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REPORTS ON PROGRESS IN PHYSICS
Volume 78, Issue 10, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0034-4885/78/10/106001
Keywords
Rashba effect; Spin orbiting coupling; quantum transport; semiconducting heterostructures
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- Ikerbasque Foundation of Science
- A von Humboldt Foundation
- FIRB project HybridNanoDev of Italian ministry of education [RBFR1236VV]
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In this review article we describe spin-dependent transport in materials with spin-orbit interaction of Rashba type. We mainly focus on semiconductor heterostructures, however we consider topological insulators, graphene and hybrid structures involving superconductors as well. We start from the Rashba Hamiltonian in a two dimensional electron gas and then describe transport properties of two-and quasi-one-dimensional systems. The problem of spin current generation and interference effects in mesoscopic devices is described in detail. We address also the role of Rashba interaction on localisation effects in lattices with nontrivial topology, as well as on the Ahronov-Casher effect in ring structures. A brief section, in the end, describes also some related topics including the spin-Hall effect, the transition from weak localisation to weak anti localisation and the physics of Majorana fermions in hybrid heterostructures involving Rashba materials in the presence of superconductivity.
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