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Spin currents in a two dimensional electron gas with Rashba-type spin orbit coupling are derived from a spin connection. Using a functional integral method, we recover the result derived by Sinova {\em et al.}$[ \mathrm{Phys.Rev. Lett. 92,…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Rebei O. Heinonen

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

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

We consider a two-dimensional electron gas in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit coupling, and study the effects of magnetic s-wave impurities and long-range non-magnetic disorder on the spin-charge dynamics of the system. We focus on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-10-30 C. Gorini , P. Schwab , M. Dzierzawa , R. Raimondi

Converse effect of spin photocurrent and current induced spin polarization are experimentally demonstrated in the same two-dimensional electron gas system with Rashba spin splitting. Their consistency with the strength of the Rashba…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 C. L. Yang , H. T. He , Lu Ding , L. J. Cui , Y. P. Zeng , J. N. Wang , W. K. Ge

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

In this paper, current-induced spin polarization for two-dimensional electron gas with a general spin-orbit interaction is investigated. For isotropic energy spectrum, the in-plane current-induced spin polarization is found to be dependent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 C. M. Wang , H. T. Cui , Q. Lin

We study the spin-charge coupled transport in a two-dimensional electron system using the method of quasiclassical ($\xi$-integrated) Green's functions. In particular we derive the Eilenberger equation in the presence of a generic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Roberto Raimondi , Cosimo Gorini , Peter Schwab , Michael Dzierzawa

Spin-orbit coupling is a manifestation of special relativity. In the reference frame of a moving electron, electric fields transform into magnetic fields, which interact with the electron spin and lift the degeneracy of spin-up and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-09-18 Lorenz Meier , Gian Salis , Ivan Shorubalko , Emilio Gini , Silke Schoen , Klaus Ensslin

We theoretically investigate photoinduced phenomena induced by time-periodic driving fields in two-dimensional electron gases under perpendicular magnetic fields with Rashba spin-orbit coupling. Using perturbation theory, we provide…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-23 Daniel Hernangómez-Pérez , Juan Daniel Torres , Alexander López

We study the electrical transport properties of a two-dimensional electron gas with the Rashba spin-orbit interaction in presence of a constant perpendicular magnetic field $(B_0 \hat z)$ which is weakly modulated by ${\bf B_1} = B_1 \cos…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 SK Firoz Islam , Tarun Kanti Ghosh

Spin-orbit coupling induced anisotropies of plasmon dynamics are investigated in two-dimensional semiconductor structures. The interplay of the linear Bychkov-Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interactions drastically affects the plasmon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 S. M. Badalyan , A. Matos-Abiague , G. Vignale , J. Fabian

We show that in a two dimensional electron gas (2DEG) the interplay between the Rashba spin-orbit coupling and a potential barrier (eg., the sample edge) generates interesting spin effects. In the presence of an external charge current, a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gonzalo Usaj , C. A. Balseiro

We consider the problem of spin relaxation in a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in a perpendicular magnetic field. We assume that the spin relaxation is induced by the Rashba spin-orbit (SO) interaction, which appears due to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. A. Burkov , Leon Balents

We calculate orbital spin-dependent magnetization in a two-dimensional electron gas with spin-orbit interaction of Rashba type. Such an orbital magnetization is admitted by the time-reversal symmetry of the system, and gives rise to spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-09 A. Dyrdał , V. K. Dugaev , J. Barnaś

We study spin dynamics in a two-dimensional electron gas with a pure gauge non-Abelian spin-orbit field, for which systems with balanced Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit couplings, and the (110)-axis grown GaAs quantum wells are typical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-20 I. V. Tokatly , E. Ya. Sherman

Strong interest has arisen recently on low-dimensional systems with strong spin-orbit interaction due to their peculiar properties of interest for some spintronic applications. Here, the time evolution of the electron spin polarization of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 C. Grimaldi

In this work, we show that a gate electric field, applied in the base of the field-effect devices, leads to inducing spin-orbit interactions (Rashba and linear Dresselhauss) and confines the transport electrons in a two-dimensional electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-03 J. L. Cardoso , H. Hernández-Saldaña

The Edelstein effect provides the purely electrical generation and control of a homogeneous magnetization in primarily nonmagnetic materials with broken inversion symmetry. Usually, only the spin density response to an external electric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-31 Annika Johansson , Börge Göbel , Jürgen Henk , Manuel Bibes , Ingrid Mertig

The spin-Hall effect in the two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) generates symmetric out-of-plane spin Sz accumulation about the current axis in the absence of external magnetic field. Here we employ the real space Landauer-Keldysh formalism…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Son-Hsien Chen , Ming-Hao Liu , Kuo-Wei Chen , Ching-Ray Chang