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We study theoretically the ultrafast spin dynamics of II-VI diluted magnetic quantum wells in the presence of spin-orbit interaction. We extend a recent study where it was shown that the spin-orbit interaction and the exchange sd coupling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 Florian Ungar , Moritz Cygorek , Pablo I. Tamborenea , V. Martin Axt

We analyze the proper inclusion of electric-field-induced spin splittings in the framework of the envelope function approximation. We argue that the Rashba effect should be included in the form of a macroscopic potential as diagonal terms…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 U. Ekenberg , D. M. Gvozdic

We develop the microscopic theory of electron spin dephasing in (110)-grown quantum wells where the electron scattering time is comparable to or exceeds the period of spin precession in the effective magnetic field caused by spin-orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 A. V. Poshakinskiy , S. A. Tarasenko

When the Rashba and Dresslhaus spin-orbit coupling are both presented for a two-dimensional electron in a perpendicular magnetic field, a striking resemblance to anisotropic quantum Rabi model in quantum optics is found. We perform a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-07-13 Rui Zhang , Yuan-Chuan Biao , Wen-Long You , Xiao-Guang Wang , Yu-Yu Zhang

GaAs-type quantum wells (QWs) with p-type valence band embedded into the resonators. The Landau quantization of the electrons and heavy-holes (hh) was investigated taking into account the Rashba spin-orbit coupling with third-order…

The spin dependent reflection in quasi-two-dimensional electron gas from an impenetrable barrier in presence of Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling is analyzed in detail. It is shown that due to spin-orbit effects the reflected beam…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-20 S. K. Pandey , T. P. Pareek

We study the disorder effect of resonant spin Hall effect in a two-dimension electron system with Rashba coupling in the presence of a tilted magnetic field. The competition between the Rashba coupling and the Zeeman coupling leads to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-04 Zhan-Feng Jiang , Shun-Qing Shen , Fu-Chun Zhang

We show that spin-flip rotation in a semiconductor quantum wire, caused by the Rashba and the Dresselhaus interactions (both of arbitrary strengths), can be suppressed by dint of an in-plane magnetic field. We found a new type of symmetry,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-05-07 R. G. Nazmitdinov , K. N. Pichugin , M. Valin-Rodriguez

The spin of a single electron in an electrically defined quantum dot in a 2DEG can be manipulated by moving the quantum dot adiabatically in a closed loop in the 2D plane under the influence of applied gate potentials. In this paper we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-26 Sanjay Prabhakar , James Raynolds , Akira Inomata , Roderick Melnik

The spin Hall effect in a finite ballistic two-dimensional system with Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interaction is studied numerically. We find that the spin Hall conductance is very sensitive to the transverse measuring location, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Yanxia Xing , Qing-feng Sun , Jian Wang

We derive the eigenenergies and eigenstates of electrons in a quantum wire subjected to an external magnetic field. These are calculated in the presence of spin orbit interactions arising from the Rashba (structural inversion asymmetry) and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Bandyopadhyay , S. Pramanik , M. Cahay

Aiming at the optimization of the spin diffusion length in (001) GaAs quantum wells, we explore the effect of the anisotropy of the spin-orbit coupling on the competition between the Rashba and the Dresselhaus spin-orbit couplings by…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 J. L. Cheng , M. W. Wu , I. C. da Cunha Lima

To an electron moving in free space an electric field appears as a magnetic field which interacts with and can reorient the electron spin. In semiconductor quantum wells this spin-orbit interaction seems to offer the possibility of…

Dynamic response of two-dimensional electron systems with spin-orbit interaction is studied theoretically on the basis of quantum kinetic equation, taking into account elastic scattering of electrons. The spin polarization and spin current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-06-19 O. E. Raichev

We have studied transport properties in a two-dimensional electron gas with equal Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interactions under a perpendicular magnetic field. By employing the exact solution for this system, we found resonant charge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Degang Zhang , Yao-Ming Mu , C. S. Ting

One-dimensional quantum rings with Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit couplings are studied analytically and are in perfect agreement with the numerical results. The topological charge of the spin field defined by the winding number along…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-06 Shenglin Peng , Wenchen Luo , Fangping Ouyang , Tapash Chakraborty

We consider the magnetic response of a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) with both Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling to a microwave excitation. We generalize the results of [A. Shnirman and I. Martin, Europhys. Lett. 78, 27001…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-01-22 Mikhail Pletyukhov , Alexander Shnirman

We theoretically describe the spin excitation spectrum of a two dimensional electron gas embedded in a quantum well with localized magnetic impurities. Compared to the previous work, we introduce equations that allow to consider the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Florent Perez , Joel Cibert , Masha Vladimirova , Denis Scalbert

Electronic transport in a one-dimensional mesoscopic ring threaded by a magnetic flux is studied in presence of Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interactions. A completely analytical technique within a tight-binding formalism unveils the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-30 Santanu K. Maiti , Moumita Dey , Shreekantha Sil , Arunava Chakrabarti , S. N. Karmakar

We study spin-resolved transport in a ballistic quantum dot with Rashba spin-orbit coupling, focusing on charge-to-spin conversion and spin Hall effect. In the regime where the dot size is comparable to the Fermi wavelength, we identify a…