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Pumping of charge current by spin dynamics in the presence of the Rashba spin-orbit interaction is theoretically studied. Considering disordered electron, the exchange coupling and spin-orbit interactions are treated perturbatively. It is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jun-ichiro Ohe , Akihito Takeuchi , Gen Tatara

We investigate electrically-induced spin currents generated by the spin Hall effect in GaAs structures that distinguish edge effects from spin transport. Using Kerr rotation microscopy to image the spin polarization, we demonstrate that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Sih , W. H. Lau , R. C. Myers , V. R. Horowitz , A. C. Gossard , D. D. Awschalom

The Rashba Hamiltonian describes the splitting of the conduction band as a result of spin-orbit coupling in the presence of an asymmetric confinement potential and is commonly used to model the electronic structure of confined narrow-gap…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jun-ichiro Inoue , Gerrit E. W. Bauer , Laurens W. Molenkamp

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 propose an all-electrical nanoscopic structure where {\em pure} spin current is induced in the transverse voltage probes attached to {\em quantum-coherent} one-dimensional ring when conventional unpolarized charge current is injected…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Satofumi Souma , Branislav K. Nikolic

We show that a finite magnetic flux threading a multichannel semiconductor ring induces spin accumulation at the borders of the sample when the Rashba spin-orbit interaction is taken into account even in the absence of external electric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 G. S. Lozano , M. J. Sánchez

We investigate numerically the spin polarization of the current in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit interaction in a T-shaped conductor proposed by A.A. Kiselev and K.W. Kim (Appl. Phys. Lett. {\bf 78} 775 (2001)). The recursive Green…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Yamamoto , T. Ohtsuki , B. Kramer

We investigate the production of spin-polarized currents in corrugated graphene nanoribbons. Such corrugations are modeled as multiple regions with Rashba spin-orbit interactions, where concave and convex curvatures are treated as Rashba…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-08 Hernán Santos , A. Latgé , L. Brey , Leonor Chico

The electronic states of a mesoscopic ring are assessed in the presence of Rashba Spin Orbit coupling and a $U(1)$ gauge field. Spin symmetric coupling to an ideal lead is implemented following B\"uttiker's voltage probe. The exact density…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-23 Michael Ellner , Nelson Bolívar , Bertrand Berche , Ernesto Medina

The generation of spin current and spin polarization in 2DEG Rashba system is considered, in which the spin-orbital coupling (SOC) is modulated by an ac gate voltage. By using non-Abelian gauge field method, we show the presence of an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-18 Cong Son Ho , Mansoor B. A. Jalil , Seng Ghee Tan

Spin current is a central theme in spintronics, and its generation is a keen issue. The spin-polarized current injection from the ferromagnet, spin battery, and spin Hall effect have been used to generate spin current, but Ohmic currents in…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-11-05 James Jun He , Kanta Hiroki , Keita Hamamoto , Naoto Nagaosa

The non-equilibrium transportation of two-dimensional electrons through a narrow channel is investigated under the influence of the Rashba interaction. By introducing suitable lifetime in the Green's function, the average spin values can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-16 Yi-Ying Chin , Jui-Yu Chiu , Ming-Che Chang , Chung-Yu Mou

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

Electrons in double-layer semiconductor heterostructures experience a special type of spin-orbit interaction which arises in each layer from the perpendicular component of the Coulomb electric field created by electron density fluctuations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-27 M. M. Glazov , M. A. Semina , S. M. Badalyan , G. Vignale

We study the texture of helical currents in metallic planar strips in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit coupling (RSOC) on the lattice at zero temperature. In the noninteracting case, and in the absence of external electromagnetic sources,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-05-11 Ignacio J. Hamad , Claudio J. Gazza , Jose A. Riera

We investigate spin-dependent transport in three--terminal mesoscopic cavities with spin--orbit coupling. Focusing on the inverse spin Hall effect, we show how injecting a pure spin current or a polarized current from one terminal generates…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-08-30 I. Adagideli , J. H. Bardarson , Ph. Jacquod

The generation of spin current and spin polarization in a 2DEG structure is studied in the presence of Dresselhaus and Rashba spin-orbit couplings (SOC), the strength of the latter being modulated in time by an ac gate voltage. By means of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-11 Cong Son Ho , Mansoor B. A. Jalil , Seng Ghee Tan

Injection of unpolarized charge current through the longitudinal leads of a four-terminal two-dimensional electron gas with the Rashba spin-orbit (SO) coupling and/or SO scattering off extrinsic impurities is responsible not only for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-11-06 R. L. Dragomirova , L. P. Zarbo , B. K. Nikolic

A mechanism to generate a spin-polarized current in a two-terminal zigzag silicene nanoribbon is predicted. As a weak local exchange field that is parallel to the surface of silicene is applied on one of edges of the silicene nanoribbon, a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-12-20 Xing-Tao An , Yan-Yang Zhang , Jian-Jun Liu , Shu-Shen Li

We study the spin transport theoretically in heterostructures consisting of a ferromagnetic metallic thin film sandwiched between heavy-metal and oxide layers. The spin current in the heavy metal layer is generated via the spin Hall effect,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-30 L. Chotorlishvili , Z. Toklikishvili , X. -G. Wang , V. K. Dugaev , J. Barnas , J. Berakdar