Spin transverse force on spin current in an electric field

SQ Shen - Physical review letters, 2005 - APS
As a relativistic quantum mechanical effect, it is shown that the electron field exerts a
transverse force on an electron spin 1/2 only if the electron is moving. The spin force …

Signatures of triplet superconductivity in chiral Andreev states

L Arrachea, AL Yeyati, CA Balseiro - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
We study the behavior of the conductance and the current noise in three-terminal
configurations of edge modes of a quantum Hall system in the ν= 2 filling factor with normal …

Oscillatory multiband dynamics of free particles: The ubiquity of zitterbewegung effects

R Winkler, U Zülicke, J Bolte - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and …, 2007 - APS
In the Dirac theory for the motion of free relativistic electrons, highly oscillatory components
appear in the time evolution of physical observables such as position, velocity, and spin …

Observation of Zeeman effect in topological surface state with distinct material dependence

YS Fu, T Hanaguri, K Igarashi, M Kawamura… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Manipulating the spins of the topological surface states represents an essential step towards
exploring the exotic quantum states emerging from the time reversal symmetry breaking via …

Spin and charge persistent currents in a Kane Mele α-T 3 quantum ring

M Islam, S Basu - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We conduct a thorough study of different persistent currents in a spin-orbit coupled α-T 3
(pseudospin-1) fermionic quantum ring (QR) that smoothly interpolates between graphene …

Proposal for measuring mechanically equilibrium spin currents in the Rashba medium

EB Sonin - Physical review letters, 2007 - APS
We demonstrate that an equilibrium spin current in a 2D electron gas with Rashba spin-orbit
interaction (Rashba medium) results in a mechanical torque on a substrate near an edge of …

Magnetoelectric torque and edge currents in spin-orbit coupled graphene nanoribbons

MSM de Sousa, M Sigrist, W Chen - Physical Review Research, 2021 - APS
For graphene nanoribbons with Rashba spin-orbit coupling, the peculiar magnetic response
due to the presence of a magnetization and geometric confinement are analyzed within a …

Detection of spin polarized currents in quantum point contacts via transverse electron focusing

A Reynoso, G Usaj, CA Balseiro - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and …, 2007 - APS
It has been predicted recently that an electron beam can be polarized when it flows
adiabatically through a quantum point contact in a system with spin-orbit interaction. Here …

Cyclotron motion and magnetic focusing in semiconductor quantum wells with spin-orbit coupling

J Schliemann - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and Materials …, 2008 - APS
We investigate the ballistic motion of electrons in III-V semiconductor quantum wells with
Rashba spin-orbit coupling in a perpendicular magnetic field. Taking into account the full …

Rashba effect on the bound Polaron in an asymmetric quantum dot

SP Shan, SH Chen, JL Xiao - Journal of Low Temperature Physics, 2014 - Springer
By using LLP variational method, the Rashba effect on the bound polaron in an asymmetric
quantum dot is investigated and the expression of the bound polaron ground state energy is …