We investigate the linear conductance of a stripe of spin-orbit interaction in a 2D electron gas; that is, a 2D region of length l along the transport direction and infinite in the transverse one in which a spin-orbit interaction of Rashba type is present. Polarization in the contacts is described by means of Zeeman fields. Our model predicts two types of conductance oscillations: Ramsauer osci...

Spin–orbit coupling often causes fine structure splittings in atomic and molecular spectra and induces spin-forbidden transitions by breaking symmetry selection rules. Recently, it was found that the vibrational frequencies of molecular cations such as CH2XI + (X=Br, Cl) are also affected dramatically by this interaction. Hyperconjugative inter-halogen interaction was thought to play a part. In...

Theory predicts for the two-dimensional electron gas with only a Rashba spin-orbit interaction a vanishing spin Hall conductivity and at the same time a finite inverse spin Hall effect. We show how these seemingly contradictory results are compatible with the Onsager relations: The latter do hold for spin and particle (charge) currents in the two-dimensional electron gas, although (i) their for...

Landau-Fermi liquid theory is a powerful effective theory for strongly interacting Fermi systems at low temperatures. It has been successfully applied to liquid He, nuclear matter and nuclei. However, in contrast to the interaction between He atoms, nuclear forces are complicated due to the large non-central spin-orbit and tensor components. Here, we report on the in-medium modification of the ...