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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

The Rashba Hamiltonian describes the splitting of the conduction band as a result of spin-orbit coupling in the presence of an external field and is commonly used to model the electronic structure of confined narrow-gap semiconductors. Due…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Laurens W. Molenkamp , Georg Schmidt , Gerrit E. W. Bauer

For the two-dimensional ideal electron gas with the Rashba spin-orbit interaction and in the presence of non-magnetic short-ranged potential impurities the spin-Hall conductivity $\sigma_{sH}$ is found by direct microscopic calculation.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ol'ga V. Dimitrova

Using spin and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy we investigate a momentum region in Pb quantum well states on Si(111) where hybridization between Rashba-split bands alters the band structure significantly. Starting from the Rashba…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-03-24 Bartosz Slomski , Gabriel Landolt , Stefan Muff , Fabian Meier , Jürg Osterwalder , J. Hugo Dil

The dispersion of Rashba-split heavy-hole subbands in GaAs two-dimensional hole gases (2DHGs) is difficult to access experimentally because strong heavy-hole-light-hole mixing produces non-parabolicity and breaks the usual correspondence…

Because of the peculiar coupling of spatial and spin degrees of freedom effected by the Rashba spin-orbit interaction, lateral confinement of a two dimensional electronic system leads to a finite transverse spin polarization near the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Chesi , G. F. Giuliani

In spintronic devices, the two main approaches to actively control the electrons' spin degree of freedom involve either static magnetic or electric fields. An alternative avenue relies on the application of optical fields to generate spin…

Within the Kubo formalism, we estimate the spin-Hall conductivity in a two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit interaction and study its variation as a function of disorder strength and system size. The numerical algorithm…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. P. Moca , D. C. Marinescu

We solved the Schr\"odinger problem for a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) with the Rashba spin-orbit interaction in the presence of a strong high-frequency electromagnetic field (dressing field). The found eigenfunctions and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-07 A. A. Pervishko , O. V. Kibis , S. Morina , I. A. Shelykh

The z axis magnetization of a two dimensional electron gas with contact repulsive interaction and in presence of a Rashba potential is computed by means of quantum field theory at second order. A striking effect of the pure Rashba…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-21 Alberto Ambrosetti , Pier Luigi Silvestrelli , Flavio Toigo

We present semiclassical and quantum mechanical results for the effects of a strong magnetic field in Quantum Wires in the presence of Rashba Spin Orbit coupling. Analytical and numerical results show how the perturbation acts in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 S. Bellucci , P. Onorato

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

Theory predicts for the two-dimensional electrons gas with only Rashba spin-orbit interaction a vanishing spin Hall conductivity and at the same time a finite inverse spin Hall effect. We show how these seemingly contradictory results are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 C. Gorini , R. Raimondi , P. Schwab

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 evaluate the transport coefficients of a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field and of the spin-orbit interaction (SOI) described only by the Rashba term. The SOI mixes the spin-up and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 X. F. Wang , P. Vasilopoulos

We review recent theoretical developments about the role of spins, electron-electron interactions, and spin-orbit coupling in metal nanoparticles and semiconductor quantum dots. For a closed system, in the absence of spin-orbit coupling or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yuval Oreg , P. W. Brouwer , X. Waintal , Bertrand I. Halperin

One-body mechanisms of spin splitting of the energy spectrum of 2D electrons in a one-side doped (001) GaAs/Al$_x$Ga$_{1-x}$As quantum well have been studied theoretically and experimentally. The interfacial spin splitting has been shown to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-10 Zh. A. Devizorova , A. V. Shchepetilnikov , Yu. A. Nefyodov , V. A. Volkov , I. V. Kukushkin

We present low temperature magnetoconductivity measurements of a density-tunable and high mobility two-dimensional electron gas confined in the wide bandgap GaN/AlGaN system. We observed pronounced anti-localization minima in the low-field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Schmult , M. J. Manfra , A. Punnoose , A. M. Sergent , K. W. Baldwin , R. J. Molnar

We investigate the magnetic excitation spectrum in the helical state of a noncentrosymmetric superconductor with inversion symmetry breaking and strong Rashba spin-orbit coupling. For this purpose, we derive the general expressions of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-04-13 Alireza Akbari , Peter Thalmeier

Using time-resolved Faraday rotation, the drift-induced spin-orbit Field of a two-dimensional electron gas in an InGaAs quantum well is measured. Including measurements of the electron mobility, the Dresselhaus and Rashba coefficients are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-01-06 M. Studer , S. Schön , K. Ensslin , G. Salis