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We propose a nonequilibrium Green's function approach to study the spin-Hall effect in a two-dimensional electron system with both the Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit couplings. By taking into account the long-range electron-impurity…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Y. Liu , X. L. Lei

We study theoretically the manifestation of the spin-Hall effect in a two-dimensional electronic system with Rashba spin-orbit coupling via dc-transport measurements in realistic mesoscopic H-shape structures. The Landauer-Buttiker…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. M. Hankiewicz , L. W. Molenkamp , T. Jungwirth , Jairo Sinova

Using the Matsubara Green function formalism we calculate the temperature dependence of spin Hall and spin Nernst conductivities of a two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit interaction in the linear response regime. In the case…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-03 A. Dyrdał , J. Barnaś , V. K. Dugaev

Intrinsic and extrinsic spin Hall effects are considered together on an equal theoretical footing for the Rashba spin-orbit coupling in two-dimensional (2D) electron and hole systems, using the diagrammatic method for calculating the spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Wang-Kong Tse , S. Das Sarma

We predict two spin-dependent transport phenomena in two-dimensional electron systems, which are induced by spatially fluctuating Rashba spin-orbit interaction. When the electron gas is magnetized, the random Rashba interaction leads to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-26 V. K. Dugaev , M. Inglot , E. Ya. Sherman , J. Berakdar , J. Barnas

Based on the Kubo formula approach, the spin Hall conductivity (SHC) of a two-dimensional (2D) Rashba s-wave superconductor in the presence of nonmagnetic impurities is calculated. We will show that by increasing the superconducting gap,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-04-26 Mehdi Biderang , Heshmatollah Yavari

We investigate the spin-Hall effect of both electrons and holes in semiconductors using the Kubo formula in the correct zero-frequency limit taking into account the finite momentum relaxation time of carriers in real semiconductors. This…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 John Schliemann , Daniel Loss

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 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 investigate theoretically the spin-dependent electron transport in a Rashba quantum wire with rough edges. The charge and spin conductances are calculated as function of the electron energy or the wire length by adopting the spinresolved…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-06 Xianbo Xiao , Huili Li , Guanghui Zhou , Nianhua Liu

We investigate the intrinsic spin Hall effect in two-dimensional electron gases in quantum wells with two subbands, where a new intersubband-induced spin-orbit coupling is operative. The bulk spin Hall conductivity $\sigma^z_{xy}$ is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-15 Minchul Lee , Marco O. Hachiya , E. Bernardes , J. Carlos Egues , Daniel Loss

It is well known that the Dresselhaus spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in semiconductor two dimensional electron gases (2DEGs) possesses both linear and cubic in momentum contributions. Nevertheless, the latter is usually neglected in most…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-06 E. Santana-Suárez , F. Mireles

Spin Hall effect due to random Rashba spin-orbit coupling in the two-dimensional honeycomb lattice of carbon atoms (graphene) is considered theoretically. Using the Green function method and diagrammatic technique we show that fluctuations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-26 A. Dyrdal , J. Barnas

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

We analytically evaluate charge and spin density response functions of the clean two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit coupling at finite momenta and frequencies. On the basis of our exact expressions we discuss the accuracy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Pletyukhov , S. Konschuh

We determine wave number $q$ and frequency $\omega$ dependent spin Hall conductivity $\sigma_{yx}^s(q, \omega)$ for a disordered two dimensional electron system with Rashba spin orbit interaction when $\q$ is {\it transverse} to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Sudhansu S. Mandal , Ankur Sensharma

We investigate spin transport of heavy holes in III-V semiconductor quantum wells in the presence of spin-orbit coupling of the Rashba type due to structure-inversion asymmetry. Similarly to the case of electrons, the longitudinal spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 John Schliemann , Daniel Loss

We study the spin polarization induced by a current flow in clean two dimensional electron gases with Rashba spin-orbit coupling. This geometric effect originates from special properties of the electron's scattering at the edges of the…

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

A model with both Rashba and Dresselhaus spin orbit (SO) couplings and Hubbard electron-electron interaction is studied on planar strips at quarter filling at zero temperature in the clean limit. In the absence of Hubbard repulsion and at…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-02-06 Jose A. Riera

By using the momentum-space Lanczos recursive method which considers rigorously all multiple-scattering events, we unveil that the non-perturbative disorder effect has dramatic impact on the charge transport of a two-dimensional electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-05 Weiwei Chen , Cong Xiao , Qinwei Shi , Qunxiang Li