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The coexistence of Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interactions (SOIs) in semiconductor quantum wells leads to an anisotropic effective field coupled to carriers' spins. We demonstrate a gate-controlled anisotropy in Aharonov-Casher (AC)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-12 Fumiya Nagasawa , Andres A. Reynoso , José Pablo Baltanás , Diego Frustaglia , Henri Saarikoski , Junsaku Nitta

The ac conductance of a finite tubular two-dimensional electron gas is studied in the presence of the Rashba spin-orbit interaction. When the tube is coupled to two reservoirs, that interaction splits the steps in the dc current,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-24 E. A. Rothstein , B. Horovitz , O. Entin-Wohlman , A. Aharony

We give a variational proof of the existence of infinitely many bound states below the continuous spectrum for spin-orbit Hamiltonians (including the Rashba and Dresselhaus cases) perturbed by measure potentials thus extending the results…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-02-15 Jochen Bruening , Vladimir Geyler , Konstantin Pankrashkin

Effects associated with the interference of electron waves around a magnetic point defect in two-dimensional electron gas with combined Rashba-Dresselhaus spin-orbit interaction in the presence of a parallel magnetic field are theoretically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-17 I. V. Kozlov , Yu. A. Kolesnichenko

We study theoretically the ground states of topological defects in a spinor four-component condensate of cold indirect excitons. We analyze possible ground state solutions for different configurations of vortices and half-vortices. We show…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-15 H. Sigurdsson , T. C. H. Liew , O. Kyriienko , I. A. Shelykh

We calculate the linear and the second harmonic (SH) spin current response of two anisotropic systems with spin orbit (SO) interaction. The first system is a two-dimensional (2D) electron gas in the presence of Rashba and k-linear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-19 D. Muñoz-Santana , Jesús A. Maytorena

Spin-orbit interaction is usefully classified as extrinsic or intrinsic depending on its origin: the potential due to random impurities (extrinsic), or the crystalline potential associated with the band or device structure (intrinsic). In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-01-19 R. Raimondi , P. Schwab , C. Gorini , G. Vignale

We show that the conductivity tensor of a disordered two-dimensional electron gas becomes anisotropic in the presence of both Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interactions (SOI). This anisotropy is a mesoscopic effect and vanishes with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-03-31 Oleg Chalaev , Daniel Loss

We investigate the persistent current influenced by the spin fluctuations in a mesoscopic ring weakly coupled to a quantum dot. It is shown that the Kondo effect gives rise to some unusual features of the persistent current in the limit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Sam Young Cho , Kicheon Kang , Chul Koo Kim , Chang-Mo Ryu

We investigate the Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit (SO) couplings in GaAs quantum wells in the range of well widths $w$ allowing for a transition of the electron occupancy from one to two subbands. By performing a detailed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-06 J. Y. Fu , J. Carlos Egues

We consider the motion of electrons through a mesoscopic ring in the presence of spin-orbit interaction, Zeeman coupling, and magnetic flux. The coupling between the spin and the orbital degrees of freedom results in the geometric and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Ya-Sha Yi , Tie-Zheng Qian , Zhao-Bin Su

We present an analysis of the symmetries of the interference pattern of critical currents through a two-dimensional superconductor-semiconductor-superconductor junction, taking into account Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interaction, an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-13 Asbjørn Rasmussen , Jeroen Danon , Henri Suominen , Fabrizio Nichele , Morten Kjaergaard , Karsten Flensberg

We investigate the linear conductance of a stripe of spin-orbit interaction in a 2D electron gas; that is, a 2D region of length $\ell$ along the transport direction and infinite in the transverse one in which a spin-orbit interaction of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 M. M. Gelabert , Ll. Serra

We discuss by analytic means the theory of the high-density limit of the unpolarized two-dimensional electron liquid in the presence of Rashba or Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling. A generalization of the ring-diagram expansion is performed.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Stefano Chesi , Gabriele F. Giuliani

Electronic transport in closed loop structures is addressed within a tight-binding formalism and in the presence of both the Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interactions. It has been shown that any one of the spin-orbit fields can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-30 Shreekantha Sil , Santanu K. Maiti , Arunava Chakrabarti

We investigate the relationship between the Zeeman interaction and the inversion asymmetry induced spin orbit interactions (Rashba and Dresselhaus SOIs) in GaAs hole quantum point contacts. The presence of a strong SOI results in crossing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-12 A. Srinivasan , D. S. Miserev , K. L. Hudson , O. Klochan , K. Muraki , Y. Hirayama , D. Reuter , A. D. Wieck , O. P. Sushkov , A. R. Hamilton

In this work we investigate magneto-optical properties of two-dimensional semiconductor quantum-ring excitons with Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interactions threaded by a magnetic flux perpendicular to the plane of the ring. By…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-08 Wen-Hsuan Kuan , Vidar Gudmundsson

We study the effects of dipolar interactions on a Bose-Einstein condensate with synthetically generated Rashba spin-orbit coupling. The dipolar interaction we consider includes terms that couple spin and orbital angular momentum in a way…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-11-12 Ryan M. Wilson , Brandon M. Anderson , Charles W. Clark

We study a two-dimensional electron system in the presence of both Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interactions in a perpendicular magnetic field. Defining two suitable boson operators and using the unitary transformations we are able to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Degang Zhang

We study the spin polarization and its associated spin-Hall current due to EDSR in disordered two-dimensional electron systems. We show that the disorder induced damping of the resonant spin polarization can be strongly reduced by an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 Mathias Duckheim , Daniel Loss