Colloquium: Persistent spin textures in semiconductor nanostructures

J Schliemann - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2017 - APS
Device concepts in semiconductor spintronics make long spin lifetimes desirable, and the
requirements put on spin control by proposals for quantum information processing are even …

Physics and application of persistent spin helix state in semiconductor heterostructures

M Kohda, G Salis - Semiconductor Science and Technology, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
In order to utilize the spin degree of freedom in semiconductors, control of spin states and
transfer of the spin information are fundamental requirements for future spintronic devices …

Elastic wave spin and unidirectional routing in thin rod systems

Y Zhang, J Zhao, Y Huang, C Yang, W Yuan… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
The unusual topology of elastic waves in continuum systems has been recently uncovered.
Prominently, the spin of Rayleigh-Lamb waves has been experimentally observed and used …

Stretchable persistent spin helices in GaAs quantum wells

F Dettwiler, J Fu, S Mack, PJ Weigele, JC Egues… - Physical Review X, 2017 - APS
The Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit (SO) interactions in 2D electron gases act as
effective magnetic fields with momentum-dependent directions, which cause spin decay as …

Critical supercurrent and state for probing a persistent spin helix

M Alidoust - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
We theoretically study the profile of a supercurrent in two-dimensional Josephson junctions
with Rashba-Dresselhaus spin-orbit interaction (RDSOI) in the presence of a Zeeman field …

Spin-orbit coupling in wurtzite heterostructures

J Fu, PH Penteado, DR Candido, GJ Ferreira, DP Pires… - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
A detailed derivation of the Rashba spin-orbit (SO) Hamiltonian for conduction electrons in
wurtzite heterostructures is lacking in the literature. Here we derive in a consistent and …

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 …

Two copies of spin helices with stretching pitch and compensating helicity

N Zhao, Y Duan, H Yang, X Li, W Liu, J Zhao, S Han… - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
Persistent spin helix (PSH) manifests itself as an effective knob to tackle spin decay
inevitably occurring in disordered two-dimensional electron gases. Here, for ordinary (110) …

Spin-orbit coupling effects in zinc-blende InSb and wurtzite InAs nanowires: Realistic calculations with multiband method

T Campos, PE Faria Junior, M Gmitra, GM Sipahi… - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
A systematic numerical investigation of spin-orbit fields in the conduction bands of III-V
semiconductor nanowires is performed. Zinc-blende (ZB) InSb nanowires are considered …

Beating-free quantum oscillations in two-dimensional electron gases with strong spin-orbit and Zeeman interactions

DR Candido, SI Erlingsson, H Gramizadeh… - Physical Review …, 2023 - APS
Shubnikov-de Haas (SdH) oscillations are the fingerprint of the Landau and Zeeman
splitting level structure on the resistivity in presence of a moderate magnetic field before full …