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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

The point-particle-like Hamiltonian of a biaxial spin particle with external magnetic field along the hard axis is obtained in terms of the potential field description of spin systems with exact spin-coordinate correspondence. The Zeeman…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-15 J. -Q. Liang , H. J. W. Müller-Kirsten , D. K. Park , F. -C. Pu

We study the pseudospin and spin dynamical effects in single-layer silicene due to a perpendicular electric field periodically driven and its interplay with the intrinsic and extrinsic (Rashba) spin-orbit interaction. We find that the spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-15 Alexander Lopez , Francisco Mireles , John Schliemann , Benjamin Santos

We study the effect of the Rashba spin-orbit coupling on the Fermi arcs of topological Dirac semimetals. The Rashba coupling is induced by breaking the inversion symmetry at the surface. Remarkably, this coupling could be enhanced by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-12 Yuriko Baba , Francisco Domínguez-Adame , Gloria Platero , Rafael A. Molina

Motivated by the remarkable experimental control of synthetic gauge fields in ultracold atomic systems, we investigate the effect of an artificial Rashba spin-orbit coupling on the spin polarization of a two-dimensional repulsive Fermi gas.…

We discuss the transport properties of a quantum spin-Hall insulator with sizable Rashba spin-orbit coupling in a disk geometry. The presence of topologically protected helical edge states allows for the control and manipulation of spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-28 R. Battilomo , N. Scopigno , C. Ortix

A recursive Green's function technique is developed to calculate the spin-dependent conductance in mesoscopic structures. Using this technique, we study the spin-dependent electronic transport of quantum point contacts in the presence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Shi-Liang Zhu , Z. D. Wang , Lian Hu

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

An alternating electric field, applied to a quantum dot, couples to the electron spin via the spin-orbit interaction. We analyze different types of spin-orbit coupling known in the literature and find two efficient mechanisms of spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Vitaly N. Golovach , Massoud Borhani , Daniel Loss

We formulate a semiclassical theory for systems with spin-orbit interactions. Using spin coherent states, we start from the path integral in an extended phase space, formulate the classical dynamics of the coupled orbital and spin degrees…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-02-20 M. Pletyukhov , Ch. Amann , M. Mehta , M. Brack

A spin-qubit transformation protocol is proposed for an electron in a mesoscopic quantum ring with tunable Rashba interaction controlled by the external electric field. The dynamics of an electron driven around the ring by a series of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-22 Kregar Ambrož , Ramšak Anton

We discuss the calculation of evanescent states in quasi-one-dimensional quantum wires in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit interaction. We suggest a computational algorithm devised for cases in which longitudinal and transverse motions are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Llorens Serra , David Sanchez , Rosa Lopez

We have numerically solved the Hamiltonian of an electron in a semiconductor double ring subjected to the magnetic flux and Rashba spin-orbit interaction. It is found that the Aharonov-Bohm energy spectrum reveals multi-zigzag periodic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Wen-Hsuan Kuan , Chi-Shung Tang , Cheng-Hung Chang

The interplay between Rashba, Dresselhaus and Zeeman interactions in a quantum well submitted to an external magnetic field is studied by means of an accurate analytical solution of the Hamiltonian, including electron-electron interactions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-16 Enrico Lipparini , Manuel Barranco , Francesc Malet , Martí Pi , Llorenç Serra

The spin Hall effect in a two-dimensional electron system on honeycomb lattice with both intrinsic and Rashba spin-orbit couplings is studied numerically. Integer quantized spin Hall conductance is obtained at zero Rashba coupling limit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 L. Sheng , D. N. Sheng , C. S. Ting , F. D. M. Haldane

It was recently shown that a spatially modulated Rashba spin-orbit coupling in a quantum wire drives a transition from a metallic to an insulating state when the wave number of the modulation becomes commensurate with the Fermi wave length…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-09-02 Mariana Malard , Inna Grusha , G. I. Japaridze , Henrik Johannesson

We consider the electronic transport through a Rashba quantum dot coupled to ferromagnetic leads. We show that the interference of localized electron states with resonant electron states leads to the appearance of the Fano-Rashba effect.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. A. Orellana , M. Amado , F. Dominguez-Adame

A novel method and nanodevice are introduced that allows to rotate the single electron spin confined in a gated electrostatic InSb nanowire quantum dot. Proposed method does not require application of any (oscillating or static) external…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-22 J. Pawłowski , P. Szumniak , S. Bednarek

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

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
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