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Explicit dependencies of the local density of states and the magnetization local density of states have been obtained around magnetic point defects in a two-dimensional electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit interaction . The expressions are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-14 N. V. Khotkevych , Yu. A. Kolesnichenko , J. M. van Ruitenbeek

We investigate the efficiency of charge-to-spin conversion in two-dimensional Rashba altermagnets, a class of materials that merge characteristics of both ferromagnets and antiferromagnets. Utilizing quantum linear response theory, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-11 Weiwei Chen , Longhai Zeng , W. Zhu

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 investigate the spin-dependent dynamical response of a quantum ring with a spin-orbit interaction upon the application of linearly polarized, picosecond, asymmetric electromagnetic pulses. The oscillations of the generated dipole moment…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Zhen-Gang Zhu , Jamal Berakdar

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

We map electron spin dynamics from time to space in quantum wires with spatially uniform and oscillating Rashba spin-orbit coupling. The presence of the spin-orbit interaction introduces pseudo-Zeeman couplings of the electron spins to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-23 Vanita Srinivasa , Jeremy Levy

We propose a method to determine the relative strength of Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interaction from transport measurements without the need of fitting parameters. To this end, we make use of the conductance anisotropy in narrow…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-01-22 Matthias Scheid , Makoto Kohda , Yoji Kunihashi , Klaus Richter , Junsaku Nitta

We study the coupled dynamics of spin and charge currents in a two-dimensional electron gas in the transport diffusive regime. For systems with inversion symmetry there are established relations between the spin Hall effect, the anomalous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-11 P. Schwab , R. Raimondi , C. Gorini

We re-express the Rashba and Dresselhaus interactions as non-Abelian spin-orbit gauges and provide a new perspective in understanding the persistent spin helix [Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 236601 (2006)]. A spin-orbit interacting system can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-03-21 Son-Hsien Chen , Ching-Ray Chang

Using spin and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy we investigate a momentum region in Pb quantum well states on Si(111) where hybridization between Rashba-split bands alters the band structure significantly. Starting from the Rashba…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-03-24 Bartosz Slomski , Gabriel Landolt , Stefan Muff , Fabian Meier , Jürg Osterwalder , J. Hugo Dil

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

Current-driven magnetization dynamics of single ferromagnets in heavy metal/ferromagnet bilayers has been recently realized. In this work, spin torque induced by so-called Rashba spin-orbit coupling and spin Hall effect are considered…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-24 Aurelien Manchon

We study analytically and numerically spin effects in MoS_2 monolayer armchair quantum wires and quantum dots. The interplay between intrinsic and Rashba spin orbit interactions induced by an electric field leads to helical modes, giving…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-07 Jelena Klinovaja , Daniel Loss

The tunability of the Rashba spin-orbit coupling allows to build semiconductor heterostructures with space modulated coupling intensities. We show that a wire-shaped spin-orbit modulation in a quantum well can support propagating electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Manuel Valin-Rodriguez , Antonio Puente , Llorens Serra

The drift-diffusion formalism for spin-polarized carrier transport in semiconductors is generalized to include spin-orbit coupling. The theory is applied to treat the extrinsic spin Hall effect using realistic boundary conditions. It is…

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

Rashba precession of spins moving along a one-subband quantum channel is calculated. The quantitative influence of unoccupied higher subbands depends on the shape of the transversal confinement and can be accounted for perturbatively.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Wolfgang Häusler

Spin-orbit interactions in two-dimensional electron liquids are responsible for many interesting transport phenomena in which particle currents are converted to spin polarizations and spin currents and viceversa. Prime examples are the spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 K. Shen , R. Raimondi , G. Vignale

In these lecture notes we study the disordered two-dimensional electron gas in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit coupling, by using the Keldysh non-equilibrium Green function technique. We describe the effects of the spin-orbit coupling in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-23 Roberto Raimondi , Cosimo Gorini , Sebastian Tölle

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

Using response theory, we calculate the charge-current vortex generated by spin pumping at a point-like contact in a system with Rashba spin-orbit coupling. We discuss the spatial profile of the current density for finite temperature and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-01 Junji Fujimoto , Florian Lange , Satoshi Ejima , Tomonori Shirakawa , Holger Fehske , Seiji Yunoki , Sadamichi Maekawa