Dynamical formation and active control of persistent spin helices in III-V and II-VI quantum wells

F Passmann, S Anghel, C Ruppert… - Semiconductor …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
This review article summarizes recent developments related to the dynamical formation of
persistent spin helices in GaAs-and CdTe-based heterostructures. We start with fundamental …

Intense high-frequency laser-field control of spin-orbit coupling in GaInAs/AlInAs quantum wells: A laser dressing effect

X Li, W Wang, N Zhao, H Yang, S Han, W Liu, H Wang… - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
The Rashba spin-orbit (SO) coupling can flexibly be controlled via an external gate, while
the Dresselhaus term, which mainly depends on quantum confinement, is in general …

Electric-field control of interfacial spin–orbit fields

L Chen, M Gmitra, M Vogel, R Islinger, M Kronseder… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Current-induced spin–orbit magnetic fields, which arise in single-crystalline ferromagnets
with broken inversion symmetry and in non-magnetic metal/ferromagnetic metal bilayers …

Spin drift-diffusion for two-subband quantum wells

IR de Assis, R Raimondi, GJ Ferreira - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
Controlling the spin dynamics and spin lifetimes is one of the main challenges in spintronics.
To this end, the study of the spin diffusion in two-dimensional electron gases (2DEGs) shows …

Electric-field control of spin-polarization and semiconductor-to-metal transition in carbon-atom-chain devices

RB dos Santos, FB Mota, R Rivelino… - The Journal of …, 2017 - ACS Publications
We propose hybrid molecular systems containing small carbon atomic chains
interconnected by graphene-like flakes, theoretically predicted as true energy minima, as …

Lifetime of spin-orbit induced spin textures in a semiconductor heterostructure probed by quantum corrections to conductivity

T Saito, T Nishimura, JY Yoon, J Kölzer, D Iizasa… - Physical review …, 2022 - APS
The persistent spin helix (PSH) is the stable spin state protected by SU (2) spin-rotation
symmetry. Long-lived spin textures, referred to as helical and homogeneous spin modes …

Spin/valley dependent dwell time in an 8-Pmmn borophene junction

F Sattari, S Mirershadi - Physica Scripta, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Spin/valley dependent dwell time in 8-Pmmn borophene junction under Rashba spin–orbit
interaction (RSOI) is studied. The dwell time as well as transmission probability for incident …

Charge-spin conversion in two-subband quantum wells with conventional and unconventional Rashba spin-orbit coupling

GJ Ferreira, B Wang, J Fu, R Raimondi - Spintronics XVI, 2023 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The reciprocal interconversion between spin polarization and charge current (CSC) is the
focus of intensive theoretical and experimental investigation in spintronics research. Its …

Simultaneous evaluation of drift-and diffusion-induced spin-orbit fields in a (001) GaAs/AlGaAs two-dimensional electron gas

T Saito, A Aoki, J Nitta, M Kohda - Applied Physics Letters, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
We experimentally investigate spatiotemporal dynamics of an electron spin ensemble in the
coexistence of drift and diffusive spin motion in a (001) GaAs/AlGaAs two-dimensional …

Spin-locked transport in a two-dimensional electron gas

S Anghel, F Passmann, KJ Schiller, JN Moore, G Yusa… - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
Spin-orbit interactions in solids have inspired innovative physics for spin-based
technologies. One such example is the persistent spin helix, where spin-orbit interactions …