding model including both on site disorder and coupling of the electrons to randomly oriented magnetic moments. The transport properties are calculated via the Kubo-Greenwood scheme, using the exact eigenstates of the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-11 Sanjeev Kumar , Pinaki Majumdar

The intrinsic spin Hall conductivity in a two dimensional electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit coupling is evaluated by taking account of anisotropic coupling between magnetic impurities and itinerant electrons. In our calculation Kubo's…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Pei Wang , You-Quan Li , Xuean Zhao

We investigate the effect of Rashba spin-orbit coupling (SOC) on the optoelectronic properties of n- and p-type monolayer MoS2. The optical conductivity is calculated within the Kubo formalism. We find that the spin-flip transitions enabled…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-17 Y. M. Xiao , W. Xu , B. Van Duppen , F. M. Peeters

We calculate spin Hall conductivities in the two dimensional electron systems with Rashba spin-orbit interaction. The salient feature is that, apart from the usual spin-Hall conductivity \sigma^z_{xy} which corresponds to the induction of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ankur Sensharma , Sudhansu S. Mandal

We study electron transport through waveguides (WGs) in which the strengths of the Rashba ($\alpha$) and Dresselhaus ($\beta$) terms of the spin-orbit interaction (SOI) vary in space. Subband mixing, due to lateral confinement, is taken…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 P. M. Krstajic , E. Rezasoltani , P. Vasilopoulos

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 evaluate the distribution of Hall conductances in magnetic subbands of two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit (SO) coupling placed in a periodic potential and perpendicular magnetic field. In this semiconductor structure the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 V. Ya. Demikhovskii , A. A. Perov