Colloidal nanocrystals (NCs) are of considerable interest due to their size-dependent optical and electronic properties, which allow their implementation in photovoltaic cells, light-emitting diodes, photo-detectors and more. Along with the development of the synthesis procedures, numerous investigations have explored the optical and electronic properties of different NCs, involving the study o...

Since the recent experimental realization of synthetic Rashba spin-orbit coupling paved a new avenue for exploring and engineering topological phases in ultracold atoms, a precise, solid detection of Berry phase has been desired for unequivocal characterization of system topology. Here, we propose a scheme to conduct momentum-space Aharonov-Bohm interferometry in a Rashba spinorbit coupled Bose...

We study the helical edge states of a two-dimensional topological insulator without axial spin symmetry due to the Rashba spin-orbit interaction. Lack of axial spin symmetry can lead to so-called generic helical edge states, which have energy-dependent spin orientation. This opens the possibility of inelastic backscattering and thereby nonquantized transport. Here we find analytically the new d...

We give a variational proof of the existence of infinitely many bound states below the continuous spectrum for some weak perturbations of a class of spin-orbit Hamiltonians including the Rashba and Dresselhaus Hamiltonians. In the recent paper [3] Chaplik and Magarill have discovered a surprising fact: the Rashba Hamiltonian HR, HR = ( p αR(py + ipx) αR(py − ipx) p ) (αR is the Rashba constant ...

We review recent studies of the shot noise of spin-polarized charge currents and pure spin currents in multiterminal semiconductor nanostructures, while focusing on the effects brought by intrinsic Rashba spin-orbit (SO) coupling and/or extrinsic SO scattering off impurities. By generalizing the scattering theory of quantum shot noise to include the full spin-density matrix of electrons injecte...

We explore spin and charge transport phenomena in two dimensional electron gas in presence of Rashba spin-orbit coupling connected to two ideal Ferromagnetic leads. In particular we show through a combination of analytical and numerical calculation that the spin polarization which is transported depends on the Magnetization direction of ferromagnet even if the magneti-zation of both FM's are pa...

The authors describe the molecular beam epitaxy of relaxed, nominally undoped In0.75Ga0.25As–In0.75Al0.25As quantum well structures grown on InP substrates. The maximum two-dimensional electron density is 2 1011 cm−2, with a peak mobility of 2.2 105 cm2 V−1 s−1 at 1.5 K. In high magnetic field, the electron g-factor was shown to have a magnitude of 9.1 0.1 at Landau-level filling factor of 4. T...

The effect of Rashba spin-orbit interaction in quantum wires with hard-wall boundaries is discussed. The exact wave function and eigenvalue equation are worked out pointing out the mixing between the spin and spatial parts. The spectral properties are also studied within the perturbation theory with respect to the strength of the spin-orbit interaction and diagonalization procedure. A compariso...

We study the optically induced torques in thin film ferromagnetic layers under excitation by circularly polarized light. We study cases both with and without Rashba spin-orbit coupling using a 4-band model. In the absence of Rashba spin-orbit coupling, we derive an analytic expression for the optical torques, revealing the conditions under which the torque is mostly derived from optical spin tr...

A magnetoresistance (MR) effect induced by the Rashba spin-orbit interaction was predicted, but not yet observed, in bilayers consisting of normal metal and ferromagnetic insulator. We present an experimental observation of this new type of spin-orbit MR (SOMR) effect in the Cu[Pt]/Y3Fe5O12 (YIG) bilayer structure, where the Cu/YIG interface is decorated with nanosize Pt islands. This new MR is...