FYRIRLESTRAMARAÞON HR 2011 | RU LECTURE MARATHON 2011 Andrei Manolescu School of Science and Engineering Spin currents in quantum rings
WHAT IS SPIN e The electron rotates around the nucleus orbit The electron rotates around itself spin magnetic dipole e
WHAT IS SPIN-ORBIT INTERACTION The motion seen from the lab frame: The electron rotates around the nucleus e e The motion seen by the electron: The nucleus rotates around the electron and creates a magnetic field In atoms In crystals e
WHAT IS SPINTRONICS The electron has electric charge electric current Electronics: information carried by electric signals The electron has spin magnetic (spin) current Spintronics: information carried by magnetic signals The spin-orbit interaction allows the influence of electric fields on spin currents
GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructure Quantum ring Quantum wires NANOELECTRONIC DEVICES
TYPES OF SPIN-ORBIT INTERACTION IN NANOSTRUCTURES Rashba: due to the electric field of the vertical confinement Dresselhaus: due to the electric field of the crystal
Charge current Spin current M. Niţă, D.C. Marinescu, A. Manolescu, V. Guðmundsson, Phys. Rev. B 2011 SPIN CURRENTS INDUCED IN NANORINGS 00 Ring exposed to two dipolar electric fields with a relative angle 0
SPIN INTERFERRENCE WITH R+D SOI
THE NANOPHYSICS GROUP AT RU Kristinn Torfason Sigurdur ErlingssonHalldor SvavarssonAgust Valfells Gunnar Thorgilsson Andrei Manolescu Anton Heidar Thorolfsson Csaba Daday