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The effect of Rashba spin-orbit (SO) interaction on the hole states in a quantum dot is studied in the presence of an external magnetic field. We demonstrate here that the Rashba SO coupling has a profound effect on the energy spectrum of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-27 Aram Manaselyan , Tapash Chakraborty

An asymmetric triangular potential well provides the simplest model for the confinement of mobile electrons at the interface between two insulating oxides, such as LaAlO_3 and SrTiO_3 (LAO/STO). These electrons have been recently shown to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-13 Lorien H. Hayden , R. Raimondi , M. E. Flatte' , G. Vignale

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

We study theoretically the manifestation of the spin-Hall effect in a two-dimensional electronic system with Rashba spin-orbit coupling via dc-transport measurements in realistic mesoscopic H-shape structures. The Landauer-Buttiker…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. M. Hankiewicz , L. W. Molenkamp , T. Jungwirth , Jairo Sinova

We have investigated the complex two-dimensional electron system with unequal Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interactions in the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field. The spin polarizations are obtained in a wide range of magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-06 Degang Zhang , C. S. Ting

The generation, manipulation and detection of spin-polarized electrons in nanostructures define the main challenges of spin-based electronics[1]. Amongst the different approaches for spin generation and manipulation, spin-orbit coupling,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Sergio O. Valenzuela , M. Tinkham

We consider a two-dimensional electron gas in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit coupling, and study the effects of magnetic s-wave impurities and long-range non-magnetic disorder on the spin-charge dynamics of the system. We focus on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-10-30 C. Gorini , P. Schwab , M. Dzierzawa , R. Raimondi

We consider the Higgs mode at nonzero momentum in superconductors and demonstrate that in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit coupling, it couples linearly with an external exchange field. The Higgs-spin coupling dramatically modifies the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-02-10 Yao Lu , Risto Ojajärvi , P. Virtanen , M. A. Silaev , Tero T. Heikkilä

The intrinsic spin-Hall effects (SHE) in $p$-doped semiconductors [S. Murakami et al., Science 301, 1348 (2003)] and two-dimensional electron gases with Rashba spin-orbit coupling [J. Sinova et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 126603 (2004)] have…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-28 T. Fujita , M. B. A. Jalil , S. G. Tan

Pumping of charge current by spin dynamics in the presence of the Rashba spin-orbit interaction is theoretically studied. Considering disordered electron, the exchange coupling and spin-orbit interactions are treated perturbatively. It is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jun-ichiro Ohe , Akihito Takeuchi , Gen Tatara

Spin Hall effects are a collection of relativistic spin-orbit coupling phenomena in which electrical currents can generate transverse spin currents and vice versa. Although first observed only a decade ago, these effects are already…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-11-13 Jairo Sinova , Sergio O. Valenzuela , J. Wunderlich , C. H. Back , T. Jungwirth

By associating a spin-orbit interaction with a non-Abelian gauge potential, we theoretically present a spin polarization in a quite general form using an effective Yang-Mills field and a usual electromagnetic field. In this gauge invariant…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-18 Akihito Takeuchi , Naoto Nagaosa

We present both theory and numerical-computation results for the transmission and reflection probability currents of a charged particle across a potential step in the presence of a Rashba spin-orbit interaction. By varying kinetic energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-22 Po-Hsin Shih , Godfrey Gumbs , Danhong Huang , Andrii Iurov , Yonatan Abranyos

We study the spin Hall effect in the kagom\'{e} lattice with Rashba spin-orbit coupling. The conserved spin Hall conductance $\sigma_{xy}^{s}$ (see text) and its two components, i.e., the conventional term $\sigma_{xy}^{s0}$ and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Guocai Liu , Ping Zhang , Zhigang Wang , Shu-Shen Li

We show that optically excited electrons by a circularly polarized light in a semiconductor with spin-orbit coupling subject to a weak electric field will carry a Hall current transverse to the electric field. This light induced Hall effect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Xi Dai , Fu-Chun Zhang

Spin accumulation and spin transfer torques induced by Spin Hall Effect in bi-layer structures comprising ferromagnetic and paramagnetic materials are theoretically investigated. The charge and spin diffusion equations taking into account…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-15 A. Vedyayev , N. Strelkov , M. Chshiev , N. Ryzhanova , B. Dieny

Here we suggest a novel hybrid spin noise spectroscopy technique, which is sensitive to the spin Hall effect. It is shown that, while the standard spin-spin correlation function is not sensitive to the spin Hall effect, spin-transverse…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-06-24 V. A. Slipko , N. A. Sinitsyn , Y. V. Pershin

Using the recently proposed definition of a conserved spin-current operator [J. Shi et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 076604 (2006)] we explore the frequency dependent spin Hall conductivity for a two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Arturo Wong , Jesus A. Maytorena , Catalina Lopez-Bastidas , Francisco Mireles

We present a theoretical study of spin Hall phenomenon in a nanoribbon of a two-dimensional electronic system with Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling. We model the electronic system by a square lattice in real space. We show that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-18 Mohamad Usman , Tarun Kanti Ghosh , SK Firoz Islam

We show that the extrinsic spin Hall effect can be engineered in monolayer graphene by decoration with small doses of adatoms, molecules, or nanoparticles originating local spin-orbit perturbations. The analysis of the single impurity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-18 A. Ferreira , T. G. Rappoport , M. A. Cazalilla , A. H. Castro Neto