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We investigate quantum spin transport in a structure of conducting ring, embedded in textured electric field, with two leads, and obtain an exact solution for the problem. The spin precession induced by the Aharonov-Casher phase is studied.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Shun-Qing Shen , Zhi-Jian Li , Zhongshui Ma

We investigate the non-equilibrium charge and spin-dependent currents in a quantum ring with a Rashba spin orbit interaction (SOI) driven by two asymmetric picosecond electromagnetic pulses. The equilibrium persistent charge and persistent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-12-01 Zhen-Gang Zhu , Jamal Berakdar

We study the spin-dependent magneto conductance in mesoscopic rings subject to an inhomogeneous in-plane magnetic field. We show that the polarization direction of transmitted spin-polarized electrons can be controlled via an additional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Diego Frustaglia , Martina Hentschel , Klaus Richter

We demonstrate that the combined effect of a spatially periodic potential, lateral confinement and spin-orbit interaction gives rise to a quantum ratchet mechanism for spin-polarized currents in two-dimensional coherent conductors. Upon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-11-07 Matthias Scheid , Andreas Pfund , Dario Bercioux , Klaus Richter

We study electron transport through a multi-level quantum dot with Rashba spin-orbit interaction in the presence of local Coulomb repulsion. Motivated by recent experiments, we compute the level splitting induced by the spin-orbit…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-08-29 S. Grap , V. Meden , S. Andergassen

The path integral representation for a system of N non-relativistic particles on the plane, interacting through a Chern-Simons gauge field, is obtained from the operator formalism. An effective interaction between the particles appears,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Silvio J. Rabello , Arvind N. Vaidya

We derive an effective continuum model for describing the propagation of electrons in ballistic one-dimensional curved nanostructure which are marked by a strong interplay of spin-orbital degrees of freedom due to local electronic states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-19 G. Francica , P. Gentile , M. Cuoco

We investigate the bulk-boundary correspondence in two-dimensional type-I semi-Dirac materials with band inversion and Rashba spin-orbit coupling. Employing a dimensional reduction framework, we identify the Zak phase along the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-02 Marta García-Olmos , Yuriko Baba , Alexander López , Mario Amado , Rafael A. Molina

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 study the quantum mechanical states of electrons situated on a cylindrical surface of finite axial length to model a semiconductor core-shell nanowire. We calculate the conductance in the presence of a longitudinal magnetic field by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-21 Tomas Orn Rosdahl , Andrei Manolescu , Vidar Gudmundsson

One-dimensional quantum rings with Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit couplings are studied analytically and are in perfect agreement with the numerical results. The topological charge of the spin field defined by the winding number along…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-06 Shenglin Peng , Wenchen Luo , Fangping Ouyang , Tapash Chakraborty

Quantum transport in semiconductor nanostructures can be described theoretically in terms of the propagation and scattering of electron probability waves. Within this approach, elements of a phase-coherent electric circuit play a role…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-11-18 U. Zuelicke , A. I. Signal

Non-equilibrium transport in hybrid semiconductor-superconductor nanowires is crucial for many quantum phenomena such as generating entangled states via cross Andreev reflection (CAR) processes, detecting topological superconductivity,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-11 Paweł Szumniak , Daniel Loss , Jelena Klinovaja

The goal of this work is to show how the thermospin polarization current in a quantum ring changes in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit coupling and a quantized single photon mode of a cavity the ring is placed in. Employing the reduced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-10 Nzar Rauf Abdullah , Thorsten Arnold , Chi-Shung Tang , Andrei Manolescu , Vidar Gudmundsson

We calculate the efficiency of infrared optical spin injection in single-layer graphene with Rashba spin-orbit coupling and for in-plane magnetic field. The injection rate in the photon frequency range corresponding to the Rashba splitting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 M. Inglot , V. K. Dugaev , E. Ya. Sherman , J. Barnaś

Spin-orbit coupling is a single-particle phenomenon known to generate topological order, and electron-electron interactions cause ordered many-body phases to exist. The rich interplay of these two mechanisms is present in a broad range of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-20 Weizhe Edward Liu , Stefano Chesi , David Webb , U. Zuelicke , R. Winkler , Robert Joynt , Dimitrie Culcer

We use a perturbative approach to study the effects of interfacial spin-orbit coupling in magnetic multilayers by treating the two-dimensional Rashba model in a fully three-dimensional description of electron transport near an interface.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-04 Kyoung-Whan Kim , Kyung-Jin Lee , Jairo Sinova , Hyun-Woo Lee , M. D. Stiles

We put forward a new approach based on Green's function formalism to evaluate precisely persistent charge and spin currents in an Aharonov-Bohm ring subjected to Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interactions. Unlike conventional methods…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-19 Santanu K. Maiti , Moumita Dey , S. N. Karmakar

We study theoretically the combined effect of the spin-orbit and Zeeman interactions on the tunneling electron transport through a single-channel quantum ring threaded by magnetic flux. We focus on the high temperature case (temperature is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 P. M. Shmakov , A. P. Dmitriev , V. Yu. Kachorovskii

We implement a microscopic spin filter for cold fermionic atoms in a quantum point contact (QPC) and create fully spin-polarized currents while retaining conductance quantization. Key to our scheme is a near-resonant optical tweezer…