Enhancement of polarization in a spin-orbit coupling quantum wire with a constriction

Liu, Jun-Feng and Zhong, Zhi-Cheng and Chen, Lei and Li, Dingping and Zhang, Chao and Ma, Zhongshui (2007) Enhancement of polarization in a spin-orbit coupling quantum wire with a constriction. Physical Review B: Condensed matter and materials physics, 76 (19). p. 195304. ISSN 1098-0121

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Abstract:	We investigate the enhancement of spin polarization in a quantum wire in the presence of a constriction and a spin-orbit coupling segment. It is shown that the spin-filtering effect is significantly heightened in comparison with the configuration without the constriction. It is understood in the studies that the constriction structure plays a critical role in enhancing the spin filtering by means of confining the incident electrons to occupy one channel only while the outgoing electrons occupy two channels. The enhancement of spin filtering has also been analyzed within the perturbation theory. Because the spin polarization arises mainly from the scattering between the constriction and the segment with spin-orbit coupling, the subband mixing induced by spin-orbit interaction in the scattering process and the inferences result in higher spin-filtering effect.
Item Type:	Article
Copyright:	© 2007 American Physical Society
Faculty:	Science and Technology (TNW)
Research Group:	Computational Materials Science (CMS)
Link to this item:	http://purl.utwente.nl/publications/58412
Official URL:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.76.195304
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