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Ballistic electrons confined to a billiard and subject to spin--orbit coupling of the Rashba type are investigated, using both approximate semiclassical and exact quantum--mechanical methods. We focus on the low--energy part of the spectrum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 József Cserti , András Csordás , Ulrich Zülicke

The influence of the Rashba spin-orbit coupling on the electron spin dynamics is investigated for a ballistic semiconductor quantum wire with a finite width. We monitor the spin evolution using the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Manuel Valin-Rodriguez , Antonio Puente , Llorens Serra

We study the tunability of the spin-orbit interaction in a two-dimensional electron gas with a front and a back gate electrode by monitoring the spin precession frequency of drifting electrons using time-resolved Kerr rotation. The Rashba…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-14 M. Studer , G. Salis , K. Ensslin , D. C. Driscoll , A. C. Gossard

The Wigner-crystal phase of two-dimensional electrons interacting via the Coulomb repulsion and subject to a strong Rashba spin-orbit coupling is investigated. For low enough electronic densities the spin-orbit band splitting can be larger…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-12 P. G. Silvestrov , O. Entin-Wohlman

We make detailed analysis of each possible spin-orbit coupling of zincblende narrow-gap cylindrical quantum dots built in two-dimensional electron gas. These couplings are related to both bulk (Dresselhaus) and structure (Rashba) inversion…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. F. Destefani , S. E. Ulloa , G. E. Marques

We study the frequency dependent spin- and charge- conductivity tensors of a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) with Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interaction. We show that the angular anisotropy of the spin-splitting energy induced by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Jesús A. Maytorena , Catalina López-Bastidas , Francisco Mireles

The problem of two-dimensional, independent electrons subject to a periodic potential and a uniform perpendicular magnetic field unveils surprisingly rich physics, as epitomized by the fractal energy spectrum known as Hofstadter's…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-23 S. Janecek , M. Aichinger , E. R. Hernandez

We present the analytical result of the expectation value of spin resulting from an injected spin polarized electron into a semi-infinitely extended 2DEG plane with [001] growth geometry via ideal quantum point contact. Both the Rashba and…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Ming-Hao Liu , Ching-Ray Chang , Son-Hsien Chen

Motivated by the remarkable experimental control of synthetic gauge fields in ultracold atomic systems, we investigate the effect of an artificial Rashba spin-orbit coupling on the spin polarization of a two-dimensional repulsive Fermi gas.…

We consider a spin-orbit coupled system of particles in an external trap that is represented by a deformed harmonic oscillator potential. The spin-orbit interaction is a Rashba interaction that does not commute with the trapping potential…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-06-25 O. V. Marchukov , A. G. Volosniev , D. V. Fedorov , A. S. Jensen , N. T. Zinner

We consider a two-dimensional system of harmonically trapped particles with pseudo-spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ degree of freedom. This degree of freedom is coupled to the particle's momentum via the so-called Rashba spin-orbit interaction. We…

In the review article the influence of the Rashba spin-orbit coupling on the two-dimensional electrons and holes in a strong perpendicular magnetic field is described in Landau gauge using the spinor-type two-component wave functions with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-09-05 S. A. Moskalenko , I. V. Podlesny , E. V. Dumanov , A. A. Kiselyov

Spin transport properties of a spin-polarized two-dimensional electron gas are studied in the presence of electron-electron interactions. Longitudinal and transverse spin diffusion coefficients are calculated with the quantum transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yutaka Takahashi , Kosuke Shizume , Naoto Masuhara

We present an analytic theory of the spin-resolved pair distribution functions $g_{\sigma\sigma'}(r)$ and the ground-state energy of an electron gas with an arbitrary degree of spin polarization. We first use the Hohenberg-Kohn variational…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 B. Davoudi , R. Asgari , M. Polini , M. P. Tosi

We show that the bound electron pairs (BEPs) emerge in two-dimensional gated Rashba materials owing to the interplay of the pair spin-orbit interaction, produced by the Coulomb fields of interacting electrons, and the peculiarities of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 Yasha Gindikin , Igor Rozhansky , Vladimir A. Sablikov

Rashba effect in 2D systems is extensively studied nowadays due to spintronics applications. The Letter studies the fundamentals of spin-orbit interaction in 2D systems. Experimental evidence is claimed for the rotation of the spin…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-07-04 Abraham F. Campos , Kang Wang , Antonio Tejeda

The intrinsic spin-Hall effect on spin accumulation and electric conductance in a diffusive regime of a 2D electron gas has been studied for a 2D strip of a finite width. It is shown that the spin polarization near the flanks of the strip,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. G. Mal'shukov , L. Y. Wang , C. S. Chu , K. A. Chao

Using Bogoliubov theory we calculate the excitation spectrum of a spinor Bose-Einstein condensed gas with equal Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling in the stripe phase. The emergence of a double gapless band structure is pointed out…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-06-11 Yun Li , Giovanni I. Martone , Lev P. Pitaevskii , Sandro Stringari

We show that the joint effect of spin-orbit and magnetic fields leads to a spin polarization perpendicular to the plane of a two-dimensional electron system with Rashba spin-orbit coupling and in-plane parallel dc magnetic and electric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hans-Andreas Engel , Emmanuel I. Rashba , Bertrand I. Halperin

We study the electronic band structure of monolayer graphene when Rashba spin-orbit coupling is present. We show that if the Rashba spin-orbit coupling is stronger than the intrinsic spin-orbit coupling, the low energy bands undergo…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-05 Peter Rakyta , Andor Kormanyos , Jozsef Cserti