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We study the effect of splitting and zitterbewegung of 1D and 2D electron wave packets in the semiconductor quantum well under the influence of the Rashba spin orbit coupling. Results of our investigations show that the spin orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 V. Ya. Demikhovskii , G. M. Maksimova , E. V. Frolova

We study collective spin excitations in two-dimensional diluted magnetic semiconductors, placed into external magnetic field. Two coupled modes of the spin waves (the electron and ion modes) are found to exist in the system along with a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 P. M. Shmakov , A. P. Dmitriev , V. Yu. Kachorovskii

We construct a novel scattering theory to investigate magnetoelectrically induced spin polarizations. Local spin polarizations generated by electric currents passing through a spin-orbit coupled mesoscopic system are measured by an external…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Ph. Jacquod

A lateral interface connecting two regions with different strengths of the Bychkov-Rashba spin-orbit interaction can be used as a spin polarizer of electrons in two dimensional semiconductor heterostructures. [Khodas \emph{et al.}, Phys.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-16 A. Shekhter , M. Khodas , A. M. Finkel'stein

One of the most fundamental properties of electromagnetism and special relativity is the coupling between the spin of an electron and its orbital motion. This is at the origin of the fine structure in atoms, the spin Hall effect in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-22 V. G. Sala , D. D. Solnyshkov , I. Carusotto , T. Jacqmin , A. Lemaître , H. Terças , A. Nalitov , M. Abbarchi , E. Galopin , I. Sagnes , J. Bloch , G. Malpuech , A. Amo

In this study, we discuss the observation of spin wave interference generated by magnetic oscillators. We employ micromagnetic simulations for two coherent spin Hall nanowire oscillators positioned nearby, horizontally or vertically. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-25 Mohammad Haidar

We report on theoretical investigations of scattering asymmetry vs. incidence of carriers through exchange barriers and magnetic tunnel junctions made of semiconductors involving spin-orbit interaction. By an analytical 2?2 spin model, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-03 T. Huong Dang , H. Jaffrès , T. L. Hoai Nguyen , H. -J. Drouhin

The Josephson tunneling through a 2D normal contact with the spin-orbit split conduction band has been studied in the diffusive regime. Linearized Usadel equations for triplet components of the pairing function revealed a striking…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. G. Mal'shukov , C. S. Chu

We undertake a theoretical study of edge spin-vortex excitations in fractional quantum Hall fluid. This is done in view of quantised Euler hydrodynamics theory. The dispersions of true excitations for fractions within $0\leq \nu \leq 1$ are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-29 M. Rabiu , S. Y. Mensah , I. Y. Seini , S. S Abukari

Spin transport properties of a coupled bilayer electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit coupling are studied. The definition of the spin currents in each layer as well as the corresponding continuity-like equations in the bilayer system are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-12-22 Pei-Qing Jin , You-Quan Li

In this article, we have discussed about the scattering of charge and spin in spin-resolved mesoscopic systems. We have proposed a method to generate and detect the entanglement of electronic spin and electronic orbital degrees of freedom.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 Bibek Bhandari

Circuit theory has been tremendously successful in translating physical equations into circuit elements in organized form for further analysis and proposing creative designs for applications. With the advent of new materials and phenomena…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 Kuntal Roy

We show that the spin-orbit interaction induced by the boundary confining potential causes opposite spin accumulations on the transverse edges in a zonal two-dimensional electron gas in the presence of external longitudinal electric field.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Yanxia Xing , Qing-feng Sun , Liang Tang , JiangPing Hu

The coupled kinetic equation for density and spin Wigner functions are derived including spin-orbit coupling, electric and magnetic field as well as selfconsistent Hartree meanfields suited for SU(2) transport. The interactions are assumed…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-12-23 K. Morawetz

Scattering of electrons from chiral spin textures such as the skyrmions is an emerging research area due to its richness in topological quantum transport, which is significant for spintronic devices. We study the dynamical process of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Hareram Swain , Arijit Mandal , S. Satpathy , B. R. K. Nanda

Polariton polarization can be described in terms of a pseudospin which can be oriented along the $x,\,y,$ or $z$ axis, similarly to electron and hole spin. Unlike electrons and holes where time-reversal symmetry requires that the spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-24 Vincent Sacksteder , A. A. Pervishko , I. A. Shelykh

Spin Hall effects interconvert spin- and charge currents due to spin-orbit interaction, which enables convenient electrical generation and detection of diffusive spin currents and even collective spin excitations in magnetic solids. Here,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-25 Matthias Benjamin Jungfleisch , Wei Zhang , Wanjun Jiang , Axel Hoffmann

Scattering theory is employed to derive a Landauer-type formula for the spin and the charge currents, through a finite region where spin-orbit interactions are effective. It is shown that the transmission matrix yields the spatial direction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 O. Entin-Wohlman , A. Aharony , Y. Tokura , Y. Avishai

The theory of spin drift and diffusion in two-dimensional electron gases is developed in terms of a random walk model incorporating Rashba, linear and cubic Dresselhaus, and intersubband spin-orbit couplings. The additional subband degree…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-20 Gerson J. Ferreira , Felix G. G. Hernandez , Patrick Altmann , Gian Salis

We study the evolution and distribution of non-equilibrium electron spin polarization in n-type semiconductors within the two-component drift-diffusion model in an applied electric field. Propagation of spin-polarized electrons through a…

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