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We calculate the frequency dependent spin susceptibilities for a two-dimensional electron gas with both Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interaction. The resonances of the susceptibilities depends on the relative values of the Rashba and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sigurdur I. Erlingsson , John Schliemann , Daniel Loss

We study the local equilibrium properties of two-dimensional electron gases at high magnetic fields in the presence of random smooth electrostatic disorder, Rashba spin-orbit coupling, and the Zeeman interaction. Using a systematic magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-29 Daniel Hernangomez-Perez , Serge Florens , Thierry Champel

To establish a correlation between the spin diffusion, the spin lifetime, and the electron density, we study, employing time-resolved magneto-optical Kerr effect microscopy, the spin polarization evolution in low-dimensional GaAs…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-17 S. Anghel , A. V. Poshakinskiy , K. Schiller , G. Yusa , T. Mano , T. Noda , M. Betz

It was recently shown that a spatially modulated Rashba spin-orbit coupling in a quantum wire drives a transition from a metallic to an insulating state when the wave number of the modulation becomes commensurate with the Fermi wave length…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-09-02 Mariana Malard , Inna Grusha , G. I. Japaridze , Henrik Johannesson

We derive boundary conditions for the coupled spin-charge diffusion equations at a transmitting interface between two-dimensional electron systems with different strengths of the Rashba spin-orbit (SO) coupling $\alpha$, and an electric…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Yaroslav Tserkovnyak , Bertrand I. Halperin , Alexey A. Kovalev , Arne Brataas

Persistent spin textures (PSTs) in solid-state materials arise from a unidirectional spin-orbit field in momentum space and offer a route to deliver long carrier spin lifetimes sought for future quantum microelectronic devices. Nonetheless,…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-02-06 Xue-Zeng Lu , James M. Rondinelli

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 study the phase diagram of the interacting two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) with equal Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling, which for weak coupling gives rise to the well-known persistent spin-helix phase. We construct the full…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-19 Hong Liu , Weizhe Edward Liu , Stefano Chesi , Robert Joynt , Dimitrie Culcer

Persistent spin texture (PST) is the property of some materials to maintain a uniform spin configuration in the momentum space. This property has been predicted to support an extraordinarily long spin lifetime of carriers promising for…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-08-21 L. L. Tao , Evgeny Y. Tsymbal

We investigate ramifications of the persistent spin helix symmetry in two-dimensional hole gases in the conductance of disordered mesoscopic systems. To this end we extend previous models by going beyond the axial approximation for III-V…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-26 Tobias Dollinger , Michael Kammermeier , Andreas Scholz , Paul Wenk , R. Winkler , John Schliemann , Klaus Richter

A theory of spin manipulation of quasi-two-dimensional (2D) electrons by a time-dependent gate voltage applied to a quantum well is developed. The Dresselhaus and Rashba spin-orbit coupling mechanisms are shown to be rather efficient for…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 E. I. Rashba , Al. L. Efros

Persistent, oscillatory charge and spin currents are shown to be driven by a two-component terahertz laser pulse in a one-dimensional mesoscopic ring with Rashba-Dresselhaus spin orbit interactions (SOI) linear in the electron momentum. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Marian Nita , Bogdan Ostahie , D. C. Marinescu , Andrei Manolescu , Vidar Gudmundsson

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

The influence of the electrons interaction with longitudinal acoustic phonons on magnetoeletric and spin-related transport effects are investigated. The physical system under consideration has been assumed to be a two dimensional electron…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-12-02 K. Hasanirokh , A. Phirouznia

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

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

In symmetric quantum dots (QDs), it is well known that the spin-hot spot (i.e., the cusp-like structure due to the presence of degeneracy near the level or anticrossing point) is present for the pure Rashba case but is absent for the pure…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-14 Sanjay Prabhakar , Roderick Melnik , Luis L. Bonilla

The spin orbit interaction plays a crucial role in diverse fields of condensed matter, including the investigation of Majorana fermions, topological insulators, quantum information and spintronics. In III V zinc blende semiconductor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-25 A. Sasaki , S. Nonaka , Y. Kunihashi , M. Kohda , T. Bauernfeind , T. Dollinger , K. Richter , J. Nitta

Spin currents that flow perpendicular to the electric field direction are generic in metals and doped semiconductors with spin-orbit coupling. It has recently been argued that the spin Hall conductivity can be dominated by an intrinsic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 K. Nomura , Jairo Sinova , T. Jungwirth , Q. Niu , A. H. MacDonald

We report a theoretical investigation on spin-Hall conductance fluctuation of disordered four terminal devices in the presence of Rashba or/and Dresselhaus spin-orbital interactions in two dimensions. As a function of disorder, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Wei Ren , Zhenhua Qiao , Jian Wang , Qingfeng Sun , Hong Guo