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We investigate spin transport of heavy holes in III-V semiconductor quantum wells in the presence of spin-orbit coupling of the Rashba type due to structure-inversion asymmetry. Similarly to the case of electrons, the longitudinal spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 John Schliemann , Daniel Loss

We study the spin current induced spin-Hall effect that a longitudinal spin dependent chemical potential $qV_{s=x,y,z}$ induces a transverse spin conductances $G^{ss'}$. A four terminal system with Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yanxia Xing , Qing-feng Sun , Jian Wang

It is widely believed that the skyrmion Hall effect is absent in antiferromagnets because of the vanishing topological charge. However, the Aharonov-Casher theory indicates the possibility of topological effects for neutral particles. In…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-08 Zhejunyu Jin , Zhaozhuo Zeng , Yunshan Cao , Peng Yan

Using four-terminal Landauer-B\"{u}ttiker formalism and Green's function technique, in this present paper, we calculate numerically spin Hall conductance (SHC) and longitudinal conductance of a finite size kagome lattice with Rashba…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-31 Moumita Dey , Santanu K. Maiti , S. N. Karmakar

In this contribution, we start off from a fully relativistic description of a single electron non-minimally coupled to an external electromagnetic field. Making direct use of the field equation, instead of canonically deriving from the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-24 Rodrigo Turcati , Carlos Andres Bonilla Quintero , José Abdalla Helayël-Neto , Enrique Arias

We study the extra term of particle current in a 2D k-cubic Rashba spin-orbit coupling system and the integer quantization of the Hall conductance in this system. We provide a correct formula of charge current in this system and the careful…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-06-23 Yi Li , Tianxing Ma , Ruibao Tao

Spin Hall effect (SHE), a fundamental transport phenomenon with non-zero spin current but vanishing charge current, has important applications in spintronics for the electrical control of spins. Owing to the half-spin nature of electrons,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-03 Junpeng Hou , Ying Su , Chuanwei Zhang

The charge and spin Hall conductance of the two-dimensional hole gas within the Luttinger model with and without inversion symmetry breaking terms in a perpendicular magnetic field are studied, and two key phenomena are predicted. The sign…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Tianxing Ma , Qin Liu

Starting from the Kubo formula, we expand the Hall conductivity using a cumulant approach which converges quickly at high temperatures (k_BT > energy differences of initial and final scattering states) and can be extended to low…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-10-18 Louis-François Arsenault , B. Movaghar

Breaking of time-reversal and point-group spatial symmetries can have a profound impact on superconductivity. One of the most extraordinary effects, due to the application of a magnetic field, is represented by the Abrikosov vortices with…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-04-21 Maria Teresa Mercaldo , Carmine Ortix , Francesco Giazotto , Mario Cuoco

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

The generation of spin current and spin polarization in a 2DEG structure is studied in the presence of Dresselhaus and Rashba spin-orbit couplings (SOC), the strength of the latter being modulated in time by an ac gate voltage. By means of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-11 Cong Son Ho , Mansoor B. A. Jalil , Seng Ghee Tan

The spin Hall effect (SHE) is normally discussed in terms of a spin current, which is ill-defined in strongly spin-orbit-coupled systems because of spin non-conservation. In this work we propose an alternative view of SHE phenomena by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-16 Hua Chen , Qian Niu , Allan H. MacDonald

We study the quantum interference effects induced by the Aharonov-Casher phase in asymmetrically confined two-dimensional electron and heavy-hole ring structures systems taking into account the electrically tunable spin-orbit (SO)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-17 M. F. Borunda , Xin Liu , Alexey A. Kovalev , Xiong-Jun Liu , T. Jungwirth , Jairo Sinova

We investigate the persistent currents and magnetization of a mesoscopic system consisting of two clean metallic rings sharing a single contact point in a magnetic field. Many novel features with respect to the single-ring geometry are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Y. Avishai , J. M. Luck

We propose an approach based on the generalized quantum mechanics to deal with the basic features of the spin Hall effect. We begin by considering two decoupled harmonic oscillators on the noncommutative plane and determine the solutions of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-04-01 Kamal El Asli , Rachid Houca , Ahmed Jellal

The Aharonov-Bohm effect is the prime example of a zero-field-strength configuration where a non-trivial vector potential acquires physical significance, a typical quantum mechanical effect. We consider an extension of the traditional A-B…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-02-16 Fabio Franchini , Alfred Scharff Goldhaber

The phenomenon of mesoscopic Spin-Hall effect reveals in a nonequilibrium spin accumulation (driven by electric current) at the edges of a ballistic conductor or, more generally, in the regions with varying electron density. In this paper…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-12-24 P. G. Silvestrov , E. G. Mishchenko

In a two dimensional electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit coupling, the external electric field may cause a spin Hall current in the direction perpendicular to the electric field. This effect was called the intrinsic spin Hall effect. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Xiaohua Ma , Liangbin Hu , Ruibao Tao , Shun-Qing Shen

Quantum-mechanical theory for scattering of nonrelativistic charged particles with spin by a penetrable magnetic vortex is elaborated. The scattering differential cross section is shown to consist of two terms, one describing diffraction on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-18 Yurii A. Sitenko