Journal
PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 89, Issue 23, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.89.235136
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- DFG [SPP 1666]
- Helmholtz Foundation (VITI)
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We study a one-dimensional helical system with random Rashba spin-orbit coupling. Using renormalization group methods, we derive a consistent set of flow equations governing the important control parameters of the backscattering process. Thereby, we prove the existence of disorder-induced two-particle backscattering that can even be nonlocal in space. This analysis allows us to derive the scaling form of the conductance at low temperatures. We find that two-particle backscattering due to random spin-orbit coupling differs from the one off a single Rashba impurity by both the scaling of the conductance with the temperature and the relevance of the backscattering operators.
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